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Netflix’s Sarandos Wooed Trump Personally Ahead of Warner Bid Netflix Inc. co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos ventured to the White House in mid-November for a meeting with President Donald Trump. Over more than an hour, the two discussed a range of topics,...

Excellent inside account of how Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros., by @lucasshaw.bsky.social (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Exclusive | Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nuzzi out at Vanity Fair www.wsj.com/business/med...

Frank O. Gehry, the architect who changed the civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, has died Frank Gehry, known for ebullient cultural buildings like Disney Hall who helped invigorate the field of architecture at a moribund time, has died.

Frank Gehry dead at 96 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Warner Bros. Is Said to Begin Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has entered exclusive negotiations to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix Inc., according to people familiar with the discussions.

Wow. Netflix reportedly buying Warner Bros. film and TV studios and streaming service www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters

I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

if you're trying to automate news for speed frankly you've already lost the plot, for a number of reasons. very telling that this has a lot of words about "how" and almost zero words about "why"

CDC vaccine advisers appear likely to recommend delaying hepatitis B vaccine birth dose A panel that issues advice on U.S. vaccine policy appears prepared to vote to recommend a delay in when most babies begin to be vaccinated against hepatitis B.

More on today's federal vaccine advisory meeting:

www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/c...

My entire Wrapped is all messed up

all right who's been using my spotify account?

‘There Are a Lot of Haters’: Inside Omnicom Media’s First Town Hall Post-IPG Takeover Adweek was able to access Omnicom Media’s first post-consolidation town hall via an unencrypted Vimeo link.

Oops! Omnicom Media's first all-hands meeting post-merger was livestreamed on a public Vimeo feed.

ADWEEK found the public link. @kendrabarnett.bsky.social reports what happened.
www.adweek.com/agencies/the...

AI scribes may not save a lot of time on clinical notes, but they make clinicians happy As hospitals study the impact of AI scribes, they are finding that clinicians love the tools, even if they don’t save that much time.

In a new story, @mariojoze.bsky.social and I look at the new studies and reasons for this gap: www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/a...

fun fact: this is the same reason Cormac McCarthy wrote all his books on a typewriter instead of a computer

Interesting. I write on my phone because I've gotten too much pizza grease on my macbook keyboard and the flies won't let me anywhere near the spacebar

Exclusive: CNN strikes prediction data partnership with Kalshi The collaboration marks the first major news partnership for Kalshi.

Huh, CNN strikes a deal with Kalshi to show prediction market content across its broadcast channels www.axios.com/2025/12/02/c...

“We’re saying goodbye” please say hello first!

I keep getting instagram ads for companies I’ve never heard of that are shutting down

AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.

Quiz teaches you how to spot AI-generated video www.npr.org/2025/11/30/n...

Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?

A strong and true report from the frontlines of tech accountability journalism by @caseynewton.bsky.social: "I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them." www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.

A must-read profile of RFK Jr., perhaps the most powerful force in American health care in decades:

www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...

Saudi money.
Qatar money.
Dubai money.

@variety.com $WBD $PSKY
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great incentives we have here when Home Depot stock falls because “not enough hurricanes ☹️”

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McDonald's is losing its low-income customers. Economists call it a symptom of the stark wealth divide These customers are feeling the pressures of higher prices on groceries and apparel and the growing costs of rent and child care, the company's chief executive said in a recent earnings call.

Low-income consumers are getting priced out of fast food (!) www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Rumors of something like this have circulated all year. Immigrant communities in Brooklyn speak of bounty hunters (loosely defined; I respect Joseph’s distinction below) as a certainty.

So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?

Valve Announces Steam Machine, a New Video-Game Console The US gaming company behind the popular, handheld Steam Deck is making a living-room device for PC games

Valve is making a console. The Steam Machine, a sleek box with the guts of a mid-range PC that runs SteamOS, will arrive in early 2026. Prices TBD, but unlike the failed Steam Machine initiative from a decade ago, this is Valve's own device. Big news www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

At ‘hush-hush’ MAHA summit, RFK Jr. and deputies to mix with biotech leaders A who's who of MAHA federal officials will be speaking at an event, stacked with industry executives and activists, organized largely in secrecy.

In a "hush-hush" MAHA summit, top health officials will mingle with industry leaders and activists

www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/m...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Voter Turnout Highest In Three Decades as Mamdani Phenomenon Galvanizes Electorate More than 1.7 million voters cast ballots by 6 p.m. on Election Day, with three hours left at the polls.

Y'all this is crazy!
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/r...

We're looking for a business reporter for a few months starting in December!

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/bu...

I bear full responsibility for the intra-South Carolina beef that continues to escalate because of Nancy Mace.

Original story here: www.wired.com/story/nancy-...