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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%+ after hours — Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed …
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LinkedIn: Walter Delph and Lillian Rizzo
Bluesky: @chicagopublicsquare.com, @urocklive1, @edeggans, @harrymccracken.com, @chrislhayes, and @davepell
Threads: @firerock31, @karaswisher, @scottporch, @karaswisher, @kathmschmidt, @johndellaporta, @simondowens, @paulasanexplorer, @vidalmarsh, @film_girl, @firerock31, and @karaswisher
Mastodon: @film_girl@mastodon.social and @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org
Forums: r/weeklyplanetpodcast, r/Monsterverse, r/thedavidpakmanshow, r/netflix, r/TrueAnon, r/TurnerClassicMovies, r/cartoons, r/trektalk, r/business, r/entertainment, r/FilmIndustryLA, r/HeatedRivalryTVShow, r/movies, r/HarryPotteronHBO, r/ABoringDystopia, r/thebulwark, r/SnyderCut, r/stupidpol, r/law, r/boxoffice, r/vfx, r/RedLetterMedia, r/wallstreetbets, r/oscarrace, r/amcstock, r/OmnibusCollectors, r/technology, r/gameofthrones, r/Star_Trek_, r/HBOMAX, r/Journalism, r/television, r/DC_Cinematic, r/DCU_, r/KotakuInAction, r/popculturechat, and r/DCULeaks
| Anthropic: |
Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded — I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @davelee.me, @mergesort.me, @evansutton, @tedunderwood.com, @leahmcelrath, @normeisen, @bcmerchant, @erininthemorning.com, @bcmerchant, @raders, and @lessig
Forums: Hacker News, r/Anthropic, r/Destiny, r/ClaudeAI, r/BetterOffline, and r/singularity
| Axios: |
Anthropic says new DOD “contract language” made “virtually no progress” on preventing Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday said there has been “virtually no progress” on negotiations with the Pentagon.
More: Financial Times, Platformer, Reuters, Raw Story, notdivided.org, Implicator.ai, Wonkette, Bloomberg Law, and Marcus on AI
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Bluesky: @jamesrball.com, @alexkirshner.com, @laurenmeidasa, @erininthemorning.com, @knowtheory.net, and @caseynewton. Mastodon: @newsguyusa@flipboard.social
Forums: r/politics, r/singularity, r/slatestarcodex, r/accelerate, r/technology, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ClaudeAI
| Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: |
The Pentagon says it has offered compromises to Anthropic, including putting in writing that laws already bar the military from mass surveillance of Americans — Add CBS News on Google — As the U.S. military's partnership with artificial intelligence giant Anthropic teeters on the edge of collapse … | Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
More: CBS News, Associated Press, Marcus on AI, Wall Street Journal, BankInfoSecurity.com, DigiTimes, and SFGATE
Bluesky: @rweingarten and @pauljdavies
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 23%+ after hours — Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.
More: The Verge, VentureBeat, CNN, St. Louis Business Journal, Wall Street Journal, SFGATE, New York Times, Axios, Business Insider, San Francisco Business Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo Finance, The National Pulse, and Bitcoin News
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Bluesky: @anildash.com, @kmanns.blacksky.app, and @caseynewton
Threads: @benedictevans, @carnage4life, and @tomgara
| Reuters: |
Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B — Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul … | Naina Raisinghani / The Keyword: |
Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with faster image generation, advanced world knowledge, and precision text rendering and translation — Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
More: Ars Technica, Theoretically Media on YouTube, Digit, PhoneArena, Reuters, Social Media Today, GSMArena.com, Tom's Guide, Neowin, Search Engine Land, The Deep View, The New Stack, PCWorld, Sam Witteveen on YouTube, Matt Wolfe on YouTube, Engadget, and Bloomberg
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LinkedIn: Jon Flynn, Saurabh Tiwary, and Srinivasan Venkatachary
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Ars OpenForum
| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons — More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini's use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.| Associated Press: |
Social media addiction trial: 20-year-old plaintiff KGM testifies her social media use, which began in childhood, exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts — A young woman who is battling against social media giants took the stand Thursday to testify about her experience using the platforms … | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Dell reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $33.4B, vs. $31.73B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 10%+ after hours — Dell (DELL.N) forecast fiscal 2027 revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, betting on growing demand for its artificial intelligence-optimized servers … | The Information: |
Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 — Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rent Google's AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks.| CNBC: |
Nvidia stock closes down 5.49%, as investor concerns around the AI infrastructure boom dampen enthusiasm about its better-than-expected earnings — Watch CNBC's full interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang after earnings and guidance beat — Nvidia shares dropped more than 5% on Thursday … | Reuters: |
CoreWeave reports Q4 revenue up 110% YoY to $1.57B, vs. $1.55B est., and adjusted loss of $284M, vs. $258.9M est.; CRWV drops 5%+ after hours — CoreWeave (CRWV.O) beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, benefiting from the artificial intelligence boom that has driven companies … | Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: |
Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdős solutions, “cheap wins”, hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more — Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI.
X: @nxthompson. LinkedIn: Fernando Perez-Cruz and Professor Asha Rao
Bluesky: @mikecaulfield and @matteowong
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product — Tools for Humanity aims to promote World ID beyond the tech and crypto sets via partnerships with household names — Sam Altman's project … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia — Meta is planning something similar for its chatbots later this year. — Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents …
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X: @metanewsroom and @ohioag
LinkedIn: Sasha Altschuler, David Miles, and Samantha Stetson
Forums: r/technology and r/technology
| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
IDC: global smartphone shipments will fall 12.9% YoY to 1.12B units in 2026, the market's largest-ever decline, as surging memory prices drive up device costs — The global smartphone market is poised to suffer its biggest decline ever in 2026, sinking to a more than decade low in shipments …
More: Bloomberg, CNET, The Register, IDC, The Asia Business Daily, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, PCMag, and MacRumors. Forums: r/Android
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
The Japanese government plans to invest ~$1.6B in Rapidus over the next two fiscal years to help it mass-produce 2nm logic chips and potentially challenge TSMC — The Japanese government will invest a total of ¥250 billion ($1.6 billion) in state-backed Rapidus Corp. as part …
More: Wall Street Journal and Nikkei Asia
| Reuters: |
Duolingo reports Q4 revenue up 35% YoY to $282.9M, forecasts FY 2026 bookings below est. as it shifts focus to faster user growth; DUOL drops 20%+ after hours — Duolingo (DUOL.O) forecast first-quarter and 2026 bookings below expectations on Thursday as it shifts strategy toward faster user growth … | Tamsin McMahon / Bloomberg: |
xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen is leaving the company, the seventh of 12 xAI co-founders to depart; Elon Musk put Pohlen in charge of Macrohard earlier this month — xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen said he is leaving Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, the latest founding executive to depart …
X: @graceihle, @fraser_cook, @johnhering, @jaimealns, @ibab, @tobyphln, @elonmusk, and @belce_dogru
| Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET: |
Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the “restricted” level of classified data — ZDNET's key takeaways — iPhone and iPad are approved to handle NATO ‘restricted’ classified data.
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Forums: r/technology and r/apple
| Business Insider: |
Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks — - Two founding team members left Thinking Machines Lab for Meta in recent weeks. — The exits add to a wave of departures from the high-profile $12 billion AI startup.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness” — AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees' headsets. … Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees.
More: BBC, NBC News, Canadian Press, Gizmodo, Inc.com, Baller Alert, Gizchina, and iPhone in Canada
X: @senatorshoshana, @darrigomelanie, @brianhaywood6, @mikeisaac, @jonathanmaze, @zephyrteachout, @jonathanmaze, and @dannyvegito
LinkedIn: Jeremy Rogers and Andrew Luxem
Bluesky: @drewharwell.com, @schooley, @lastnpcalex.agency, @moreperfectunion, @scottdagostino.ca, and @nickstatt
| Luke Barr / ABC News: |
CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala is reassigned as DHS' director of strategic implementation; executive assistant director Nick Andersen will take over — The nominee to serve as CISA director has not yet received a hearing. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
More: CyberScoop, Nextgov/FCW, and Politico
| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Intuit reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $4.65B, vs. $4.53B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue growth of ~10% and EPS below expectations; INTU drops 5%+ after hours — The company's profit guidance for its third quarter - which overlaps with peak tax season - came in short of Wall Street's expectations
More: Intuit Inc. and The Information
| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable” — It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the …
More: Rohan's Bytes. X: @levie, @grady_booch, @dkthomp, @beatrizgietner, @cblatts, @mparakhin, @ruima, @amasad, @spotn00b, @hi_mrinal, @growing_daniel, @allgarbled, @paulg, @snowmaker, @saxena_puru, @firstadopter, and @unconed
| Mickey Djuric / Politico: |
OpenAI says it will overhaul safety protocols and establish direct contact with Canadian police, after not alerting authorities about the Tumbler Ridge suspect — Following meetings with the governments of Canada and British Columbia this week, OpenAI says it is committed “to help prevent tragedies like this in the future.”
More: Reuters, CBC News, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Global News, and The Logic
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter — As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …
More: The Verge, PCWorld, and The Decoder
X: @anthropicai, @simonw, @alexpalcuie, and @itaisher
Bluesky: @trashfirefurry, @dame.is, @dmnd.me, @tonytassell, @roberthutton.co.uk, @cbarrie, and @aaronrosspowell.com. Forums: r/BetterOffline
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
The head of Intel Foundry, Kevin O'Buckley, leaves to join Qualcomm after just two years at the company; Intel Foundry will now be headed by Naga Chandrasekaran — Changing of the guard at Intel Foundry — In an unexpected turn of events, Kevin O'Buckley, the head of Intel Foundry …
More: Qualcomm and DatacenterDynamics
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