Verschmähtes Paramount verklagt Warner Bros Discovery
Warner Bros Discovery will Warner Bros an Netflix verkaufen. Paramount will den gesamten WBD-Konzern haben. Nun geht es zu Gericht.
https://www.

Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/ai-d

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz | TechCrunch
AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

Report: Warner Bros. Discovery Blocks Brody King From AEW Dynamite Following "F*ck ICE" Chants (Aidan Gibbons/Cultaholic Wrestling)
https://cultaholic.com/posts/report-warner-bros-discovery-blocks-brody-king-from-aew-dynamite-following-fck-ice-chants
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p49#a260212p49

A profile of David Ellison, who is trying to build a media empire that could dwarf even the Murdochs' with help from his father and Oracle founder Larry Ellison (Reeves Wiedeman/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/larry-david-e…

Can Larry and David Ellison’s Oracle Money Buy Hollywood?
With help from his father, Larry, and their billions in Oracle money, David Ellison is trying to become the biggest studio mogul in Hollywood history.

This will be very interesting to a very small group of people: 'For cultural institutions that provide metadata to the data space for cultural heritage, the implementation of IIIF Change Discovery provides an alternative to implementing OAI-PMH.' https://pro.eu…

Discovery of the Day

Discovery of the Day : Angelique Arvanitaki (1901–1983), a Greek neurophysiologist born in Cairo, was a little-known pioneer in neurology.
Major Contribution:
Demonstrated ephaptic transmission, a mode of communication between neurons without synapses, still poorly understood today—and c…

Worth noting - and a cautionary tale (for me, at least) about relying on press reports about complex problems.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Worth noting - and a cautionary tale (for me, at least) about relying on press reports about complex problems.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 116408 nodes and 150818 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Discovery of SN 2025wny - A Strongly Gravitationally Lensed Superluminous #Supernova at z = 2.01: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1d61 -> A cosmic magnifying glass reveals a record-distant explosion: https://keckobservatory.org/sn-2025wny/

A Mystery Inside Earth’s Core Has Finally Been Solved With a Mind-Boggling Discovery https://www.404media.co/a-mystery-inside-earths-core-has-finally-been-solved-with-a-mind-boggling-discovery/

"Following the discovery, we immediately began work to secure our systems"
Does that imply that before the incident, there was no work done to secure the systems?
h/t @…
#Interrail

Rulezet (The detection rule management) v1.4.0 released — Taxonomy, Precision, and Advanced Discovery
Version 1.4.0 is a milestone update that transforms how intelligence is categorized and retrieved within Rulezet. By placing Tags and Taxonomies at the heart of the ecosystem, this release empowers users with granular control over their data. From private custom tagging to a revolutionary filtering engine, v1.4.0 ensures that finding the right rule is no longer a search—it’s a precisio…

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,

Warner Bros Discovery rät weiter von Verkauf an Paramount ab
Netflix will Warner Bros übernehmen, Paramount zusätzlich Discovery. Doch das größere Angebot hat zu viele Schwächen, meint der Verwaltungsrat.
http…

Two representatives on the US House Financial Services Committee warn WBD CEO David Zaslav of national security concerns about the financiers of Paramount's bid (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/democrats-warner-bros-discovery-sa…

Democratic Lawmakers Warn Warner Bros. Discovery Of National Security Concerns In Paramount Bid Because Of Saudi And Other Foreign Investors
The two House members said that the transaction should undergo a Committee on Foreign Investment review.

Roman elites drank from leaded cups because it made water sweeter. Radiation was thought at one time to have healing properties, so people would add uranium to their drinking water. Glowing dishes are still a collectors item. After the discovery of x-rays, shoe stores started installing them and using them on kids feet to size shoes. Lead was added to gasoline to improve engine performance, and paint to make it whiter. We all know about asbestos and DDT.
We look back at all of this and think, "how could people have been so incompetent back then?" Some of these things caused irreparable harm in their generation, some continue to cause harm today almost 100 years later.
If you wonder that, look at the whole #LLM thing and you have your answer.

The Federal Court of Appeal delivered two major environmental victories last month. The court found former Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray was “procedurally fair and reasonable” when she did not renew licences for open-net salmon pens in the Discovery Islands in 2023. The same court found that the federal government acted well within its purview when it listed plastic manufactured items as “toxic” under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act in 2021.

Email I got regarding #discovery in #canada
-------------------------------
We’re reaching out to let you know that the existing discovery service provided by Discovery Digital Ventures, LLC will soon close and no longer be available in Canada.
We won’t charge you again a…

Trump says he wants a new owner for CNN as part of any sale of Warner Bros. Discovery: 'A very dishonest group of people' (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/10/media/trump-says-he-wants-a-new-owner-for-cnn-as-part-of-any-sale-of-warner-bros-discovery/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p1#a251211p1

Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/singapore-startup-b…

Singapore startup builds AI-powered, self-running chemistry lab
The self-driving lab consists of AI software and robots that design experiments, run them, and gather data, with limited human intervention.

In a letter to WBD shareholders, David Ellison says Paramount filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court seeking information in its hostile takeover attempt (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/paramount-skydance-warner-bros-discovery-su…

🧬 Largest RNA language model to date offers new way to predict behavior and boost drug discovery
#rna

Largest RNA language model to date offers new way to predict behavior and boost drug discovery
RNA plays a vital role in how our genes are expressed and how diseases develop. Yet, because RNA molecules constantly change shape, understanding how they work has long been a major scientific challenge.

On the Deepest Search for #GalacticCenter Pulsars and an Examination of an Intriguing #MillisecondPulsar Candidate: #Pulsar in the Milky Way’s Center: https://news.columbia.edu/news/researchers-announce-discovery-possible-pulsar-milky-ways-center - confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics.

Exploring groundbreaking scientific inventions is utterly captivating! A single discovery can transform our understanding and alter our future. I am perpetually intrigued by books and documentaries that shine a light on these pivotal moments. Does anyone else find these as compelling as I do? 🌍🔬

lol WHAT THE FUCK
The fact that these dipshits aren't in prison, my god..
https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/

S06E06: Sacred Waters: Trauma of the Erie Canal | Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-06/

S06E06: Sacred Waters: Trauma of the Erie Canal
Jake Haiwhagai’i Edwards and Dr. Philip P. Arnold discuss the impact of the Erie Canal on the Haudenosaunee.

NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump says CNN should be sold as part of any Warner Bros. deal (Zoë Richards/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-cnn-warner-bros-discovery-netflix-paramount-rcna248518
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p135#a251210p135

Donald Trump on Wednesday further inserted himself into the drama around the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery,
saying he believes CNN
— one of several cable networks owned by WBD
— should be sold as part of any deal.
While the president doesn't have the power to unilaterally block a merger he doesn't like
— unless there are serious national security concerns pertaining to foreign investments
— his comments do have the ability to sway the decisions of…

Trump says CNN "should be sold" as part of WBD deal
The president said it was "imperative" that CNN gets a new owner in any transaction.

Apple Music's "Discovery" used to be pretty good - but I think they have now attached it to an AI that has no taste or discrimination.

Trump's lawsuit against the BBC is set for trial in Feb. 2027; discovery must proceed though the judge has not ruled whether the Florida court has jurisdiction (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/12…

Trump’s multibillion lawsuit against BBC over Panorama edit set for Florida trial in 2027
Corporation denies defamation but must hand over revealing documents after judge dismisses jurisdiction argument

"Mediterranean Coral Reef Discovery Unveils Rare Deep-Sea Ecosystem Off Naples Coast"
#Mediterranean #CoralReef #Oceans

Mediterranean Coral Reef Discovery Unveils Rare Deep-Sea Ecosystem Off Naples Coast | Happy Eco News
A Mediterranean coral reef discovery off Naples reveals massive white coral formations at 500 meters depth, providing crucial insights into threatened deep-sea ecosystems and supporting conservation efforts.

UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia "to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement", centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model (Dan Rys/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-nvidia-ai-music-disco…

Universal Partners With NVIDIA AI on Music Discovery, Fan Engagement & Creation Tools
The Universal Music Group has inked a new partnership with AI giant NVIDIA “to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation and engagement."

📝 S06E06: Sacred Waters: Trauma of the Erie Canal | Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-06/

'Entirely inappropriate': Judge rejects Trump admin request to stay discovery in lawsuit over dismantling USAID | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/entirely-inappropriate-judge-rejects-trump-admin-request-to-stay-discovery-in-lawsuit-over-dismantling-usaid/

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A - An Exceptionally Bright Long-duration #GammaRayBurst with an Associated Kilonova: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0a1d -> UAH student researcher leads discovery of fastest gamma-ray burst ever recorded: https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-student-researcher-leads-discovery-fastest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded

Depaywalled link: http://archive.today/2026.02.05-185005/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/x-ray-dot-discovery-fuels-jwst-black-hole-star-debate/

Das US-Unternehmen #Zanskar hat mit „Big Blind“ in Nevada das erste kommerziell nutzbare, "blinde" #Geothermie-System seit über 30 Jahren entdeckt.
Die KI-gestützte Erkundung ermöglichte Bohrungen, die bereits in 2.700 Metern Tiefe ein heißes, durchlässiges Reservoir aufzeigten. D…

Zanskar Reveals ‘Big Blind’ - The Discovery of the First Blind Geothermal System in the U.S. by Industry in Over 30 Years
Located in the western Nevada desert, ‘Big Blind’ is Zanskar’s third geothermal discovery in the past year alone, demonstrating the speed and repeatability of its AI-native platform

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Discovery:
🎵 Can You Discover?
#Discovery
https://discoveryband.bandcamp.com/track/can-you-discover
https://open.spotify.com/track/54eCIEHwHP9EvK3sIqnmqv

The Guardian names Netflix's former director of product Allan Donald as its first VP of product; Donald oversaw the content discovery operation at Netflix (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Guardian poaches from Netflix for first vice president of product
Netflix director of product Allan Donald has been named as The Guardian's first vice president of product.

Jared Kushner, the President's Son-in-Law, Is Part of Paramount's Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/business/media/jared-kushner-paramount-bid-warner-bros-discovery.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p117#a251208p117

What technique / tools are you using in CI to make sure that tests actually ran?
Misconfigurations can often result in huge swaths of test discovery failing silently, leaving a test run in CI including zero (or a very small number of) tests.
Are you relying on code coverage stats collected during test runs, and comparing that to some static fail_under percentage? If source discovery breaks, can 1 passing test be 100% coverage? Do you trust it?
#askfedi #sdlc #cicd #continuousintegration

Democrats warn that their party, when it returns to power, may attempt to block or unravel any Paramount acquisition of WBD due to national security concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2025

Democrats warn their party may try to unravel any Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal
A new letter from Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) also raised concerns about foreign investors’ involvement.

Much lower energy fast chips:
"Scientists from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have reported the highest "hole mobility" ever measured in a material that works within today's silicon-based semiconductor manufacturing...
This achievement also represents a significant accomplishment for Warwick's Semiconductors Research Group and highlights the UK's growing influence in advanced semiconductor materials research."…

A 1950s material just set a modern record for lightning-fast chips
Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date. This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy consumption. The discovery also enhances the prospects for silicon-based quantum devices.

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.

GCVE-BCP-02 Published - Version 1.3 (2025-12-09)

We’re pleased to announce the publication of GCVE-BCP-02 – Practical Guide to Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure, now available in its version 1.3.
This Best Current Practice document provides actionable guidance for organisations, researchers, and GCVE Numbering Authorities (GNAs) on managing and disclosing vulnerabilities effectively, both within the GCVE ecosystem and beyond

Scientists Discover the Earliest Human-Made Fire, Rewriting Evolutionary History https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-the-earliest-human-made-fire-rewriting-evolutionary-history/

The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile.
Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia
— is the subject of a political battle over whether the shuttle should remain part of the National Air and Space Museum's collection
or be relocated to Houston, home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.
New correspondence between the space agency, Ted Cruz and the Smithsonian shows both the p…

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces
"You'd be doing irreparable damage."

👀 Browsing S06E06: Sacred Waters: Trauma of the Erie Canal | Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast (https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-06/).

WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has "significant" risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deal

Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount's Amended $30 Per Share Bid Over 'Insufficient Value' and 'Lack of Certainty'
The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer "significant costs, risks and uncertainties" compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix.

PARAMOUNT LAUNCHES All-CASH TENDER OFFER TO ACQUIRE WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY FOR $30 PER SHARE (Paramount Skydance Corporation)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paramount-launches-all-cash-tender-offer-to-acquire-warner-bros-discovery-for-30-per-share-302635412.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p56#a251208p56

Ted Sarandos says Paramount's "move was entirely expected", but Netflix is "super confident" that it will get the WBD deal "across the line and finish" (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/ted-

Netflix CEOs 'Super-Confident' of Closing Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
Netflix's co-CEOs projected confidence about closing Netflix's takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO Max despite Paramount's hostile bid for the studio.

🦀 Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
#materials

Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
A discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs.

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Sources: Paramount's Gulf sovereign funding, accounting for ~30% of the deal's value, and potential political scrutiny led WBD to reject Paramount's initial bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025

Paramount’s Mideast financing doomed Warner Bros. Discovery auction bid
WBD’s board grew uneasy with how complicated Paramount’s offer became.

LI.FI, which provides businesses with price comparisons of crypto exchange rates and bridging fees, raised $29M, bringing its total funding to ~$52M (Carlos Garcia/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/11/exclusive-crypto-startup-li-fi-raises-29-million/

Exclusive: Crypto startup LI.FI raises $29 million for cross-blockchain price discovery tool
The company aims to make moving across blockchains more efficient.

UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia "to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement", centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model (Dan Rys/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-nvidia-ai-music-disco…

Universal Partners With NVIDIA AI on Music Discovery, Fan Engagement & Creation Tools
The Universal Music Group has inked a new partnership with AI giant NVIDIA “to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation and engagement."

Bob Iger says the OpenAI deal "does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all" because it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business<…

Bob Iger: Disney’s OpenAI Deal “Does Not In Any Way” Threaten Creatives
The CEO suggested that Disney would prefer Paramount to prevail in the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, citing Netflix's streaming dominance and the perilous state of movie theaters.

Netflix will buy some of Warner Bros. Discovery’s most valuable media portfolio for nearly $83 billion in a cash-stock deal, the two companies said Friday.

The streaming giant will acquire some of WBD’s most valuable media properties,
including its film and TV studio,
HBO and HBO Max.
WBD’s cable networks, including the news giant CNN, are to be spun off in advance of the deal.
-- That plan was announced in June.
Two other companies
— Comcast and Pa…

Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in $83 billion cash-stock deal
Largest streaming network says it will purchase Warner Bros.’ studios and streaming assets after winning a bidding war with Comcast and Paramount. 

Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/…

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 38918 nodes and 32523 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

SCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of a Superjovian Planet 3-4 lambda/D from the Accelerating Star HIP 54515 / OASIS Survey Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of HIP 71618 B - A Substellar Companion Suitable for the Roman Coronagraph Technology Demonstration: #Subaru Telescope Program: https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2025/20251204-subaru.html

WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition bid, saying that it still has "significant" risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deal

Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount's Amended $30 Per Share Bid Over 'Insufficient Value' and 'Lack of Certainty'
The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer "significant costs, risks and uncertainties" compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix.

🪼 How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published
https://lithub.com/how-the-discovery-of-single-celled-marine-organis…

How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published
No creatures from the microscopic world have managed to captivate the human imagination as authoritatively as radiolarians. Since the late nineteenth century, they’ve made their existence known in …

The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/cnn-net…

CNN Is Excluded From Netflix’s Warner Bros. Deal for Now
The prospect of Paramount’s buying Warner Bros. Discovery had led CNN journalists to wonder if the channel may be combined with CBS News. Instead, CNN will remain in a separate corporate entity.

Since returning to the White House,
Donald Trump has accelerated his use of the presidency to enrich himself in unprecedented new ways compared to his first term.
A new analysis from The Nation argues it all comes down to his discovery that "nobody cared."
In a piece from Monday, The Nation's Jeet Heer compared the scale of Trump's kickbacks and corruptionduring his two terms in office and found stark differences.
This is not because the president…

Trump is ramping up corruption because he thinks nobody cares: report
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has accelerated his use of the presidency to enrich himself in unprecedented new ways compared to his first term. A new analysis from The Nation argues it all comes down to his discovery that "nobody cared."In a piece from Monday, The Nation...

Behind Paramount's Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-netflix-warner-bros-battle-ellisons-a86fe15c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p144#a251208p144

Boltz, which is developing open frontier AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28M seed led by Zetta, Amplify, and a16z at a valuation of $125M (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)
https://endpoints.news/exclusive-boltz-raises-28m-seed-to-build-ope…

Boltz raises $28M seed to build open AI models in biology
Boltz raises $28M seed round to develop open-source AI models for drug discovery, partners with Pfizer. Founded by MIT researchers after AlphaFold 3's closed release.

Stratigraphy of Carbonate-Bearing Rocks at the Margin of Jezero Crater, #Mars: Evidence for Shoreline Processes? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009111 -> New clues to Mars’s habitability in discovery of ancient beach: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/engineering/earth-science/2026/new-clues-to-marss-habitability-in-discovery-of-ancient-beach/

Bob Iger says the OpenAI deal "does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all" because it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business<…

Bob Iger: Disney’s OpenAI Deal “Does Not In Any Way” Threaten Creatives
The CEO suggested that Disney would prefer Paramount to prevail in the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, citing Netflix's streaming dominance and the perilous state of movie theaters.

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 456626 nodes and 14855842 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Netflix to buy Warner Bros. film and streaming assets in $72 billion deal (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/neflix-warner-bros-discovery-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p55#a251205p55

What the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies. 
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…

Trump signs executive order launching "Genesis" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI
A White House official called Genesis "the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program."

A Cool Earth-sized #Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19870 -> Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth? https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-an-ice-cold-earth/

WBD partners with X and TikTok to share Eurosport and TNT Sports coverage of the Winter Games in markets across Europe (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/warner-bros-discovery-partners-x-tiktok-winter-olympics-1236699994/

Warner Bros. Discovery Partners With X On Winter Olympics
Warner Bros. Discovery has partnered with X & TikTok on the Winter Olympics for brands and advertisers.

The First Triple Radio Active Galactic Nucleus in an Ongoing Galaxy Merger: #AGN / Radio Black Hole Trio Lights Up in Rare Galaxy Merger: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/555300/unique-discovery-astronomers-identify-first-triple-radio-agn / https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-black-hole-trio-lights-up-in-rare-galaxy-merger/ - first confirmed system of three radio-bright active galactic nuclei reveals how supermassive black holes grow as galaxies collide.

Netflix revises its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75 per share, with the same $82.7B enterprise value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/20/media/netflix-all-cash-offer-warner-bros-discovery

Netflix revises its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, it’s all cash
In an ongoing struggle over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix says it is now prepared to pay all cash for Warner Bros. and HBO, rather than a mix of cash and stock.

WBD board chair indicates WBD remains open to a Paramount acquisition, saying David Ellison "stepped up to the table" but "ultimately didn't raise the price" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodre…

Warner Bros. Still Sounds Very Open to a Paramount Deal — at a Higher Price Tag
WBD board chair Samuel Di Piazza Jr. is doing his negotiating through the TV media.

The 6th #AAS247 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nss3zNi5SYA about Cosmology and Galaxy Clusters discussed the lensed supernova Ares from the Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS) program (https://www.stsci.edu/jwst-program-info/download/jwst/pdf/9478/), the paper PASSAGES: The Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Protocluster Core Candidate at Cosmic Noon (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf4d5 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-lens-reveals-hyperactive-cradle-of-future-galaxy-cluster/), new results from the One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad165e) and the paper Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3
(https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849463900911844 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-galaxy-clusters/).

“All five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA,
along with phosphates,
have already been found in the Bennu samples
brought to Earth by OSIRIS-REx,”
said Yoshihiro Furukawa.
“The new discovery of ribose means that all of the components to form the molecule RNA are present in Bennu.”
…

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples - NASA
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As

Money manager Mario Gabelli said it's "highly likely" he will tender his clients' WBD shares to Paramount in an effort to spark a bidding war for WBD (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mario Gabelli ‘Likely’ to Tender Warner Bros. Stock to Paramount
Money manager Mario Gabelli said it’s “highly likely’ he will tender his clients’ Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. shares to Paramount Skydance Corp. in an effort to spark a bidding war for Warner Bros.

Right-wing influencers such as Benny Johnson, Laura Loomer, and Jack Posobiec campaign against Netflix's bid for WBD, casting Netflix as a Democratic stronghold (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/09/netflix-obama-…

MAGA influencers urge Trump to kill Netflix deal over streamer’s Obama ties
Laura Loomer and other right-wing media figures cast Netflix as a Democratic stronghold and want the government to block it from buying Warner Bros. Discovery.

Billionaire Larry Ellison,
the largest shareholder of Paramount,
often speaks to connections at the White House but, in at least one of the calls,
engaged in a dialogue about possibly firing CNN hosts whom Donald Trump is said to loathe, including Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar.
Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks,
and one official has discussed potentia…

Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry

New York AI chemistry start-up raises $95 million 
Excelsior Sciences cofounders say the company will make new molecules using robots and artificial intelligence

Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zaslav distrustful of Ellison (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-david-ell…

The Davids, Divided
A failed summer deal over "South Park" helped poison the well between David Zaslav and David Ellison—tensions now erupting into plain view as the WBD auction nears its endgame.

Sources: if Netflix wins the auction for WBD, Paramount plans to go directly to WBD shareholders to argue that Netflix's bid would face regulatory issues (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/media/pa

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance has a ‘plan B’ if Netflix wins auction for Warner Bros. Discovery: sources
A source close to WBD said the media giant believes this is now a “horse race” between Paramount Skydance and Netflix whose outcome is a “toss up,” giving it “50 50” odds. 

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.

Sources: Comcast, Netflix, and Paramount submitted second-round WBD bids on December 1; Paramount's includes financing from Apollo and Middle East wealth funds (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount…

Paramount Skydance's Latest Bid for WBD Backed by Arab Wealth Funds
The second round of offers for all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery are in from Paramount Skydance, Netflix and Comcast. And the new, higher offer for all of WBD from David Ellison's Paramount is backed in part by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

Sources: White House officials discussed antitrust concerns over Netflix's interest in WBD, questioning if a deal would give Netflix too much power in Hollywood (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/…

Exclusive | White House officials have raised antitrust concerns over Netflix's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery: sources
A high-level meeting that took place about 10 days ago hasn’t been previously reported. Several White House officials also suggested during the sitdown that a broader investigation is necessa…

Filing: Paramount extends the deadline for WBD shareholders to vote on its $30-per-share offer to February 20 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/paramount-extends-deadline-warner-bros-discovery-netflix-1236692082/

Paramount Extends Deadline For Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders To Back Hostile Bid
Paramount has extended the deadline for Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders to throw their support behind the company’s hostile takeover bid. The initial deadline of Wednesday has now been pushed to February 20. Paramount CEO David Ellison, along with his senior exec team and financial backers, have been meeting with WBD investors in recent weeks in […]

Letter: Paramount expresses concern to WBD about the "fairness and adequacy" of the sales process, accusing WBD of favoring Netflix's offer (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/paramount-questions-warner-bros-discovery-sale-p…

Paramount reaffirms its commitment to its $30-per-share offer to acquire WBD and says that its analysis values Discovery Global at $0 per share (Paramount)
https://ir.paramount.com/news-releases/news-release-details…

A US judge denies WBD's bid to block Sling TV from selling short-term offerings that let users sign up for access to its bundles for as little as one day (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

What’s a “Subscription?” Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN Find Out the Hard Way
Dish Network leveraged ambiguity around the term in licensing deals with Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney to offer short-term Sling TV subscription passes.

Sources: Netflix ramps up a charm offensive in its pitch to WBD and is sowing doubts about the inevitability of Paramount's bid from an antitrust standpoint (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/2…

Exclusive | Netflix steps up charm offensive to buy Warner Bros. Discovery even after Trump favors rival bid from Paramount
The emergence of Netflix as a serious contender comes as the bidding war enters its next stage.

Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNN’s Financial Projections Revealed: News Giant to Hit $1.8 Billion in 2026 Revenue
Warner Bros. Discovery is revealing financial details in connection with its planned spinout of Discovery Global.

Sources: Netflix, Comcast, and Paramount are preparing bids to buy all or part of WBD; any deal would require President Trump's and US regulators' approval (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/media/warner-disc…

Paramount, Comcast and Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount, Comcast and Netflix are preparing bids to buy all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery, a crown jewel of the industry.

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.

Source: Paramount has no immediate plans to sweeten its $30/share, all-cash bid for WBD (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/media/why-warner-bros-discovery-shareholders-shouldnt-count-on-a-holiday…

Exclusive | Why Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders shouldn't count on a holiday bidding war
Bidding war talk heated up Tuesday now that WBD is on the verge of formally calling on investors to reject Paramount Skydance’s hostile bid for the entire company.