Tech

Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing (cnn.com)
28 days ago Netflix

How Zynga uses a secretive VIP program with personal account managers and exclusive sweepstake entries to keep top players spending on games like FarmVille (www.nytimes.com)
28 days ago

Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M+ users (www.businessinsider.com)
28 days ago Startup

Meta VP of Public Policy Simon Milner, the company's most senior Asia-Pacific policy executive, plans to leave after 14 years to retire from full-time work (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago Asia

Sources: Baidu's Ernie Assistant passes 200M MAUs, as competition intensifies among Chinese tech giants in AI; Ernie is linked to apps like JD.com and Meituan (www.wsj.com)
28 days ago China AI

Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago China

Sony and TCL sign a non-binding agreement to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a new joint venture, aiming to finalize the deal by March (www.theverge.com)
28 days ago Sony

Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change (news.slashdot.org)
28 days ago Climate

Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago China Shanghai

PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which improves e-commerce UX; Everstone bought Wingify for $200M (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago France India

French accounting software startup Pennylane raised $204M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation, with participation from Blackstone, DST, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago France Startup

10 Unsettling Ways Big Brother Is (Likely) Spying on You (listverse.com)
28 days ago

Top 10 Real Almost‑Cities That Never Materialized (listverse.com)
28 days ago

10 Most Influential Fictional Objects in Cinema History (listverse.com)
28 days ago

10 Incredible Big-Time Art Fraudsters (listverse.com)
28 days ago

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago China Korea AI

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (t.co)
28 days ago China Alibaba AI

Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
28 days ago Financial Crisis

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (inc42.com)
28 days ago Startup Robot

xAI has faced a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok's generation of non-consensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago

The Fastest Human Spaceflight Mission In History Crawls Closer To Liftoff (science.slashdot.org)
28 days ago

Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (www.anthropic.com)
28 days ago

The World's Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old (science.slashdot.org)
28 days ago

Germany's EV Subsidies Will Include Chinese Brands (tech.slashdot.org)
28 days ago China Germany

ChatGPT Go now unlocks unlimited access to GPT-5.2 Instant for $8 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
28 days ago

You can get ChatGPT's $20 Plus subscription for free for a limited time (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
28 days ago

The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK (www.theguardian.com)
28 days ago AI

A Second US Sphere Could Come To Maryland (news.slashdot.org)
28 days ago

Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books (yro.slashdot.org)
28 days ago Nvidia

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files (simonwillison.net)
28 days ago AI Browser

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