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title: 'Silicon Florist links arrangement for December 5, 2025'
date: '2025-12-05T15:55:48-08:00'
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# Silicon Florist links arrangement for December 5, 2025

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

[Y Combinator F25: The Full Batch – by Ollie Forsyth](https://www.neweconomies.co/p/y-combinator-f25-the-full-batch)
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YC’s newest batch has more AI-native startups than any other batch in history — 52% literally include AI in their company description…

[Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) – About Netflix](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros)
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Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.

[Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure](https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-rivaling-social-networks-as-a-core-layer-of-internet-infrastructure/)
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In September 2025 alone, AI services racked up roughly seven billion monthly web visits, rivaling the traffic of major social networks. That represents a 76 percent jump compared to the previous year. Mobile growth is even starker: sessions in Gen AI apps increased fivefold, and app downloads surged 778 percent.

[Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years](https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-i-have-been-writing-a-niche-history)
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It’s also a practice of the old internet that simply doesn’t exist anymore — one of many digital behaviors that was swallowed up by social media. That whole world of blogging (exploratory, low-stakes, conversational, and assuming a readership of people who had bookmarked your URL and who read it on a desktop or laptop computer) is almost entirely gone now.