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Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved — Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has entered exclusive negotiations to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix Inc. …
A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others — Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project …
A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about "verification debt" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai:
A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about “verification debt” — Werner Vogels ends his 14-year keynote streak by handing out printed newspapers and warning developers about “verification debt.”
A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact — Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved? — Five years ago this week, Meta's Oversight Board accepted its first cases.
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content — Riddle-like poems tricked chatbots into spewing hate speech and helping design nuclear weapons and nerve agents.