Netflix’s Amended Offer Puts Pressure on Paramount
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4.4 • 69 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Netflix’s amended, all-cash offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business. Plus, Google DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis, says Chinese AI firms are six months behind US frontier models, as tech leaders sit down with Bloomberg from Davos. And funding continues to pour into defense tech startups.
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| 1:49.1 | Coming up, Netflix reaches an amended all-cash agreement to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, studio and streaming business, aiming to expedite the sale. |
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| 1:56.5 | CEOs from G42, Anthropic, DeepMind, and many more. |
| 2:00.5 | And VC firms continue piling into defense tech. This, as geopolitical tensions escalate between the US and Greenland. |
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