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Warner Bros. Discovery Is Stuck in Limbo as the Paramount Merger Stalls
A planned split, a sale process and a delayed Skydance merger have left a company mid-restructure with its strategy frozen and states suing to block the deal.

Hyundai Has Grown Faster in America Than Any Other Carmaker — and Is Spending to Keep Going
A $7.6bn Georgia plant is ramping as the Korean group presses a decade of US share gains through tariffs and a slowing market.

Unpaid Energy Bills Have Reached £6bn, and Everyone Else Is Covering It
Bills rise 4% in October and a forecast 9% more in January. Households in debt without a plan owe more than a typical annual bill.

China Recalls Four Million Cars Over Door Handles
The country's largest ever recall, mostly Teslas, lands ahead of rules requiring mechanical releases inside and out.

SpaceX Will Spend $100bn on a Louisiana Launch Site
A 125,000-acre facility built to support thousands of Starship flights a year — from a newly listed company whose shares are down 30% from their peak.

The AI Gold Rush Is Pulling Miners Away From Bitcoin for Good
Riot signed a $9bn, 20-year compute deal with Anthropic. Once the warehouses switch, the change is expensive to undo.

HHS Plans Two New FDA Deputy Commissioners, One for Technology and AI
The roles would be appointed by department officials — a structure some in the administration see as a way to exert more influence over the agency.