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The EU gave Paramount-Warner until July 22, but a parallel Gulf sovereign-wealth funding probe runs to July 14 — the deal now faces two simultaneous European reviews before month's end.
CFIUS reviewing EA's $55 billion Saudi deal holds 700 million gamer accounts' behavioral and social-graph data as the deciding question — antitrust cleared, national security has not.
OpenAI's $42.6B equity offer to Washington is still a concept — it needs an act of Congress modeled on the Alaska Permanent Fund and buy-in from Anthropic, Google, and Meta to become law.
Sports X calls it a StubHub shakedown with five-fold replacement prices; Texas TV covers the AG probe as consumer protection, skipping the ghost-ticketing mechanics that created it.
Fox paid $485M for rights the US exit has now devalued as a home-market draw — and the quarterfinals are Morocco, France, England, Norway.
Fox announced the $22 billion Roku deal June 15; the S-4 Roku shareholders need to vote still has not been filed three weeks later and the process has not started.
Markets X sees ORLY's 6.7% drop as the market pricing acquisition risk before any ink dries; Bloomberg's options framing doesn't ask what NAPA consolidation means for independent repair shops.