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Why did Greenland's sale become a topic of discussion?
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Live from NPR Networks. In Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, saying a deal is no longer financially attractive. Now Paramount is in a position to take over the Hollywood giant. Unlike Netflix, Paramount wants all of Warner's operations, including networks like CNN and Discovery. Paramount's owner, David Ellison, has made an extraordinary effort to win over support from the Trump administration. As NPR's David Folkenflik explains.
President Trump has said that he's very interested in the fate of CNN. He's sort of indicated that he will and then he won't and that he might play a role in this, as he has in so many corporate transactions in his return to office over the past 13 months. And this is, I think, as high a profile one as you can imagine. After all, the Ellisons only took over Paramount last summer. And that was after they made a number of concessions that appealed to the Trump administration. The Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, was the co-founder of Oracle. He's been a financial backer and advisor to Trump. And they're hoping that, you know, glides the path here as well.
NPR's David Fulkenflik reporting. Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton says she answered the House Oversight Committee's questions about Jeffrey Epstein as fully as she could, reiterating she had no relationship with the convicted sex offender.
I thought it was very repetitive. I thought that... they asked literally the same questions over and over again, which didn't seem to me to be very productive. And then, as I said, toward the end, you know, there were other questions that were totally off subject.
She says members asked her about UFOs and other conspiracy theories. Clinton says she's confident her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was unaware of Epstein's crimes. He'll testify tomorrow.
What is the significance of Netflix's decision regarding Warner Brothers Discovery?
Democrats say President Trump should testify as well. On Wall Street, tech stocks sold off despite a record-breaking earnings report from AI darling NVIDIA. As NPR's Maria Aspin reports, the tech-heavy NASDAQ closed down more than 1%.
NVIDIA sells the advanced computer chips that are powering the AI boom, and it sells a lot of them. Its quarterly profit almost doubled from a year earlier to $43 billion. But NVIDIA has also become a bellwether for all of investors' hopes about the AI boom. And they're mounting worries that it will crash and burn. At the same time, some investors are also worried that AI will become too effective and will destroy jobs and companies and the overall economy. Andy Lee is a tech analyst for credit sites. People are just getting more and more antsy. As he points out, that means that every headline about big AI companies, even the good ones, can make investors even more worried. Maria Aspen, NPR News.
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate slipped this week below 6% for the first time since late 2022. That's good news for home shoppers. This is NPR News from Washington. Anthropix CEO says the artificial intelligence company cannot in good conscience agree to the Pentagon's demands that it will allow wider use of its technology ahead of a deadline tomorrow. In response, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on social media that the Pentagon has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance or develop autonomous weapons. A lawsuit accuses the state of California over an alleged lack of response to anti-Semitism in its public schools. For Member Station KQED in San Francisco, Eliza Pepl reports.
The first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court describes, quote, unchecked anti-Semitism festering in school districts across the state.
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