Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Netflix is buying the studios of Warner Bros Discovery   Netflix will also get HBOMax (but I can't see that sticking around long). Shareholders of WBD will get $23 in cash and $4.50 in shares of Netflix common stock, valuing the deal at $83 billion ($144 billion NZD).  The TV networks that were part of the old Discovery company, plus the Warner Brothers networks like CNN, TBS, TNT, etc, are all moving to their own publicly listed company known at the moment as "Global Networks".   This is of course all subject to regulators, not just in the USA but internationally too – Netflix already operates in 190 countries.     NYT is suing AI startup Perplexity   The suit alleges Perplexity has illegally copied and distributed The Times’ copyrighted content, including stories, videos, and podcasts. It uses this content to formulate responses to user queries. The Times says the AI also generates outputs that are “identical or substantially similar to” The Times’ content.   Publishers ha