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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates”  —  TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says
More: OpenAI, Wired, CNBC, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, The Indian Express, Not Boring by Packy McCormick, The Decoder, The Information, The Next Web, Bitcoin News, Beyond Search, Silicon Republic, Moneycontrol, Business Today, crypto.news, BMI, Spyglass, Inc.com, TBPN on YouTube, Wall Street Journal, TBPN, Blue Tech Wave Media, The San Francisco Standard, Bloomberg, New York Times, Axios, Forbes, PitchBook, SiliconANGLE, Tubefilter, On my Om, Business Insider, The Hill, MarketWatch, Business Insider, Agence France-Presse, Pulse 2.0, Tech in Asia, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @sama, @jordihays, @axios, @ajs, @jason_kint, @dseetharaman, @jessicalessin, @samfbiddle, @pkafka, @pkafka, @jbsdc, @jason, @mukund, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @austinc3301, @davidu, @mikeisaac, @eric_seufert, @buccocapital, @cjc, @thezvi, @hshaban, @supbagholder, @sarafischer, @alexweprin, @neilcybart, @gazorp5, @levie, @maxwelltani, @maxwelltani, @ericnewcomer, @ti_morse, @shakeelhashim, @absoluttig, @jordihays, @loudmouthjulia, @hadas_gold, @joannastern, @eriktorenberg, @tbpn, @alexrkonrad, @ericnewcomer, @miles_brundage, @aagave, @bdanweiss, @samfbiddle, @lindsmccallum, @taylorlorenz, @mikeisaac, @danshipper, @hadas_gold, @jaltma, @ericnewcomer, @mjnblack, @ricburton, @mgsiegler, @pitdesi, @austin_rief, @kevinakwok, @mikebutcher, @rpnickson, @edzitron, @jessicalessin, @willmanidis, @scobleizer, @nicholas_shawa, @dylanabruscato, @zebulgar, @dylanabruscato, @andrewcurran_, and @johncoogan
LinkedIn: Justin Jackson, Simon Owens, Yossi J Levi, Jaspreet Singh, and Dylan Abruscato
Bluesky: @fasterthanli.me, @eidyngray.scot, @carnage4life, @katie-drummond, @harrymccracken.com, @neillewisjr, @brbarrett, @paris.nyc, @alexshultz, @isolyth.dev, @caseynewton, @doubleohkevin, @joshsternberg.com, and @parkerortolani.com.  Threads: @karissabe
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M+ in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent
The Keyword:
Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows and available under an Apache 2.0 license  —  Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date.  Purpose-built for advanced reasoning …
More: Google DeepMind, InfoWorld, Android Developers Blog, NVIDIA, Simon Willison's Weblog, CGTN, Ars Technica, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, Hindustan Times, crypto.news, WinBuzzer, The Hans India, Digit, Moneycontrol, Blockonomi, Business Standard, Run Gemma 4 locally …, Google Open Source Blog, Mashable, TestingCatalog, Unsloth, Google AI for Developers, The Register, The Next Web, VentureBeat, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, NVIDIA Technical Blog, The Verge, Neowin, Techstrong.ai, Implicator.ai, The Economic Times, Decrypt, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, and 9to5Google
X: @demishassabis, @clementdelangue, @rasbt, @kimmonismus, @erikvoorhees, @hamandcheese, @gregisenberg, @cyb3rops, @measure_plan, @jocarrasqueira, @atomic_chat_hq, @qualcomm, @googledevs, @osanseviero, @matvelloso, @ai, @arena, @artificialanlys, @preethilahoti, @clementdelangue, @mweinbach, @sriramk, @docker, @nvidiarobotics, @jeffdean, @googledeepmind, @googleai, @google, @clattner_llvm, @xenovacom, @simonw, @artificialanlys, @mweinbach, @ggerganov, @jacalulu, @kaggle, @arena, @dynamicwebpaige, @mweinbach, @mweinbach, @itspaulai, @googledevs, @arm, @clementdelangue, @minchoi, @rseroter, @conorbronsdon, @kakatohesss, @dorialexander, @natolambert, @googleaidevs, @nvidiaaidev, @googlegemma, @officiallogank, @clmt, @o_lacombe, @chanduthota, @androidstudio, @kimmonismus, @nvidiarobotics, @kaggle, @i, @lmsysorg, @mayhem4markets, @sundarpichai, @triswarkentin, @googlegemma, @jeffdean, @googlecloudtech, @dynamicwebpaige, @demishassabis, @osanseviero, @teksedge, @mweinbach, @_philschmid, @scaling01, @thorwebdev, @androiddev, @googleoss, @googlegemma, and @nic_carter
LinkedIn: Ján Švehla, Kari Ann Briski, Ed Brandman, Eric Fraser, Ravin Kumar, M Mohan, and Gus Martins.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/StableDiffusion, r/ollama, r/artificial, r/Bard, r/Android, and Slashdot
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget:
Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs  —  Cinemersive Labs will join the company's Visual Computing Group.  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option  —  Meta has told members of its independent Oversight Board that the company may stop funding it after 2028, sources familiar with the situation told Platformer.
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View:
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically  —  Can we teach machines to feel?  Short answer: We don't know.  But we can teach them to sound like they do.
Matt Mullenweg:
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization  —  So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.
Alex Harring / CNBC:
The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the “exclusive” authority to regulate such markets  —  A federal commission on Wednesday announced lawsuits against three states over its ability to exclusively regulate prediction markets.
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others  —  San Francisco-headquartered startup Noon has emerged from stealth mode with $44 million in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital …

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From Mediagazer

David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:
David Ellison announces that the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance “to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic”

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has asked CNN CEO Mark Thompson to stay on after the WBD acquisition closes; Thompson's current deal extends into 2027

Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Sources: Warner Bros. Pictures co-CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are expected to leave amid Paramount's acquisition; David Zaslav held himself a farewell party

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