Warner Bros. Discovery streaming head JB Perette said during an earnings call on Thursday that paid sharing prompts “will start getting firmer and more visible” in the coming months. Max added a $7.99 per month Extra Member option last month, which lets viewers share their password with someone outside their household.
Max now has 122.3 million subscribers globally, according to Warner Bros. Discovery’s first-quarter 2025 earnings report released today.
Over the past year, Warner Bros. Discovery has brought Max to countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Europe. It also launched Max in Australia in March, and plans to roll out the streaming service in the UK, Ireland, and Germany early next year.
On Monday, a report from 404Media found that a hacker obtained direct messages and CBP contact information from TeleMessage after Mike Waltz was spotted using the company’s modified version of Signal.
Customs and Border Protection spokesperson Rhonda Lawson told Wired that the agency “immediately disabled” TeleMessage in response to the attack and that its “investigation into the scope of the breach is ongoing.”
The FDA met with OpenAI to discuss how the agency could use AI tools for a project called cderGPT, which may stand for the Center for Drug Evaluation, according to a report from Wired. This week, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary brought up goals to eventually shorten the drug approval process with AI.
The “AI Diffusion Act,” which the Biden administration announced in January, would control how advanced AI chips are exported to other countries based on national security risk. Sources tell Bloomberg that the Trump administration is planning to rescind the act before it goes into effect on May 15th, and is “actively working toward a new rule that would strengthen the control of chips abroad.”
[bloomberg.com]
