Paramount Closes Warner Merger in Historic Hollywood Deal

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- Hannah Miller, Bloomberg Media Reporter, discusses Paramount Skydance closing its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, combining two of the five largest Hollywood film studios and uniting major franchises such as Harry Potter and Mission Impossible. The new company, called Skydance, will be home to dozens of TV networks and two major subscription streaming services, Paramount+ and HBO Max, and will be led by David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz as co-chief executive officers.

- Natalie Lung, Bloomberg Tech Reporter, discusses Uber Technologies buying ezCater for $2.3 billion in a cash deal to help the Uber Eats delivery platform reach a more corporate clientele. The purchase will boost Uber’s food delivery business, which makes up about nearly half of the company’s overall gross bookings. ezCater generated over $2.5 billion in gross bookings over the trailing 12 months and works with more than 140,000 restaurants nationwide.

-- Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg Tech Host, discusses top tech stories. Nvidia is nearing a $6 trillion market capitalization as investors return to the artificial-intelligence chipmaker after a disappointing start to the year.
Moonshot AI has closed the final round of private fundraising at a valuation of about $50 billion and is heading toward an initial public offering in Hong Kong in the first quarter of next year.
DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan in its latest round of funding, ahead of a landmark initial public offering in early 2027.

-- Will Wade, Bloomberg News Energy Reporter, discusses Google parent Alphabet agreeing to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy Corp. in a 20-year power-purchase agreement that will drive more than $4.3 billion in investments to upgrade systems at 11 Constellation reactors. The agreement will add 890 megawatts of new reactor capacity and the electricity will start arriving on the grid as soon as 2028. The deal is part of a trend of tech companies investing in nuclear energy to support their operations, with other companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Walmart Inc., and Microsoft Corp. also signing agreements with Constellation and other nuclear power producers.

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