Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, May 17th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Netflix could be looking at yet another streaming rival. We'll tell you about the latest ransomware

attacks, and the European Union is supporting a plan to manufacture more vaccines in Africa.

Plus, did you know that companies are developing artificial intelligence that can detect your

feelings based on facial expressions? This is something that's hard even for humans to do,

just because I can read what your face is saying doesn't mean I know what you're feeling.

And so the question is can machines do it any better than we can? Regardless of the answer,

it's already a multi-billion dollar industry. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

Sources told the FT that AT&T's board met yesterday to discuss merging its content unit with its

rival, discovery, and create a media giant with an enterprise value of $150 billion. The deal

would combine discovery successful home and cooking shows with AT&T's Warner Media, which includes

household names like CNN and HBO. This would be the latest effort by telecoms and media companies to

try and compete in a streaming-dominated entertainment landscape. Sources say the deal could be reached

this week. Two more ransomware attacks were reported in the last few days. Most of Ireland's

healthcare IT systems were shut down on Friday after hackers demanded a ransom in Bitcoin,

and yesterday the French insurance group Axa said cybercriminals had targeted

Southeast Asia operations and seized sensitive data. The FT's Hannah Murphy notes that the attacks

on Axa came a week after it said it would suspend writing a kind of policy that reimburses for

ransom payments. It was limited to Axa's French customers only, but it comes as insurers have

been blamed. They've had a finger pointed at them by some government officials, by some public

scrutiny, for encouraging companies to pay out indirectly by offering these sorts of reimbursements.

So that was really response to that. Now, so it looks because of the timing that this was a sort of

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