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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 (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Google AI

A look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulators, and state attorneys general (deadline.com)
10 days ago Netflix

WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business (www.gamedeveloper.com)
10 days ago Netflix

Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases (www.nytimes.com)
10 days ago Netflix

Netflix To Buy Warner Bros. In $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal (entertainment.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Netflix

Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer, providing $6B+ in 2025 revenue, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its US delivery network (www.washingtonpost.com)
10 days ago Amazon

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago HSBC Netflix

AV1 Open Video Codec Now Powers 30% of Netflix Streaming (news.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Netflix

In the press release announcing the deal, Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
10 days ago Netflix

Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed (www.reuters.com)
10 days ago India Google Samsung Apple

Netflix agrees to buy WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash and stock deal; the transaction is expected to close after Q3 2026 (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Netflix

Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Netflix

A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Google Microsoft

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” (www.implicator.ai)
10 days ago Amazon

CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI (www.wired.com)
10 days ago Google AI

Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M+ context window (research.google)
10 days ago Google

A Polymarket trader netted $1M+ in 24 hours, mostly by placing suspiciously accurate bets on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings (www.forbes.com)
11 days ago Google

Microsoft Faces New Complaint For Unlawfully Processing Data On Behalf of Israeli Military (yro.slashdot.org)
11 days ago Israel Microsoft

Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (www.cnbc.com)
11 days ago Google AI

Google rolls out Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, after saying in November it needed “extra time for safety evaluations” (9to5google.com)
11 days ago Google AI

Microsoft 'Mitigates' Windows LNK Flaw Exploited As Zero-Day (it.slashdot.org)
11 days ago Microsoft

Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M+ led by Situational Awareness (www.theinformation.com)
11 days ago Google AI

Microsoft will increase prices for commercial Office subscriptions on July 1, 2026, including a 33% jump for front-line worker plans like Microsoft 365 F1 (www.cnbc.com)
11 days ago Microsoft

Amazon plans to release its new $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and $500 Kindle Scribe on December 10; the company announced the devices in September (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago Amazon

Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, on its iOS and Android apps (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Android IOS Facebook AI Instagram

Microsoft 365 license check bug blocks desktop app downloads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
11 days ago Microsoft

The EU says it is gathering information and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Google

Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer with $6B+ in revenue in 2025, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its own delivery network (www.washingtonpost.com)
11 days ago Amazon

How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into the US' chip hub, investing tens of billions and showing the difficulties of large-scale US projects (www.nytimes.com)
11 days ago Intel

Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money” (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago Google AI

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