Exclusive | Paramount Skydance’s David Ellison meets with Trump officials as Netflix makes highest bid for WBD: sources

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Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison met with Trump officials and key lawmakers in Washington DC on Wednesday to press his case against Warner Bros. Discovery’s potential selection of Netflix as its merger partner – even as the streaming giant submitted a higher offer in the latest round of bidding, The Post has learned. Netflix has […]


» David Szalay’s Flesh has won the 2025 Booker Prize.

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Today, at a ceremony in London, David Szalay was awarded the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel, Flesh. The judges called it “a disquisition on the art of being alive, and all the affliction that comes along with it, but it is also an absolute page-turner. It’s nearly impossible to put down. The emotional detachment of […]


Anthropic tries to keep pace with OpenAI, faces off with David Sacks

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Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is doing all it can to keep pace with larger rival OpenAI, which is spending money at a historic pace with backing from Microsoft and Nvidia. Of late, […]


Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon warns of AI stock market ‘drawdown’

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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on Friday warned that an AI investment frenzy may be overdone – and that stock markets are due for a “drawdown”. Major US stock indexes have notched record high after record high this year on the promise of artificial intelligence, but there’s a good chance that not all of those […]


Trump blasts Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon over bank’s tariffs warning

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon should go back to “being a DJ” and teed off on the investment bank after it warned that US consumers will soon pay the brunt of tariff-related price hikes. Trump fumed over a revised analysis released Monday by Goldman’s chief economist Jan Hatzius forecasting […]


Skydance boss David Ellison tells Hollywood pals that Paramount merger will close before end of summer: sources

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Skydance Media boss David Ellison has been striking an upbeat tone in his quest to purchase Shari Redstone’s Paramount, On The Money has learned. The budding movie mogul’s quiet confidence to media insiders in recent days may seem a bit odd for regular readers of On The Money. We’ve been chronicling how the $8 billion […]


Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders reject CEO David Zaslav’s $52M pay package

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A majority of Warner Bros Discovery shareholders voted against the 2024 pay packages of CEO David Zaslav and other top executives at the media conglomerate’s annual stockholder meeting, a Tuesday regulatory filing showed. The board of directors had recommended shareholders to vote in favor of the 2024 executive compensation; however, more than 59% of them rejected the proposal […]


KindlyMD merging with Trump crypto advisor David Bailey’s Nakamoto

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People walk past an advertisement feature Donald Trump with Bitcoin in Hong Kong.  May James | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of KindlyMD skyrocketed 600% Monday after the healthcare company announced a merger with Nakamoto Holdings, a bitcoin investment company founded by David Bailey, a key cryptocurrency advisor to President Donald Trump. The newly formed […]


David Sacks sold $200 million in crypto holdings before taking WH job

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U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters David Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar, sold over $200 million worth of digital asset-related investments personally and through his firm, […]


Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore. ‹

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February 18, 2025, 10:31am This Black History Month is the fraughtest. Maybe even apex fraught. As many hard-won minority group commemorations are being actively scrubbed from government websites, we the recognized are asked to consider what those commemorations have come to mean under elite capture. When your very existence is contested, what are the limits […]