The Exchange
The Exchange
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Private Credit Concerns, OpenAI's Record Round, and Paramount Wins Warner Bros. 2/27/26
43 minutes Posted Feb 27, 2026 at 7:25 pm.
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Problems are piling up on private equity and credit lenders, and it's spreading to the banks. OpenAI closed a $110 billion fundraising round, rocketing the company's valuation to $730 billion. Plus, the bid for Warner Bros. Discover finally ends with Paramount as the victor, but Wolfe Research says Netflix wins anyway.