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Sources: ESPN is in talks to license MLB.TV and wants midweek national games, giving up Sunday Night regular season games and the Home Run Derby (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/cnbc-sport-why-espns-histo…

CNBC Sport: Why ESPN’s historic streaming launch may actually cost it subscribers
The flagship ESPN launch is all about giving anyone who wants sports content access to what ESPN has to offer. But it may actually cost Disney subscribers.

Q&A with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on starting the company, battling North Korean hackers, stablecoin adoption, the GENIUS Act, pro-crypto Congress, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-on-bitcoin…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on bitcoin going to $1 million, electing a pro-crypto Congress, and Jamie Dimon
Brian Armstrong joins John Collison to talk about what’s happening behind the scenes at Coinbase: battling North Korean hackers, war stories from early scaling, confronting people who won’t use AI to code, Coinbase becoming people’s primary financial account, and why banks are now embracing crypto.

https://www.wired.com/story/highly-sensitive-medical-cannabis-patient-data-exposed-by-unsecured-database/
Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database
Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical cannabis card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more.

CNBC Daily Open: Second day of U.S. tech-sell off — but don't panic
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/cnbc-daily-open-second-day-of-us-tech-sell-off-but-dont-panic.html

Brazil Bans Animal-Tested Cosmetics in Major Win for Compassion https://www.speciesunite.com/petition-updates/brazil-bans-animal-tested-cosmetics-in-major-win-for-compassion?utm_source=Mastodon

Brazil Bans Animal-Tested Cosmetics in Major Win for Compassion — Species Unite
On July 30, 2025, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, approved a ban on animal testing for cosmetics, personal hygiene products, and perfumes in the major South American nation. The bill was signed into law during a ceremony attended by Marina Silva, Brazil’s Minister of the Environment a

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-nfl-ai-analysis.html

Microsoft and NFL announce multiyear partnership to use AI to enhance game day analysis
Microsoft and the NFL announced a multiyear extension of their partnership to bring real-time analysis to the sidelines using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI.

Google removed 20 YouTube channels, 4 Ads accounts, and 1 Blogger blog linked to RT in May, and thousands more channels tied to state propaganda campaigns in Q2 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/youtube-channels-propaganda-china-russia.html

YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others
Google removed YouTube channels and other accounts linked to RT, the Russian state-controlled media outlet accused of paying prominent conservative influencers.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/openai-compute-ai.html

OpenAI logged its first $1 billion month but is still 'constantly under compute,' CFO says
OpenAI has ballooned in size since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and is expected to triple in revenue to $12.7 billion this year.

Trump says Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch "is involved" in the ownership group for TikTok US and "Rupert is probably going to be in the group" along with Michael Dell (Erin Doherty/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/trump-tiktok-murdoch-fox-bytedance.h…

Trump says Murdochs are potential TikTok deal partners
President Donald Trump also said that Larry Ellison and Michael Dell are also likely to be involved in the TikTok deal.

Memos: Amazon, which employs the most H-1B holders at 14K , and Microsoft advise H-1B staff to avoid travel and return to the US before 12:01am ET on Sept. 21 (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/20/trump-h-1b-visa-tech-foreign-governments.html

Big Tech companies, foreign governments scramble after Trump slaps $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas
The announcement to impose a $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas sent shockwaves through corporate America.