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Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · last wk.

Some chatter about Paramount and the Ellisons being worried about a Democrat-run Congress this fall. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw thinks that's overblown. www.businessinsider.com/paramount-wa... full conversation on my Channels podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Why a settlement in the Paramount/Warner Bros. court case could be tough: Q&A with Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw

A conversation with Bloomberg Hollywood watcher Lucas Shaw about happens next in a blockbuster court case.

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Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · last mo.

Why the Apple AI price hikes matter, even if you don't need a new MacBook: "Tech usually succeeds by bringing people something new or making something radically cheaper. Now tech says the same stuff you bought yesterday costs much more today." New from me: www.businessinsider.com/apple-ai-pri...

Apple just told consumers they need to foot the bill for AI data centers

AI might be awesome in the future. Right now, it's making things more expensive.

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Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excerpts for people in the "text space": www.businessinsider.com/jim-bankoff-...

Why did James Murdoch buy Vox Media's podcast business, but not some of Jim Bankoff's other properties?

James Murdoch is buying Vox's podcast business, and New York Magazine. Why not the rest?

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Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New: My deeply conflicted conversation with Vox Media's Jim Bankoff about selling half his company - including the part I work with - to James Murdoch. My main q: What does it tell us when a podcast network is the thing media buyers really want? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New: My deeply conflicted conversation with Vox Media's Jim Bankoff about selling half his company - including the part I work with - to James Murdoch. My main q: What does it tell us when a podcast network is the thing media buyers really want? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Channels with Peter Kafka

Business News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for you, veteran journalist Pe...

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Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On the one hand, Byron Allen is paying $120 million for half of BuzzFeed, and Wall Street thinks all of BuzzFeed is only worth $30 million. On the other hand, Allen is only paying $20 million today. Last hand: The 2010s were great until they weren't. www.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-why...

Byron Allen wanted to own Paramount. He's buying BuzzFeed instead.

BuzzFeed was supposed to be the future of media. But that future wasn't supposed to be a last-ditch sale.

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Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Who's going to buy into the gigantic IPOs of companies with no profits and questionable paths to profitability, such as SpaceX and OpenAI? You will, through your employer's retirement plan, writes @jmackin2.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Stock Indexes Are Contorting Themselves to Include SpaceX and OpenAI

Index funds holding trillions of dollars of 401(k)s and other investments are rushing to change their rules as the IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic draw closer.

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Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I talked with the excellent @ftrain.bsky.social about the revolution in coding, why you (me, really) shouldn't feel bad about not vibe coding - and what all this means for normals. Excerpts: www.businessinsider.com/ai-code-vibe... Whole pod on Channels: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Paul Ford wrote the seminal story on coding. Now, he's blown away by AI.

Coder and writer Paul Ford says he's blown away by the work AI can do in software now. "It's a very shocking moment."

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Jer@jerdem.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excellent @pkafka.bsky.social Channels podcast about prediction markets. Don’t call it the Wild West but it’s definitely the Wild West. overcast.fm/+AAQL2d_OUY8

Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet — Channels with Peter Kafka

Prediction markets are suddenly everywhere: in sports, in politics, in the media business — and, depending on who you ask, they’re either a useful forecasting tool or just gambling with better brandin...

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Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Paramount won't say if it's using $24 billion in Gulf money to help buy WBD. If that *did* happen? Just part of being a "global company", says RedBird's Gerry Cardinale, the Ellison family's favorite private equity guy: New from me via Puck's Matt Belloni: www.businessinsider.com/paramount-gu...

Paramount ally RedBird says using Middle East money to help buy Warner Bros. could be a good idea

RedBird Capital's Gerry Cardinale is helping the Ellisons buy Warner Bros. He says using Gulf state money to finance the deal could be a good thing.

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Peter Kafka@pkafka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last year the Ellisons were going to use $24 billion in Gulf state money to help Paramount buy WBD. Is that still happening? Paramount won't say. New from me: www.businessinsider.com/paramount-wb...

Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states pledged to invest $24 billion in Paramount's WBD deal. Is that still on?

Saudi Arabia and two other Gulf states were going to invest $24 billion to help the Ellisons buy WBD last year. Are those deals still in place?

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