Netflix will host the NFL’s first “Thanksgiving eve” game.

During its upfront presentation, Netflix offered a glimpse at its upcoming NFL games: * Season opener in Australia: 49ers vs. Rams * Thanksgiving eve: Packers vs. Rams * Two Christmas Day games ...

Netflix’s ad ambitions just keep growing

For the second year in a row, Netflix’s ad-supported tier more than doubled its monthly viewerbase. During its 2026 upfront ...

Everything at The Criterion Collection is 30 percent off right now

Criterion is taking 30 percent off of every disc on the site, from Anora to Wes Anderson box sets. writes about tech news, ...

This week in the big AI data center buildout.

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects: * Politico: A data ...

Xbox boss Asha Sharma wants to know: “Xbox or XBOX?”

She’s running a poll on X where you can make your voice heard. Much to my dismay, as I write this, XBOX currently has about two thirds of the vote. I know the history, but I firmly believe we ...

We’re listening to an expert witness, David Hemel, a law professor at NYU.

He said that “for a large nonprofit organization, having for-profit affiliates is very much the norm.” When asked, he also said that oftentimes, the for-profit affiliate of a nonprofit is “quite large ...

The border is everywhere

At this year’s Border Security Expo, the most insidious surveillance tools were the ones you couldn’t see. No one paid ...

Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos

Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls “Instants ...

Nintendo says it has more Switch 2 games in store for 2026

With the console about to get more expensive, Nintendo’s president confirms ‘we are working on a variety of new titles.’ ...

During the all-hands, Musk expressed concerns about what would happen if DeepMind got to AGI first,

It sounded like he wanted to race toward AGI.” That sounded unsafe to Achiam. “He was proposing to do something that seemed, based on our understanding at the time, obviously unsafe and reckless,” ...

Achiam is running circles around this lawyer on cross, without doing the annoying things other witnesses have done.

She quotes a tweet of his saying that he believes Musk was doing his best for humanity. He asks when that was. She says, January 2025. He says, well he’s done some things that undermined my confidence ...

Achiam talked about the roles of Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever in OpenAI’s early days.

He said Brockman and Sutskever were the “main leaders,” and that Brockman was the “engineering workhorse that pushed to build scaled-up systems that would train the AI and make it work.” Achiam called ...