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Elon Musk aurait investi environ un milliard de dollars (environ 890 millions d'euros) dans Skydance, selon le média américain Semafor, qui a révélé l'information ce jeudi 22 octobre.
À 80 ans, Sylvester Stallone fait un mea culpa sans détour sur ses cascades. Ravagé par une dizaine de passages sur la table d'opération et des traumatismes cervicaux à répétition, l'éternel interprète de Rocky et Rambo tire à boulets rouges sur son propre ego passé. Il regrette beaucoup.
Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving in Europe as regulators question its branding and safety. Here's what the change means for drivers and EU approval.
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Apple has removed Intel Macs from its US Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad compatibility lists, but the USB-C accessories reportedly continue working.
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After months of industry and customer speculation, Paramount Skydance has shed some light on the future of the HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services.
Paramount Skydance completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) today, ending a monthslong saga that began when Netflix last year announced its own plans to buy WBD. Netflix scrapped those plans in February. Skydance is the name of the company created from the $111 billion merger.
In an announcement today, Skydance said that all of the direct-to-consumer streaming services it owns, including the Discovery+ service that Discovery Inc. (which merged with WarnerMedia in 2022 to create WBD) launched in 2021, “will unify into a single service over time.”
Après un an d'une guerre d'enchères sauvage, de procès et d'épreuves de force politiques, c'est officiel. Le jeune milliardaire David Ellison et sa société Skydance viennent de finaliser l'acquisition de Warner Bros. Discovery pour 111 milliards de dollars (près de 99 milliards d'euros, dette comprise).
The US Army evaluated armored humanoid Alex for dangerous tasks. Explore its capabilities, supporting technologies and limits before field deployment.
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There was a call to boycott Disney last fall. The owner of the ABC network had taken Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air over comments Kimmel made about responses to Charlie Kirk's murder, sending free speech proponents into a frenzy.
Those free speech proponents include me, who, as a reporter, has clear stakes in protecting that right. Although I was on board with halting support for a company I felt had acted wrongfully, truly boycotting Disney proved harder than I expected.
Canceling Disney+ was simple but threw a hefty wrench into my evening routine. I tend to end many weekdays laughing at comforting sitcom reruns and adult animation. I usually associate Disney with princesses, kids' movies, and, more recently, comic heroes. But Disney also owns Hulu, which exclusively streamed many of my favorite shows for unwinding at the time, like American Dad, Futurama, Living Single, Fresh Off the Boat, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Tesla’s pivot from making electric cars to humanoid robots is facing challenges because of complex robot hands and disgruntled employees pushing back against training their robotic replacements. The struggle to scale up production comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bet the company’s future on AI and robotics.
As someone who frequently makes claims that fail to materialize, Musk has described the Optimus humanoid robot as potentially “the biggest product ever” during Tesla’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call. But he also acknowledged that making an autonomous humanoid robot capable of handling many different tasks is “one of the hardest things to solve”—and now extensive reporting by The Information has revealed multiple complications that Tesla is trying to tackle while developing general-purpose robots and scaling up for mass production.
Tesla’s Fremont factory in California has already stopped making the Model S sedan and Model X SUV as of May 2026, with the company switching both line workers and engineers over to working on Optimus, according to The Information.
Free speech and media advocacy groups urged a judge to block a California settlement with Paramount Skydance that would let the company finalize its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
Twelve states led by California sued to block the deal in July and were able to delay it when US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín ruled that Paramount combining with Warner Bros. would likely reduce competition substantially and violate antitrust laws. Despite that initial victory, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement with Paramount earlier this week and the other states involved in the lawsuit signed on to the deal.
Martínez-Olguín must decide whether to approve the settlement. A coalition of free speech and media advocacy groups told the judge in a filing yesterday that the deal will give residents of the states that sued Paramount "virtually nothing." The filing was submitted by the Committee for the First Amendment, Free Press, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Future Film Coalition, and International Documentary Association.
L'odieux connard préféré des internautes a encore frappé ! Après son Iron Man à la française de cet été, Julien a mis en ligne une seconde fausse bande-annonce qui m'a bien fait rigoler.
C'est Top Gun made in France et cette fois, l'élite de l'élite des pilotes américains partent en programme d'échange international à... Landivisiau en Bretagne !! Avec le pitch, déjà, je suis mort de rire. Alors, pourquoi est-ce qu'ils font ça, les Ricains ? Eh bien, tout simplement pour apprendre à faire comme l'élite de l'élite de l'élite, c'est-à-dire la Marine nationale française.
On y voit donc Erwan Mav'rek, un pilote pur beurre salé donner ses premières leçons d'humour chauvin et de choix de pseudonymes douteux, et surtout, au bout de quelques minutes, recevoir un appel très important de notre leader suprême, qui lui demande...
Bon vous verrez, je ne vais pas vous raconter toute la vidéo...
Je vous laisse découvrir donc comment tout ceci se termine, mais au passage, ce qu'on retient surtout c'est que le Mont-Saint-Michel et Nantes sont en Bretagne (bande de Normands !).
Ah et côté fabrication, c'est bien sûr de l'IA générative, mais attention, fait maison !! Comme Julien n'a d'Odieux Connard que le nom, il a respecté la planète en faisant tout tourner en local sur son PC sans avoir recours au moindre datacenter polluant et surtout en utilisant le modèle open source Minimax.
Chapeau l'artiste !
Source : Top Gun made in France, sur le blog d'Un odieux connard
Wildfire detection from space and firefighting drones featured among the finalists honored in the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition. Although no team walked away with either of the two grand prizes, such technologies could prove helpful as the world grapples with the growing costs of worsening wildfire disasters.
The competition’s First Prize track for space-based wildfire detection challenged teams to accurately detect all fires across a large swath of Australia within 10 minutes. A second Autonomous Response Prize track challenged teams to autonomously detect and put out a high-risk fire located somewhere within rural Alaska while ignoring decoy fires—all within 10 minutes of the fire igniting.
“We want to be able to prepare and provide tools for firefighters to really allow them to do the best job,” Andrea Santy, program director of XPRIZE Wildfire, told Ars. “They're great at what they do, but it's unfair to continue to put them in harm's way when there's technology coming online that can help keep them safe, keep communities safe, and protect ecosystems.”
Simbe says more than 3,000 Tally retail robots are under contract as it expands shelf-scanning technology into a broader store intelligence platform.
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California and Paramount Skydance have reportedly reached a settlement allowing the company to complete its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement, which will reportedly be announced later today, drew condemnation from Democrats and media advocates.
"The Paramount/Warner Brothers merger seems facially illegal, and the state AG lawsuit challenging it is very strong," Lina Khan, who chaired the Federal Trade Commission during the Biden administration, wrote yesterday. "It’s troubling to hear that the states may now settle for behavioral remedies, allowing the deal to go through subject to various promises from the firms. Behavioral remedies routinely fail, and the stakes here are particularly high given that a strong democracy requires open markets for sound journalism and creative expression."
After news of advanced settlement talks was reported over the weekend, Bloomberg reported today that Paramount reached an agreement with California and other states that sued to block the merger. "Settlement talks came to fruition over the weekend after four states that had opposed terms of a deal outlined with California conceded," Bloomberg wrote, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Pour sa nouvelle série attendue le 9 octobre 2026 sur Paramount+, le duo Bryan Konietzko et Michael Dante DiMartino prend à revers les attentes du public pour Avatar. Finis la bienveillance réconfortante et le fan-service tiède : la franchise fait un bond de 225 ans dans le futur pour plonger dans un univers post-apocalyptique où l'Avatar n'est plus un sauveur, mais une menace rejetée par l'humanité.
Uber and Wayve have launched 15 supervised robotaxis in London. Learn how the rides work, why safety drivers remain and what comes next for riders and Uber.
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NHTSA is reviewing Tesla’s certification of about 1,000 Cybercabs as the steering-wheel-free robotaxi begins paid service in Austin.
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Vara has received CE certification allowing its AI to clear some mammograms as normal without radiologist review, marking a step toward autonomous medical AI.
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Gears of War, Halo, World of Warcraft, The Elder Scrolls, Diablo... Selon Puck, la division jeu vidéo de Microsoft démarche discrètement les mastodontes du cinéma et du streaming pour leur refourguer les droits d'adaptation de son catalogue dans un seul et même contrat global.
A thousand years ago, feasts in what’s now northern Georgia state included cacao from Central America.
Potsherds discarded after an 11th-century feast at Etowah—an Indigenous city just north of what’s now Atlanta—contained traces of cacao, a raw ingredient of chocolate. The chemical residue and ancient DNA reveal that not only did the Mississippian people who built the city have excellent taste, they also had trade connections that reached at least 3,000 kilometers to Central America. And in a sense, chocolate may have helped build the Mississippian mounds.
University of South Carolina archaeologist Adam King and his colleagues found fragments of ancient DNA from Theobroma cacao in the inner surfaces of potsherds from long-ago feasts at Etowah. Fruit from the cacao tree contains beans that, when dried and roasted, produce chocolate in all its glorious forms. Cacao only grows in the tropics, which means the nearest actual cacao trees would have been at least a 3,000-kilometer trek away from the woodlands of the eastern US. And that means the Mississippian people who lived in Etowah must have had continent-spanning trade connections.
Waymo reveals custom 5nm AI chips built to process sensor data inside its robotaxis as the company scales its autonomous driving fleet.
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Presque dix ans après la satire post-apocalyptique Problemos, Éric Judor repasse derrière la caméra pour signer son troisième long-métrage, Le Roi du Game. En s'emparant de la sous-culture très fermée du jeu de rôle grandeur nature, le comédien prend le pari d'utiliser les elfes et la baston médiévale en mousse pour raconter une crise familiale bien réelle.
Mount Toba was the biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years, and some have suggested it nearly wiped out humanity. Around 74,000 years ago, a caldera on what is now Sumatra emptied thousands of cubic kilometers of magma in about two weeks, roughly a thousand times more than Mount Pinatubo spewed out in 1991. “People thought it might have caused massive cooling of the planet, and hence threatened the survival of our ancestors,” says Jinheum Park, a geoscientist at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
Park and his colleagues went looking for the records of that catastrophe in the mud taken from the bottom of a small crater lake on the Kenya-Tanzania border. They found instead that the effects of the Mount Toba eruption lasted under two years and amounted to perhaps half a degree of cooling.
Volcanic eruptions inject sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where it becomes a haze of tiny droplets that reflect sunlight back into space. Bigger eruptions eject more sulfur dioxide and, in principle, cause more cooling. But this trend stops working when the eruption exceeds a certain magnitude. “Bigger sulfate aerosols settle quickly, because they are heavier,” Park explains. This quick settling makes them less effective in scattering incoming solar radiation.
London has cleared Wayve vehicles for supervised Uber rides, but a licensed human driver will remain responsible behind the wheel.
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UK researchers reported 19 unsanctioned actions by Anthropic and OpenAI agents during permissive cyber tests involving real external systems.
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Londres vient de valider la mégafusion entre Paramount Skydance et Warner Bros. Discovery. Un feu vert de plus pour le futur géant du divertissement, mais qui ne règle en rien le vrai problème : aux États-Unis, la justice prend son temps et l'addition commence à faire très mal.
[Deal du jour] Investir dans un bon vélo électrique est essentiel si vous souhaitez vous déplacer à deux-roues au quotidien. Reste à savoir quel modèle choisir et quel budget y consacrer. Il peut parfois être intéressant de se tourner vers les vélos reconditionnés pour trouver le modèle parfait à prix plus abordable, comme celui du fabricant Moustache.
DoorDash received FAA Part 135 certification for DoorDash Air and expects to begin in-house commercial drone deliveries in the US in fall 2026.
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Vous connaissez Doully ? Mais siii, l'humoriste avec la voix la plus cassée du stand-up français ? Perso je l'aime bien, elle est aussi trash que drôle et aujourd'hui, elle a mis en ligne son propre guidage vocal pour Waze, avec le lien qui va bien pour l'installer dans votre bagnole.
Avant que vous vous fassiez des idées, non, elle n'est pas motorisée au Jack Daniel's. C'est sa vraie voix tout simplement. Elle le répète à qui veut l'entendre : "Non je ne suis pas bourrée, et oui je suis née avec cette voix et cette diction de clocharde". On ne choisit pas.
Pour ceux qui ne l'ont jamais entendue, voici un extrait de son spectacle Hier j'arrête, comme ça vous saurez à quoi vous attendre au prochain rond-point.
Le truc marrant, c'est que ce n'est pas un pack de voix de star négocié à coups de contrats avec Google. Elle a tout simplement utilisé la fonction voix personnalisée de Waze, dispo pour tous dans votre téléphone. Si vous voulez faire pareil qu'elle, direction les réglages de son, "Nouvelle voix", et il ne reste plus qu'à enregistrer les phrases une par une avant de baptiser le tout. Et hop, ça apparaîtra dans la liste.
Et vous pouvez ensuite la refiler aux copains. Dans "Voix personnalisées", balayage vers la gauche, "Partager", et l'appli génère un lien. Bref, c'est ce qu'a fait Doully pour sa communauté.
Un point à connaître quand même avant de partir sur l'autoroute des vacances avec Doully à fond dans les haut-parleurs : Waze réserve les noms de rues aux voix qui portent la mention "Avec les noms de rue" dans la liste. Comme une voix enregistrée au micro dans son salon ne peut évidemment pas deviner le nom de votre départementale préférée, vous aurez les virages et les alertes façon Doully, mais pas l'adresse. C'est la vie, soyez fort !
Voilà, en tout cas, je trouve que c'est une super idée, donc c'est pour ça que je relaie ça ici. Sur mon Waze c'est installé en tout cas !
Pour ceux que ça intéresse, la voix de Doully, c'est par ici , à ouvrir depuis le téléphone où Waze est installé.
Le GPS le plus éclaté de la route, c'est cadeau !
Paramount Skydance agreed to a longer-term delay of its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, preventing the companies from combining until after a judge rules on the merits of a case in which a dozen states challenged the legality of the merger.
Under a stipulation filed in court today, the states and companies agreed that the merger will not be completed and the firms will not integrate their operations until "five days after the merits determination in these matters," or on June 1, 2027, whichever is earlier. The delay was also agreed to by the Writers Guild of America, which filed its own lawsuit to block the merger. If there is no merits determination by June 1, the plaintiffs could seek a preliminary injunction to keep blocking the deal.
The agreement amounts to "a months-long halt" to the merger, New York Attorney General Letitia James' office said. “Halting this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory in our efforts to uphold the law and protect the film and television industries," James said.
L'éviction des plateaux américains est officiellement de l'histoire ancienne. Quatre ans après le marathon judiciaire ultra-médiatisé qui l'a tenu à l'écart des grands studios, Johnny Depp signe son grand retour aux affaires par la porte principale.
A federal judge today ordered Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $111 billion merger, handing an early win to states that sued to block the deal. The ruling granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the firms from completing the merger and from consolidating their operations.
The temporary order is only in effect for 14 days, but it can be converted into a preliminary injunction that would prevent the merger from being completed until the case is resolved. The temporary restraining order can be extended past the 14-day period if more time is needed to rule on a preliminary injunction.
A group of 12 states led by California sued the companies last week in an attempt to block the deal, which had been approved by the Trump administration. The states say the merger will eliminate competition by combining two of the five major Hollywood movie studios, and two of the five major owners of basic cable TV channels.
The rich and famous who filed into the Kennedy Center’s opera house in December were there to enjoy one of the nation’s most exclusive celebrations of the performing arts: the center’s annual honors gala.
The black-tie event, hosted by President Donald Trump, prioritized tickets to people who donated more than $75,000 to the center. This year, it feted Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone, the legendary glam rock band Kiss and the Grammy Award-winning disco pioneer Gloria Gaynor.
Among the attendees that evening were two lower-profile government officials whose regulatory decisions had been crucial to the future of the gala’s broadcast sponsor, CBS, and its parent company, Paramount.
Après avoir créé Hinge, Justin McLeod veut de nouveau bouleverser les rencontres en ligne. Son nouveau service, Overtone, a levé 18 millions de dollars pour remplacer les profils et les swipes par une intelligence artificielle, selon un communiqué publié le 14 juillet 2026.
Trois séries sur cinq dans le haut du panier. Le dernier relevé des audiences de Paramount+ ressemble à un constat de décès pour la concurrence : Dutton Ranch en tête, l’increvable Yellowstone sur la troisième marche, et Tulsa King qui ferme la marche du Top 5. Au milieu, seuls South Park et le thriller The Agency parviennent à respirer. Ce monopole absolu n'est plus un simple succès de programmation, c’est une mainmise industrielle.
A group of 12 states led by California sued Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery today in an attempt to block a $111 billion merger that was greenlit by the Trump administration last month.
"The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the US," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.
The merger would combine two of the largest movie studios and merge streaming service Paramount+ with HBO Max. Netflix previously had a deal to buy WBD's streaming and movie studios businesses, but Paramount succeeded in a hostile takeover bid helped along by support from the Trump administration.
Excédé par le blocage politique de la Californie qui menace de faire capoter sa fusion à 110 milliards de dollars avec Warner Bros. Discovery, le patron de Paramount, David Ellison, s'apprête à hausser le ton. Ses conseillers le poussent ouvertement à délocaliser le siège social et à couper le robinet des investissements dans l'État : 30 milliards de dollars sont sur la table. Un coup de bluff ?
Tornyol, une entreprise française, développe de petits drones autonomes capables de traquer et d’éliminer les moustiques. Encore en développement, le système peut déjà être réservé pour 100 dollars.
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