Paramount has appointed former Mattel chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz as co-CEO, working alongside chairman and CEO David Ellison, ahead of the close of its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ellison will oversee long-term strategy, creative direction and partnerships, while Kreiz handles day-to-day management and integration of the combined companies; Kreiz starts October 5th. Separately, a judge approved Paramount's settlement with states that had been blocking the merger, and streaming chief Cindy Holland announced her departure.
Apple has brought back the Messages Suggestions feature in the iOS 27.2 beta after pulling it from the iOS 27 public release earlier this fall. The feature shows one-tap action buttons under messages, letting users quickly add reminders, notes, or calendar events, or find relevant photos based on conversation context.
Researchers led by Joshua Jacobs and Anup Das, published in Nature Communications in April 2026, measured electrical waves of neural activity in the brain and found varied patterns including source waves, sink waves, and spiral vortex-like waves. The team reported that different behavioral tasks were linked to distinct types of these wave patterns, rather than a single uniform oscillation.
At OpenAI's Dev Day, CEO Sam Altman introduced a new 'Decisions API' that lets developers give the company's Luna model a predefined set of options to choose from, such as image categories or agent behaviors, returning fast, low-cost outputs. The tool appears similar to Jev, a classifier model released earlier this month by TypeSafe AI for software automation tasks. OpenAI's API is currently in limited preview, and TypeSafe did not respond to requests for comment on the similarities.
Seth MacFarlane is developing a new science-fiction drama, reported as separate from his existing series 'The Orville.' The project, titled 'Future Housewives,' is set in a wealthy asteroid colony called New Beverly Hills and will star Ariana Madix, known for her reality television work.
An Entrepreneur contributor recounts being confronted in 2017 by a peer business-owner group over workaholic behavior that had damaged his health and family life. He describes adopting five changes afterward, including delegating full responsibility rather than just tasks, starting CrossFit, taking more vacation time, stepping back from daily operations, and eventually resigning as company president in favor of another leader.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has enlisted a group of designers, branding agencies and grocery-industry specialists to create the visual identity for the city's planned municipal grocery stores. The team includes agencies that previously worked on brands like Graza and Stillers, and their remit reportedly includes merchandise as well as store design.
Reddit announced it will shut down RSS feed support on November 13, citing abuse from large-scale scraping. The company also said its public API will be fully discontinued by March 2027, and it is restricting access to Old Reddit for logged-in users who haven't visited in the past 90 days. Developers with approved third-party apps or bots must register them by January 12, 2027 to keep API access.
In an interview, national security journalist Annie Jacobsen says biological weapons rank as a close second to nuclear weapons on a Defense Department threat spectrum, despite being less destructive overall. She attributes this to the low barrier to entry for creating bioweapons compared to nuclear arms, which require state-level resources like fissile material and delivery systems.
A new Swimlane survey of security operations center professionals found that 91% report increased job satisfaction since adopting AI-driven detection and response tools. However, nearly half of respondents said AI has made it harder for newcomers to break into the field, and one in four said reliance on AI is limiting their own skill development.
Apple released a new version of its Invites app for iPhone, adding full-resolution Shared Albums that non-Apple users can join, expanded Image Playground options including photorealistic backgrounds, and email-link verification for guests instead of entry codes. The update also includes bug fixes and performance improvements and is available now on the App Store.
A visitor documented modular industrial dashboards found in several European museums, including the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Fernmeldemuseum Stuttgart, a railway museum in Nuremberg, a tram museum in Stuttgart, Warsaw's train museum, and the DASA Museum in Dortmund. The panels, used historically for air traffic control, subway and light rail monitoring, and power plant operations, feature interchangeable lit modules, counters, switches, and labeled plates built on physical component systems rather than screens.
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