Paramount’s Paused Merger Doesn’t Ease Creators’ Fears–But The ‘Obsession’ And ‘Backrooms’ Story Should.

Paramount just paused its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Independent creators are scared. An entertainment attorney explains what they already own, and why the Obsession and Backrooms story should give them hope.

Paramount’s Paused Merger Doesn’t Ease Creators’ Fears–But The ‘Obsession’ And ‘Backrooms’ Story Should

Paramount just paused its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Independent creators are scared, but after ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms,’ they have more ownership.

Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case
Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case

Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over whether businesses can legally resell surplus on-premise software licences. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled in 2025 that resale a…

New U.S.-Canada Bridge Opens After Years Of A Soap Opera

A new U.S.-Canada bridge finally opened to traffic on Monday, July 27, after years of clashes, construction and trade tensions

Climate Scientist Fleeing Wildfires: ‘We’re In A Race Against Time’

Professor Stefan Rahmstorf escapes out-of-control wildfires in France, and warns fossil fuel inaction is supercharging climate disasters.

ASML shares fell 6.5% after a report that China has started mass-producing DUV lithography tools
ASML shares fell 6.5% after a report that China has started mass-producing DUV lithography tools

ASML shares fell as much as 6.5% in Amsterdam on Monday after The Information reported that a Shanghai-based company has begun mass-producing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography tools. The machines are the type that ASML has been restricted from sel…

Marvel Picks The ‘Doomsday’ Hero That ‘May Be Able To Stop’ Doctor Doom

Marvel has deemed on specific hero as the strongest chance at taking on Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. An unlikely one.

Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing

Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of…

Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and Am…

Chinese RAM company CXMT makes a $484 billion stock market debut
Chinese RAM company CXMT makes a $484 billion stock market debut

The China-based memory firm ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had a massive first day on the Shanghai stock exchange after its shares surged 466 percent, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. The stock market frenzy boosted CXMT’s valuation to $484 billion, making it the most valuable Chinese company listed on the exchange. […]