Warner Bros. has a lawsuit against Paramount for $500 million
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The entire library of the show, as well as the 30 new episodes for seasons 24, 25, and 26 were intended to be brought on by the deal. However, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges it didn’t get what it paid for. South Park Digital Studios did not deliver on its promise of 10 new episodes each season and charged the company extra for the 50-minute Pandemic Special.
Nearly all “South Park” episodes air first on Paramount-owned Comedy Central. The creators of “South Park” auctioned off streaming rights to the first 23 seasons of the show.
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The Warner Bros. Discovery will split into two companies
Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav has announced that the company will split into two companies, one focusing on streaming and the other on its cable networks. Warner Bros Discovery’s Discovery Plus streaming service, along with CNN and Bleacher Report, will be run by the new company, called Global Networks. The film and television libraries will be part of the new “Streaming and Studios” company.
Trade crime has increased because of Trump’s tariffs
Chinese factories are finding it harder to export because the US has suspended most tariffs on Chinese goods for a few months, a sales manager at a Chinese manufacturer said. “Maybe they are still waiting and watching,” Ivy Lee, a sales manager at the company, added. She further said her firm sold to retailers like Walmart before the tariffs hit.
Walmart’s plans are accidentally revealed by a Microsoft security chief
Microsoft accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart’s use of its AI tools during a Build talk that was disrupted by protesters. In April, a Microsoft employee had disrupted a 50th-anniversary event, calling Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman “a war profiteer”. One of the protesters, Vaniya Agrawal, was dismissed before she put in her resignation.
The U.S. and China say they have made progress in trade talks
The US and China concluded the trade talks with a positive note despite the tensions between the two countries, US Trade Representative Richard Bessent said. “Neither side wants a decoupling…We do want trade, we want more balanced trade, and I think both sides are committed to achieving that,” he added. “China has always pursued win-win outcomes in its trade and economic negotiations,” a Chinese diplomat said.
The U.S. and China are holding talks about the US tariffs on Chinese goods
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who held two days of talks with his Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Geneva, has said China has been the “missing piece” in the US-China trade war. “We’ve been trying to find a solution to the dispute,” he added. China had imposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of US goods last month in response to US tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods.
Cook bungled Apple’s control over the App Store
Apple believed that dropping its App Store fees would “be very attractive to developers”, The New York Times reported. Apple further believed that it had expected a lot of large developers and small developers to offer link-out purchases to their users. It prevented developers from using links that would keep users in, because the company wanted to make it harder for them to leave.