All 3 companies (Warner Bros, Paramount and Netflix) have subsidiaries in various EU countries and are most definitely subject to EU competition laws. Whether the EU blocks things outright, imposes conditions or allows it to sail right through is the question.

Even trump cant force the EU to approve this deal if they say no...

I saw many movies at the cinema in 2025 that I really enjoyed including Captain America, Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four, Mission Impossible, Jurassic World, Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Tron Ares, the Springsteen biopic and more. The only reason I haven't seen avatar yet is that I am on holidays and plan to see it back home at the cheap cinema.

And I am old enough to have grey hairs in my beard...

What happens to Warner Bros if regulators say no to both Netflix and Paramount? Would Warner Bros be able to survive?

I don't need AI coding tools to write code for me, I am perfectly capable of doing that myself. Plus there isn't an AI coding tool on the planet that can do the stuff I do with reverse engineering proprietary file formats, interacting with obscure dead game engines and working with proprietary secret code that no AI would have ever seen before.

Trump.is in bed with the fossil fuel industry (especially the coal industry) and wants to destroy the things that are killing fossil fuels. Oh and the fact that all these turbines are almost certainly comming from China gives him even more reason to hate it.

The Ellison's want to run CNN the way the Murdoch's run Fox.

I am in Australia and if I see a business that is doing this (rather than just increasing the menu prices to make up for increased costs if that's what it takes to stay in business) I will not patronise that establishment.

I trust any recipes from food brands I like (e.g. the pasta I buy has a bunch of recipes online or the supermarkets have recipes online), anything associated with a TV show (since if its connected to a TV show, it's at least been cooked and tasted on that show), anything from the Australian Woman's Weekly (I own a bunch of their cookbooks and no recipe from them has ever gone wrong for me), anything from SBS Food (almost certainly going to be from a TV show on the SBS Food channel and therefore tested), anything from chefs with a known name behind them (e.g. Todd Wilbur, or Gordon Ramsey) and anything where there is video of someone actually making it (e.g. anything from the Babish YouTube channels is probably at least going to work)

Streaming platforms are an evolution of TV, not movies. And entities owning both the production and distribution in TV has been a thing for a long time (in that the networks have been making their own shows or having shows made specifically for them with total control resting in the networks virtually since the beginning and still do today)

Whats increasingly happening is that with natural gas being so cheap, coal fired power stations are replacing the coal going into their boilers with natural gas instead and using that as the source of heat to generate the steam.

Xerox is another good example, the people running the thing had vested interests in photocopiers and thought all the stuff Xerox PARC was doing was at best a distraction from the photocopier business or at worst a threat to it.

As nice as YouTube science content can be, shows like PBS Nova are still better because they had the budget to do better and the incentive to get it right.

I am rooting for Disney to win and set a precedent that training an AI on copyrighted content without permission from the copyright holder of that content is illegal. Bring down the whole "generative AI" house of cards (since basically all these AIs are trained on content without permission)

My point is, why does the HDMI licencing mob care if the implementation is open or closed given that they will.get there royalty (or penalties from a court for companies that don't pay) for every port anyway?