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Austin Carr

@austincarr
24 posts
2025-12-06
@MikeIsaac Wild that Ted Sarandos once said Netflix's “goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us” Then just ~12 years later, Ted enters agreement to buy HBO as just 1 piece of deal valued at less than 1/5th Netflix's market cap. I guess HBO Now/Go/Max/etc did not move fast enough
2025-12-06 View on X
Game Developer

WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business

A Warner Bros. spokesperson has confirmed the video game division will be acquired by Netflix alongside its wider streaming and television business.

@MikeIsaac Wild that Ted Sarandos once said Netflix's “goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us” Then just ~12 years later, Ted enters agreement to buy HBO as just 1 piece of deal valued at less than 1/5th Netflix's market cap. I guess HBO Now/Go/Max/etc did not move fast enough
2025-12-06 View on X
Financial Times

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 ...

2025-12-05
@MikeIsaac Wild that Ted Sarandos once said Netflix's “goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us” Then just ~12 years later, Ted enters agreement to buy HBO as just 1 piece of deal valued at less than 1/5th Netflix's market cap. I guess HBO Now/Go/Max/etc did not move fast enough
2025-12-05 View on X
Financial Times

Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant player in Hollywood  —  Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery …

2025-06-14
Some thoughts on post-flat design and the future of skeuomorphism, with Airbnb's @bchesky & Not Boring's @asallen: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2025-06-14 View on X
Bloomberg

As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces

From Airbnb's new app icons to Apple's “Liquid Glass” design, skeuomorphism is back and everything in the digital world has dimensionality again. Threads: @asallen . X: @austincarr...

Lovely to see how deep Apple is taking spatial UI with its new “liquid glass” redesign. Feels like the next generation of the translucency + parallax effects introduced with iOS 7. The depth seems much more immersive now yet it's still a very measured move beyond the flat era. [image]
2025-06-14 View on X
Bloomberg

As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces

From Airbnb's new app icons to Apple's “Liquid Glass” design, skeuomorphism is back and everything in the digital world has dimensionality again. Threads: @asallen . X: @austincarr...

2025-05-17
Satya Nadella on @Microsoft's new “MAI-2” models, embracing @deepseek_ai, and competing with ChatGPT while supporting @OpenAI https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-05-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Deep dive on the evolution of Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, from its $1B investment in 2019 through Copilot rollouts and ChatGPT's launch to present day

Nervous customers and a volatile partnership with OpenAI are complicating things for Satya Nadella and the world's most valuable company.

2025-01-16
The guy who led Walgreens' investment in Theranos bet on another startup: [embedded post]
2025-01-16 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at the legal dispute between Walgreens and Cooler Screens, which installed 10,000 smart doors that track shoppers and show ads at Walgreens' US stores

A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.

2024-10-31
New jam with @mattmday on Amazon's Alexa AI woes: - Alexa hallucinated in CEO Andy Jassy's early demo - Teams have had to lean on LLMs from Meta, Anthropic, etc - Huge challenges merging Alexa's old brain with new AI models https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: Amazon's target deadline to unveil AI-upgraded Alexa has moved into 2025, after documents showed Amazon planned to unveil the product on Oct. 17, 2024

Amazon is eager to take on ChatGPT, but technical challenges have forced the company to repeatedly postpone the updated voice assistant's debut.

2024-10-30
If you're worried about @elonmusk's claims that electronic voting machines are easily hackable, here's a look at the crazy logistics it would require to actually hack an election in the real world (spoiler: it's a dumb idea): https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-30 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of US voting machine maker Clear Ballot, which helps officials check paper ballots via its app, as Elon Musk spreads conspiracy theories about hacking

Chip Trowbridge is confident his voting machines are secure, but he'll run the thought experiment with you. X: @austincarr . Forums: r/politics X: Austin Carr / @austincarr : If yo...

2024-09-20
Looks lovely at first glance. Happy Microsoft is pushing more playful designs — curious how they influence its AI UI. Not sure I see skeuomorphism here though, @tomwarren! Maybe you saw other icons not featured in its post?
2024-09-20 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft updates the Fluent design illustrations across its products, shifting towards 3D designs that bring back skeuomorphism with more playful designs

Microsoft is overhauling the illustrations it uses throughout its products and services to make them less flat and more playful and interesting.

2024-09-08
Still crazy to me that the Texas company making most local government software used to manufacture cast-iron sewer pipes. New @BW look at Tyler Technologies, the little-known firm digitizing courts, DMVs, schools, prisons and a whole lot more: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2024-09-08 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Texas-based Tyler Tech, which has become a dominant US local government software provider, despite a history of software flaws and release delays

Tyler Tech dominates America's software industry managing parks, courts, municipal offices and prison networks.  And you thought the DMV was rough before. X: @stephenehorn , @skhau...

Very curious what @elonmusk's Efficiency Commission would make of Tyler Technologies' dominance in gov't software! https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2024-09-08 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Texas-based Tyler Tech, which has become a dominant US local government software provider, despite a history of software flaws and release delays

Tyler Tech dominates America's software industry managing parks, courts, municipal offices and prison networks.  And you thought the DMV was rough before. X: @stephenehorn , @skhau...

2023-09-05
I so hope Levy didn't go full access reporter on this one like he always does
2023-09-05 View on X
Wired

An in-depth profile of OpenAI, Sam Altman, CTO Greg Brockman, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones along the way to building an AGI

The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT.  But that was just the start.  The ultimate goal: Change everything.

2022-12-10
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. @elonmusk, will you commit to making public any list of accounts you de-amplify going forward? With reasons for “strike” counts? Or if you have another system to control “free speech vs. free reach,” how will you be transparent? https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk says Twitter is working on an update that will show users if they've been “shadowbanned”, the reason why, and how to appeal

Nick Turner / Bloomberg :

This would be a healthy feature, depending on implementation. If Elon's mission is to make Twitter “by far the most accurate source of information about the world,” it'll be a fine line between his T&S policies and creating a SF-based Ministry of Truth https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk says Twitter is working on an update that will show users if they've been “shadowbanned”, the reason why, and how to appeal

Nick Turner / Bloomberg :

This would be a healthy feature, depending on implementation. If Elon's mission is to make Twitter “by far the most accurate source of information about the world,” it'll be a fine line between his T&S policies and creating a SF-based Ministry of Truth https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. @elonmusk, will you commit to making public any list of accounts you de-amplify going forward? With reasons for “strike” counts? Or if you have another system to control “free speech vs. free reach,” how will you be transparent? https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …

2022-11-14
.@Unity's @JohnRiccitiello has led the game-engine maker to $1.74 billion of net losses since 2018. He's also turned $U into an ads juggernaut + called devs the “biggest fucking idiots.” A wild @BW look at the ex-EA chief + his new bet on the metaverse: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-14 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Unity CEO John Riccitiello, as he faces criticism for the company's targeted ads, his metaverse ambitions, years of dating the head of HR, and more

Bloomberg : Tweets: @scobleizer , @tedbrownxr , @scobleizer , @tedbrownxr , @molleindustria , @epro , @iamstacetheace , @bradstone , @jasonschreier , @josheidelson , @austincarr ,...

Funny how Unity PR's reply implies that Biden could've been referring to other attendees like Tim Cook, @reedhastings, Sheryl Sandberg, @markpinc, etc (which seems doubtful given 🎮 subject!) White House didn't respond to a request for comment. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-14 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Unity CEO John Riccitiello, as he faces criticism for the company's targeted ads, his metaverse ambitions, years of dating the head of HR, and more

Bloomberg : Tweets: @scobleizer , @tedbrownxr , @scobleizer , @tedbrownxr , @molleindustria , @epro , @iamstacetheace , @bradstone , @jasonschreier , @josheidelson , @austincarr ,...

2021-09-23
But fiber-first proponents like @tewheels say fiber is better long-term investment, providing equal/future-proof broadband access. “We are pound foolish if we don't use the right technology the first go-around,” agrees @sbloomfield15. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-09-23 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at efforts to close the digital divide in states like Arkansas, as a Microsoft study finds around 120M Americans don't have access to high-speed internet

Austin Carr / Bloomberg : Tweets: @austincarr , @bw , @austincarr , and @bw Tweets: Austin Carr / @austincarr : But fiber-first proponents like @tewheels say fiber is better long-...