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Video game stocks crash up to 21% on a world model

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Video game stocks fell 10 to 21% after Google released Genie, while Oracle considered cutting 30,000 jobs to fund its buildout, the UK contemplated universal basic income and SAG-AFTRA proposed a tax on digital performers.

Reported metric: -21% / -30,000 jobs

Reporting date: 2026-01-31 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 31, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Video game stocks crash up to 21% on a world model
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Reporting date: 2026-01-31
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-31-game-stocks-crash-on-genie
Claim: Video game stocks fell 10 to 21% after Google released Genie, while Oracle considered cutting 30,000 jobs to fund its buildout, the UK contemplated universal basic income and SAG-AFTRA proposed a tax on digital performers.
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- Welcome to January 31, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-31-2026
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