Evening Scan

The Ellison media empire cleared its last legal hurdle today, while over in AI-land two more frontier models dropped on the same news cycle — and one of them came with a same-day security scare attached.

Paramount Settles States' Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Bros. Merger (paywall)

David Ellison's Hollywood consolidation is now basically unblockable — Paramount-Warner Bros. is happening. (NYT)

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

A researcher found any app or terminal command can grab Muse's auth tokens on Mac — awkward timing for the assistant Meta's been touting as outgrowing ChatGPT's early download numbers. (Ars Technica)

A cut cable disrupted hundreds of flights across the US

A single severed line cascaded FAA delays — the kind of infrastructure fragility story that always reads scarier than it sounds until it's your flight. (The Verge)

“GM has confirmed it is NOT rolling phone projection to GM EVs.” — Joanna Stern, via X