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Emma Roth

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    Paramount Plus closed out 2025 with 79 million subscribers.

    The entertainment giant remains tight-lipped on its negotiations with Warner Bros. Discovery, but said its streaming business earned $2.2 billion in revenue over the past few months, marking a 10 percent year-over-year increase.

    CFO Dennis Cinelli said during an earnings call that the company will “realize” the impact of the recent Paramount Plus price hike this quarter.

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    Emma Roth
    How Roku bounced back from a post-pandemic slump.

    Roku CFO Dan Jedda tells The Wall Street Journal that the company’s new ad deals, coupled with cost-cutting in areas like its smart home products, helped boost its annual profit in 2025 to $88.4 million. The company reported losses three years in a row following the pandemic.

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    OpenAI’s Stargate struggles.

    The Information reports on OpenAI’s rocky $500 billion partnership with Oracle and SoftBank, which “has not staffed up and is not developing any of OpenAI’s data centers.”

    OpenAI reportedly explored building its own data centers as the three companies disagreed over their roles, but the high costs have led the AI giant to strike individual deals with SoftBank and Oracle instead.