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Warner Bros. Discovery Reopens Paramount Talks; Invesco's Brian Levitt

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision to reopen negotiations with Paramount Skydance following its sweetened offer. Plus, renewed anxiety over the outlook for AI weighs on stocks. And, Thrive Capital raises more than $10 billion in its largest fund ever, giving the firm an expanded war chest to invest in AI.

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This is Bloomberg Tech coming up. Warner Brothers reopens negotiations. Lovello in San Francisco.

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This is Bloomberg Tech coming up.

1:35.0

Warner Brothers reopens negotiations with Paramount Skydance after it proposed or hinted at raising its bid and sweetening other terms of its offer.

1:38.4

Plus, renewed selling in several tech giants are weighing on stocks with lingering

1:42.0

anxiety over the outlook for AI. And Thrive

1:45.7

Capital raises more than $10 billion in its largest fund ever, giving the firm an expanded

1:51.8

war chest to invest in AI. Welcome to Bloomberg Tech, and this is what markets look like right now.

1:57.9

We've carried over the holiday weekend in the US to the same anxiety. And we're going to talk later in the program about the contradiction right now. We've carried over the holiday weekend in the US to the same

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anxiety. And we're going to talk later in the program about the contradiction right now at the

2:05.1

heart of the AI trade. NASDAQ 100 off by a percentage point. Chips kind of dragging us down

2:09.9

Mag 7. Bitcoin at $67,000 US dollars per token. Of course it continues to trade 24-7.

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