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California's attorney general is demanding more "structural concessions" on Paramount Skydance's (PSKY) mega-merger with media competitor Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The Morning Brief's Jake Conley sits down with Barron's senior markets analysis writer Paul La Monica and Infrastructure Capital Advisors CEO Jay Hatfield to talk about the debt weighing on this acquisition and what it could mean for Warner Bros. assets if regulators allow it to go through.

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According to a report by The New York Times, California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled Monday’s settlement meeting with Paramount over its proposed WBD acquisition.

Attorney General Rob Bonta accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting details of a Friday meeting between the two sides

Wall Street analysts reshuffled the deck on Monday with a wave of upgrades, downgrades, and fresh initiations spanning pharma giants, fast-casual chains, and streaming players. Find out which names got bullish bets and which lost their analyst backing.

Not all beverage companies dream of selling out to Big Soda.

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled Monday’s planned settlement meeting with Paramount Skydance (Paramount Skydance Corp (NASDAQ:PSKY) over the company’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, accusing Paramount of acting in bad faith. According to a report in The New York...

Paramount CEO David Ellison and California AG Rob Bonta will discuss concessions Monday as California seeks structural remedies to clear the $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

Liquid Death's Mike Cessario won't confirm an IPO timeline, even after hiring Goldman Sachs and a Pepsi-veteran CFO.

Ahead of the potential OpenAI and Anthropic initial public offerings, it's important to realize how hit-or-miss IPO investing can be. Here's what to know.

There are still a lot of questions, but Anthropic's revenue growth is incredible.

Two companies –- OpenAI and Anthropic –- are driving the AI industry forward as everything from hyperscalers to neoclouds to memory stocks hangs on the demand for tokens.

Representatives for Paramount and the parties suing to block its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) are set to meet next week for talks that could lead to a settlement.

The market debut of artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, a chief rival to OpenAI, could break the record set by SpaceX, US media have reported.Anthropic could then beat OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, to market.

Baylin Technologies (TSE:BYL) reported a record backlog of C$61 million in firm purchase orders following its acquisition of Kaelus, as the company seeks to expand its wireless infrastructure, satellite communications and custom antenna businesses. Chief Executive Officer Leighton Carroll said the

Nvidia is effectively centralizing the artificial intelligence supply chain by bypassing traditional mergers and acquisitions in favor of a repeatable, non-traditional financial mechanism. By deploying a licensing-plus-hire strategy, the company absorbs the operational capacity of critical AI startups while avoiding the regulatory scrutiny that typically accompanies full-scale corporate integration. This approach, most recently evidenced by […]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) pulled off the biggest IPO in history in June, leaving the universities that backed it early with an enviable problem: stakes so valuable that they now dominate endowment portfolios.Washington University in St. Louis reportedly earned a...

Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3 billion in its US IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, joining a rush of artificial intelligence data center companies tapping public market investors.

His Duquesne Family Office opened a position in Reddit in the second quarter.

Synaptics Inc (NASDAQ:SYNA) shares are up during Friday’s premarket session, trading higher by almost 2% as the company announced a transition in its executive leadership. The stock’s movement comes in tandem with a broader positive sentiment in the market, with S&P 500 futures gaining 0.4%. CFO Transition Synaptics CFO Ken Rizvi has resigned effective immediately to pursue another opportunity. He will remain as an adviser through September 30, 2026, to support the transition. The company will n

Fears of AI disruption may have created an incredible buying opportunity for this company.

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, is preparing to publicly file paperwork for an initial public offering as soon as the end of this month. The listing could match or surpass the record $75 billion flotation completed in June by SpaceX, Elon Musk's...

Bonta says the group seeking to block the deal remains open to settlement talks but wants Paramount to address the antitrust concerns at the center of their lawsuit.

Anthropic is targeting an initial public offering that could rival or exceed the record set by SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX), highlighting just how much investor enthusiasm has built around the artificial intelligence industry. SpaceX targeted $75 billion for its IPO and ultimately...

In late June, Airwallex raised $320 million in a Series H funding round led by Addition, which valued the cross-border payments platform at $11 billion

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic PBC is preparing for a landmark initial public offering that could equal or exceed SpaceX’s $75-billion IPO.

Anthropic could publicly file its IPO paperwork as soon as this month.

One restaurant chain is trading at a sky-high valuation while another has shed double digits this year, and the market's verdict defies everything a shaky consumer economy would predict about which business wins.

Anthropic wants to beat SpaceX's record IPO. That means clearing $85.7 billion, and a public filing could land within weeks.