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...
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril ...
Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, who was OpenAI's interim CEO in 2023 when Sam Altman was fired, launches Softmax, a startup focused on AI alignment
Ashlee Vance / Core Memory : Bluesky: @jeffabbott , @virmalised.us , and @edzitron.com X: @eshear , @eshear , and @ashleevance Bluesky: Jeff Abbott / @jeffabbott : “our AI systems are out of alignmen...
Tim Cook teases an announcement of “the newest member of the family” on February 19; Mark Gurman reported Apple would update the iPhone SE
Is It The iPhone SE 4? John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple's Tim Cook Teases February 19th Event on X Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider : Tim Cook teases Feb. 19 launch of what is probably the new iPhone S...
Many Netflix viewers faced issues while watching the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight and the undercard bouts, including the stream glitching and losing sound
Netflix: [image] X: Peter Yared / @peteryared : I used to run tech for CBS which included streaming the Superbowl. Core issue for Netflix is that they operate their own CDN which is not built for live...
A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI chatbots, including by adding a “strategic text sequence” to data sources, and via an AI optimization startup
Another Fine Mess, And Extremely Dangerous Threads: Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : I wrote this week about a personal quest I've been on: fixing my reputation with AI chatbots, which have hated me ever s...
Filing: AT&T and Verizon ask the FCC to deny SpaceX's request to waive rules, claiming Starlink's service with T-Mobile would interfere with existing networks
PETITION TO DENY OF AT&T I. INTRODUCTION AT&T Services, Inc. … Federal Communications Commission : Verizon Opposition To Petition For Waive Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : AT&T and Verizon have a beef w...
Filing: AT&T and Verizon ask the FCC to deny SpaceX's request to waive rules, claiming Starlink's service with T-Mobile would interfere with existing networks
PETITION TO DENY OF AT&T I. INTRODUCTION AT&T Services, Inc. … Federal Communications Commission : Verizon Opposition To Petition For Waive Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : AT&T and Verizon have a beef w...
Ilya Sutskever discloses his plans for Safe Superintelligence, says “we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety’”, and more
Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence X: Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : Ashlee Vance with the scoop on where @ilyasut has been this whole time: working on a new startup called Safe Sup...
Source: Physical Intelligence, a startup making an AI model for “any robot or physical device”, raised $70M from Thrive, Khosla, Lux, OpenAI, Sequoia, and more
Physical Intelligence (Pi, π, @physical_int). We're focused on bringing the amazing recent breakthroughs of AI and foundation models into the physical world. Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance : It's a two s...