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| CNBC: |
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: Lillian Rizzo and Walter Delph
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Threads: @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @firerock31, @kathmschmidt, @paulasanexplorer, @karaswisher, @scottporch, @simondowens, @johndellaporta, @firerock31, @film_girl, and @vidalmarsh
Mastodon: @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org and @film_girl@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/weeklyplanetpodcast, r/trektalk, r/Monsterverse, r/Warner_Bros, r/ThePittTVShow, r/gameofthrones, r/HBOMAX, r/DCU_, r/KotakuInAction, r/netflix, r/Star_Trek_, r/technology, r/HeatedRivalryTVShow, r/OmnibusCollectors, r/cartoons, r/TurnerClassicMovies, r/RedLetterMedia, r/amcstock, r/vfx, r/HarryPotteronHBO, r/stupidpol, r/FilmIndustryLA, r/business, r/Journalism, r/ABoringDystopia, r/thedavidpakmanshow, r/TrueAnon, r/thebulwark, r/law, r/oscarrace, r/SnyderCut, r/DC_Cinematic, r/popculturechat, r/DCULeaks, r/boxoffice, r/movies, r/television, r/wallstreetbets, and r/entertainment
| 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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LinkedIn: Tero Heinonen, Geoff Livingston, and Dennis Kennetz
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Destiny, r/BeyondThePromptAI, r/ClaudeAI, r/BetterOffline, r/singularity, and r/Anthropic
| 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.
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/technology, r/slatestarcodex, r/accelerate, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, and r/politics
| 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 …
More: Washington Post, New York Times, The Decoder, The Hill, NPR, Bloomberg, Newsweek, France 24, Washington Times, Le Monde, and The Independent
| 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 head count.
More: The Verge, Axios, CNN, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, BeInCrypto, 9News, VentureBeat, and SFGATE
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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 …
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| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
| 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.
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X: @sundarpichai, @googledeepmind, @arena, @demishassabis, @geminiapp, @googledeepmind, @joshwoodward, @googledeepmind, @thefox, @signulll, @slow_developer, @ai_for_success, @jeffdean, @rijnhartman, @googledeepmind, @thomasortk, @oriolvinyalsml, @baseddaedalus, @rseroter, @officiallogank, @officiallogank, @fofrai, @scaling01, @nainar92, @emollick, @koraykv, @venturetwins, @emollick, and @googleai
LinkedIn: Jon Flynn, Saurabh Tiwary, and Srinivasan Venkatachary
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Ars OpenForum
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security researchers detail AirSnitch, a series of attacks that bypass Wi-Fi client isolation, enabling machine-in-the-middle attacks in modern Wi-Fi networks — That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think. — It's hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life.
More: NDSS Symposium, Ace of Spades HQ, Tom's Hardware, and UC Riverside
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Forums: Hacker News, r/pwnhub, r/firewalla, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.| 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 …
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| 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, IDC, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, CNN, CNET, The Indian Express, Android Police, The Register, PCMag, Tom's Guide, The Asia Business Daily, PhoneArena, and MacRumors
Forums: r/technology and r/Android
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Plaid allowed employees to sell some of their shares at an $8B valuation, up 31% from the $6.1B valuation in April 2025 and 40% below its $13.4B peak in 2021 — Plaid, a company that connects financial applications to users' bank accounts, enabling payments and data verification …
More: FinTech Global, PYMNTS.com, and Bloomberg
| 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: Silicon Republic, Qualcomm, Electronics Weekly, and Blockonomi
| 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 …
More: Dell Technologies, Blockonomi, MarketWatch, The Business Times, SiliconANGLE, and Bloomberg
| 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: Nextgov/FCW and Politico
| 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: @matteowong and @mikecaulfield
| 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.| John Yoon / New York Times: |
South Korea approves Google's request to export detailed geographic data overseas, reversing a longstanding policy that made Google Maps largely nonfunctional — South Korea approved Google's request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional.
More: Financial Times, Engadget, Associated Press, Reuters, The Sun Malaysia, UPI, and Bloomberg
| Chris Kirkham / Reuters: |
California DMV records show Tesla has logged zero autonomous test miles on the state's roads since 2019, despite Musk's claims of an imminent CA robotaxi launch — For more than a year, Elon Musk has repeatedly said Tesla (TSLA.O) is months away from launching a driverless robotaxi service in California … | 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 …
More: CoreWeave, Blockonomi, SiliconANGLE, Verdict, Dow Jones Newswires, CNBC, CoreWeave, and Barron's Online
| 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 …
More: Blockonomi, Dow Jones Newswires, and Pittsburgh Business Journal
Forums: r/StockMarket and r/wallstreetbets
| 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 …
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