Technology

Reddit Inc. is launching new safety features globally for all under-18s on its popular online forums ahead of Australia’s groundbreaking social media ban.

Australia is set to enact a policy requiring social media companies, including TikTok and Instagram, to block users under 16 from holding accounts or risk hefty fines. Terry Flew, Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney, discusses the implications of the policy and how the ban would be enforced on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)

President Donald Trump granted Nvidia Corp. permission to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chip to China in exchange for a 25% surcharge. Bloomberg's Annabelle Droulers explains. (Source: Bloomberg)

HashKey Holdings Ltd., operator of Hong Kong’s largest licensed crypto exchange, is seeking to raise as much as HK$1.67 billion ($215 million) through an initial public offering.

The US Department of Justice has detained two men for allegedly violating export control laws by attempting to smuggle at least $160 million worth of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China. A third, the owner of a Houston company, has already pleaded guilty.

South Korea’s main bourse operator issued its second warning in about one month over the rapid rise in shares of SK Hynix Inc., which have more than tripled this year on the artificial intelligence boom.

Tiger Global Management’s venture capital business is reverting back to an earlier strategy: debuting smaller funds with paced investing, which it says produce its strongest returns.

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Paramount Skydance’s $30 per share bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that comes just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix. Plus, President Trump wants to limit state-level AI regulation with an executive order aiming for "one rule" on artificial intelligence, and IBM is buying data-streaming platform Confluent for about $9.3 billion in one of its largest takeovers yet. (Source: Bloomberg)

Paramount Skydance Corp. is relying on Centerview Partners and RedBird Advisors for lead financial advice in its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

JPMorgan plans to invest $10 billion dollars of its own capital in the defense, aerospace, health care and energy sectors. Roger Zakheim, director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, discusses how these types of investments help strengthen US security interests. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Netflix President and co-CEO Ted Sarandos reassures  investors that they’ll be the ultimate owners of Warner Bros. Discovery at the UBS conference in New York. (Source: Bloomberg)

Paramount Skydance’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery gets backing from three Middle East sovereign wealth funds. Rich Greenfield, media and technology analyst at LightShed Partners, discusses the competing bids for the studio behind Bugs Bunny. Greenfield joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)

President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order this week to establish “one rule” on artificial intelligence regulation, aimed at limiting state-led restrictions on the technology. Sarah Oh Lam, vice president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, discusses with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Whether it's Netflix or Paramount Skydance buying Warner Bros. Discovery, major competition for viewers will still come from YouTube, says Brandon Katz, director of insights and content strategy at Greenlight Analytics. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Who ends up with the assets of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the owner of one of Hollywood’s largest and most venerable film studios, is likely to impact the entertainment industry for decades to come. On Dec. 5, the company announced that Netflix Inc., the world’s dominant streaming platform, had agreed to purchase its streaming and studio assets in a $82.7 billion deal, including debt. Three days later, Paramount Skydance Corp. launched a hostile takeover bid for all of Warner Bros. The offer v

President Donald Trump granted Nvidia Corp. permission to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chip to China in exchange for a 25% surcharge, a move that lets the world’s most valuable company potentially regain billions of dollars in lost business from a key global market.

IBM is buying the data-streaming platform Confluent for about $9.3 billion, marking one of its largest takeovers yet and a major bet on the kind of enterprise software that artificial intelligence tools need to perform tasks in real time. Bloomberg's US Deals Managing Editor Liana Baker on "Bloomberg Markets" with Scarlet Fu. (Source: Bloomberg)

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it’s working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms Inc.: one with screens, and another that’s audio focused.

Comcast Corp. President Mike Cavanagh said his company walked away from the bidding process for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., knowing that the company’s offer didn’t have a “high likelihood” of winning out.

Paramount Skydance Corp. has lined up as much as $54 billion of financing from Wall Street’s biggest firms to help support its planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix Inc. Blomberg's Stephen Flynn joins Paul Sweeney and Scarlet Fu to discuss on Bloomberg Intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)