He’s withdrawn financial backing from the bid, which may leave it floundering, and the Warner Bros. board has recommended shareholders reject the hostile offer. It looks like everyone involved is beginning to realize what The Verge’s own Liz Lopatto pointed out yesterday: “What Paramount is doing doesn’t make any fucking sense.”
Update: The Warner Bros. board has recommended rejecting the Paramount bid.
Following mounting pressure, European officials have recommended the bloc drop its 2035 ban on new gas cars, instead aiming for a 90 percent reduction in emissions from new vehicles, leaving room for a few hybrids to still hit the market. The change will still have to pass the EU parliament.
Bloomberg reports the Luxembourg office will fire 370 employees, around 8.5 percent of the 4,370 staff. Amazon announced 14,000 global layoffs in October.
The tiny European tax haven only has a population of 680,000, and these are its biggest layoffs in two decades — but still leave Amazon the fifth largest employer in the country.
Its historic satellite imagery just happened to catch the set of Apple TV’s Pluribus during filming, revealing a big moment from the show’s seventh episode, which aired last week. Here’s a shot of the cul de sac set caught by Google during construction, but click through for a later photo that spoils the show.
Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar joined Decoder this week to discuss the company’s “code red” response to AI, including its own new AI Assist chatbot. You might be able to guess where this is going.
SteveBigAndTall:
I used their AI to ask a question and at the end it told me to post to the default site if I needed a better answer and when I did, the Mods deleted it and told me to ask the AI.
So yeah it’s going great.
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For its Tetris World Final in Dubai, Red Bull built its own board out of more than 2,000 drones, almost 500 feet high. Each player got five minutes to rack up a high score — can’t have those drone batteries dying, I guess — with Turkey’s Fehmi Atalar winning on the day.
My colleague Terrence waxed poetic about his portable mechanical keyboard over the weekend, which he pairs with a compact E Ink screen to work on the go, a reminder that every day we stray further from God’s light.
Sam 3K:
“The NyPhy Air60 V2 keyboard, when paired with a Boox Palma 2” a real “none of these words are in the Bible” moment
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Europe wants to tax the flood of cheap packages from Chinese retailers like Shein and Temu, just like Trump did. From next July, a €3 charge will apply per item type to parcels below €150, a temporary fix while the bloc works on removing the exemption altogether.
Yesterday my colleague Victoria Song asked what we’re actually meant to call the new generation of smart / XR / AR glasses. Apparently “AI glasses” is an industry frontrunner, but doesn’t that already feel like a truism?
mattewan:
I feel like saying AI glasses is the same as saying Software Glasses. It’s kind of meaningless as you expect products like this (maybe all tech products?) to have AI in them- it’s kind of the whole shtick at this point. You wouldn’t say AI laptop or AI phone.
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