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Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-a…

Netflix Acquires Ben Affleck's AI Filmmaker Tools Start-Up InterPositive
In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-a…

Netflix Acquires Ben Affleck's AI Filmmaker Tools Start-Up InterPositive
In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.

Outgoing Republican senator
Thom Tillis has vowed to block any nominee to permanently replace Pam Bondi as attorney general
if the candidate excuses the January 6 attack on the US Capitol
– a threat that could deprive the White House of a crucial vote.
“The threshold for somebody following Pam Bondi ends the moment I hear they said one thing that excused the events of January 6,”
Tillis said in an interview with CNN.
The North Carolina lawmaker, who is ret…

One of the most important arguments against nuclear power is that reactors are automatically a target in wartime, and this inherent threat has hugely grown now that exploding drones are part of every country's arsenal.
https://world-nuclear-news.org/article…

'Projectile' hit 350 metres from Bushehr nuclear reactor - IAEA
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said that "following information from Iran of a projectile incident on Tuesday evening, the IAEA can confirm that a structure 350 metres from the Bushehr NPP reactor was hit and destroyed".  ;

Feeling lucky that I get paid to read and talk about books these days.

Unionized Hearst staffers represented by the WGA East conducted half-day walkouts on Tuesday after a month of contract negotiations with management failed (Erik Pedersen/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/hearst-magazines-union-walkouts-co…

Hearst Magazines Union Stages Series Of Walkouts After Failing To Reach Contract Deal
Unionized staffers at Hearst Magazines are taking staging half-day walkouts Tuesday after a month of contracts talks with management failed to reach a deal.

Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting "ephemeral messaging tools" (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Noem faced Republican criticism
Republicans largely kept the focus on the large numbers of migrants who came into the country under former President Joe Biden,
portraying Noem as the leader of a cleanup effort of the former administration’s mess.
But she did come under some harsh questioning by members of her own party.
Senator Tillis, who called on Noem to resign following the shootings in Minneapolis, criticized her for erroneously arresting American citizens, for…

Noem defends her portrayal of killed Minneapolis protesters as agitators
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended her agency in testimony and under questioning at a Senate hearing. She appeared before the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday as a backlash grows over deadly immigration enforcement actions tied to President Donald Trump's deportation push. It was her first congressional hearing since two protesters were killed in Minneapolis by Homeland Security officers in January. Noem's department sent hundreds of officers to Minnesota. Protesters marched and…

Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M (Tim Barnwell/Silicon Republic)
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/european-fintech-st…

European fintech start-up Duna raises another €30m
European business identity start-up Duna has raised more than €40m since its foundation in 2023, following today's raise of €30m.

Thomson Reuters' CEO says AI cannot easily replace the company's legal-research expertise, after its stock fell following the release of Claude legal work tools (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
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