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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026 — Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant player in Hollywood — Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery …
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| Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.' theatrical releases for films” but “the windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly” — Now that that's settled... Netflix just solidified itself as the leading entertainment company (and then some), and all it cost was $83 billion.
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| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business — A Warner Bros. spokesperson has confirmed the video game division will be acquired by Netflix alongside its wider streaming and television business.| Bloomberg: |
Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC to support its WBD deal, one of the largest ever loans of its kind — Netflix Inc. has lined up $59 billion of financing from Wall Street banks to help support its planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. …
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| Ted Johnson / Deadline: |
| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue checkmarks, after a two-year probe — Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday …
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| Liv McMahon / BBC: |
Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine — The EU has fined Elon Musk's social media platform X €120m (£105m) over its blue tick badges - prompting an angry reaction from the US.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company — Company's CFO told investors about the transaction in recent days, sources say — SpaceX is kicking off a secondary share sale …
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| Rose Henderson / Bloomberg: |
Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month — Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down Friday.
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M — Meta (META.O) has acquired AI-wearables startup Limitless, maker of a pendant-style device that records and transcribes real-world conversations …
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Bluesky: @rudelyvangelder and @chrismessina.me
| New York Times: |
The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months — Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
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Bluesky: @nanlinear, @justinhendrix, and @neilturkewitz
| Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices — Alphabet Inc.'s Google must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones …
More: The Information, CNBC, United States District Court - District of Columbia, and MLex
X: @vidushi_law and @vidushi_law
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta strikes commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN, Fox News, and The Daily Caller, to provide real-time answers in its Meta AI chatbot — Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc. …
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Bluesky: @brandonsilverman, @seanokane, and @newsguy
| Shashwat Chauhan / Reuters: |
The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Thursday that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on futures exchanges registered with the agency.
More: CFTC, Unchained, CryptoSlate, and Decrypt
X: @carolinedpham, @shanaka86, @chadsteingraber, @nategeraci, @carolinedpham, @carolinedpham, and @adambliv. LinkedIn: Luke Hoersten
| Reuters: |
Sources and docs: India is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung have opposed the move — India's government is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to force smartphone firms to enable satellite location tracking …
More: 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, and Engadget
X: @eff, @adityakalra, @prateekwaghre, and @dattaameet
| TrendForce: |
Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15% to 20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 — Soaring AI-server memory demand is driving DRAM prices sharply higher—and now PC and notebook makers are feeling the squeeze.
More: Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, and Tom's Hardware
| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Marc Benioff says it “would not shock” him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings — - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is rebranding many products under the Agentforce name. — Benioff says customers prefer …
More: Gizmodo and The San Francisco Standard
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Bluesky: @chicagomike and @fasterandworse.com
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
An overview of the five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases that it hears have generally had limited impact — Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?
More: TidBITS, AR Insider, Oversight Board, Engadget, Social Media Today, and Agence France-Presse
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple employees with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more left to join OpenAI in recent months — Four top lieutenants have left in the past 12 months while dozens of others defect to rivals — A wave of executive departures came … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about “verification debt” — Sixty thousand people wait in the Venetian Expo. Werner Vogels walks out holding something nobody expected: a newspaper.
More: SiliconANGLE
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October — Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses … Sponsor Posts
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