Maoyan: China's box office reached $7.41B in 2025, up 20% YoY after a 23% drop in 2024, driven by animated films and IP franchises like Ne Zha 2 and Zootopia 2 (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-offic…
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…
Department of Justice Violates Epstein Files Law By Failing to Inform Congress of Reasons Behind Redactions (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)
https://meidasnews.com/news/department-of-justice-violates-epstein-files-law-by-failing-to-inform-congress-of-reasons-behind-redactions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p61#a260104p61
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Karoline Leavitt insists Trump had a
‘feeling based on fact’
before Iran strikes
but still won’t detail imminent threat to US
https://bsky.app/profile/the-independent.com/post/3mgbo5u6tz423
Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…
Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/skyryse…
Filing: Baidu announces a stock buyback program of as much as $5B through the end of 2028, and plans to issue its first dividend in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/china-s-baidu-approves-sh…
Chinese automotive chipmaker Black Sesame says its Huashan A2000 chip passed the US Commerce and Defense Departments' "relevant reviews" for global sales (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3338742/<…
In the press release announcing the deal, Netflix says it "expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m