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Jimmy Iovine on AI: “The Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use It” Sep 2, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:26 Jimmy Iovine I mean, it's fundamentally, I mean, and David Ellison is, is terrific. 2 times in the scene

Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s Shortcut to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN Aug 12, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 8:02 John Coogan If the state refuses to negotiate a settlement in the legal fight over its Warner brothers discovery merger, we've been covering the story back and forth for a while, but according to variety, Paramount CEO, David Ellison wants a quick… 7 times in the scene

Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit Jul 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:54 John Coogan Uh, friends and advisors to Paramount CEO David Ellison had reportedly been urging him to reconsider the company's California footprint in the event that California sued over the deal.

Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN Mar 12, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 18:28 unnamed speaker And then David Ellison's Skynet, he deadpanned. 4 times in the scene

Netflix’s Next Move, Zuck’s $170M Florida Mansion, the Billionaire Tax Push | Diet TBPN Mar 4, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 3:00 unnamed speaker So just to recap and set the table, uh, David Ellison, who is the chairman and the CEO of Paramount Skydance, agreed to raise his offer for Warner Brothers Discovery to 31 dollars a share. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:26 unnamed speaker Um, there is a lot of, uh, potential upside for the Ellison empire. 3 times in the scene

Netflix Lost. Now What? Mar 3, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 2:46 unnamed speaker So, uh, just to recap and set the table, uh, David Ellison, who is the chairman and the CEO of Paramount Skydance, uh, agreed to raise his offer for Warner Brothers Discovery to 31 dollars a share. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:04 unnamed speaker Um, there is a lot of, uh, potential upside for the Ellison empire.
  • ▶ 11:34 unnamed speaker He believes AI is going to be big, but then he also believes, or, or, you know, in concert with David, his son, believes that, that AI will not destroy legacy Hollywood assets.
  • ▶ 15:03 unnamed speaker And, and, and I do, I do think that, ah, David Ellison is going to go the long distance with this. 4 times in the scene

Anthropic v. DoW, Paramount wins WB, OpenAI raises $100B | Diet TBPN Mar 3, 2026 · 3 mentions

The Cournot Equation, Micron’s $200B Bet, Hollywood vs. Seedance 2.0 | Diet TBPN Feb 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:59 Jordi Hays The company still says it's committed to Netflix, but needs to find out just how much the Ellison's 2 times in the scene

Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN Feb 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:00 unnamed speaker The situation intensified this week as Paramount CEO David Ellison and a vocal investor made new moves to thwart rival Netflix's planned takeover. 2 times in the scene

Davos Reactions, Waymo in the News, WB & Netflix Strike All Cash Deal | Diet TBPN Jan 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:03 John Coogan David Ellison and the Paramount crew, they brought Netflix, uh, they brought Warner an all cash deal, and Netflix, or, or Warner was still saying, hey, we're going with Netflix.

The AI Power Backlash, the NYMag David Ellison profile, Google Personal Intelligence | Diet TBPN Jan 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:59 unnamed speaker Anyway, let's move on to this story about David Ellison, the, the Sun King of Hollywood.

We're all Jerome Powell, Apple and Google Make it Official, Anthropic Health Care | Diet TBPN Jan 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:55 unnamed speaker We're rooting for you, Ellison. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation Dec 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:46 unnamed speaker One major sticking point is Warner Brothers' concern about the financing proposed by Paramount, which is led by David Ellison.
  • ▶ 30:31 unnamed speaker He said the reason why Ellison wanted CBS and wanted Barry to run it is precisely because it was still capable of creating buzz and generating attention.

Amazon Bets $10B on OpenAI | News Reaction Dec 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:17 unnamed speaker It's a rebuke to owner David Ellison's attempt to leverage relationships with the White House to close the one hundred and eight billion dollar takeover effort.

Nvidia’s China Shift, Meta AI Drama, Paramount's Pitch | Diet TBPN Dec 11, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 16:18 Jordi Hays This position that the Ellison's are in where feels like every other week they have to offer a higher price.
  • ▶ 29:08 Jordi Hays If you thought paying for your kid's college tuition was nice, Larry Ellison is writing a forty billion dollar check for his son to acquire a movie studio and a television network. 3 times in the scene

Paramount’s Deal Playbook, Trump Opens Nvidia’s China Door, Saudis Loosen Drinking Laws | Diet TBPN Dec 10, 2025 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 1:41 Jordi Hays Like yesterday, we saw that, uh, that Ellison and Paramount came in with over a hundred billion. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:05 Jordi Hays Uh, David Ellison is putting on a clinic of 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:46 unnamed speaker Allison's are putting in, putting it around.

Paramount Strikes Back, Ads In Gemini, Bieber’s Apple Beef | Diet TBPN Dec 9, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:35 unnamed speaker But some will say, well, if the Paramount and Ellison Trump Cabal gets control of Warner Brothers, and the deal includes CNN, then Trump would effectively control the bulk of the mainstream media, from CBS all the way to CNN. 5 times in the scene

Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers, Apple’s Leadership Shakeup, SpaceX Prepares For IPO | Diet TBPN Dec 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15 unnamed speaker The announcement of Netflix's deal to buy the Warner Brothers streaming and studio business came after a week's long bidding war that pitted the streaming giant against David Ellison's Paramount, Skydance,
  • ▶ 7:43 unnamed speaker Uh, it just feels far more likely that, uh, that Allison's could get a deal done, and they're notoriously absolute dog.

Google's First $100B Quarter Reactions | Diet TBPN Oct 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:39 unnamed speaker Basically, Taylor Sheridan left Ellison's new empire, left Paramount, and said, hey, I'm out, and I'm going over to NBC Universal.

Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories Sep 6, 2025 · 1 mention

Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot Aug 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:07 Jordi Hays And anyway, so Paramount is, uh, or Skydance, uh, Young Ellison, uh, is all, is just getting aggressive across the board, right?
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