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  • EU approval: Paramount's planned Warner Bros. megamerger won conditional approval from the EU, with still faces a U.S. lawsuit.

  • Non, merci: France bans social media for under-15s, as EU reportedly prepares EU-wide measures from September.

  • New chapter: GM hires Nissan’s Allyson Witherspoon as CMO for GMC and Buick. 

  • Snag in the merger: A judge pauses the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.

  • New lawsuit against Paramount: A dozen states are suing to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

  • Big changes ahead: In preliminary findings, EU regulators said they want Meta to remove infinite scroll and video autoplay from Instagram and Facebook, and also change its algorithm to make it less "engagement oriented."

  • New AI models: OpenAI is publicly releasing GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna.

  • Merging World Cup rights: FIFA will likely to sell Spanish & English packages together for 2030 and 2034 tournament.

  • Sovereign ads: European telcos, retailers, and ad tech companies launch European Media Marketplace, enabling ad buys across a number of major media owners using an array of advertiser-friendly datasets.

  • CMO stars: Forbes released its annual list of the world’s most influential CMOs.

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