Manish Singh / India Dispatch:
HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content  —  And more than $900 million in annual revenue in India.  —  Amazon Prime Video has more than three times the subscribers as Netflix in India, according to HSBC.

Ross Andersen / The Atlantic:
Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing  —  Peer review has met its match.  —  On a frigid Norwegian afternoon earlier this month, Dan Quintana, a psychology professor …

Federico Viticci / MacStories:
A look at Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally on the user's computer and integrates with multiple LLMs and messaging services  —  For the past week or so, I've been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine …

Reuters:
EquipmentShare, which runs a jobsite tech and equipment rental platform for the construction industry, raised $747.3M in its IPO, valuing the company at $7.16B  —  EquipmentShare.com shares rose 16.3% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday, valuing the construction rental firm at $7.16 billion …

Aisha Down / The Guardian:
Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT citing Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers  —  Guardian found OpenAI's platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers  —  The latest model of ChatGPT has begun …