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Fox has completed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku, wrapping up one of the biggest media deals in recent years and giving the company a major boost in the streaming and connected TV space.

It’s Stranger Things day, and Netflix is marking the occasion by giving the go-ahead to a live-action prequel series. The company hasn’t announced too many details about Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, though did confirm it takes place in the 1950s, before the events of the original show and the stage play Stranger Things:…

AI companies across the world are racing to make bigger and better models, but the problem is all of them need massive amounts of processing power. On the other end, some researchers and startups are creating smaller models that can run on edge devices, like your phone or computer.

Perplexity has launched its personal AI agents called “teammates,” which are designed to be able to tackle ongoing work autonomously with minimal supervision. The agents work inside Perplexity Computer, the company’s cloud-based agentic assistant that can perform multi-step tasks for you. Perplexity explains that the new agents build on top of Computer and come with “additional…