What to know about Netflix’s landmark acquisition of Warner Bros.  |

​If you thought 2025 couldn’t get any crazier, the streaming world had one more surprise up its sleeve before the year ended. Netflix, already the…

Researchers say Russian government hackers were behind attempted Poland power outage |

12:17 PM PST · January 23, 2026 A failed December effort to bring down parts of Poland’s energy grid was the work of Russian government…

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters ahead of new version |

Meta today said that it is pausing teens’ access to its AI characters globally across all its apps. The company mentioned that it is not…

Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune |

12:26 AM PST · January 17, 2026 Elon Musk wants a jaw-dropping $79 billion to $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the…

California AG sends Musk's xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes |

3:21 PM PST · January 16, 2026 Earlier this week, the California attorney general’s office announced that it was investigating xAI over reports that the…

TikTok quietly launches a microdrama app called 'PineDrama' |

1:11 PM PST · January 16, 2026 TikTok has quietly released a new stand-alone short drama app called PineDrama in the U.S. and Brazil. The…

From OpenAI’s offices to a deal with Eli Lilly — how Chai Discovery became one of the flashiest names in AI drug development |

Drug discovery, the art of identifying new molecules to develop pharmaceuticals, is a notoriously time-consuming and difficult process. Traditional techniques, like high-throughput screening, offer an…

ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads |

11:54 AM PST · January 16, 2026 An ongoing conversation — both within and outside of the tech community — has been about just how…

Trump administration wants tech companies to buy $15B of power plants they may not use |

11:38 AM PST · January 16, 2026 The Trump administration wants the largest electricity grid to add $15 billion worth of new power generation —and…

How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East |

On Tuesday, U.K.-based Iranian activist Nariman Gharib tweeted redacted screenshots of a phishing link sent to him via a WhatsApp message. “Do not click on…