Why Todd McKinnon thinks it’s ‘naive’ not to prepare for the SaaSpocalypse
The Justice Department’s surprise Live Nation settlement raises big questions about the future of federal antitrust.
The proliferation of automated podcast tools has reached a sadly inevitable outcome: WebinarTV is scraping open Zoom meeting links and turning call recordings into content for its platform without telling anyone. (Or paying for anything, of course.) Our friends at 404 Media have the whole story.
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra says the intention of Grammarly’s expert review feature was not to impersonate real-life journalists. But he wouldn’t defend it.
To take on Netflix and YouTube, Paramount has to break the Warner Bros. curse.
Automotive News ran the numbers based on public filings and found that Toyota was the hardest hit, at $9.1b, while Detroit’s Big Three paid a total $6.5b. It’s unclear how refunds might play out now that the Supreme Court overturned the tariffs as they were originally enacted, but either way that’s a lot of cash stuck in limbo that could have gone to hybrid and EV incentives while Trump’s Iran disaster continues to spike gas prices.
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How Yahoo escaped its Verizon death spiral and became profitable again.
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on the history of the NSA and mass surveillance in America, and why Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon should worry us.
We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter fandom, following Hasbro’s major Harry Potter merchandising agreement announced just last month. Here’s what Chris had to say.