The Brief – Tuesday 3 March – Paramount Skydance net debt, teenagers to pilot under-16 ban & Claude outages

📺 The Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros Discovery merger will create a combined entity with net debt of roughly $79bn. Paramount has ruled out plans to divest or spinoff cable assets and will fold its streaming services, including Paramount+ and HBO Max, into a single platform. (Reuters)

📱 As part of Government’s three-month consultation on an under-16 social media ban and other restrictions, hundreds of teenagers are to pilot the potential policy changes. (The Guardian)

🤖 OpenAI has inked a deal with the US Pentagon to deploy its AI systems in classified environments. While OpenAI said the agreement “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments”, ChatGPT users have called for a boycott over the policy. (OpenAI)

🌐 Meanwhile, Anthropic experienced widespread disruptions on Monday morning after its Claude chatbot received an influx of users seeking alternatives to ChatGPT. (TechCrunch)

📺 Rakuten TV has partnered with Amazon Prime Video to launch multiple FAST channels across Germany, Spain and Italy. (Rakuten TV)