Netflix Backs Out of Warner bros. Deal, Paramount Poised to Win

Netflix Backs Out of Warner bros. Deal, Paramount Poised to Win

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In a stunning twist, Netflix is declining to raise its bid for Warner Bros., positioning David Ellison’s Paramount as the winner in the battle for the fabled studio. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters released a statement Thursday outlining their decision, namely that the deal is “no longer financially attractive” and that it “was always a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price.” “The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to…
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WATCH: Rep. Garcia says House Democrats want Trump to sit down to testify about Epstein ties

WATCH: Rep. Garcia says House Democrats want Trump to sit down to testify about Epstein ties

🚀 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Bill Clinton,Donald Trump news,epstein files,Hillary Clinton,jeffrey epstein,robert garcia ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee argue that former President Bill Clinton's appearance to testify sets a precedent that should apply to President Donald Trump as well. Watch the House Democrats' news conference in the video player above. “Let's get President Trump before our committee to answer the questions that are being asked across this country by survivors,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee. He watches: Coomer says lawmakers may…
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Dunblane Tapes Review – A deeply moving film that reveals parents’ grief 30 years after the tragedy | television

Dunblane Tapes Review – A deeply moving film that reveals parents’ grief 30 years after the tragedy | television

✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThirty years on, the Dunblane Massacre remains almost unbelievable, and the grief of the families remains incomprehensible. In a terrible way, it's hard to see them now, three decades later; They have lived three decades without children who should now be growing up, with families of their own.On March 13, 1996, a man named Thomas Hamilton shot 15 elementary school students, ages five and six, and their teacher Gwen Mayor in their gym as they were starting a physical…
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Anthropic CEO stands firm as Pentagon deadline approaches

Anthropic CEO stands firm as Pentagon deadline approaches

✨ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Anthropic,dario amodei,dod,pentagon,pete hegseth 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he “cannot in good conscience agree to this.” [the Pentagon’s] He “requested” that the military be given unrestricted access to its artificial intelligence systems. “Anthropic recognizes that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions,” Amodei wrote in a statement. "However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe that AI could undermine rather than defend democratic values. And some uses are simply beyond the bounds of what today's technology can do…
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Premier League Darts results: Stephen Ponting beats Gian van Veen to win fourth night in Belfast

Premier League Darts results: Stephen Ponting beats Gian van Veen to win fourth night in Belfast

💥 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Stephen Ponting silenced his critics when he inflicted a third final defeat of the season on Gian van Veen to win night four of the Premier League in Belfast. The 40-year-old saw his place in the tournament questioned by spectators after failing to win a match in the first three weeks.It came after 'The Bullet' took nine weeks to score a point at last year's event - his first appearance since he was a competitor in 2020. Ponting, who has stayed away from social media…
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Netflix abandons Warner Bros. deal Discovery after Paramount’s offering was deemed superior

Netflix abandons Warner Bros. deal Discovery after Paramount’s offering was deemed superior

💥 Check out this insightful post from Business News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Netflix He stays away from the purchase deal Warner Bros. Discovery studio and streaming assets after WBD's board of directors on Thursday considered a previously revised proposal Paramount Skydance To be a superior offer. Earlier this week, Paramount raised its offer to buy all of WBD to $31 per share, up from $30 per share, all in cash. It was the latest shake-up of several Paramount shows in recent months — and since moving forward with a hostile bid to buy the company —…
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War \ Anthropic

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War \ Anthropic

💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. We were the first frontier AI company to deploy our models in the US government’s classified networks, the first to deploy them at the National Laboratories, and the first to provide custom models for national security customers. Claude is extensively deployed across the Department…
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Mamdani promotes Trump on housing investments through satirical newspaper with his name in the headline

Mamdani promotes Trump on housing investments through satirical newspaper with his name in the headline

✨ Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: affordable housing,Donald Trump news,housing,Zohran Mamdani ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump met Thursday with New York City Mayor Zahran Mamdani at the White House to discuss massive new housing investments in the city, with the new mayor presenting a mock front page of a newspaper to show the president how an important housing initiative might be received. It's a tactic designed to appeal to Trump, who is keenly aware of his media coverage and, aside from being an avid viewer of cable news,…
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Football Gossip: Klopp, Murillo, Vlahovic, Mane, Toney, Jackson, Verbruggen, Osimhen

Football Gossip: Klopp, Murillo, Vlahovic, Mane, Toney, Jackson, Verbruggen, Osimhen

🔥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Denying speculation about Jurgen Klopp's role with Red Bull, Chelsea Staying in first place for a landing on Murillo and Wolves“The asking price for Matthews Mane is postponed Liverpool and Manchester United.Reports that Jurgen Klopp will leave his role as head of global football at Red Bull are “complete nonsense and completely unfounded”, says chief executive Oliver Mintzlaff. (Sky Sports Germany – in German), externalLiverpool Firmly in the frame for Nottingham Forest's But 23-year-old Brazilian defender Murillo Chelsea Still leading the chase. (group talk), externalSerbian…
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Pekka Kuusisto: Willows album review – luminous, innovative and penetrating | classical music

Pekka Kuusisto: Willows album review – luminous, innovative and penetrating | classical music

✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Nico Muhly 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'W“We don't delete notes, we delete ketchup,” says Pekka Kuusisto. The Finnish conductor and violinist talks about Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, a work so innately British that it regularly tops classical music popularity polls in the UK. However, Kuusisto's Lark is no RVW-lite, but an honest and compelling account that returns the music to its essential roots in the English folk tradition. It begins with a whispered, breathy sound, then flutters and rises before disappearing into a…
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