Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI
but blue states may not like it Associated Press : How Trump is blocking U.S. states from regulating artificial intelligence Joe Miller / Financial Times : Donald Trump threatens federal funding cuts ...
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...
The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base
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The US SEC sues former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi, accusing him of a $170M fraud by misleading investors about the company's growth and concealing personal expenses
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A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+
Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cited by Judge - Ellison...
Filing: SBF wrote a Google doc in which he floated “bad ideas” to improve his image, including going on Tucker Carlson and coming out “against the woke agenda”
Bloomberg Brian Mutembei / The Crypto Times : Sam Bankman-Fried's Image Restoration Strategy Revealed Zack Abrams / The Block : Sam Bankman-Fried considered blaming lawyers, “woke agenda” to protect i...
IRL's co-founders sue SoftBank and two VCs, accusing them of deliberately “destroying” the Gen Z app and creating an “outrageous lie” over inflated user counts
Joe Miller / Financial Times : X: @joemillerjr X: Joe Miller / @joemillerjr : Exclusive: SoftBank's Vision Fund has been accused of deliberately “destroying” a Gen Z-focused social media company it o...
New York AG Letitia James asks Madison Square Garden Entertainment for information on its alleged facial recognition use to deny access to some ticket holders
then the facial recognition debate ignited Ashley King / Digital Music News : NY Attorney General Questioning Madison Square Garden about Facial Recognition Tech Noah Sheidlower / CNBC : NY AG Letitia...
How Tim Cook's supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped grow Apple's annual revenue from $108B in 2011 to $365B in 2021, and profits up 3.7x to $95B
Two years after the death of Steve Jobs, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claimed it was inevitable Apple would struggle under Tim Cook. Tweets: @patrickmcgee_ , @iancowie , @patrickmcgee_ , @patrickmcgee_ , ...
A look at Germany's “Silicon Saxony”, which accounts for one in three chips made in Europe, as the EU aims to double its global chip market share to 20% by 2030
Cluster that began in communist East Germany now seen as strategic asset amid supply chain crisis Tweets: @chassnews , @joemillerjr , @cornelban73 , @mamdorsky , and @cszabla Tweets: Anne-Sylvaine Cha...