HBO Max is continuing its global rollout by debuting in 12 Asia Pacific markets. Warner Bros. Discovery will debut the global streaming service HBO Max on March 26 in Bhutan, Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. THis comes after HBO Max’s recent launch in Italy and Germany, and ahead of … Read more
On Monday, creative suite maker Canva announced the dual acquisition of startups Cavalry, which works on animation, and Mango AI, which works on improving ad performance. UK-based Cavalry works on 2D motion animation for different verticals such as advertising, marketing, gaming, and generative art. Canva said that Cavalry’s tooling will add to the existing capabilities … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. PwC has made legal threats to senior figures at Unity Advisory as the Big Four firm’s relationship with a former executive who left to launch the boutique consultancy descends into acrimony. PwC’s former UK chief … Read more
Goalhanger co-founder Tony Pastor has claimed young people are connecting with podcasts that “no commissioner at a TV station in the UK would dream of commissioning.” In a keynote talk at MIP London last night, Pastor outlined the case for Goalhanger’s podcast-first model, and said there was a “massive cause for optimism” in the space. … Read more
Swaths of the eastern UK coastline are eroding faster than expected, forcing the demolition of homes and putting the spotlight on the risks surrounding a £40bn nuclear power plant being built at Sizewell. The coast around Norfolk and Suffolk is one of the fastest eroding in Europe but the disintegration has intensified in several parts … Read more
Shares in leading listed cybersecurity companies have fallen since Anthropic’s launch of Claude Code Security on Friday, an AI-powered code vulnerability scanner. Anthropic launched Claude Code Security on Feb. 20 as a limited research preview. Claude can reason like a skilled security researcher According to the company website, Anthropic’s chatbot Claude “scans your entire codebase … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount president Jeff Shell intends to fight back against a threatened lawsuit from a former longtime associate over the alleged misuse and disclosure of confidential corporate information by Shell. “We were presented with a draft complaint riddled with clear errors of fact and law.”Shell’s lawyer Patricia Glaser told Deadline tonight as rumors of Shell … Read more
You only need to scan the front page of any major newspaper to see how conflicted our society currently is about food. Even as restaurants emerge as sites of political resistance and food writing expands in exciting new directions, food insecurity is still all too common, both in the United States and around the world. … Read more
Crypto venture firm Framework Ventures has partnered with mortgage services company Better to help it launch a $500 million plan to integrate with the decentralized finance protocol Sky, formerly MakerDAO. Better said on Monday that Framework would help it provide $500 million in credit to Sky’s stablecoin ecosystem, enabling it to launch tokens tied to … Read more
After weeks of urging Iran to make a deal, Donald Trump on Monday posted a video from Fox News host Mark Levin, making the case that negotiating with Iran was now pointless. The clip spoke to the US president’s growing frustration that his barrage of threats had so far failed to bring any real concessions … Read more