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| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business — A Warner Bros. spokesperson has confirmed the video game division will be acquired by Netflix alongside its wider streaming and television business.
More: New York Times, Mirror US, Washington Post, Benzinga, The Verge, Kotaku, Engadget, and Yahoo Finance
| Ted Johnson / Deadline: |
A look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulators, and state attorneys general — In the hours since it was announced, Trump has not yet weighed in, and the White House has said little.| Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
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| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M — Meta (META.O) has acquired AI-wearables startup Limitless, maker of a pendant-style device that records and transcribes real-world conversations …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company — Company's CFO told investors about the transaction in recent days, sources say — SpaceX is kicking off a secondary share sale …
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| Katie Roof / The Information: |
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| Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices — Alphabet Inc.'s Google must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones … | Liv McMahon / BBC: |
Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine — The EU has fined Elon Musk's social media platform X €120m (£105m) over its blue tick badges - prompting an angry reaction from the US.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October — Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses …
More: Bloomberg, Axios, Le Monde, Tech in Asia, Axios, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, Mashable, Quartz, and The Verge. Bluesky: @seanokane
| Tyler Kingkade / NBC News: |
Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks — A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.| OpenRouter: |
An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more — An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter — Malika Aubakirova*Alex Atallah†Chris Clark†Justin Summerville†Anjney Midha*
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| Sam Kriss / New York Times: |
A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by “overfitting” in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech — If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.
More: Read Max and The Algorithmic Bridge
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| Bloomberg: |
Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims — Shares in Trustpilot Group Plc had their steepest ever one-day drop after Grizzly Research said it holds a short position and published …
More: Grizzly Research LLC, The Guardian, The Times, City A.M., Reuters, Reuters, Telegraph, and The Times
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| Abram Brown / The Information: |
Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell — Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell …
| Rose Henderson / Bloomberg: |
Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month — Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down Friday.
More: Cloudflare, CNET, and Breitbart
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Forums: Hacker News, r/rust, and r/CloudFlare
| Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
Leaked memos: Meta is delaying the release of its MR glasses codenamed “Phoenix” from H2 2026 to H1 2027 for “more breathing room to get the details right” — - Meta delays the release of its “Phoenix” mixed reality glasses to 2027, aiming to “get the details right.”Sponsor Posts
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