Lucas Shaw
@Lucas_Shaw
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"The new analysis suggests that the broad crime surge that took place during the pandemic has largely reversed itself." nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/…
Live from Washington DC tomorrow on @technology: @mkratsios47 (WH’s Michael Kratsios), @sriramk (WH AI advisor Sriram Krishan and @IreneSolaiman (@huggingface chief policy officer). All to dicuss @WhiteHouse AI Action Plan
Not a great day for copyright owners. variety.com/2025/politics/…
Cash is useless at Burning Man. But Burning Man needs cash. Fun @TedAlcorn in @BW bloomberg.com/news/features/…
South Park is moving from HBO Max to Paramount+, which is paying $300M a year (!!) for worldwide rights. The creators have signed a new five year deal with Paramount worth $250M/year. Most of that $$ is just their share of the streaming deal. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
You will never guess who is going to be a big new client for Oracle. Paramount, the company Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is buying with his son David. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Patrick Soon-Shiong couldn't stop the bleeding at the LA Times. So now he's going to "democratize" it aka ask public shareholders to take it on. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Journalists are narcissists!
It’s really … something … how much attention right now is going to a $9 billion budget cut after passage of a law projected to add +$3 trillion to the debt through tax cuts
The late show with Stephen Colbert will end next year. It will be the end of the late show for good due to the “challenging backdrop” in late night.

Godzilla conquered Japan. Now its owner is plotting a global takeover bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Godzilla conquered Japan. Now its owner is plotting a global takeover bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Movie theater chains have discussed creating a competitor to IMAX. Scoop from @tgbuckley bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Great piece from @Lucas_Shaw at Bloomberg. A couple that are important ahead of Netflix's earnings tomorrow: 1) PASSWORD SHARING: The benefit from Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing has dissipated, according to new data from @AntennaData. Its growth in the US has slowed by…
NBA you better be watching this All-Star Game tiebreaker Home Run Derby. That was electric. 1-on-1, first to 5, is right there.