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Paramount agrees to acquire WBD, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B; Paramount paid a $2.8B breakup fee to Netflix (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

It’s a Deal: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Unveil $111 Billion Megamerger
In a major turn of events, Netflix backed away from its $87.2 billion deal on Thursday.

Internal figures show Business Insider's paid subscribers have consistently declined, from about 185K at the end of 2022 to 135K at the end of 2025, a 27% drop (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/business-insider-subscription-decline-data
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Business Insider’s Subscriber Spiral
Internal figures obtained by Status show that the digital publication’s subscription business is not only failing to grow, but contracting at a jarring rate—raising questions about the company’s trajectory.

Candle Business Coach
How do I start making candles? How do I grow my candle business? What's the secret to success...
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As Walk for Peace begins in Sri Lanka, activists call for animal rights https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/as-walk-for-peace-begins-in-sri-lanka-activists-call-for-animal-rights/

As Walk for Peace begins in Sri Lanka, activists call for animal rights
COLOMBO — A group of barefoot Buddhist monks promoting peace, compassion, mindfulness and nonviolence has arrived in Sri Lanka, accompanied by an unlikely figure: a once stray dog named Aloka. The Walk for Peace, organized by 24 Buddhist monks of the Theravada tradition affiliated with a Vipassana meditation center in Texas in the United States […]

Paramount agrees to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/para…

It’s a Deal: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Unveil $111 Billion Megamerger
In a major turn of events, Netflix backed away from its $87.2 billion deal on Thursday.

Anthropic adjusts Claude session limits and says users will use up their limits faster during peak hours, amid compute strain due to Claude's new popularity (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-usage-caps-chang…

Claude's popularity is forcing it to hit the brakes on users
"I know this was frustrating," an Anthropic official wrote in an announcement of the changes. "We're continuing to invest in scaling efficiently.

Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-cofounder-ross-nordeen-lea…

And then there were none: Musk's last xAI cofounder, Ross Nordeen, leaves
Elon Musk is shaking up xAI ahead of the SpaceX IPO. All 11 of his cofounders are gone, 8 of them since January.

Sources: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro has decided to keep ESPN within Disney for now, rather than spinning it off (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/espn-disney-spin-sell-decision-josh-damaro-2026-4

Disney has decided to keep ESPN
Disney had previously considered spinning out the sports network. New CEO Josh D'Amaro has decided not to, people familiar with the matter said.

Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu's stock closed up 15% in its trading debut on Nasdaq; it also began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/xanadu-begins-trading-on-the-tsx-and-nasdaq/

Xanadu begins trading on the TSX and Nasdaq | BetaKit
The debut makes the quantum company the first new Canadian tech firm to list on the TSX since 2021.

Barry Diller announces a broad overhaul of IAC, changing its name to People, with a focus on its publishing business and MGM stake, and will cut 77 positions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/business/dealbook/openai-misses-targets.html

Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?
The artificial intelligence giant has reportedly fallen behind on its own user and revenue targets, raising questions about its data center and I.P.O. plans