Tech and business reporter • sean@thewrap.com • @SeanB44
Experience:
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YouTube TV Hikes Price $10 to $82.99
The Alphabet-owned service said the latest price increase will hit customers starting in January
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Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever Worth $400 Billion
A 67% post-election rally for Tesla rocketed the tech mogul to record wealth
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TikTok Offers Cash to Users to Recruit Friends Ahead of US Ban
Current creators are being offered up to $400 to recruit new users to the app
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Netflix and Prime Video Dominate Sports-Adjacent Streaming, Study Finds
Streamers have increasingly leaned into sports “shoulder” content like Netflix’s “Receiver” to keep subscribers watching
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UnitedHealthcare Value Drops $41.6 Billion in Week After CEO Brian Thompson’s Slaying
The nation’s biggest health insurance company is worth $520.1 billion after losing 7.5% of its value
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Jeffrey Katzenberg Says He’s Rooting for Trump, Despite Being Biden Campaign Co-Chair
The “Shrek” producer says he hopes the second Trump administration will “make us a better, stronger, more successful country”
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Piers Morgan Rips Taylor Lorenz to Her Face at ‘Joy’ Over CEO Death: ‘Joy at a Man’s Execution?’
During the combative exchange, the British host asks the reporter if she’d like to see more healthcare executives killed
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Kylie Kelce’s New Podcast Leaps ‘Joe Rogan Experience’ as Top Show on Spotify and Apple
Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast becomes the biggest show on both major platforms after just one episode
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AI Deals in 2024 Blow Past 2023 Investment at $55.3 Billion
The artificial intelligence industry has already received $1.2 billion more than it did last year, and that’s without accounting for Q4
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OpenAI Launches Sora Video Generator With ‘Many Limitations’
“It often generates unrealistic physics and struggles with complex actions over long durations,” the ChatGPT company explains
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26-Year-Old Arrested in UnitedHealthcare Shooting Railed Against Netflix, Porn and ‘Wokeism’ on X
Luigi Mangione, a prep school valedictorian, showed disdain for for a number of modern fixtures on social media
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Zachary Levi Laughs Off Bill Maher’s Suggestion That He’s Been ‘Canceled’ for Supporting Trump
“I already had multiple jobs I was in the process of shooting or that I have yet to shoot, and none of those have been compromised,” the actor says
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TikTok Files Emergency Appeal to Give Supreme Court, Trump ‘Breathing Room’ to Review Ban
The Chinese-owned social app asks for a temporary halt on a law that will ban TikTok from the U.S. in January
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Ali Vitali Replaces Jonathan Lemire as MSNBC ‘Way Too Early’ Host
The longtime NBC correspondent will take over as host of the “Morning Joe” lead-in starting in January
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Condé Nast Cuts More Jobs in Another Round of Media Layoffs
Job cuts include 14 top executives and “several members” of GQ staffers, AdWeek reports