Operator Good evening, and welcome to Universal Music Group’s Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings Call for the period ended December 31, 2025. My name is Nadia, and I’ll be…
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This week, the Uncanny Valley team dives into the feud that has been brewing between Anthropic and the Pentagon—and what it says about how the government interacts with tech companies. Later, Zoë Schiffer tells us why figuring out whether you…
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