News influencers — people with at least 100,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X or YouTube who regularly post about current events — are more likely to identify with the political right than the left, a new study from the Pew Knight Initiative found.
Why it matters: 1 in 5 Americans report getting their news from influencers, and 65% of them say these news influencers have helped shape their opinions on political, societal or global news.
Warner Bros. Discovery has ended its lawsuit against the NBA and agreed to license TNT's "Inside the NBA" to Disney, the companies announced on Monday.
Why it matters: The deal is a major boost to WBD after what was seen as a brutal loss and precarious future without the NBA.
DVx, a startup incubator co-founded by Tesla and Lyft veteran Jon McNeill, tells Axios that it's raised $60 million in new funding, for a total of $100 million.
Why it matters: Most incubators are structured like traditional VC funds, but DVx is an operating company. Kind of an early-stage version of Berkshire Hathaway (albeit minus the decades-long track record).
Elon Musk has quickly become an influential figure in President-elect Trump's inner circle, but there are signs of tension between Musk and a longtime Trump adviser over Cabinet appointments to the new administration.
Why it matters: The friction between Musk and Boris Epshteyn — a top adviser who's pushed for Cabinet picks that include Matt Gaetz for attorney general — surfaced in public last week. It signaled a rivalry stemming from Musk's growing influence on the president-elect, to the dismay of some Trump loyalists.
Google knows all about most of us — our email, our search queries, often our location and our photos — but the search giant isn't using most of that data to train its AI models.
The big picture: Google trains most of its models on content that's publicly available on the web — but free and experimental Google products do often come with caveats that your data could be used to train the company's AI.
President Biden, as he became the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest on Sunday, touted leaving President-elect Trump the "most significant climate change law."
Why it matters: Biden appeared to acknowledge Trump's pledge to roll back some of his climate initiatives, saying: "I will leave my successor and my country with a strong foundation to build on if they choose to do so. It's true, some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that's underway in America, but nobody, nobody can reverse it."
