Oct. 21, 2025
C’mon Apple, Buy HBO!
HBO Max might be on the market and I want Apple to buy it! Coinbase is on an acquisition tear. Is the Amazon job apocalypse nigh? Is OpenAI plotting to take over Wall Street in a literal sense? And a brain implant startup has leapfrogged Neuralink in terms of helping blind people see again.
- Warner Bros. Discovery says it’s open to a sale; shares jump 10% (CNBC)
- Coinbase Strikes Deal for Crypto-Investing Platform Echo (WSJ)
- Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web (TechCrunch)
- Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots (NYTimes)
- OpenAI Looks to Replace the Drudgery of Junior Bankers’ Workload (Bloomberg)
- This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle (MIT Technology Review)
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