Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Liz Hoffman / Semafor : America is becoming the world's dumb money Dominic Preston / The Verge : Trump Media is merging with a ...
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...
CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order
but many buzzy tech IPOs remain in the pipeline Thomas Maxwell / Gizmodo : CoreWeave Is at the Center of the AI Revolution, and Its IPO looks Like a House of Cards Helene Braun / CoinDesk : CoreWeave ...
Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is leaving the company; Kaplan is Meta's most prominent Republican
www.semafor.com/article/01/0... [embedded post] Sam Jeffers / @worklesshard : Seems a bit backward for Clegg to leave now. Nothing will happen in the US for years, while EU DSA enforcement will gath...
In a lawsuit, the US FTC accuses fintech startup Dave of misleading struggling borrowers about its cash advances terms, charging undisclosed fees, and more
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The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more
In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Apple's then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit from the DOJ CNBC : DO...
Q&A with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about the meme-stock craze, launching in the UK and EU, becoming customers' primary financial institution, and more
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A US AT&T call center worker details working with AI, which generates call transcripts and provides suggestions, and wonders if she is training her replacement
To many people, chatbots and other technology feel like a ticking time bomb, sure to explode their work. But to some, the threat is already here. LinkedIn: Stephen Loynd . Bluesky: @kashhill.bsky.soc...
Sources: in January 2018, Alameda got a $110M loan from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and a $6M loan from philanthropist Luke Ding, who back Effective Altruism
The big money behind Alameda Research, the sister trading firm of crypto exchange FTX, came from two influential backers … Tweets: @lizrhoffman , @mikekoob , @timnitgebru , @woodhull , @timnitgebru , ...
SBF claims FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, before a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B and led to bankruptcy
and Themselves” Now he has become a doormat apparently. https://twitter.com/... Cas Piancey / @caspiancey : Remember when the FDIC forced Brett Harrison, former CEO of FTX US, to delete a tweet claimi...