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On Monday, Trump said
neither bidding party
“are friends of mine.”
He added that he had not spoken to his son- in-law Jared Kushner about the Paramount bid.
Netflix’s bid has already drawn sharp criticism from bipartisan lawmakers and Hollywood unions
over concerns that it could lead to job cuts as well as higher prices for consumers.
“While it is perhaps a sad commentary on the US that Paramount thinks its closeness to the occupant of the Oval Office wil…

NTV Kenya: Warner Bros fight heats up as Paramount counters Netflix with $108bn hostile bid
Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery,

Trump-Schwiegersohn zieht sich aus Warner-Gebot zurück
Beim Gebot von Paramount für Warner Brothers sorgte für Aufsehen, dass Präsidenten-Schwiegersohn Jared Kushner als Geldgeber mit an Bord war. Damit ist Schluss.

Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/technol<…

Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?
A.I. chatbots have been designed to behave in a humanlike way. Some experts think that’s a terrible idea.

SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
Sven Gowal, Rudy Bunel, Florian Stimberg, David Stutz, Guillermo Ortiz-Jimenez, Christina Kouridi, Mel Vecerik, Jamie Hayes, Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi, Paul Bernard, Chris Gamble, Mikl\'os Z. Horv\'ath, Fabian Kaczmarczyck, Alex Kaskasoli, Aleksandar Petrov, Ilia Shumailov, Meghana Thotakuri, Olivia Wiles, Jessica Yung, Zahra Ahmed, Victor Martin, Simon Rosen, Christopher Sav\v{c}ak, Armin Senoner, Nidhi Vyas, Pushmeet Kohli

SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
We introduce SynthID-Image, a deep learning-based system for invisibly watermarking AI-generated imagery. This paper documents the technical desiderata, threat models, and practical challenges of deploying such a system at internet scale, addressing key requirements of effectiveness, fidelity, robustness, and security. SynthID-Image has been used to watermark over ten billion images and video frames across Google's services and its corresponding verification service is available to trusted test…

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog
Isa G. Cox, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein, Caitlin Rose, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Katherine Chworowsky, Olivier Ilbert, Anton M. Koekemoer, Henry C. Ferguson, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Bren E. Backhaus, Mark Dickinson, Adriano Fontana, Yuchen Guo, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Santosh Harish, Nimish P. Hathi, Benne W. Holwerda, Kartheik G. Iyer, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Dale D. Kocevski, Rebecca…

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog
We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) catalog, including space-based photometry, photometric redshifts, and physical parameters for more than 80,000 galaxies. The imaging used for this catalog comes from the CEERS survey, which has NIRCam coverage over ~100 sq. arcmin of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) in seven filters from 1.15$μ$m to 4.44$μ$m. Alongside these data, we also include ancillary HST imaging in seven filters from 0.435$μ$m to 1.6$μ$m. We used Sourc…