Nintendo Switch becomes the gaming giant’s best-selling console ever

Nintendo Switch becomes the gaming giant’s best-selling console ever

TOPSHOT – A Super Mario character is pictured at a Nintendo display ahead of the launch of the company’s Switch 2 console, an electronics store in the city of Nagoya, Aichi prefecture on June 2, 2025. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images The Switch has become Nintendo‘s best-selling console of all time, nearly … Read more

New York AG issues warning around prediction markets ahead of Super Bowl

New York AG issues warning around prediction markets ahead of Super Bowl

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks to the media, after she attended a hearing and pleaded not guilty to charges that she defrauded her mortgage lender, outside the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S., Oct. 24, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Days before Super Bowl 60, New … Read more

How Chinese short-video streaming firms are reshaping Latin America’s media landscape

How Chinese short-video streaming firms are reshaping Latin America’s media landscape

Latin America’s media landscape is being reshaped by a new suite of entertainment producers, as short drama platforms, often with business ties to China, command an increasingly large share of the region’s video streaming market. According to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower‘s State of Mobile 2026 report published last week, demand for short dramas is … Read more

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested by feds over Minnesota church protest

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested by feds over Minnesota church protest

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents in connection with his presence at a protest in a Minnesota church against the Trump administration’s immigration efforts. Lemon, 59, “was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards,” his attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in … Read more

Paramount extends deadline on hostile Warner Bros bid to February 20

Paramount extends deadline on hostile Warner Bros bid to February 20

The Paramount logo is displayed on the water tower at Paramount Studios on October 30, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Paramount Skydance on Thursday extended the deadline on its hostile tender offer for Warner Bros Discovery by about a month to February 20, buying more time to persuade investors that … Read more

NBCUniversal strategically leans into sports as it prepares for ‘Legendary February’

NBCUniversal strategically leans into sports as it prepares for ‘Legendary February’

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Sport newsletter with Alex Sherman, which brings you the biggest news and exclusive interviews from the worlds of sports business and media. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. NBC is about to have itself a “legendary” month. “Legendary February,” a marketing tagline invented … Read more

Elon Musk’s xAI probed by California DOJ over Grok’s deepfake explicit images

Elon Musk’s xAI probed by California DOJ over Grok’s deepfake explicit images

In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone showing Ani, an anime-style virtual assistant character featured in the Grok 4 AI chatbot developed by xAI, with the Grok logo visible in the background on July 16, 2025 in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI is now facing an investigation in … Read more

FBI searches home of Washington Post reporter in classified documents probe, newspaper says

FBI searches home of Washington Post reporter in classified documents probe, newspaper says

A person walks into the One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, June 21, 2024, in Washington. Alex Brandon | AP FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter’s home on Wednesday as part of a leak investigation involving a Pentagon contractor accused of sharing classified information, the Justice Department said. Hannah Natanson, who has been covering President Donald Trump’s transformation … Read more

Free streaming service Tubi is rivaling major players for viewership. Here’s how it’s winning

Free streaming service Tubi is rivaling major players for viewership. Here’s how it’s winning

Thomas Fuller | Lightrocket | Getty Images Tubi hit profitability this year doing what other streaming services are trying to: attract younger audiences who are willing to sit through ads. The Fox Corp.-owned free streaming platform has long been among a sort of second tier of streaming services alongside lower-budget and less popular offerings like … Read more