Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/musk-altman-tussle-reports-…
Turns out that what hit flight #UA1093 was most likely a balloon from https://windbornesystems.com - this was brought up first in the thread https://x.com/vk5qi/status/1980386581497409891 and now the company confirms that it's a very strong possibility: https://x.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzbS30xdjM for a short video about the company and how it's filling the atmosphere with long-duration balloons carrying weather sensors. They had just been hailed as one of the best inventions of 2025: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318250/windborne-systems-atlas/ ...
Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Pterosaur with unusual bristle-like teeth discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-new-species-of-flying-reptile-discovered-in-fossilized-dinosaur-vomit
Good luck with that!
British and Chinese security officials established a forum to discuss cyberattacks following a spate of hacking accusations that soured relations between the two countries.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article…
Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-…
Adobe pledges ~$10M in grants and product donations in 2026 to support filmmakers, including funding creators directly for the first time (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…
Filings from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit detail Microsoft's decade-long relationship with OpenAI, including plans for a new subsidiary during Sam Altman's firing (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/the-microsof
Filings: Meta's board agreed to a $190M settlement with investors over claims that Zuckerberg and other board members mishandled the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20