Executive Summary Paramount Skydance has submitted a $108.4 billion all-cash hostile bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), offering $30 per share—surpassing Netflix’s competing deal valued at about $82.7–83 billion with $27.75 per share. Netflix’s deal would acquire only WBD’s studios and streaming businesses, whereas Paramount’s offer includes WBD’s entire company, including linear cable assets. …
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Executive Summary Paramount Skydance has initiated a hostile all-cash tender offer of US$108.4 billion (US$30 per share) to acquire *Warner Bros. Discovery* (WBD), seeking to supersede Netflix’s earlier agreed proposal valued at US$82.7 billion (US$27.75 per share) for WBD’s studios and streaming assets, excluding cable networks. Paramount claims its bid offers greater regulatory certainty and …
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Gist Google News has fully transitioned to algorithmically generated publication pages, eliminating manually submitted publication pages and RSS feeds as of March 2025 as part of its strategic redesign. Publishers will lose significant control over visual elements (logos, titles), custom section structure, and geographic distribution, except for News Showcase participants. The changes increase reliance on …
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Gist JPMorgan Chase has hired Todd Combs from Berkshire Hathaway to head its $10+ billion initiative targeting U.S. strategic sectors—defense, rare earths, tech, medicine—with a direct report to CEO Jamie Dimon. Lazard CEO Peter Orszag warned that Washington clearance (White House/Cabinet-level) has become essential to closing large, cross-border and politically sensitive transactions. Paramount Skydance filed …
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Gist On 4 December 2025, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to back the development of up to five AI “gigafactories” in the EU via the InvestAI programme, mobilising €20 billion for the infrastructure build-out. Each proposed gigafactory will host about 100,000 advanced AI chips—around …
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