Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be a superior offer. From a report: Earlier this week, Paramount raised its bid to buy the entirety of WBD to $31 per share, up from $30 per share, all cash. It was the latest amendment to Paramount's multiple offers in recent months -- and since moving forward with a hostile bid to buy the company -- and it's now unseated a deal between WBD and Netflix to sell the legacy media company's studio and streaming businesses for $27.75 per share. Last week, Netflix granted WBD a seven-day waiver to reengage with Paramount, resulting in the higher bid. Paramount's offer is for the entirety of WBD, including its pay-TV networks, such as CNN, TBS and TNT. Netflix had four business days to make changes to its own proposal in light of Paramount's superior bid, the WBD board said in a statement Thursday. Instead, the decision by the streaming giant to walk away puts a pin in a drawn-out saga that saw amended offers from both bidders.

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Le 26 février, Netflix a annoncé qu'il n'allait pas surenchérir sur l'offre de Paramount pour acquérir Warner Bros. Discovery. Une décision qui sonne comme une capitulation, alors que le mariage entre le géant du streaming et l'acteur historique des médias et du divertissement semblait scellé il y a encore trois mois. Pourtant, Netflix a de nombreuses raisons de se réjouir de cette issue.

L'annonce de l'abandon de Netflix rassure les amoureux de cinéma et de format physique qui voyaient dans le géant du streaming un risque pour les films et les séries. Mais il vaut mieux ne pas se réjouir trop vite de l'arrivée de Paramount, qui pourrait causer de nombreux problèmes chez Warner Bros. Discovery.

Block, la fintech de Jack Dorsey, vient d'annoncer une suppression massive de 40 % de ses effectifs, officiellement au nom de l'intelligence artificielle. Un choix radical, assumé, qui fait forcément débat mais que son fondateur présente comme un modèle pour l'ensemble de l'industrie.

Jack Dorsey's Block is cutting more than 4,000 jobs, or nearly half its workforce, as part of a deliberate shift toward becoming a smaller, "intelligence-native" company built around AI. The Verge reports: "We're not making this decision because we're in trouble," Dorsey says. "Our business is strong. Gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. But something has changed. We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. And that's accelerating rapidly." Dorsey opted to do a big layoff instead of gradual cuts because "I'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome." The layoffs were announced on Thursday as part of the company's Q4 2025 earnings. In a shareholder letter (PDF), Dorsey says that "We believe Block will be significantly more valuable as a smaller, faster, intelligence-native company. Everything we do from here is in service of that."

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