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As part of Comcast’s latest earnings report, the company said that its streaming service now has 44 million subscribers, while losses increased to $552 million in the last three months of 2025 — up from $372 million at the same time last year.
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[The Hollywood Reporter]
Ahead of the finale for Fallout season 2 next week, Amazon has started dropping episodes of the first season on YouTube so you can get a taste of the post-apocalyptic series for free. That finale, meanwhile, will be available a little early, streaming at 9PM ET on February 3rd.
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend.
Sorry to Zuck-dunk two days in a row, but it’s fair to say that when the Meta CEO predicts AI is the next big thing in social media, you should take it with a grain of salt.
Guillermo Esteves:
I definitely trust the visionary that brought us the Metaverse to tell me this is the future of social media.
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That’s according to Seong Cho, head of marketing for mobile, during today’s quarterly earnings call. Discussing plans for 2026, he mentioned XR form factors including “next-generation AR glasses.” Samsung has been developing the glasses with Google as a follow-up to Galaxy XR, but this is the first we’ve heard of a release window.
The leaders of US businesses are more scared than he thought:
I was at a conference where they said, how many of you are afraid to speak out? And only like four people raised their hands and I said, wow, this is even worse than I thought. People are afraid to speak out about being afraid to speak out. I mean, because everybody in the room should have raised their hand. Are you kidding?
[Financial Times]
Depending on how you look at it, Sam Raimi’s new horror-thriller can be a nightmare or a dream come true.
0In its earnings report today, Tesla disclosed a $2 billion investment in xAI “as part of their recent publicly-disclosed financing round.” Bloomberg reported earlier this year that xAI, which also owns X.com and the Grok AI chatbot, burned about $7.8 billion in the first nine months of 2025. Tesla claims that the investment in xAI is “intended to enhance Tesla’s ability to develop and deploy AI products and services into the physical world at scale.”
Peter Steinberger, the creator of the trending Moltbot (former Clawdbot) AI agent, talks to TBPN about how Anthropic contacted him to rebrand the project, which he named after Claw’d, the Claude Code mascot.
Steinberger also recounted how crypto scammers took advantage of the name change to push a phony crypto coin. “Everything that could have gone wrong today went wrong,” he said.
What is the point of law enforcement that doesn’t follow the law?
Amazon announced in October that it would be ditching MMOs and cranking out party games, and now Hartmann is departing, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports. We spoke with Hartmann in 2021 about Amazon’s gaming strategy at the time; things have changed since then.
Yesterday the company announced its first new hardware since 2024. The Sonos Amp Multi is targeted at high-end sound systems and professional audio installers, but this video explaining all of the amplifier’s features will make anyone with a handful of old speakers lying around want to add one to their setup.
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IP-licensing is truly out of control, as the film and TV rights for the terracotta pets that were popular in the ‘80s have now been acquired. What’s next, a movie based on The Clapper?
The upcoming beat ‘em up Scott Pilgrim EX, which brings back the creative team behind the last (very good) Scott Pilgrim beat ‘em up, now has a release date. It’s dropping March 3rd, and should hopefully make for a good companion piece to the fascinating animated series on Netflix.
While robot vacuums are getting fancier and more sophisticated (there’s now one that can climb stairs!), there are lots of great budget bots you can get for just a couple of hundred bucks that will keep your floors swept and mopped.
Check out my top picks for the best budget robot vacuum and mop in my updated buying guide.
The company, which was led by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, says it just closed its series E funding, including participation from Google and other investors. The money will be put toward building out Redwood Materials’ energy storage platform as well as its EV battery recycling and critical minerals business. And in a blog post, the company gestures at the current debate over AI data centers and electricity demand, saying:
As electricity demand surges—driven by AI, data centers, manufacturing and electrification—energy storage is no longer optional; it is essential infrastructure.
You can tell your Instacart shopper whether you prefer not ripe, almost ripe, or ripe bananas, as well as receive a photo of the bundle your shopper picked out.
Instacart says it will explore expanding this feature to avocado ripeness and deli meat thickness in the future, and it’s showing off a “Bananas” Super Bowl ad with Ben Stiller and Benson Boone to highlight the feature.
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