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Tech Brew Ride Home

C’mon Apple, Buy HBO!

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

News, Tech News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

HBO Max might be on the market and I want Apple to buy it! Coinbase is on an acquisition tear. Is the Amazon job apocalypse nigh? Is OpenAI plotting to take over Wall Street in a literal sense? And a brain implant startup has leapfrogged Neuralink in terms of helping blind people see again. Warner Bros. Discovery says it’s open to a sale; shares jump 10% (CNBC) Coinbase Strikes Deal for Crypto-Investing Platform Echo (WSJ) Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web (TechCrunch) Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots (NYTimes) OpenAI Looks to Replace the Drudgery of Junior Bankers’ Workload (Bloomberg) This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle (MIT Technology Review) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

300 sensors.

0:03.0

Over a million data points per second.

0:06.0

How does F1 update their fans with every stat in real time?

0:10.0

AWS is how.

0:13.0

From fastest laps to strategy calls,

0:15.0

AWS puts fans in the pit.

0:19.0

It's not just racing, it's data-driven innovation at 200 miles per hour.

0:25.4

AWS is how leading businesses power next-level innovation.

0:34.2

Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:39.2

HBO Max might be on the market, and I want Apple to buy it.

0:42.7

Coinbase is on an acquisition tear.

0:45.2

Is the Amazon Job Apocalypse Nye?

0:48.3

Is OpenAI plotting to take over Wall Street in a literal sense?

0:52.1

And a brain implant startup has leapfrogged NeurLink

0:54.8

in terms of helping blind people see again.

0:57.0

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

1:03.2

Big day for HBO or HBO Max, or whatever they're calling themselves now,

1:13.5

HBO Max, raise prices across all plans. Basic with ads increases by $1 a month to $10.99 per month. Standard goes up by $1.50 per month

1:21.1

to $18.49 per month, and the premium plan is up by $2 a month to $22.99. But then, news from CNBC that says parent company

1:32.7

WBD is open to a sale after receiving unsolicited interest from multiple parties.

1:40.1

Sources say the parties include Netflix and Comcast. Quote, earlier this year, WBD announced plans to split into two separate entities, a streaming

1:48.6

and studios business and a global network's business.

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