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These are the daily tech Headlines for Monday, December 8, 2025 Sarah I'm Sarah Lane. Paramount Skydance has entered a hostile $30 per share all cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery after losing the studio and HBO Max to Netflix. The offer values Warner Brothers discovery at $108.4 billion. That's versus Netflix's $82.7 billion. But this also would include Discovery's TV networks, which Netflix wasn't planning to buy. Paramount CEO David Ellison told CNBC he's also willing to go higher on the bids. He also says Netflix faces tougher regulatory scrutiny, while Paramount expects a faster path given its smaller size and friendlier terms with the US Administration. Meanwhile, the US President says that the Netflix Warner Brothers Discovery deal's combined market share could be a problem and that he'll be personally involved in the review. Bloomberg says Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos met with the president last month to argue the merger wouldn't create a monopoly. Netflix and HBO Max together would control around 33% of the US streaming market. A little more entertainment news YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has been named Times CEO of the Year. Mohan told Time the industry is undergoing rapid disruption and and compared YouTube's evolution from a village of early creators to a sprawling metropolis with complex dependencies. The profile notes YouTube's deals with the NFL, Disney, Warner Brothers Discovery and NBCUniversal, including exclusive rights to NFL Sunday tickets. Out of home package IBM is acquiring data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash, a deal designed to strengthen IBM's data automation and AI offerings. Confluence platform supports real time data streaming, crucial for AI applications. This follows recent moves from IBM, including acquisitions of HashiCorp and Seek AI and partnerships with Anthropic and AMD to expand AI and quantum computing capabilities. A new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institute, tracking more than 8,000 children from ages 10 to 14, found that social media use, not gaming or video watching, is linked to rising inattentiveness. The researchers say this won't turn a child without symptoms into a child with, let's say, adhd. But scaled across a population, it could meaningfully raise diagnosis rates. The team found no evidence that inattentive kids gravitate to social apps. The causal direction ran from social media to later attention problems. OpenAI reports about 36% of US businesses now use ChatGPT Enterprise, with employees saving around 40 to 60 minutes daily through the tool. This is compared with 14.3% for Anthropic. OpenAI says use of custom GPTs jumped 19x and API consumption of reasoning tokens rose 320 fold, pointing to more complex use. Adoption obviously varies. Frontier workers integrate AI deeply while many others don't. OpenAI stresses enterprise growth is crucial for its $1.4 trillion infrastructure commitments. Okay, a little bit more entertainment news US pay TV subscriptions rose for the first time since 2017, with research firm Moffett Nathanson reporting a Q3 gain of around 303,000 accounts across cable, satellite and streaming bundles. The overall yearly decline rate improved to 5.8%, the third straight quarter of moderation. Charter drove the turnaround by bundling major streaming platforms into premium TV and broadband plans, reducing customer losses. YouTube TV likely added around 750,000 subs, and Comcast dropped 250,000. The creator of the app Ice Block, which lets users anonymously report ice sightings, is suing the US Government after Apple removed it under pressure from the Department of Justice. Ice Block claims the removal violated the First Amendment. The app gained popularity during mass immigration raids and automatically deletes reports after four hours. And finally today, Metta has delayed its next mixed reality glasses code named Phoenix to the first half of 2027. This is according to an internal memo seen by Business Insider. The company says the extra time ensures a more polished and reliable product. Phoenix is expected to have a goggle like design with an external power source similar to the Apple Vision Pro. Metta is also developing a limited edition wearable called Malibu 2 and recently acquired AI wearable startup Limitless.