Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026
Netflix announced this week that it had reached … Axios : Netflix to buy Warner Bros. for nearly $83 billion Alex Pigman / Taipei Times : Warner Bros acquisition by Netflix sparks backlash Victory Emm...
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal
Perplexity AI just made a $34.5b unsolicited offer for Google's Chrome browser … Mashable : Google received a ‘longshot’ $34 billion offer for Chrome from a surprising source Adam Spatacco / Motley Fo...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams “significantly”
Market: WE LOVE AI, DO AI THING — META: Sure thing, ploughing $40bn into capex this year — Market: wait not like that — First time we've seen a negative market reaction to the reality of AI unit...
Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands as World, unveils a new Orb powered by Nvidia's Jetson chipset, plans to integrate its ID verification into other software, more
and Will Come Right to Your Door Kate Irwin / PCMag : Sam Altman's Worldcoin Launches ‘Deep Face,’ New Eye-Scanning Orb World on YouTube : Keynote: a new world — Join Worldcoin co-inventors Alex Bla...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells staff to return to the office five days per week from January 2, 2025, citing the importance of the policy to the company's culture
Amazon orders employees back to the office five days a week Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy orders employees back to the office 5 days a week in one of the strictest RTO mandat...
OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers
Advancing cost-efficient reasoning. — Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing : Som...
X says Likes are now private for everyone, meaning users are no longer able to see who liked someone else's post
I wonder if they've made bookmarks easier to find in the UI. Kylie Robison / The Verge : X is about to start hiding all likes Threads: @bobbyallyn : now that Twitter likes are private, this is a good ...
X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads
While former President Donald Trump was actively being convicted by a jury of his peers in New York City last week … Threads: @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @theromit , @moskov , @drewharwell , @...
OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice after users compared the sound to Scarlett Johansson, saying Sky is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation”
and she's not happy they might have anyway Liv McMahon / BBC : ChatGPT to lose voice over Johansson similarity OpenAI : How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : ChatGPT disable...
A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price
How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social . X: @theattack5 , @blackbird_xyz , @matthewichoi , @guyfieris...