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The Justice Department's own lawyers were reportedly caught off guard when leadership greenlit the Paramount and Warner Bros merger. According to Ars Technica, career attorneys inside the DOJ weren't consulted before the approval came down, raising fresh questions about how antitrust decisions are being made at the top of the current administration.
Shifting to artificial intelligence in your kitchen, Uber has unveiled what it calls an agentic grocery shopping assistant inside Uber Eats. The tool is designed to handle full shopping runs on your behalf, making decisions and filling your cart without step-by-step input from you. It's a practical test of whether AI agents can handle real-world consumer tasks reliably enough for people to actually trust them.
And in a story about network power and geopolitics, Telegram founder Pavel Durov is alleging that Indian telecom giant Reliance is deliberately degrading access to Telegram for users outside India. If the claim holds up, it would be a significant example of a private carrier manipulating international internet traffic, and it puts pressure on regulators to ask hard questions about who controls the pipes.
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