Daily 10/7: Hollywood consolidation, TikTok's off-platform ad network, and mobile 4D worlds

Paramount Skydance acquired Warner Bros. Discovery, TikTok expanded an off-platform ad network to US advertisers, and a Huawei smartphone app turned pet photos into interactive 4D digital twins.

• [Indiantelevision] Paramount Skydance completes its approximately $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery ↗

  Paramount Skydance combined Warner Bros. and Paramount under the Skydance group through an acquisition valued at about $111 billion. The company set targets of roughly $6 billion in synergies and about $70 billion in revenue. The transaction reorganizes content libraries, production, distribution, and streaming operations inside one group.

• [Adweek] TikTok opens an off-platform ad network covering about 400,000 apps to US advertisers ↗

  TikTok expanded the TikTok Ad Network, a reworked version of Pangle, to US advertisers and added campaign tooling through AI services such as Claude and Perplexity. The network reaches about 400,000 apps globally and 44% of the top US gaming apps. TikTok is extending its advertising and audience-data business beyond its own app into outside distribution surfaces.

• [Pandaily] Huawei smartphone app turns pet photos into interactive 4D digital twins ↗

  Moxin Technology's MoWorld turns a few pet photos into 4D digital twins with spatial structure and movement. It combines a cloud diffusion model with a 600-million-parameter model running on the device and is available for HarmonyOS. The example shows generative world models moving into mobile avatars, fan content, and interactive character production.