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Plenty of Warhammer 40,000 novels have been written from the perspective of humans and space marines, but it took a while before Games Workshop really got into publishing books from the perspective of 40K's many alien species. If you're into orks I recommend Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh, and for swashbuckling aeldari pirates there's Voidscarred, but the peak remains The Infinite and the Divine by Robert Rath. cricket-ipl.in

It's the story of a long-term feud between two necrons, Orikan the Diviner and Trazyn the Infinite, immortal robots who were once flesh-and-blood and went a bit loopy in the uploading process. An argument over who owns a particular artifact becomes a heated rivalry (not in the sexy way, though now that you mention it…) that encompasses, as Games Workshop's own summary puts it, "clashing with Exodite armies, xenos uprisings, and a spell in Necron small claims court."

As the part about small claims court suggests, The Infinite and the Divine has a sense of humor. While it's not all comedy all the time, it's the 40K book that's closest in tone to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a perfect sense of the absurdity of these bitter old robots turning their petty grudge into the entire universe's problem.

While it was a self-contained story, I'm delighted to hear it's getting a sequel by the same author. As announced on Warhammer Community, Orikan and Trazyn will be back in The Wicked and the Warped, in which the two rivals have to work together to find out what happened to an expedition lost on a planet corrupted by Chaos. As Dawn of War showed, if you want to force an unlikely alliance in 40K, throw Chaos at some enemies and they'll have to work together. I look forward to Orikan and Trazyn bickering their way through a few hundred more pages while trying not to get eaten by daemons.

The Wicked and the Warped doesn't have a release date yet, but The Infinite and the Divine is being reprinted in hardback in the meantime. I've heard good things about the audiobook narrated by Richard Reed too.

Recently appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been tapped by the US government to advise the Federal Reserve on matters related to AI and its impact on the economy.

Via press release published on an official government website, the Fed details five distinct taskforces, each co-led by a team of "external advisers" "with a mandate to follow the evidence, provide candid feedback, and produce rigorous findings for the Federal Open Market Committee." Essentially, the taskforces will advise the Federal Reserve on economic policy across five different categories: Communications, Balance Sheet Policy, Data, Inflation, and Productivity and Jobs, which is where Sharma has been assigned.

The Fed says it chose "accomplished economists, business leaders, and former central bank practitioners—with deep expertise in their fields," to head up the taskforces. Sharma's team will "assess the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence, to inform the Federal Reserve's policy judgments."

Sharma is the only active CEO to join the taskforces, although former Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillion has been named adviser to the Federal Reserve on the data taskforce.

This is a peculiar move for Sharma and Xbox for several reasons. For one, just this week Sharma herself wrote an email to employees announcing mass layoffs at Xbox that will result in 3,200 cut jobs by the end of the 2027 fiscal year amid a major "reset" for the brand which she'll be integral in spearheading. But perhaps even more chiefly, Sharma has been the CEO of one of the largest gaming companies in the world for just a few short months and she's been making big moves. It's surprising she has the time, much less the mental space, to help out the federal government with its economic policy.

Before she was CEO at Xbox, Sharma was president of Microsoft's CoreAI product group, which is likely where she gained the experience that caught the Fed's attention.

Bethesda union blasts Microsoft as Xbox layoffs hit the Fallout and Elder Scrolls studio, too: "When will this cycle of cuts in pursuit of ever-greater profits end?"