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...
Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, unveils Olmo 3 models that it says outperform open models like Stanford's Marin and commercial open-weight models like Llama 3.1
Artifacts for the Olmo 3 release. … Note 🧱Base version of Olmo 3 32B. Michal Sutter / MarkTechPost : Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Introduces Olmo 3: An Open Source 7B and 32B LLM Family Built on the D...
A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars
* “at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components” illegally sold to “a Russian cyber-tools broker” (for ~$1.3m). Obviously at a huge discount, bc super illegal — But separately “[...
In an experiment, GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp expressed secular, Western liberal values regardless of the language of the questions
mildly surprising to me that the answer was ‘no’! (h/t @otis_reid) [image] Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias : Chatbots espousing cosmopolitan liberal values in all languages could have some interestin...
The Iranian government says it has restricted internet access in response to Israeli cyberattacks; some Western communication apps have reportedly been blocked
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Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump ...
Tencent says it has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek, and that most of its GPU capex goes toward its ad and gaming businesses
Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...
An excerpt from a book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons details how Nintendo localized the game for Western players; the game has 46M+ in all-time Switch sales
www.polygon.com/animal-cross... X: @bossfightbooks : An excerpt from our most popular book of 2024, ANIMAL CROSSING by @kelslewin, was just published by @polygon as part of their Culture Shock series....
The Biden admin unveils a new chip export rule that gives 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China
now the EU has shown concerns about the U.S. limits on how much AI chips certain EU states can buy. — ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Sung Kim / @sungkim : Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated “Hold...