Tootfinder

Charter and Disney expand their 2023 carriage agreement, bringing Hulu's ad-tier to Spectrum TV customers and restoring eight previously removed cable channels (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu…

Disney and Charter Strike Surprise Deal That Adds Hulu and Returns Axed Cable Channels to Lineup
Spectrum TV Select customers will soon get access to Hulu included in their subscription, as Freeform, FXX and other channels that were cut two years ago return.

A look at Tokyo-based Nittobo, currently the only supplier in the world of the highest-end "T-glass", a material essential for making high-powered AI servers (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Techn

Nvidia and others court niche Japanese supplier to ease AI bottlenecks
Glass cloth maker Nittobo is latest example country's overlooked role in supply chain

Chinese automaker Geely's ride-hailing arm CaoCao raised $236M in a Hong Kong IPO, listing 19% below its offer price; its market cap was $2.42B as of Wednesday (Kensaku Ihara/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Marke

China ride-hail app CaoCao raises $236m in Hong Kong debut
Geely-backed service seeks to challenge market leader Didi

Trump cannot end union bargaining for federal workers, judge rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/us-judge-blocks-trumps-elimination-union-bargaining-federal-workers-2025-06-25/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p118#a250625p118

What a gift this man was. He gave us his all, and he did it well.
May his memory be a blessing. And an inspiration.
Bill Moyers, a Face of Public TV and Once a White House Voice, Dies at 91 https://www.nytimes.com/2025…

Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91
Before becoming known as an unusual breed of television correspondent and commentator, he had a long association with President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Portland Tribune and two sister papers will cease their print editions after major newsroom layoffs, while the Gresham Outlook will reduce its print output (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/0

Portland Tribune will cease print publication after major newsroom layoffs
Papers in Milwaukie and Oregon City will stop printing, too, while the Gresham Outlook will move from two editions a week to one.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Little Simz:
🎵 Young
#LittleSimz
https://sampha.bandcamp.com/track/satellite-business-20
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SSeXpZJz5LY0tM4H8bmfC

Kraken launches Krak, a P2P payments app that lets users send funds across 110 countries using 300 assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/

Crypto Exchange Kraken Unveils ‘Krak:’ Its New All-in-One Global Money App
The Krak app allows users to instantly transact across borders for almost no cost, while earning competitive rewards on their account balances.

florentine_families: Padgett Florentine families
Multiplex network with 2 edge types representing marriage alliances and business relationships between Florentine families during the Italian Renaissance. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 16 nodes and 35 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
…

I wonder where Ireland’s regulator got this idea?
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/114751272606146547

Every company or government should think about this, prepare exit and contingency plans. Also for other dependencies.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/cost_of_microsoft_dependency/

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency
Comment: Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond

There's a lot of pressurefor businesses to get ahead with AI.
And I imagine at many companies
there's a sense that if you don't keep up, you're leaving innovation on the table.
At the same time, there's a gap between the excitement around AI and understanding what it means for each role.
CarGurus started an internal initiative "AI Forward" to meet business units and function where they are.
The group works together to evaluate u…

How CarGurus's new working group helps employees experiment with AI
The online marketplace for cars is helping its employees adopt and explore new tech with AI Forward, a working group designed to lead AI adoption.

Lovely business card my mom made for me back on the 80s when all of my musical efforts involved classical guitar.
Played some nice local solo recitals, was in an early music trio, and even got to play with chamber music groups a few times. And of course the inevitable wedding and restaurant work.
#classicalguitar

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

"Unique Miami Recycling Company Gives Discarded Shoes New Traction"
#Recycling #Shoes #Clothes

Unique Miami Recycling Company Gives Discarded Shoes New Traction
It was seen as a more environmentally friendly way to do business, but second-hand shoes is a good gig—the only competition is the landfill.

#Europol: #Datendiebstahl ist Big Business und eine erhebliche Bedrohung

Being a dog walker is my dream job
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/26/a-new-start-after-60-i-became-a-dog-walker-and-ive-never-been-happier

Interesting that while Abundant SF's head is taking shots at Zohran, Abundance New York endorsed him.
(Fifth, but they still favored him over Cuomo. They said "Zohran Mamdani is more likely to prioritize the central crises facing New Yorkers.")

Via Geomorphology Rules on FB: ** **
**Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public. Security officers will enforce these restrictions.**

Today I recalled an event from my youth.
One day, as I was walking home from school, a car driver stopped me. He asked if I'm from around here. Naturally, I found that quite inappropriate, since he has no business learning where do I live. But I answered. So he's asking me if I know where tire repair shop is. I answered that I don't. So he asked me again, "but are you from around here?" Well, that was too much, so he got a short explanation that just because I live here, that doesn't mean that I need to know every single company around here, and since I am not a driver (obviously — after all I was a school kid), I have never needed tire repair shop.
I suppose that worked quite well, since he drove away at this point. As he drove away, his car revealed a tire repair shop poster on the fence opposite.
The obvious lesson here is: if you need something, ask straight instead of going through silly helper questions.

Mediator Proposes $20 Million Settlement in Trump's CBS Suit (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/mediator-proposes-20-million-settlement-in-trumps-cbs-suit-ed04c3e3?st=KHicGt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p112#a250625p112

This call for a simple moniterable power monitor soundsrelatively simple; I guess the question is how to do it cheaply; are there any Shelly devices that can voltage monitor that could be stuffed in a box with a mobile modem/phone?
https://www.ukeic.com/opportunity/domestic

Domestic Voltage Monitoring | Energy Innovation Centre
UK Power Networks want a domestic voltage monitoring device customers can install themselves as part of this business opportunity.

Business cat has important kitty business to attend to (sleeping 20 hours a day) :neocat_flop__w_:

The Telegraph leaving its limbo: "aims for the brand to become a force in US and global journalism, targeting an intelligent centre-Right readership which is not currently well-served".
Ok, we'll see. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/

Telegraph to be sold to RedBird Capital
Investment to be unleashed as US firm seeks takeover alongside British partners

Acrobatics, accidents and legal loopholes: The uncertain world of stunt performers | Economy and Business | EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-06-22/acrobat…

Acrobatics, accidents and legal loopholes: The uncertain world of stunt performers
Despite risking their lives at work, there is no legislative framework to protect these professionals

#MAGA Mourns As Country's Biggest Beirdo And Gun Totin' Good Ol' Boy : Phil Robertson, Rural #RealityTV Star of #DuckDynasty Dead at 79.
Former 60's era

‘Duck Dynasty’ Patriarch Phil Robertson Dies at 79
He founded the duck-call business that became the foundation of his family’s reality television empire.

Audacy says it will close its Pineapple Street podcast studio, exiting the business of distributing shows for outside parties and leading to job cuts (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Leaked memo: Intel will shut down its automotive business and lay off "most" employees working in the unit, the latest step in Intel's downsizing (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silico…

Intel will shut down its automotive business, lay off most of the department’s employees
It's the latest step in the chipmaker's dramatic downsizing.

Modern search demands scalable personalisation. Join Piotr Kobziakowski
at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to discover how Vespa's multi-stage ranking and tensor framework can be used for hybrid queries, multimodal retrieval, and real-time machine learning. Learn how to deploy low-latency, high-relevance search systems at petabyte scale.
Learn more:

Vespa.ai’s Personalized Search: Advanced Ranking & Tensor framework
Today’s applications require search engines to unify text, vectors, and business logic with millisecond latency at petabyte scale. It’s not easy to balance speed, relevance, and personalization for a large user population and a billion scale item base. Vespa.ai, the open-source engine powering Yahoo, Perplexity, Qwant, Vinted, Spotify addresses this through multi-stage ranking with close to data tensor operations and easy to understand custom functions. Vespa’s phased architecture enables…

Veterinary Business Accelerator
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

An object-centric core metamodel for IoT-enhanced event logs
Yannis Bertrand, Christian Imenkamp, Lukas Malburg, Matthias Ehrendorfer, Marco Franceschetti, Joscha Gr\"uger, Francesco Leotta, J\"urgen Mangler, Ronny Seiger, Agnes Koschmider, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Barbara Weber, Estefania Serral
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…

An object-centric core metamodel for IoT-enhanced event logs
Advances in Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies have prompted the integration of IoT devices with business processes (BPs) in many organizations across various sectors, such as manufacturing, healthcare and smart spaces. The proliferation of IoT devices leads to the generation of large amounts of IoT data providing a window on the physical context of BPs, which facilitates the discovery of new insights about BPs using process mining (PM) techniques. However, to achieve these benefits, IoT dat…

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

AI is the Strategy: From Agentic AI to Autonomous Business Models onto Strategy in the Age of AI
Ren\'e Bohnsack, Mickie de Wet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17339

AI is the Strategy: From Agentic AI to Autonomous Business Models onto Strategy in the Age of AI
This article develops the concept of Autonomous Business Models (ABMs) as a distinct managerial and strategic logic in the age of agentic AI. While most firms still operate within human-driven or AI-augmented models, we argue that we are now entering a phase where agentic AI (systems capable of initiating, coordinating, and adapting actions autonomously) can increasingly execute the core mechanisms of value creation, delivery, and capture. This shift reframes AI not as a tool to support strateg…

Blaine Cook, an original Twitter architect is one of the backers of the new Canadian social platform #Gander
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi…

Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance
Founders aim to create alternative that addresses content, data sovereignty concerns

AT&T to Acquire Lumen’s Mass Markets Fiber Business
https://about.att.com/story/2025/lumen-mass-markets-fiber-business.html

i'm afraid that the #technoilliterocrats in the eu institutions are exactly this kind of #businessidiot described in this post, where every paragraph is a banger:

Once again complaining about the state of transit in my area.
I need to catch an early morning flight for work.
I'm traveling, so not taking my bike (there's no easy way to fly with it). I'm definitely not going to take the car and pay for long-term parking. Uber put ~all of the local taxi companies out of business (as I discovered when I tried calling them and found one after another had their number disconnected). The bus I take to work picks up over a mile from my …

Snow widows by Katherine MacInnes focuses on the women left behind when Scott's expedition did not end as planned.
One of few #books that focus specifically on the lives of the women involved in the male business of antarctic exploration in class-sensitive Edwardian times.
#book

How #Vietnam bets on serving the #Trump organization. Despicable, including land evictions—not particularly a thing the Vietnamese people fancy.

Video: Inside a Trump Family Project in Vietnam
As President Trump blurs the lines between politics and business — and threatens steep tariffs on trade partners — governments feel compelled to favor Trump-related projects. Damien Cave, Vietnam bureau chief for The New York Times, and Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer on the international desk, discuss how this dynamic has played out in Vietnam, at the groundbreaking of a fast-tracked $1.5 billion Trump golf complex.

Sources: Shein plans to file confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO; filing confidentially remains relatively rare in Hong Kong (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/chin…

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

I upgraded to an iPhone 16 Pro, but I really should've waited for the Trump phone.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trump-mobile-trump-organizations-new-phone-plan/story?id=122892797

Sources: Apple execs discussed starting their own theatrical distribution unit; Warner Bros. is distributing the F1 movie and getting a share of the box office (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/f1-movi

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐳 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐟𝐟 𝟐,𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬!
One of the biggest names in government consulting is making significant workforce cuts, citing a strategic realignment of its commercial business.
Behind every "strategic decision" are people – skilled professionals, families, and futures.

Not building offshore wind power in #NewJersey is so sad.
https://ww…

Europol: Datendiebstahl ist Big Business und eine erhebliche Bedrohung
KI und andere Spitzentechnologien beschleunigen die Schattenseiten der digitalen Revolution, moniert Europol. Cyberkriminelle steigerten damit ihre Effizienz.

Sources: Apple execs discussed starting their own theatrical distribution unit; Warner Bros. is distributing the F1 movie and getting a share of the box office (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/f1-movie-apple-brad-pitt-0b2afaee…

Sources: CoreWeave is in talks to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific, which has a market value of ~$3.7B; Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's bid in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/coreweave-in-talks-to-bu…

💯💯💯
"If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts, renamed it, humiliated the employees, brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency, started having town halls with Republicans and a leader of the #AfD, taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational."
#

Very important kitty business :blobcatbusiness:

"Ashwat Prasanna unveils EyeSight: Revolutionary, affordable smart glasses for India's visually impaired" https://businessnewsthisweek.com/news/ashwat-prasanna-unveils-eyesight-revo…

QUEST: Quality-aware Semi-supervised Table Extraction for Business Documents
Eliott Thomas, Mickael Coustaty, Aurelie Joseph, Gaspar Deloin, Elodie Carel, Vincent Poulain D'Andecy, Jean-Marc Ogier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14568

QUEST: Quality-aware Semi-supervised Table Extraction for Business Documents
Automating table extraction (TE) from business documents is critical for industrial workflows but remains challenging due to sparse annotations and error-prone multi-stage pipelines. While semi-supervised learning (SSL) can leverage unlabeled data, existing methods rely on confidence scores that poorly reflect extraction quality. We propose QUEST, a Quality-aware Semi-supervised Table extraction framework designed for business documents. QUEST introduces a novel quality assessment model that ev…

🇪🇺 🌐 With its new International Digital Strategy for the #EuropeanUnion, the EU aims to expand international partnerships, deploy an EU Tech Business Offer to partner countries, strengthen security and global digital governance.
GÉANT is proud to support several of the strategy's key areas, outlined today by Commissioner Henna Virkkunen at the

High Level Session 2: Digital Public Goods and Global Digital Cooperation, IGF 2025
The 20th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum is hosted by the Government of the Norway in Lillestrøm from 23 to 27 June 2025. The Forum's overarching theme is: Building Digital Governance Together.

UK to purchase fighter jets capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons (Andrew Macaskill/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uk-purchase-fighter-jets-capable-carrying-tactical-nuclear-weapons-2025-06-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p138#a250624p138

Amazon's VP of Generative AI Vasi Philomin left for another company; VP of Amazon Elastic Block Store Rajesh Sheth assumed some of Philomin's responsibilities (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co…

Define-ML: An Approach to Ideate Machine Learning-Enabled Systems
Silvio Alonso, Antonio Pedro Santos Alves, Lucas Romao, H\'elio Lopes, Marcos Kalinowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20621

Define-ML: An Approach to Ideate Machine Learning-Enabled Systems
[Context] The increasing adoption of machine learning (ML) in software systems demands specialized ideation approaches that address ML-specific challenges, including data dependencies, technical feasibility, and alignment between business objectives and probabilistic system behavior. Traditional ideation methods like Lean Inception lack structured support for these ML considerations, which can result in misaligned product visions and unrealistic expectations. [Goal] This paper presents Define-M…

Texas passes a bill distributing $150M/year to movies and TV shows through 2035; the film office can reject incentives for shoots with "inappropriate content" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busi…

Hollywood South? Texas Makes Its Bid With Major Film Incentive Expansion
Texas is slated to give productions $150 million annually across the next decade. The program includes some quirks that will give the film office some say in movies and TV shows that qualify for the cash grant.

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐳 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐟𝐟 𝟐,𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬!
One of the biggest names in government consulting is making significant workforce cuts, citing a strategic realignment of its commercial business.
Behind every "strategic decision" are people – skilled professionals, families, and futures.

"Trump demanded that energy producers keep down oil prices following US military strikes on Iran"
Trump Warns Against Rising Oil Prices Following Iran Attack | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-warns-against-rising-oil-prices-following-iran-attack

Women With Altitude: Bold, Brave & In Business
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/women-with-altitude-bold-brave-in-business/

LBG Media's audience was 520M in the 12 months to March 31, 2025, with US audience up 11% to 145M; revenue grew 13% to £43.9M in the six months to March 31 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine…

Ladbible owner says revenue will grow by 10% this year
The owner of Ladbible now has 17 clients generating $1m or more in annual revenue who want to reach its young audiences.

A surge in AI-generated résumés is overwhelming employers, who are turning to AI screening and interviewing tools to assess responses and rank candidates (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/dealbook/ai-job-applic…

Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés
Candidates are frustrated. Employers are overwhelmed. The problem? An untenable pile of applications — many of them generated with the help of A.I. tools.

Sources: a mediator has proposed that Paramount settle Trump's lawsuit for $20M, which would include $17M to Trump's presidential foundation or museum (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/mediator-p…

U.S. Textile Makers, Feeling Forgotten by Trump, Hope Boom Days Are Ahead (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/business/textile-manufacturing-trump-tariffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p10#a250625p10

Trump has cooled on his Russian counterpart, recently referring to him as “crazy.” He may still act on his stated desire to do business with Mr. Putin but will be unable to deliver either Ukraine or the West. Hard facts forbid it. Russia’s brutal war has horrified and terrified the West, jolting it into a collective effort of containment and turning Europe conclusively against Russia.
Opinion | Putin Has Lost the West. This Was Not the Plan. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/opinion/putin-trump-nato-russia.html

Oil futures surge following US strikes in Iran (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/22/business/oil-futures-stocks-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p72#a250622p72

In a memo to employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI "will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains" over time (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-

Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Tuesday that the company expects artificial intelligence "will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains" over time.

How top Hollywood executives are pushing Gov. Gavin Newsom to expand California's film and TV program from $330M to $750M, seeking to halt a production exodus (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

How Hollywood Heavyweights Hounded Gavin Newsom for a $750 Million Lifeline
In Sacramento, A-listers delicately push to expedite a bulked-up tax incentive to halt a production exodus.

Internal memo: Goldman Sachs launches a generative AI assistant firmwide to boost productivity; around 10,000 employees are already using the GS AI Assistant (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/goldman-sachs-launches-ai-a…

German court overturns a ban on far-right magazine Compact, accused of inciting hatred against Jews and foreigners, saying it wasn't extreme enough to be banned (Thomas Escritt/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/charact…

Character.AI taps Meta's former VP of business products as CEO | TechCrunch
Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand to be the company's new CEO, helping it grow its platform and fight child safety concerns.

Investors brace for oil price spike, rush to havens after US bombs Iran nuclear sites (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/middle-east-tensions-put-investors-alert-weighing-worst-case-scenarios-2025-06-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p44#a250622p44

How Walmart, seeking to compete with e-commerce rivals like Amazon, built a multibillion-dollar HQ in Bentonville, aiming to attract workers and woo shoppers (Kevin Draper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/walmart-rebrand-hea…

Walmart Tries to Shed a Stodgy Vibe to Battle Digital-Native Rivals
The retailing giant is spending billions to attract workers to a new headquarters and woo shoppers with drone delivery and a broader range of items (like Louis Vuitton handbags).

Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney , Hulu, and ESPN (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, Amazon Ink Deal to Expand Advertising Partnership
The pact unlocks more opportunities for brands using Amazon's Deliver Service Partner to reach consumers watching Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN content.

Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney , Hulu, and ESPN (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, Amazon Ink Deal to Expand Advertising Partnership
The pact unlocks more opportunities for brands using Amazon's Deliver Service Partner to reach consumers watching Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN content.

Trump's lawyers say the Supreme Court's sweeping presidential immunity ruling should save him $83.3 million (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tests-presidential-immunity-carroll-defamation-verdict-payout-2025-6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p79#a250624p79

MCEDA buys The Tuskegee News to prevent the Alabama city from becoming a news desert, in what seems to be a first for a US economic development agency (Sarah Clifton/Montgomery Advertiser)
https://www.

160-year-old Tuskegee newspaper to remain in business after purchase by Macon County
"It's about preserving the voice of a community and protecting our momentum and economic development."

WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-competition-whatsapp-chatbot-battlegro…

Meta faces AI competition as WhatsApp becomes chatbot battleground
WhatsApp has become a battleground for AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity, challenging Meta AI.

In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group
CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

America's Adversaries Are Gaining the Global Megaphone (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/business/media/us-china-russia-global-communications.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.vSID.aC1mkPHdDyPn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p88#a250624p88

Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new

Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public Google Docs, BI finds
As Scale AI seeks to reassure customers that their data is secure following Metas $14

Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.

Television City is partnering with Interwoven Studios to offer production services to social media influencers in LA, amid a slump in film and TV production (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu…

How TV City, a Major L.A. Soundstage Owner, Hopes to Weather a Filming Slump: Bring In Influencers
Owner Hackman Capital Partners has partnered with Interwoven Studios to welcome influencers into its soundstages. It's already hosted big-names like Logan Paul, Jake Shane and FaZe Clan.

B-2 bombers moving to Guam amid Middle East tensions, US officials say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/b-2-bombers-moving-guam-amid-middle-east-tensions-us-officials-say-2025-06-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p38#a250621p38

Snowcap Compute, which is working on building AI computing chips using superconducting tech, raised a $23M seed and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/snowcap-comp…

Trump and GOP's tax bill would sell off USPS's brand-new EVs (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/21/trump-usps-trucks-taxes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p34#a250621p34

Local media: a Turkish court arrested independent journalist Fatih Altayli over his comments on social media allegedly threatening President Tayyip Erdogan (Tuvan Gumrukcu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Take-Two, NBA, and National Basketball Players Association expand their partnership to launch NBA Take-Two Media, producing original content, live events, more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Take-Two Interactive, NBA Ink Expansive Deal On Entertainment, Gaming, Live Events and More
The video game publisher of the NBA 2K franchise will partner with the league on original content and competitive gaming via its new banner, while extending their multiyear partnership.

Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-trans…

Midjourney launches V1, its first AI video generation model, letting subscribers animate images via its website; video jobs will cost ~8x more than image jobs (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/business/surpa…

‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit
For enterprise leaders evaluating AI, Midjourney Video V1's a double-edged sword: a low-cost, fast-evolving tool with strong user adoption

At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool, Veo 3, into YouTube Shorts later this summer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the "AI technology will push the limits of human creativity."

Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/amazon-reorganizes-i…

Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market
Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure in a market where it's spent billions of dollars on acquisitions.

Sources: Mira Murati has told investors Thinking Machines Lab plans to develop customized AI models based on business KPIs, and also plans a consumer product (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-openai-cto-m…

How Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s Startup Plans to Compete With OpenAI and Others
The thinking behind Thinking Machines Lab, a high-profile but mysterious artificial intelligence startup led by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is becoming clearer. After raising an astonishing $2 billion at a $10 billion valuation from investors including Andreessen Horowitz ...

SAG-AFTRA ends the 300 day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
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SAG-AFTRA Suspends Strike Against Video Game Companies, Paving Way for Return to Work
The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.

At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool, Veo 3, into YouTube Shorts later this summer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the "AI technology will push the limits of human creativity."

Threads plans to let users hide text or images that spoil a piece of entertainment, blurring the text or image that has been marked as a spoiler (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digita…

Meta’s Threads Is Declaring War on Spoilers (Exclusive)
The text-based app from Meta is launching a tool that lets users hide spoilers in text or images, to encourage discussion of TV shows and films on the platform.

Trump Media and Technology Group files an S-1 with the US SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF, allocating 75% to bitcoin and 25% to ether (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/16/d…

Donald Trump's Truth Social Files for Dual BTC and ETH ETF
The move follows registration for a standalone Truth Social bitcoin ETF earlier this month.

South Korea's SK Group and AWS will invest ~$5.1B including $4B from AWS to build a 100 MW AI data center in Ulsan by 2029, and plan to expand capacity to 1 GW (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Super Micro plans to raise $2B from the sale of convertible bonds to repurchase shares, as well as to fund growth and business expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/super-micro-seek…

DHL, UPS, FedEx, and Walmart are using robots to boost warehouse efficiency and cut costs, including automating the physically demanding task of loading trucks (Esther Fung/Wall Street Journal)
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