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January 20, 2026, 10:05 AM
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing  —  In an ongoing struggle over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix says it is now prepared to pay all cash for Warner Bros. and HBO …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Sony and TCL sign a non-binding agreement to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a new joint venture, aiming to finalize the deal by March  —  The two companies are planning to form a new joint venture that will carry the ‘Sony’ and ‘Bravia’ branding.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation  —  As a research scientist at Anthropic, one of the world's leading A.I. companies, Andi Peng was part of a team that tried …
More: Bloomberg
Anthropic:
Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior  —  Read the full paper  —  When you talk to a large language model, you can think of yourself as talking to a character.
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025  —  More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video Reels product in 2025, up from 35% in 2024 …
Michael Thomsen / New York Times:
How Zynga uses a secretive VIP program with personal account managers and exclusive sweepstake entries to keep top players spending on games like FarmVille  —  CSR 2 Realistic Drag Racing is a simple game, even by smartphone standards.  Players compete in short street races …
John Liu / Bloomberg:
Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators  —  China has broadened a probe into PDD Holdings Inc. after its employees exchanged blows with regulators, dispatching over 100 investigators …
More: Tech in Asia
Kiran Stacey / The Guardian:
The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling  —  Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing

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Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
AMC Global Media reports Q2 net revenue down 8.8% YoY to $547M, streaming revenue up 6% to $180M due to price hikes, and domestic ad revenue down 11% to $109M

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.16B, net income up 17% YoY to $239M, and net gain of 22K paid subscribers for a total of 33M; SIRI falls 12%+

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sony's Crunchyroll partners with Starz for a streaming bundle offered through Prime Video for $16.99/month, a 23% discount to subscribing to both separately

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch revives investor fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley's SaaS index is down 15% YTD
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