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President Trump says Netflix's WBD deal has “got to go through a process”, its big market share “could be a problem”, and he will be involved in the decision — President Donald Trump raised potential antitrust concerns for Netflix Inc.'s planned acquisition …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Netflix changed movie distribution, and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case — Warner Bros. started with distribution. Just after the turn of the century, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner bought …
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share — Confluent shares surged more than 25% in premarket trading Monday, while IBM's fell slightly.
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| Financial Times: |
Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI “bubble” — A lack of electricity for new data centres could deflate the AI ‘bubble’ — Rafe Rosner-Uddin in San Francisco …
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but “the case is not closed” — Facebook agrees changes to ‘pay or consent’ model after talks with European Commission| Bloomberg: |
President Trump says he will sign “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something” — President Donald Trump said he would approve an executive order this week to establish … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients — OpenAI's artificial intelligence products are saving workers an average of about 40 to 60 minutes a day on professional tasks … | Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico: |
Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about its €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account — Nikita Bier, X's head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying …
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| Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly — How the human behind Tilly Norwood brought her to digital life — Tilly Norwood, an “actress” built with artificial intelligence … | Alex Dooler / Bloomberg: |
Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms — Binance has won three separate licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, giving the crypto exchange giant one of its most comprehensive regulatory footholds yet.| Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: |
A look at an “etiquette camp” for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders — SAN FRANCISCO — Strolling into the Four Seasons Hotel, wearing a suit on a recent Wednesday, artificial intelligence start … | Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times: |
Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ — Payments company opens San Francisco base and reduces Tencent's holding in US pivot — A Singapore fintech that was labelled a …
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| Nandan Mandayam / Reuters: |
India's Tata Electronics signs up Intel as the first prospective client for its upcoming chip facilities; Tata is investing ~$14B to build in Gujarat and Assam — India's Tata Electronics has secured Intel (INTC.O) as the first prospective customer for its upcoming chip facilities …
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| Rohan Doshi / The Keyword: |
Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories — Gemini 3 Pro delivers state-of-the-art performance across document, spatial, screen and video understanding.
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