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Today, Netflix announced our acquisition of Warner Bros. Together, we’ll define the next century of storytelling, creating an extraordinary entertainment offering for audiences everywhere. https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros…
Top global artists on Spotify this decade: 2020: Bad Bunny 2021: Bad Bunny 2022: Bad Bunny 2023: Taylor Swift 2024: Taylor Swift 2025: Bad Bunny
“Was I a DEI hire?” It’s a question that WIRED senior writer Jason Parham sometimes asks. In an industry perpetually on the verge of extinction, Parham jokes that the only reason he’s survived so long is because he’s Black.
DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To
Went on one of my favorite podcasts to talk all about Substack. Thanks for having me @ColinandSamir !
Paramount is launching a hostile takeover bid to buy Warner Bros. They are going directly to shareholders with a bid valued at $108.4 billion (Source: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-hostile-takeover-bid-warner-bros-discovery-1236603175/…)
X really is the Forum Romanum of our time I think A place where anyone can post anything and if it resonates it rises to the top of the global conciousness And then it gets debated by other people, and if they have good counter arguments, those also rise to the top And everyone learns in the process It's rapid collective iterative thought development on a global scale
You can now ask @GeminiApp: "Is this video made with AI?" Upload the file and it will check for the SynthID watermark to help verify if it was created or edited by Google tools. Find out more → https://goo.gle/4qggh3g
It seems that almost every tech founder in the world wants also to be a media figure. The same isn’t true in reverse.
Ladies and gentlemen: Over the next week, we’ll be launching a handful of updates for our creators & power users. To kick things off, we’re opening up X Articles to all Premium subscribers. We’ve seen some incredible articles go viral over the last few weeks — and we’d love to see more writers posting on X. More to come.
The Oscars will stream exclusively on YouTube, starting in 2029.
I asked my 430,000 followers for their favorite podcast episodes of 2025. Here are the 10 that came out on top:
In a couple hours, we'll be rolling out About This Account globally, allowing you to see the country or region where an account is based. This will be accessible by tapping the signup date on profiles. This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square. We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X. And for those in countries where speech has penalties, we've included privacy toggles to only show your region. This was a huge undertaking. A special thanks to the engineers who made this happen: @sandeep_rao @singhai @mingsong @striedinger @rzhao0506
SEO tool Ahrefs created a fake luxury brand and spent 2 months manipulating LLMs with misinformation…and it worked! They tested a fake Elon Musk endorsements on a blog post. A Reddit AMA from a "former employee." A Medium "investigation" that debunked some obvious lies while slipping in new ones. The Medium article won. AI trusted fake journalism over the brand's actual FAQ. Fascinating times! Link in comments.
