Paramount Global is reeling from shareholder pushback against a pending merger with private equity-backed production company Skydance Media. In the meantime, it’s hoping to impress advertisers with streaming subscriber and advertising growth.
In today’s newsletter: The internet doesn’t have enough data to train generative AI models; publisher squabbles over the Privacy Sandbox could delay cookie deprecation; and a federal privacy law is in the works.
In today’s newsletter: Performance Max has many imitators, but Google’s still ahead of the pack; France’s competition authority fines Google for using news content to train its Bard AI model without their knowledge of consent; and Apollo Global Management offers to acquire Paramount Global for $11 billion.
