Paramount agrees to acquire WBD, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B; Paramount paid a $2.8B breakup fee to Netflix
Netflix backed away from its $87.2 billion deal on Thursday. … The two companies formally unveiled the deal Friday after Netflix formally bowed …
Netflix walks away from a deal to buy WBD's studio and streaming assets after WBD deemed Paramount's $31/share bid to be superior; NFLX jumps 8%+
Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed …
Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to elect California state candidates, regardless of party, whom it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry
Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to elect California state candidates, regardless of party, whom it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry
Federal lobbying budgets for Big Tech hit record highs this year. But with federal AI regulation stalled in Washington …
Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking
Researchers from Anthropic said they recently observed the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign” …
Trump hosted a gala dinner for top buyers of $TRUMP, including Justin Sun, and said he was fulfilling his promise to make the US the world's “crypto capital”
and no access to the president NBC News : Who attended Trump's crypto dinner? Photos and social media offer some clues Vignesh Karunanidhi / crypto.news : TRON's Justin Sun vows to...
Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-backed AI company Humain picked US-based chipmaker Groq for inference; Groq plans to expand its Dammam data center
THE SCOOP — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-backed artificial intelligence company HUMAIN has selected US chipmaker …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company will send AI chips to Saudi Arabia's Humain for a 500 MW data center buildout, as President Trump visits the kingdom
Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced the partnership on stage at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, the Gulf nation's capital.
Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership
Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension. — No, that's not a legally available option. — The 270 days lapsed. An extension is no longer available (e...
TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”
The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …
Donald Trump says he will sign an EO on Monday to delay enforcing the TikTok ban and argues for a TikTok JV with 50% US ownership
President-elect Trump said he will sign an executive order Monday to delay enforcing the U.S. ban on TikTok, just hours after the popular app went dark,
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy”
- Rogan interview is latest in sign of shift toward Trump — CEO says Biden staffers would ‘scream’ and ‘curse’ about Covid
In Joe Rogan's softball interview, Zuckerberg pointed to Apple and agencies like CFPB as new targets for the GOP, without mentioning GOP's pressure on Meta
'They haven't invented anything great in a while' Brendan Ryan / Dexerto : Mark Zuckerberg reveals staggering number of Meta users during Joe Rogan's podcast Nathan Worcester / NTD...
On Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees to take down vaccine content, and more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …
In Joe Rogan's softball interview, Zuckerberg pointed to Apple and agencies like CFPB as new targets for the GOP, without mentioning GOP's pressure on Meta
I'll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out …
Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers
The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.
The FTC and 17 US states sue Amazon for allegedly using monopoly power to raise its prices, force sellers to pay fulfillment and ad fees, and harm its rivals
- Amazon is facing its first set of antitrust charges from the U.S. federal government after the Federal Trade Commission filed …
US senators unveil a bipartisan bill that bans kids under 13 from joining social media and requires tech companies to get parental consent for teens' accounts
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Google says it has not yet approved Truth Social's Play Store app due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Devin Nunes said the decision “is up to Google”
Biden signs EO to strengthen US cyber defenses, including the development of cybersecurity standards for software companies that sell to the government
President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at shoring up the federal government's digital defenses as his administration grapples …