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How Versant Is Letting Its ‘Entrepreneurial’ Spirit Take the Lead Post-Comcast
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Versant Completes 2026 Distribution Renewal Cycle With Verizon Deal
The multi-year agreement keeps MS NOW, CNBC, USA Network, Golf and other channels available to Fios customers
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RedBird Founder Says Majority of Paramount-WBD Merger Cost Savings Won’t Come From Jobs
“The notion that $6 billion of cost-related synergies means the firing of all these people is just completely antiquated,” says Gerry Cardinale
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Penske Media Lawsuit Against Google for AI Search Summaries of Articles Dismissed by Judge
“An ‘expectation’ that Google will send them search traffic … is not an agreement,” the ruling reads
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YouTube Head Warns Creators to ‘Not Sleep on Live,’ Noting That it ‘Supercharges’ Fandoms
TheGrill 2026: Kim Larson joined Whalar’s Jo Cronk and creator Olivia Ferney to discuss trends in the creator economy
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Tapping AI to Make Sense of Gen Z’s Pop Culture Obsessions
TheGrill 2026: Yves Bergquist introduces Geist, an agent that companies are using to decode the zeitgeist
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AI Filmmakers Say Humans Need to Be Involved in Productions: ‘We Should Unplug Tilly Norwood’
TheGrill 2026: “As a director, these tools allow me to communicate so much more clearly with my crew,” says writer/director Eliza McNitt
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Paramount’s Makan Delrahim, California AG Rob Bonta Get Candid on Warner Bros. Merger Settlement
TheGrill 2026: The two appeared (separately) on stage on the same day the antitrust settlement was officially approved
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Ben Affleck Walks Back Matt Damon’s ‘Claim’ Netflix Demanded Plot Repetition in Dialogue
The Oscar winner clarifies the streaming giant didn’t give him any notes for his latest film “Animals”
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Paramount’s Makan Delrahim Says Threat to Move Out of California ‘Was Not a Bluff’
TheGrill 2026: The media giant’s chief legal officer unpacks how the settlement with 12 state AGs came together and addresses concerns around politics and CNN’s independence
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Judge Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Settlement
The move clears the final hurdle for the $110 billion deal’s closing
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On the Scene at TheWrap x What’s Trending’s First-Ever AI Creator Day
Dozens of top creators, executives and AI experts convened to share their toolkit and how to mesh the future with traditional entertainment
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Rob Bonta: We’re Looking Very Closely at OpenAI and Anthropic
TheGrill 2026: The California AG tells TheWrap he believes state enforcement and congressional legislature can provide more safeguards
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Rob Bonta ‘Vehemently and Respectfully Disagrees’ That He ‘Caved’ on Warner Bros.-Paramount Suit
TheGrill 2026: The California Attorney General says David Ellison’s threat to move out of the state, as well as calls to settle from Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass and Xavier Becerra, had “no influence” on his decision
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Creators: AI Is the Future. We Need to Be Transparent About Using It
AI Creator Day: One of the key themes of the event was the sense of the technology’s inevitability
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