Google Anthropic deal 💰, AWS post-mortem 👨‍💻, tech bids for Warner Bros 🎬

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Download the report instead. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions of dollars (4 minute read) Anthropic now has access to up to a million of Google's custom-designed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) thanks to a new deal worth tens of billions of dollars. The deal is expected to bring well over a gigawatt of AI compute capacity online in 2026. Anthropic spreads its workloads across vendors, letting it fine-tune for price, performance, and power constraints. Google's TPUs offer Anthropic strong price-performance and efficiency. Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are reportedly interested in buying Warner Bros. (2 minute read) Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is launching a 'review of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value' due to multiple offers for both the entire company and Warner Bros. Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Paramount, and Comcast are reportedly interested in buying WBD as a whole or acquiring pieces of the company. WBD already announced plans to split its cable TV and streaming businesses next year. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices (9 minute read) Intentional price-fixing through collusion has long been illegal. Sellers are increasingly relying on algorithms that repeatedly adjust prices in response to new data about the state of the market. It is much harder to ensure these algorithms set fair prices as there is no explicit collusion. Algorithms can collude tacitly even when not programmed to do so. One way to fix this problem is to ban all pricing algorithms except the no-swap-regret algorithms that game theorists favor. There are methods for checking if an algorithm has a no-swap-regret property without looking at its code, so there are practical ways of enforcing this idea. OpenAI-Linked Creative Studio Raises $12 Million as It Eyes AI Content Drive (3 minute read) Wonder Studios, an AI creative studio backed by OpenAI and DeepMind executives, has raised $12 million in seed funding to expand its production. The funding will be used to double the company's engineering team and accelerate a push into intellectual-property ownership and original content production. The round was led by European venture capital firm Atomico. Wonder Studios plans to release a number of commercial and original productions next year. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Lovart launches Fast Mode for 80% quicker design generation (Sponsor) Lovart, the world's first design agent, is taking off with millions of users and 8-figure ARR. Its new Fast Mode speeds up output by 80%, orchestrating models such as Sora 2, nano Banana, and Veo 3.1 to turn prompts into brand-ready visuals in minutes. See how it works ⚡️. Workflow DevKit (Website) The Workflow DevKit makes any TypeScript function durable. It allows developers to build apps and AI agents that can suspend, resume, and maintain state with ease. The dev kit is easy to set up as it works with already existing frameworks. It is open source and portable by design. A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees (4 minute read) Amazon has published a detailed postmortem that explains the recent day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services. The root cause was a race condition in DynamoDB's automated DNS management system that left an empty DNS record for the service's regional endpoint. The race condition occurred when one DNS Enactor experienced 'unusually high delays' while the DNS Planner continued generating new plans. AWS has disabled the DynamoDB DNS Planner and DNS Enactor automation worldwide until safeguards are put in place. 🎁 Miscellaneous I Am Out Of Data Hell (26 minute read) If you're competent and you put some amount of effort into demonstrating that competence, you can free yourself from the world of recruiters. If you can generate even half of what you need to live by yourself, you've doubled the amount of time you'll survive without conventional employment. Sales is just looking at someone's problem and giving them a quote for fixing it. Being in control of your work means being able to tell customers they aren't a good fit. Reasoning Is Not Model Improvement (10 minute read) The AI coding tool market is scaling explosively, with all the companies betting on the assumption that models will keep getting better at generating code. The entire market becomes a house of cards if that assumption is wrong. However, whoever solves the architecture problem wins everything. Even modest fundamental improvements would cascade through the entire ecosystem. The question is whether any lab will prioritize the hard path of fixing the foundation over the easy path of building apps. ⚡ Quick Links Craving more AI in your inbox? (Sponsor) TLDR AI is your daily fix of LLMs, GenAI, and deep learning goodness. Same TLDR format. Still free. Subscribe now. Living dangerously with Claude (15 minute read) You should always use --dangerously-skip-permissions, but do it in a sandbox. Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder (5 minute read) Binance's Changpeng Zhao has been pardoned following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's own crypto company. Microsoft reportedly ordered its Xbox division to boost profits to an unrealistic level (3 minute read) Microsoft implemented an across-the-board goal of 30% profit margins in 2023, well above the industry average of 17%-22%. 95% of kids with "bubble boy" disease cured by one-time gene therapy (5 minute read) The gene therapy uses the patient's own stem cells, offering a lasting, donor-free solution to ADA-SCID (known as 'bubble boy' disease). Nike says its first 'powered footwear' is like an e-bike for your feet (2 minute read) Project Amplify, designed for everyday movement, uses lightweight robotics to boost running and walking speed. I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right (6 minute read) A study by MIT found that 95% of corporate AI initiatives fail. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/c4b06755/ Track your referrals here. 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