TNB Tech Minute: U.S. States Sue to Block Paramount’s Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Attention all passengers. The Uber ride for Jeff's rugby team will depart in five minutes from Platform 15. Your ride comes with six toilets and a refreshments carriage that you'll empty within five minutes. Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber. |
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| 0:24.1 | Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Monday, July 13th. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Pierre Biennamee for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:31.1 | A coalition of 12 states, led by California, |
| 0:34.2 | is suing to block Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery. |
| 0:39.8 | The states alleged that the Hollywood merger would boost prices for consumers and lower quality for film and television. |
| 0:46.5 | The suit was filed today in Northern California federal court with New York, Colorado, New Mexico, and New Jersey among the states joining. |
| 0:53.8 | The coalition has requested Paramount and Warner not close their merger until after the process |
| 0:58.6 | concludes, or they will seek a temporary restraining order to attempt to stop the deal |
| 1:03.0 | from moving forward. |
| 1:04.5 | Paramount said it plans to vigorously defend the deal and said the suit should be dismissed. |
| 1:09.5 | The European Union and the UK sanctioned Russian |
| 1:13.4 | intelligence units and hackers today. Authorities accused them of a 15-year campaign targeting |
| 1:18.6 | governments and critical infrastructure across the continent. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of |
| 1:23.9 | Ukraine, the Kremlin has intensified its efforts to spy on European governments |
| 1:28.3 | and destabilize their economies through operations ranging from cyber warfare to drone surveillance. |
| 1:34.2 | The sanctions hit as a group of mainly European nations backing Ukraine is set to meet |
| 1:38.8 | the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Paris this evening. |
| 1:42.6 | And the Federal Aviation Administration said today it |
| 1:45.8 | has closed an investigation into an issue that postponed a SpaceX flight test, clearing the company |
| 1:51.2 | to launch the newest version of its Starship rocket later this week. The mission would be the first |
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