Cloudflare has a successful IPO, but will WeWork’s planned IPO be considered a success even if it actually has one? Is another investment bubble popping in the AR/VR space? Will the streaming wars kill the back-end deal in Hollywood? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Cloudflare stock pops 20% in first day of trading (CNBC)
WeWork’s valuation could fall to below $15 billion in IPO, down from $47 billion private valuation (CNBC)
House lawmakers ask Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google to turn over trove of records in antitrust probe (The Washington Post)
Another high-flying, heavily funded AR headset startup is shutting down (TechCrunch)
J.J. Abrams Officially Closes Sizable WarnerMedia Film, TV Partnership (The Hollywood Reporter)
The end of the backend? Disney wants to limit profit participation on its new TV shows (Los Angeles Times)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (NYTimes)
As sex toys continue to get hacked, the definition of sexual assault is under question (Screen Shot)
What Happened to Urban Dictionary? (Wired)
TONY HAWK ON HOW HIS GAMES CHANGED SKATEBOARDING (The Verge)
From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire (Forbes)
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (Science)

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