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WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
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Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M (Echo Wang/Reuters)
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Sources: SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an IPO in the second half of 2026 (Katie Roof/The Information)
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Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
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Sources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company (Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-05 19:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine (Liv McMahon/BBC)
2025-12-05 18:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Marc Benioff says it "would not shock" him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
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Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 (TrendForce)
2025-12-05 17:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
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Polish lawmakers fail to override the president's veto on a crypto assets regulation bill; Poland is the last EU country not to adopt EU's crypto regulation (Bloomberg)
2025-12-05 16:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune LLMs using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more (Hugging Face)
2025-12-05 15:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using "io" as a trademark in some instances while an infringement suit against it proceeds (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)
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The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (New York Times)
2025-12-05 14:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BNP Paribas for its WBD deal, one of the largest ever unsecured bridge loans (Bloomberg)
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Netflix says it "expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues including the deceptive design of its blue checkmarks (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
2025-12-05 12:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix agrees to buy WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal; the transaction is expected to close after Q3 2026 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
2025-12-05 13:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed (Reuters)
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The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges (Shashwat Chauhan/Reuters)
2025-12-05 12:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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