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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=43ea474bda&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=558e7d2c88&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This deal looks like an anti-monopoly nightmare. A Netflix-Warner Bros. would create one massive media giant with control of close to half of the streaming market. It could force you into higher prices, fewer choices over what and how you watch, and may put American workers at risk. Under Donald Trump, the antitrust review process has also become a cesspool of political favoritism and corruption. The Justice Department must enforce our nation's anti-monopoly laws fairly and transparently — not use the Warner Bros. deal review to invite influence-peddling and bribery.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cf8b0cbf2b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Big picture view: It's very surprising Netflix has done this. I know they change their mind on everything, and there are extremely good strategic reasons for doing this deal in many different ways, but this is the least likely outcome I would have guessed 3 months ago.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=80c52c8e43&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">One of the most interesting things to watch on the Netflix/WBD deal is how the DOJ wants to define the rapidly evolving entertainment landscape. Netflix will argue regulators should think of share of eyeballs (YouTube, TikTok, etc) not streamers.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f2b47696d9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.' theatrical releases for films” but “the windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly”</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=31997ed6c5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulators, and state attorneys general</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ff5de85b6a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5494b49b56&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The European Commission's $140 million fine isn't just an attack on @X, it's an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f5a0e545c6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The “EU” imposed this crazy fine not just on @X, but also on me personally, which is even more insane! Therefore, it would seem appropriate to apply our response not just to the EU, but also to the individuals who took this action against me.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8381ea41c1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@tomwarren Very strange. After prior Twitter leadership treated verification as a perk nominally reserved for “the elite” by but in practice handed out by Twitter employees to friends and cronies, Elon opened it up to everyone for a reasonable price. This was a good thing.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e705046821&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">👀Perplexity on NYT lawsuit: “Publishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the internet, social media and now AI. Fortunately it's never worked, or we'd all be talking about this by telegraph.”</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e71c8fb1c5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3129044b14&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an IPO in the second half of 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katie Roof / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b22b806781&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shashwat Chauhan / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99723f5a66&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Masayoshi Son and the White House plan to build “Trump Industrial Parks” in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by the Japan trade deal</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fb31760a2d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta strikes commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN, Fox News, and The Daily Caller, to provide real-time answers in its Meta AI chatbot</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sara Fischer / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ad9c20ccc7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Echo Wang / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8791bbd584&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An overview of the five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases that it hears have generally had limited impact</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Casey Newton / </span><span class="pub_name">Platformer</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b9e0b89a66&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US and Canadian agencies warn that Chinese hackers are using Brickstorm malware to penetrate and maintain backdoor access to unnamed government and IT entities</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">A.J. Vicens / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1506e0d7ea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Similarweb: generative AI platforms received an average of ~7B monthly web visits in September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matthias Bastian / </span><span class="pub_name">The Decoder</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b79a8bd8e1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Robert Hart / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=675153fc2a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune an LLM using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Hugging Face</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=22267d15b0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google unveils Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer accuracy for real-time learning, which can scale to context windows of 2M+ tokens</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Google Research</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ff65b4a5ea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lily Hay Newman / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fc358e50f6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Marc Benioff says it “would not shock” him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ashley Stewart / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=03a51059ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Physicist Steve Hsu says he published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper, on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics, whose main idea came from GPT-5</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steve Hsu / </span><span class="pub_name">@hsu_steve</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6cda61e7ba&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple employees with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more left to join OpenAI in recent months</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rolfe Winkler / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=47f6532e03&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using “io” as a trademark in some instances while an infringement lawsuit against it proceeds</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Jahner / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg Law</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d45e60f887&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=353fbfeccc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">FinSMEs</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c62291b520&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jagmeet Singh / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a3f2f56614&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rose Henderson / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cef8ab2719&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15% to 20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">TrendForce</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=506fa7fcdb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources and docs: India is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung have opposed the move</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2beffa1721&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October</a></span>
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