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Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108.4B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week  —  Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war …
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Sources: after the Netflix-WBD deal was announced, Larry Ellison called President Trump about how the transaction would hurt competition  —  David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Filing: Paramount's outside partners for its WBD bid include Saudi Arabia's PIF, Abu Dhabi's L'imad, Qatar Investment Authority, and Jared Kushner's Affinity  —  Paramount on Monday launched a hostile takeover bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, going directly to shareholders with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Ted Sarandos says Paramount's “move was entirely expected”, but Netflix is “super confident” that it will get the WBD deal “across the line and finish”
Semafor:
Paramount's WBD bid is backfiring in DC; a Trump official says Paramount seems to “believe the worst possible tropes” about corruption in the administration
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: ABC extended Jimmy Kimmel's deal until May 2027; the deal was reached months ago, but the announcement was delayed out of respect for Stephen Colbert  —  Walt Disney Co. is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back for at least one more year.  —  The late-night star, who was suspended in September …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump attacks Paramount owners as “no better than the old ownership”, demanding an apology from 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl for Marjorie Taylor Greene interview  —  Donald Trump said that the Ellison-owned Paramount is “no better than the old ownership,” as he lashed out at the company …
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation  —  The US-based merchant bank Raine and Greek media mogul Theo Kyriakou are among the backers of the former Mirror editor …
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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
European Commission: Meta agreed to change its “pay or consent” model to let Facebook and Instagram users share less data in exchange for less personalized ads  —  Facebook agrees changes to ‘pay or consent’ model after talks with European Commission
Variety:
Netflix scores the most 2026 Golden Globe nominations, with 35 nominations across film and TV; Warner Bros. and HBO got a combined 31 nominations  —  “One Battle After Another,” a blisteringly funny look at a repressive society riven by political violence, dominated the 2026 Golden Globe Awards nominations …
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget:
TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally  —  The first tool is similar to something Instagram introduced earlier this year.  —  TikTok just announced a couple of updates that that should make the app a bit more social.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN  —  Anderson Cooper may no longer always be the anchor on CNN who is most watched regularly by viewers, but the news outlet believes he's still worth keeping on the roster.  —  Cooper in recent weeks signed a new deal …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Adobe partners with YouTube to launch a dedicated content creation space for YouTube Shorts creators within its Premiere mobile app for iOS  —  Adobe is partnering with YouTube to launch a dedicated content creation space in Premiere for iOS for YouTube Shorts creators, the company announced on Monday.
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
MoffettNathanson: US pay-TV subscriptions grew by 303,000 in Q3 from Q2 2025, the first increase since 2017, and the overall rate of decline improved to 5.8%  —  U.S. pay-TV subscriber levels posted their first increase since 2017 during the third quarter, according to a new report from Wall Street research firm Moffett Nathanson.
 
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Trump says the US will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, and 25% of the chip sales will be paid to the US

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President Trump says he will sign “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something”

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