McDonald's CEO is getting roasted for his 'Big Arch' review. Think you could do better running things? Take this quiz!

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CEO Chris Kempczinski is taking lots of heat for his review of McDonald's new "Big Arch" burger.

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Netflix is getting a bunch of cash from its broken WBD deal. We've got some ideas on what it can do with it.

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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos applauds at the Golden Globe awards, January 2026
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has spent years people should be able to see big movies at home, without going to theaters. Now he's changing his tune.

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David Ellison won Warner Bros. Now he has to prove Paramount can beat Netflix at its own game.

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Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison's ambitions go beyond buying Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

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InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of contract talks. For four years, Ben Affleck has been running a technology company that nobody in […]

Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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The US Department of War has issued the first such designation ever applied to an American company, demanding that defence contractors certify they do not use Claude. Anthropic says the action is unlawful and retaliatory. For months, the conversations between Anthropic and the US Department of War were framed, at least publicly, as a negotiation. […]

Meta hires the team behind Gizmo, the buzzy vibe-coding app that lets users create their own mini-games

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A key Paramount ally makes the case for using Middle East money to buy Warner Bros.: 'The world is changing.'

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Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia (middle) sits next to Elon Musk (right) and U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent (left) at a U.S.-Saudi business conference in Washington, DC., November 2025.
In the second Trump administration, American businesses and government officials have been eager to do deals in the Middle East. Paramount's deal to acquire Warner Bros.

NBC says Savannah Guthrie plans to return to 'Today' show as the search for her mother drags on

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Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have issued a video plea for their mother's safe return home.
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have issued a video plea for their mother's safe return home.

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A top TikTok marketing exec is leaving to take a 'deliberate exhale'

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Sofia Hernandez, TikTok's global head of marketing and partnerships.
Sofia Hernandez, TikTok's global head of marketing and partnerships.

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We answered 11 big questions about the Paramount-WBD deal and what happens next

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Aspiring media mogul David Ellison's Paramount Skydance plans to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, which is led by David Zaslav.

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