Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Paramount Skydance has settled the antitrust suit twelve states brought against its $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery. The remedies are promises about behaviour: thirty films a year in cinemas, with $30 million owed for each one short. The number that explains the timing is a different one. From 1 October, every day the deal stays open costs Paramount about $7 million.
The Justice Department has issued Nvidia a formal demand for information over its licensing arrangement with Groq, in which Groq's chief executive and chief operating officer moved across. The question is whether a licence plus a mass talent transfer is an acquisition that should have been reported. It is the first formal test of a structure the whole industry has been using.
A federal judge declined to make Google sell the ad exchange she had already found it used to monopolise the market. The remedies are behavioural — open the bids, drop the pricing rules, end first and last look. Every one of them is a rule that somebody has to keep watching.