Filing: Netflix paid $587M in cash for Ben Affleck's AI company, InterPositive, in March (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-price-ben-affleck-ai-company-r…
In the US South, an appeals court leans farther right than the Supreme Court (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-south-an-appeals-court-leans-farther-right-than-supreme-court-2026-05-17/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p17#a260517p17
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Need a concise rundown of everything that happened in the Anthropic saga yesterday? Today's Metacurity pulls together the latest developments, plus the other cybersecurity news that matters, including
--Bulgarian spyware firm sold surveillance tools to repressive regimes,
--The Gentlemen claims attack on Queensland sugar mills,
--FortiBleed exposes 73k Fortinet VPN credentials,
--Startup competition leak exposes 5k applicants,
--Canada spy agency disrupted b…
A US Court of Appeals rules that the DOD's policy requiring government escorts for journalists working at the Pentagon could stand, a blow for the NYT's case (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20