Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Paramount Skydance’s $30 per share bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that comes just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix. Plus, President Trump wants to limit state-level AI regulation with an executive order aiming for "one rule" on artificial intelligence, and IBM is buying data-streaming platform Confluent for about $9.3 billion in one of its largest takeovers yet.
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| 1:23.6 | This is Bloomberg Tech coming up, Paramount, making a hostile bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, |
| 1:29.2 | just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix. |
| 1:32.3 | Plus, President Trump wants to limit state-level AI regulation. |
| 1:35.9 | He plans to approve an executive order this week, aiming for one rule on artificial intelligence. |
| 1:41.6 | And IBM is buying the data streaming platform Confluent for about $9.3 billion, one of its |
| 1:47.4 | largest takeovers yet. |
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