Diet TBPN

Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN

By recording the screens of every Meta employee which is very controversial and bold but actually ripping that band-aid off and just saying hey we're we're an AI training company now and everyone's going to be recording their screens and their flows and all how all their work gets done. They basically got like a frontier leading AI data labeling company for free.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Why did Comcast ever buy NBC?

AT&T tried content plus pipes when it bought Time Warner. Verizon tried content plus pipes when it bought AOL and Yahoo, and, hell, AOL tried content plus pipes when it bought Time Warner in the early 2000s. You might notice a trend here — all of those deals ended in disaster.

The Prof G Pod

The Future of Media Is Audio — ft. Axios’ Sara Fischer | Office Hours

I can't figure out any strategy other than the Ellisons are either themselves very politically motivated to change the tone and tenor of CBS and 60 or they see more money incurring favor with the Trump administration who seems to be — I've heard — was incandescently enraged by the interview with Marjorie Taylor Green.

The Business of Tech

Why big companies kill good ideas – and how to save them

for innovation to work in a corporate but has to look and feel like a real startup. It needs its own budget, a clear, finite time span, specific deliverables, and tough stage gates where ideas are reviewed and must earn the right to keep going exactly as they would if a founding team was pitching for the next funding round.

It's Been a Minute

Meet the billionaires who control your media | It's Been a Minute

A lot of these mega mergers over time don't prove valuable. I remember I first started covering media in the year 2000. That was the year that AOL acquired and ate Time Warner. And it was disastrous for both halves of that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. gamble

why would anyone want to buy Warner, which has basically killed every acquirer it's had for the last quarter century?