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After eBay’s Resounding Rejection, GameStop Reconsiders Its $56 Billion Acquisition Bid
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen might be ready to pull the plug on his ambitious plan to purchase eBay for $56 billion, a new report claims. Cohen–who came up with the plan while seated on his porcelain throne–had been pursuing the deal ever since it was announced, but eBay rejected the offer, saying it was “neither credible nor attractive.” According…
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Run-A-Muck Developing Torrey Peters’ “Stag Dance” For Film; Novella Part Of 2026 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Collection
Run-A-Muck, the creator-led media company founded by Pamela Drucker Mann, Ilene Chaiken and Jennifer Beals, is developing a film adaptation of “Stag Dance,” a novella by Torrey Peters, with a writer and director still to be found. The story forms the title piece of Peters’ collection “Stag Dance: A Quartet,” published by Penguin Random House,…
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Netflix Wraps Upfront, Doubling Ad Commitments; Women’s World Cup Inventory Nearly Sold Out
Netflix has completed its 2026 upfront advertising sales process, confirming it hit its target of roughly doubling ad commitments as it pushes deeper into the advertising business. The streaming giant, now in its fourth year of selling ads after previously resisting the idea for over a decade, reaffirmed that it expects ad revenue to reach…
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Sanders asks AI giants to pause development, warning of congressional intervention
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressing the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause development of artificial intelligence in the wake of recent hacking incidents, warning Congress will intervene if needed. In a letter sent Monday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sanders argued AI development…
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L.A. Creator Sachin Kumar Launches Prema Creative Co. With Vertical Comedy Series About Indian-American Actor In Hollywood
L.A.-based creator Sachin Kumar, who works under the name SCKACHI, has launched his own production company, Prema Creative Co., debuting with a 14-part vertical comedy series called Typecast. The show follows a fictionalised version of Kumar, an Indian-American actor navigating Hollywood while confronting typecasting, ambition and identity, and aims to depict Indian characters without the…
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AI is capable of breaking the music industry. But it does not have to.
An op-ed from MusicInfra CEO Björn Lindvall argues that generative AI’s most pressing threat to the music industry lies not in creativity but in the sector’s ageing infrastructure for tracking royalties and attribution. He warns that the surging volume of AI-generated and AI-assisted music will soon overwhelm systems designed for a simpler era of streams…
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Student stabbed in the heart while on the phone to his girlfriend after falling out with a friend over fake Rolex, court hears
A student was fatally stabbed in the heart while speaking to his girlfriend on the phone, following a falling-out with a friend over a fake Rolex watch, a court has heard. The case is being heard as part of ongoing criminal proceedings and highlights how a seemingly minor dispute escalated into a fatal knife attack…
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Obama to host literary podcast, ‘A Great Book,’ on Audible
Former President Obama is starting a new chapter as the host of a literature-focused podcast. The ex-commander in chief will host “A Great Book,” Audible and Higher Ground Productions, the media company launched by the former president and Michelle Obama, announced on Monday. Former President Obama will sit down “with six luminaries to discuss the…
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Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries
Sila, a US battery materials startup, has secured a $1.4 billion loan from the Department of Defense to expand production of its silicon-carbon anode material. The deal, announced on Friday, comes as American automakers and defence contractors struggle to source battery materials outside China, which dominates the graphite anode supply chain that most lithium-ion batteries…