Activist investor Ancora publicly opposes the WBD-Netflix deal
An investment group is trying to sway Netflix shareholders to reject the WBD deal in favor of Paramount.
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Republicans attack ‘woke’ Netflix — and ignore YouTube
When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos entered the Senate office building on Tuesday, he got thrown a curveball. What started as a standard antitrust hearing relating to the Warner Bros. merger quickly devolved into a performative Republican attack about the spread of “woke” ideology on the streaming service. At the same time, arguably a much more […]
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Republicans haul Netflix before Congress for being too ‘woke’
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos was launched into the middle of a congressional culture war on Tuesday as he testified before a Senate subcommittee about the company’s attempt to buy a large part of Warner Bros Discovery. The hearing before the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee highlighted an array of traditional merger concerns on both sides of […]
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Millions of books died so Claude could live
When ChatGPT launched, in November of 2022, it started a race that almost immediately consumed the tech industry. OpenAI didn’t invent the concept of AI, but most of the state-of-the-art technology was confined to research labs at companies and institutions around the world. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. And better than anyone expected. So many […]
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What Netflix’s Warner Bros. deal could mean for TVs and remotes
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. If you’re in the market for a new TV, you’ll have plenty of different options these days, ranging from display technologies (OLED vs. QLED vs. micro RGB) to styles (shiny […]
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Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to
On today’s episode of Decoder, I’m talking about the bidding war over Warner Bros. Discovery, which is the biggest story in the entertainment industry right now, and for good reason. It has pretty much everything you could want in a buzzy Hollywood saga — big names, big money, and big drama. Right now, the winning […]
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A former Netflix game studio went indie to reach more players
When Netflix first acquired cozy game developer Spry Fox in 2022, it made a lot of sense. The studio had been around for over a decade and had several hits with mobile games like Triple Town and Alphabear. That approachable style of puzzle game seemed like a good fit for Netflix’s mobile-first strategy, and, as […]
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Truth and AI in Minneapolis
When federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, video of the shooting – from lots of people, and lots of angles, with wildly varying levels of quality – immediately began to fly around the internet. This is what always happens in times like these, and there have unfortunately been a lot of […]
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What to know about Netflix’s landmark acquisition of Warner Bros
Learn more about Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros., considered the most historic megadeal in Hollywood, as it continues to develop.
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Netflix to redesign its app as it competes with social platforms for daily engagement
At the center of the redesign is deeper integration of vertical video feeds, which the streaming giant has been experimenting with since May.
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