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...
In a memo to OpenAI researchers, Sam Altman said “missionaries will beat mercenaries” and “there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock”
neither will Meta's $100 million raid on the firm's top AI talent Rocket Drew / The Information : Sam Altman Calls Meta Recruiting Efforts ‘Distasteful’ Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly / Observer : Here A...
The use of AI techniques has accelerated and improved drug discovery efforts, as antibiotic-resistant infections contribute to 1.5M deaths annually
The A.I. revolution is coming to a pharmacy near you. — When I first became a doctor, I cared for an older man whom I'll call Ted. X: @erictopol X: Eric Topol / @erictopol : The #AI drug discovery r...
The Greater Memphis Chamber says xAI plans to develop a new facility in Memphis to house a supercomputer and could receive tax breaks and other incentives
xAI — is building an AI supercomputer at the former Electrolux site in Memphis. https://dailymemphian.com/... By @samhardiman Steve Cohen / @repcohen : Like I always say, Memphis has a ton of momentum...
US-based sports merchandise retailer Fanatics agrees to acquire the US assets of Australia-based online sports betting company PointsBet for $150M in cash
Pointsbet outlines that they are 7th in terms of market share … Tweets: Contessa Brewer / @contessabrewer : The ceo of Fanatics Betting and Gaming Matt King said last week that market access is 40-50%...
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
In a booth at Ted's Fish Fry, in Troy, New York, my friend Daniel Beck and I sketched out our plans for the metaverse. It was November 1994, just as the graphical web …
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Pro...
Sources: Google agrees to a worker council in Europe that could have more power to challenge company decisions after a request from 153 employees in 11 offices
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @teamcoworker , @brishenrogers , @tedonprivacy , @tri_becca90 , @stan_ds , @rj_gallagher , and @histoftech Tweets: @teamcoworker : “Google employees in Europe cou...
Google is open sourcing its differential privacy library, which it uses to securely draw insights from data sets containing sensitive user information
like cryptography it's subtle and quick to anger. Google has released as open-source code which was built for *mumblemumble handy privacy infrastructure thing*. It has some nice advantages: 🧵 https://...
DOJ charges Pakistani man with bribing AT&T employees over $1M to install malware on the company's network, in a scheme that unlocked more than 2M devices
Allegedly bribed workers at AT&T's Bothell, WA Customer Service Center to plant malware and illegally unlock cell phones https://www.justice.gov/... Bobby Chesney / @bobbychesney : Another insider thr...