After a year of regulatory review—and after a change in presidential administrations—the three-member U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Skydance Media’s $8-billion acquisition of Paramount Global.
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SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR
The U.S. treasury has raked in an additional $55 billion so far in Donald Trump’s tariff war and most of it has come out of Corporate America’s pocket, The Wall Street Journal reported.
SUPREME COURT LEAVES DOOR OPEN FOR GOVERNMENT TO CENSOR SPEECH THROUGH COLLUSION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES, A RUTHERFORD PRESS ALERT
WASHINGTON, DC—In a blow to First Amendment freedoms, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hold Facebook/Meta accountable for colluding with the government to silence constitutionally protected speech.
“PATRIOTIC” FILMS ABOUT THE ISRAELI SLAUGHTER OF PALESTINIANS ARE COMING
Who says politicians can’t be funny? Nearly everything that President Donald Trump says cannot be taken seriously which means it is intended to be a joke and now it is also being reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to an observation that there is a lack of free speech on podcasts in the United States
OPENAI TAKES A SALES COMMISSION ON CLICK-THROUGHS
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which shows ads to users, will now include a payment system that will let shoppers complete purchases within the AI platform. OpenAI then will collect a commission from merchants making the sales.
IMPROVED AI AUTOMATED LAB SPEEDS EXPERIMENTS TENFOLD
Scientists at North Carolina State University have found a way to improve automated laboratories in a way that speeds their work by a factor of ten, they say.
GOOGLE BEWARE: STARTUP LAUNCHES AI-BASED SEARCH ENGINE
The Browser Company of New York (BCNY) has created Dia, an AI-based search engine. That’s a big deal because Google and other engines have largely tried to tack AI onto their existing platforms. Dia has AI in its DNA.
AI’S NEW WORLD OF HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
The rise of AI is accentuating the global divide between nations that have the resources to run with the technology and those who don’t.
CHINA CLOSES THE AI GAP WITH THE WEST
China’s rise to become a contender as the global power in AI has been built on the same strategy that it has used to take the lead in solar panel technology and electric vehicles: strategically targeted government funding.
TRUMP AI ACTION PLAN UNLEASHES AMERICAN AI INNOVATION, FOR BETTER AND WORSE
The clear object of a new AI action plan articulated as an overall framework this past week by the Trump administration, is to win what we have long termed in these pages “The AI Ams Race.”









