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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