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Paramount agrees to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, pays Netflix $2.8 billion for breakup
Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery are officially merging. The studio paid Netflix the $2.8 billion termination fee it was owed for breaking its orig...
Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger
Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance's merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media com...
Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI
On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to "STRONG-ARM" the Pentagon and direc...
The PS5 Pro is getting upgraded upscaling tech in March
After suggesting a version of AMD's FSR 4 could be ported to the PS5 Pro last year, it looks like Sony is finally rolling out an update with the upscaling tech...
Google and OpenAI employees sign open letter in ‘solidarity’ with Anthropic
Hundreds of employees at Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter urging their companies to stand with Anthropic in its standoff with the Pentagon over mili...
The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts, and have stop...
CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as repor...
AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets
On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, an...
FedEx promises to refund customers for ‘illegal’ tariffs
FedEx plans to pass along any refunds resulting from the Supreme Court's ruling that some of President Donald Trump's tariffs are "illegal." In a statement on i...
Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus gets a better interface and a 40 percent discount
When Amazon first showed off its redesigned Fire TV OS at CES, we were impressed. It’s faster, better organized, and feels similar to Google’s top-notch TV inte...
Here’s your first look at Kratos and Atreus in Amazon’s upcoming God of War TV adaptation
With the likes of The Last of Us and Fallout out of the way for a bit, Amazon has seized its opportunity to put the spotlight on the next big video game adaptat...
AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines
Can AI firms set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new...