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Alphabet offers Sundar Pichai a new three-year salary deal worth up to $692 million, with equity incentives worth up to $350 million tied to the growth of Waymo and Wing (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 7, 2026

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Perplexity signs multi-year deal with CoreWeave to use dedicated clusters powered by Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips for AI inference; CRWV jumps more than 5% premarket (Ina Fried/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Channels with Peter Kafka: The World Cup is coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett Media and technology…

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Yahoo sold technology news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal signed in early February and expected to close later in March (David Pierce/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 3, 2026

David Pierce / The edge: Yahoo sold technology news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal signed in early…

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HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services to merge after WBD deal

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 2, 2026

Signage Paramount+ and HBO Max.Reuters | Getty ImagesParamount+ and HBO Max will be consolidated into a single streaming service if…

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[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman Says DOD’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Sets an “Extremely Scary Precedent,” That OpenAI Rushed Its Deal to “De-escalate Things,” and More (Sam Altman/@sama)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Bad Date”, with Jason Snell The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.…

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Netflix drops deal with Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer deemed superior

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 26, 2026

Netflix walks away from a purchase agreement Warner Bros. Discovery studio and streaming assets after WBD’s board on Thursday ruled…

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Thrive deck leak: $26.8 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for first four funds, including 2.4x for 2016’s Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 25, 2026

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Thrive Deck Leak: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, Deal Value Peaked in Q4…

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WBD says Paramount made higher offer, board will weigh offer against Netflix deal

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2026

An aerial view of the Paramount logo on the water tower at Paramount Studios on February 23, 2026 in Los…

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A look at Corning’s booming fiber business, driven by data center demand and a $6 billion Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning’s co-packaged optics for servers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 8, 2026

Christophe Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at Corning’s booming fiber business, driven by data center demand and a…

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Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “no impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and is “very confident in OpenAI’s ability to raise funds” (@oracle)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 2, 2026

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Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

Cerebras files for IPO on Nasdaq, reports 2025 revenue of $510 million, up 76% year-over-year, with net profit of $87.9 million, compared to net loss of $485 million in 2024 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its shift from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Some shareholders question whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have proposed Bret Taylor as successor (Wall Street Journal)

About 40% of U.S. data centers planned for 2026 face delays, with major sites from Microsoft, OpenAI and others likely more than three months behind schedule (Financial Times)

Browsing: deal

Alphabet offers Sundar Pichai a new three-year salary deal worth up to $692 million, with equity incentives worth up to $350 million tied to the growth of Waymo and Wing (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

Perplexity signs multi-year deal with CoreWeave to use dedicated clusters powered by Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips for AI inference; CRWV jumps more than 5% premarket (Ina Fried/Axios)

Yahoo sold technology news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal signed in early February and expected to close later in March (David Pierce/The Verge)

HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services to merge after WBD deal

[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman Says DOD’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Sets an “Extremely Scary Precedent,” That OpenAI Rushed Its Deal to “De-escalate Things,” and More (Sam Altman/@sama)

Netflix drops deal with Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer deemed superior

Thrive deck leak: $26.8 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for first four funds, including 2.4x for 2016’s Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

WBD says Paramount made higher offer, board will weigh offer against Netflix deal

A look at Corning’s booming fiber business, driven by data center demand and a $6 billion Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning’s co-packaged optics for servers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “no impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and is “very confident in OpenAI’s ability to raise funds” (@oracle)