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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 — Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant player in Hollywood — Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery …
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| Bloomberg: |
Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC to support its WBD deal, one of the largest ever loans of its kind — Netflix Inc. has lined up $59 billion of financing from Wall Street banks to help support its planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. …
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| Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.' theatrical releases for films” but “the windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly” — Now that that's settled... Netflix just solidified itself as the leading entertainment company (and then some), and all it cost was $83 billion.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue checkmarks, after a two-year probe — Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday …
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| New York Times: |
The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months — Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
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| Rose Henderson / Bloomberg: |
Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month — Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down Friday.
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| A.J. Vicens / Reuters: |
US and Canadian agencies warn that Chinese hackers are using Brickstorm malware to penetrate and maintain backdoor access to unnamed government and IT entities — Chinese-linked hackers used sophisticated malware to penetrate and maintain long-term access to unnamed government … | Shashwat Chauhan / Reuters: |
The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Thursday that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on futures exchanges registered with the agency.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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 — Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc. …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
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 — Four top lieutenants have left in the past 12 months while dozens of others defect to rivals — A wave of executive departures came … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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 — Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?
More: Oversight Board, AR Insider, Engadget, Social Media Today, and Agence France-Presse
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about “verification debt” — Sixty thousand people wait in the Venetian Expo. Werner Vogels walks out holding something nobody expected: a newspaper.
More: Capital Brief and Tech in Asia
| Hugging Face: |
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 — We gave Claude the ability to fine-tune language models using a new tool called Hugging Face Skills.
More: Implicator.ai. X: @ben_burtenshaw, @donvito, @ben_burtenshaw, @arig23498, and @ben_burtenshaw. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Reuters: |
Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed — India's government is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to force smartphone firms to enable satellite location tracking … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
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 — Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company's efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.
More: Search Engine Land, The Decoder, Tom's Hardware, Beyond Search, and WinBuzzer
| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
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 — - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is rebranding many products under the Agentforce name. — Benioff says customers prefer …
More: Investing.com and Salesforce Ben
| TrendForce: |
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 — Soaring AI-server memory demand is driving DRAM prices sharply higher—and now PC and notebook makers are feeling the squeeze.
More: Tom's Hardware
| Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: |
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 — The Ninth Circuit affirmed a temporary order blocking OpenAI Inc. from using “io” as a trademark in certain circumstances … | Wall Street Journal: |
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 — SoftBank billionaire seeks to build ‘Trump Industrial Parks’ on federal land, using hundreds of billions of capital from the Japan trade deal| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Two studies suggest that AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, by presenting many claims, regardless of their accuracy — New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people's political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
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Forums: r/technology, r/EverythingScience, r/politics, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| About Amazon: |
AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 chip, with an up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50%+ of AWS' new CPU capacity — Fifth generation chip provides the best price performance for a broad range of workloads in Amazon EC2. — Key takeaways
More: TechCabal and Analytics India Magazine
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others — Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project … | Bloomberg: |
Polish lawmakers fail to override the president's veto on a crypto assets regulation bill; Poland is the last EU country not to adopt EU's crypto regulation — Polish lawmakers failed to overturn a veto on a bill regulating digital assets, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Donald Tusk's attempts …
More: Reuters, Cointelegraph, and Notes From Poland
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content — Riddle-like poems tricked chatbots into spewing hate speech and helping design nuclear weapons and nerve agents.
More: arXiv, Wired, Business Today, Engadget, Livemint, Tech Times, Schneier on Security, KnowTechie, and The Cyber Express
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