Warner Bros. has a lawsuit against Paramount for $500 million
South Park: An End to End Game For The CWD Westonazimuthal XMM-Newton Comedy Streaming License
The entire library of the show, as well as the 30 new episodes for seasons 24, 25, and 26 were intended to be brought on by the deal. However, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges it didn’t get what it paid for. South Park Digital Studios did not deliver on its promise of 10 new episodes each season and charged the company extra for the 50-minute Pandemic Special.
Nearly all “South Park” episodes air first on Paramount-owned Comedy Central. The creators of “South Park” auctioned off streaming rights to the first 23 seasons of the show.
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The DOJ has charges with a huge money-laundering scheme
Binance Co-founder Zhao Wei has pleaded guilty to a felony money laundering violation and agreed to pay a $4.3 billion fine as part of a settlement with the US Department of Justice. The indictment alleged that Binance allowed over 1.1 million transactions between US persons and Iranian nationals worth nearly $900 million. Notably, Zhao also stepped down as Binance Co-founder.
A settlement would show that it’s too big to fail
The Department of Justice, the Treasury Department and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are investigating cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and CryptoZel’dovich (CZ) in two different criminal cases. The charges include that Binance and CZ didn’t clearly separate its US and international businesses as required by current regulations, and allowed illicit activities such as money laundering to take place at the crypto exchange.
Linda Yaccarino stays the course, but advertisers flee
Media Matters for America President Angelo Carusone said that Elon Musk has spent the last few days making “meritless legal threats, elevating bizarre conspiracy theories and lobbing vicious personal attacks” against his “enemies” online. He added that major brands are hesitant of partnering with X even if he doesn’t follow through with his threat to sue. “Major brands are hesitant of partnering with X,” Carusone further said.
Sam Altman is a former OpenAI leader
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that OpenAI’s Co-founder and former CEO Sam Altman is joining the company. “Obviously we want Sam and Greg to have a fantastic home if they’re not going to be [at] OpenAI, with all the colleagues at Microsoft,” Nadella added. “We’re extremely excited to share the news…Sam and Greg will lead a new advanced AI research team,” he further said.
The Interim CEO of OpenAI is highly intelligent and socially awkward
More than 500 employees of OpenAI have threatened to resign and join Microsoft, as per Kara Swisher. “I took this job because I believe OpenAI is one of…most important companies currently in existence,” Emmett Shear, who was hired as a senior advisor at OpenAI, told Swisher. This comes after Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were appointed as head of Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence division.
Kyle Vogt quit as CEO ofRobotaxi Developer Cruise as questions arose over the crash
General Motors Co (GM) CEO Mary Barra has become the new Chairman of Cruise Automation, which is GM’s self-driving car division. Former Tesla President Jon McNeill was named Vice Chairman of the Cruise board alongside Barra. This comes days after Cruise’s Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Dan Kan stepped down amid safety concerns over the company’s driverless cars.