Warner Bros. Discovery still isn't interested in Paramount Skydance's offer. Paramount's latest bid "is inadequate, with significant risks and costs imposed on our shareholders" compared to Netflix's bid, which "represents superior, more certain value for our shareholders," said Samuel Di Piazza, the chair of WBD's board of directors, in a statement to shareholders on Wednesday morning. In a letter to shareholders, WBD's board recommended that shareholders reject Paramount's all-cash bid of $30 per share in ...

Jared Kushner is walking away from Paramount's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Affinity Partners, a Florida-based private equity firm founded by President Donald Trump's son-in-law, will not participate in financing Paramount's $108 billion bid for WBD, a person close to the matter told Business Insider. The person said Affinity was expected to invest $200 million, a relatively small amount of the total bid.In a statement to various news outlets, an Affinity spokesperson confirmed the end of the firm's par ...

监管行动与处罚 - 加州车管局给予特斯拉90天期限修改其广告用语 否则将面临在加州暂停销售30天的处罚 [1] - 加州车管局决定不追究暂停特斯拉在加州制造牌照的建议 但对暂停销售牌照的决定给予90天暂缓执行期 以便公司进行整改 [3] 法律程序与指控 - 行政法官Juliet E Cox于11月21日就特斯拉是否误导消费者对其汽车自动驾驶能力做出了一项拟议决定 并已提交给加州车管局审议 该文件目前未公开 将于12月22日发布 [2] - 行政法官Cox建议同时暂停特斯拉在加州的销售和制造牌照 [3] - 此次通知源于2022年7月在奥克兰行政法院进行的为期一周的听证会 加州车管局于2022年起诉特斯拉 指控其通过广告以及将其驾驶辅助技术命名为“全自动驾驶”和“自动驾驶”来误导消费者 [4] - 加州车管局寻求暂停特斯拉在该州的汽车销售能力至少30天 并要求对消费者进行金钱赔偿 [5] 争议焦点：广告与系统能力 - 加州车管局在诉状中指出 特斯拉网站曾在2021年和2022年多次将其FSD驾驶辅助系统广告宣传为“旨在能够进行短途和长途旅行 而无需驾驶座上的人采取任何行动” [5] - 特斯拉律师在听证会上否认公司曾试图隐瞒其车辆无法完全自动驾驶的事实 [4] - 特斯拉律师表示 公司始终告知买家“不能完全依赖”FSD或自动驾驶功能 [5] - 特斯拉法律团队成员Matthew Benedetto律师在听证会上表示 “具有全自动驾驶功能的汽车目前无法实现自动驾驶” [6]

iRobot, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week after years of mounting financial struggles and a failed $1.4 billion acquisition deal with Amazon.The 35-year-old company once reigned supreme in the world of robotic vacuums, but its dominance waned amid rising competition from lower-cost rivals and weakening consumer demand. Here's a look back at how this once mighty, pioneering robotics company arrived at this moment. iRobot was founded by MIT ...

Netflix just made its second big podcast move, announcing a deal with iHeartMedia to exclusively host the video versions of more than a dozen of its shows. Those shows include "The Breakfast Club," cohosted by popular radio personality Charlamagne tha God; true crime show "My Favorite Murder"; and "Dear Chelsea" with Chelsea Handler.Netflix said the shows will launch on its platform in early 2026 in the US, with other markets to follow. Netflix stressed the variety of the shows available through the deal. ...

If you miss the days of gathering around the TV surfing channels, you're in luck. Instagram launched Instagram for TV on Tuesday, bringing its popular Reels content to the big screen via Amazon Fire TV devices.The app, which is first being rolled out in the US, groups Reels into channels, including trending comedy, sports, or hidden travel gems. Users can choose a channel and start watching, with the Reels playing automatically. Instagram for TV is part of the platform's ongoing effort to adapt to the way ...

When it comes to regrets, Michael Burry has a few. The investor of "The Big Short" fame, who bet on GameStop years before it became a meme, explained why he sold the stock before it skyrocketed in a Substack post on Monday night.Burry got in earlyBurry, who recently pivoted from hedge fund manager to online writer, first invested in GameStop in the summer of 2018. The video-game retailer's stock looked undervalued to him, and he saw an array of catalysts that could send it higher, he wrote. They included ...

EVs aren't really working out for Ford, so now it's chasing the AI boom instead. The Detroit auto giant said on Monday it would pull back from electric vehicles in a move that would cost the company $19.5 billion.In addition to scrapping planned electric models and building more hybrids, Ford said it would repurpose its EV battery factory in Kentucky to build batteries to power data centers and energy infrastructure. The Mustang maker added that it would invest $2 billion to scale the new energy storage b ...

公司战略：打造“AI优先”工作场所 - 公司核心优先事项是“让人工智能成为我们工作的核心” 旨在将人工智能工具整合到员工工作的方方面面 [1][2] - 公司为员工提供了一套经过改进的人工智能工具套件 并确认其重点是使用人工智能帮助员工处理日常工作 [4] - 公司通过游戏化（如“Level Up”内部游戏）和将人工智能使用成效与绩效评估挂钩（2026年起）来鼓励员工采用和试验人工智能 [10] 工具开放与集成策略 - 公司自2024年6月起向员工广泛开放竞争对手的人工智能模型 包括谷歌和OpenAI的产品 [1][5] - 公司内部生产力套件已迁移至谷歌Workspace（包括Chat、Gmail、Docs和Drive） 以解锁人工智能驱动功能并更好地与扩展的工具集集成 [8] - 在工程侧 公司扩大了对智能体编码系统的访问 增加了谷歌Gemini 3 Pro 并探索与OpenAI Codex CLI等工具的新集成 战略核心是提高生产力和加速开发 [9] 可用人工智能工具详情 - 截至2024年11月 所有员工均可访问谷歌的Gemini 3 Pro和OpenAI的ChatGPT-5 [3] - 员工可访问的工具列表包括：Agentic Auto（顶级智能体）、Advanced Auto（实验性复杂任务处理）、iLlama（针对内部问题优化的快速Llama 3.1模型）、Llama 4 Maverick、GPT-4.1、Gemini 3 Pro以及编码助手Devmate等 [4] - 公司内部编码工具Devmate使用了Anthropic的Claude模型 [5] - 公司还向员工提供了Midjourney的AI图像生成工具 用于加速设计工作和创意原型制作 [7] 内部人工智能开发与投资 - 公司已在面向消费者的自有人工智能模型上投资了数百亿美元（tens of billions） [6] - 员工可以访问基于其Llama模型构建的内部人工智能助手Metamate [6] - 公司鼓励员工同时使用自有模型（采用“Llama”命名规范）和其他公司的产品 [2]

The "Google Guys" are now richer than Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Oracle's Larry Ellison, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. Alphabet's cofounders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are worth $265 billion and $246 billion each as of Monday's close, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. They're the second- and third-richest people on the planet, behind only Elon Musk and his $638 billion net worth.Page and Brin have added $97 billion and $88 billion to their respective fortunes since the start of January, for a joint wealth ga ...