Paramount Skydance is on course to win the Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) takeover battle after rival Netflix stepped away. The World’s largest streaming service had been in pole position to land a deal by which it would pay $27.75 per share for Warner’s studio and HBO Max streaming businesses, valuing the divisions at almost $83bn…
Recently, I asked Claude, an artificial-intelligence thingy at the center of a standoff with the Pentagon, if it could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Say, for example, hands that wanted to put a tight net of surveillance around every American citizen, monitoring our lives in real time to ensure our compliance with government. βYes….
Actor Shia LaBeoufβs raucous Mardi Gras episode in New Orleans earlier this month has now earned him court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment. A New Orleans judge on Thursday ordered the former Disney Channel star, 39, to begin substance abuse treatment and undergo weekly drug testing after he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting two men…
The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton by-election. Hannah Spencer has become the party’s fifth MP in parliament, after beating Reform UK, who finished second, and Labour, who came third, to the seat. The Greens, who had earlier said they were “very confident of a win”, received 14,980 votes to claim a majority…
The hopes of Northern California racing and breeding interests were once again dashed when the California Horse Racing Board refused to license short racing dates to the Tehama District Fair and the Humboldt County Fair on Thursday. Rather than a discussion about how to grow the sport, the 2-hour 45-minute meeting was mostly about how…
THE FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER An Open Letter to Our Fellow Leaders in Global Media From: Tim Davie, BBC Director-General; Jon Slade, CEO, Financial Times; Anna Bateson, CEO, The Guardian; David Rhodes, Executive Chairman, Sky News; Anna Jones, CEO, Telegraph Media Group We write to you at a pivotal moment for our industry. We…
An independent expenditure committee backed by Silicon Valley executives spent $4.8 million on television ads supporting San Jose Mayor Matt Mahanβs gubernatorial bid that will begin airing Thursday. The two 30-second ads highlight the Democratβs life story β being raised in a working-class family and working on a grounds crew and as a middle school…
βThe Gray House,β a limited series now streaming on Prime Video, purports to tell the fact-based story of Elizabeth Van Lew, who spied for the Union in the Civil War while living in the midst of Southern society in Richmond, Va. And in very broad terms it does, though it fills up the space within…
The Metropolitan Police has apologised to a second parliamentary Speaker in two days after he was incorrectly named as the person who passed on information about Lord Mandelson, which led to his arrest. Michael Forsyth, the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords, was named in reports as having warned the police that Lord Mandelson…
Who are the top teams to watch in City Section high school baseball and likely contenders to reach Dodger Stadium? 1. BIRMINGHAM: The Patriots have two quality starting pitchers, led by sophomore Carlos Acuna, plus an experienced closer, so if they play defense and get a little hitting, reaching Dodger Stadium will be no surprise….