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Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount’s hostile bid, calls offer ‘illusory’
Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) board of directors has rejected the $108 billion hostile takeover bid from David Ellison’s…
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Bluesky launches a privacy-focused ‘Find Friends’ feature without invite spam
Bluesky, the social network that competes with X and Threads, is introducing a friend-finding feature that they claim…
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Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B
Coursera and Udemy announced on Wednesday a landmark merger agreement valued at approximately $2.5 billion, bringing together two…
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Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy and is looking to sell the business
Electric bike company Rad Power Bikes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, weeks after it warned…
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Instacart’s AI-driven pricing tool attracted attention — now the FTC has questions
According to Reuters, Instacart is currently getting the regulatory equivalent of a throat-clearing from the FTC, which has…
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Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training
Like pretty much every other tech company in existence, Adobe has leaned heavily into AI over the past…
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Amazon appoints longtime AWS exec Peter DeSantis to lead new AI org
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced in a message to staff on Wednesday that longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis…
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Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers
Meta says that it has paused its program to share Meta Horizon OS, the mixed reality operating system…
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Jared Isaacman confirmed as next head of NASA
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next administrator of NASA. The…
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YouTube to pull music data from Billboard’s charts because it doesn’t like its ranking formula
YouTube is pulling its data from Billboard for use in the publisher’s industry-leading U.S. music charts. The decision…