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Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still hadn't not answered nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers.
The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

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.

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)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

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.

WBD plans to shut down its linear multiplex channels HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax on August 15, 2025; HBO Family launched in December 1996 (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/hbo-is-shutting-do…

HBO Is Shutting Down Multiple Channels Including HBO Family & More | Cord Cutters News
In a significant shakeup for the television industry, HBO, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, has confirmed plans to shut down several of its linear channels, including HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax. The announcement, verified by Spectrum on August 15, 2025, marks a strategic pivot for the premium network as it continues to adapt […]

Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/startup-behi…

Startup Behind Manus AI Agent Shuts Down China Team
The startup behind Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, has shut down its entire China-based team, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. It’s the latest sign that Manus, whose biggest target market is the U.S., wants to minimize geopolitical risks associated with China ties. Butterfly Effect, the

Was Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell demonstrations a dress rehearsal for what’s to come in other states or nationally?
The Atlantic’s David Frum thinks it is.
And he’s not alone in this fear.
If so it’d be another longtime-prediction by those accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome having come true.
There are increasing indications the administration will expand its use of the military domestically.
500 marines are rep…

The Washington Post names Adam O'Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, as its new opinion editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-economists-oneal-to-become-washington-post…

The Economist's O'Neal to become Washington Post opinion editor - Talking Biz News
Adam O’Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, has been hired as opinion editor at The Washington Post. He has been at The Economist since September 2023. Before that, he was at The Dispatch as executive editor. Previously, O’Neal was an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was an assistant op-ed […]

Sources: OpenAI and Windsurf talks ended after Windsurf raised concerns over how its tech would fit into OpenAI's agreement to share tech with Microsoft (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-windsurf-break-a…

Google to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Staff, IP After Startup Ends OpenAI Talks
OpenAI’s discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium, have ended. Instead, Google will hire Windsurf’s CEO, Varun Mohan, and some of the startup’s staff, both Google and Windsurf said. The monthslong talks between OpenAI ...

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Fell in a hole, got out. - The Coach Life - Medium
I’m gonna write the wonky post of Medium’s turnaround. I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium ethos that if something…