Of Interest

• Anthropic's New Opus 5 Model Rivals Fable 5 For Half the Price

  

  Slashdot

• Paramount Agrees to Delay Merger With Warner Bros. Discovery

  

  Gizmodo

• Major tech and AI companies warn the US government against curbing open-weight AI models

  

  Neowin

• Who benefits most from AI data centers?

  

  Futurity

• Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2026

  

  Techdirt

• Queen of the Damned: Everything we know about Season 4 of Interview with the Vampire

  

  Mashable

• Blade Runner 2099 trailer

  

  Boing Boing

• Nothing confirms layoffs, but calls market exit rumors 'fake news'

  

  The Verge

• Apple Partnering With Klarna For iPhone And Mac Subscription Plan

  

  Ubergizmo

• PlayStation Network experienced a massive outage

  

  Engadget

• Trump says US to launch EU probe over 'illegal' Google fine

  

  Yahoo News(Technology)

• Microsoft is testing free Xbox cloud gaming with ads, no subscription required

  

  TechSpot

• Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

  

  The Verge

• Blade Runner 2099's moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November

  

  The Verge