WASHINGTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft zondag gewaarschuwd dat de geplande overname van Warner Bros. Discovery door Netflix mogelijk op bezwaren van mededingingstoezichthouders stuit. Volgens Trump kan het marktaandeel van het samengevoegde bedrijf te groot worden.

"Zo'n overname moet door een zorgvuldig proces. We zullen zien wat er gebeurt", zei Trump bij aankomst bij een evenement in het Kennedy Center in Washington. Hij bevestigde dat hij recent overleg had met Netflix-topman Ted Sarandos. "Maar het gaat om een heel groot marktaandeel. Dat kan een probleem worden", aldus de president. Trump zei ook dat hij zich persoonlijk met de beoordeling van de deal zal bemoeien.

Met de overname, die wordt gewaardeerd op 82,7 miljard dollar (70 miljard euro), krijgt Netflix de film- en tv-studio's van Warner Bros. en streamingdienst HBO Max in handen. Daarmee zouden twee van de grootste streamingdiensten ter wereld, samen goed voor meer dan 400 miljoen abonnees, onder één bedrijf vallen.

AI is the second-largest major at M.I.T. after computer science, reports the New York Times. (Alternate URL here.) Though that includes students interested in applying AI in biology and health care — it's just the beginning:




This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a new A.I. major. And the State University of New York at Buffalo created a stand-alone "department of A.I. and society," which is offering new interdisciplinary degrees in fields like "A.I. and policy analysis...."

[I]nterest in understanding, using and learning how to build A.I. technologies is soaring, and schools are racing to meet rising student and industry demand. Over the last two years, dozens of U.S. universities and colleges have announced new A.I. departments, majors, minors, courses, interdisciplinary concentrations and other programs.



"This is so cool to me to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this," one 18-year-old told the New York Times. Their article points out 62% of America's computing programs reported drops in undergraduate enrollment this fall, according to a report in October from the Computing Research Association.

"One reason for the dip: student employment concerns."

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the article.

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