Disney, Fox, and WBD give up on controversial sports streaming app Venu

Fubo gave in, but DirectTV and Dish were still trying to block Venu’s launch.

Venu Sports, the sports streaming app that Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced as part of a joint venture in February, will no longer launch, the three companies said today.

The app was supposed to give subscribers access to all three conglomerates' linear channels that show sports, including ABC, Fox, ESPN, FS1, and TruTV. Original content wasn’t expected to launch with the app, but the joint multichannel video programming distributor was expected to represent about 85 percent of the US sports rights market. The app was planned to cost $43 per month.

In a joint statement shared today, the companies said:

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JBL Tour One M3: Bluetooth-Kopfhörer funktioniert trotz Kabelnutzung drahtlos

Der Tour One M3 von JBL ist ein besonderer ANC-Kopfhörer: Im Kabelbetrieb setzt er auf eine Funkeinheit für eine teilweise drahtlose Nutzung – inklusive Fernsteuerung. (CES 2025, Audio/Video)

Der Tour One M3 von JBL ist ein besonderer ANC-Kopfhörer: Im Kabelbetrieb setzt er auf eine Funkeinheit für eine teilweise drahtlose Nutzung - inklusive Fernsteuerung. (CES 2025, Audio/Video)

Elon Musk wants OpenAI to auction off a large ownership stake

Owner of Grok wants courts in California and Delaware to force sale.

A lawyer for Elon Musk has called on the California and Delaware attorneys-general to force OpenAI to auction off a large stake in its business, intensifying a bitter fight with the company’s chief executive Sam Altman.

In a letter to the states’ top law officers seen by the Financial Times, Musk’s attorney Marc Toberoff said he was writing on behalf of big artificial intelligence investors who wanted to participate in an open and competitive bidding process for the OpenAI stake.

OpenAI had no plans for such an auction, according to a person with knowledge of the ChatGPT-maker’s thinking. Musk’s camp simply “want more chaos,” they added.

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