Dhar Mann Studios' Disney and Fox Deals Bring YouTube Economics to Hollywood
The YouTube-native studio is expanding beyond platform revenue with a four-acre LA campus and partnerships with Disney and Fox. Here's what it means for media executives.

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The YouTube-native studio is expanding beyond platform revenue with a four-acre LA campus and partnerships with Disney and Fox. Here's what it means for media executives.
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Microsoft's custom silicon bet intensifies as Maia 300 targets 7x token throughput and 40% better efficiency than GPUs, with production scale by 2027.
Epic's unannounced Star Wars-Marvel shooter is delayed indefinitely as the company retools around AI-first production - a bet with big implications for game development.
Four years after the $1,499 RTX 4090 launched, Nvidia's consumer flagship is reportedly being shelved for data-center chips, and GPU pricing has never been more brutal.
David Ellison's original production company name will brand the combined studio, a signal of who is really running the show.
A $587 million cash deal puts Netflix deeper into AI-driven production, and signals how aggressively streamers are buying capability.