3:30 PM ET, December 14, 2025
December 14, 2025
1:45 PM
Mike Masnick /
Techdirt
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How media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire
5:45 AM
Brian Steinberg /
Variety
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Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss
December 13, 2025
11:00 PM
Will McCurdy /
PCMag
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Amazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out
11:45 AM
Sarah Holder /
Bloomberg
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A look at Netflix House in Philadelphia, a new 100K sq. ft. location for in-person experiences, which resembles a Disneyland attraction and a Dave & Buster's
1:05 AM
Semafor
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In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises “significant antitrust problems”
December 12, 2025
11:00 PM
Trip Gabriel /
New York Times
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R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70
10:30 PM
Pamela McClintock /
The Hollywood Reporter
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Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release
9:50 PM
Gene Maddaus /
Variety
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Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links
4:10 PM
Lauren Hirsch /
New York Times
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Sources: WBD chose Netflix partly fearing limited recourse if Paramount's bid failed, since Larry Ellison has not provided a personal guarantee
3:20 PM
Aidan Ryan /
The Boston Globe
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Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes steps down from her role but will remain on staff as editor-at-large; she joined the paper as the first female editor in 2023
2:55 PM
Financial Times
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OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok
1:50 PM
Sam Roberts /
New York Times
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Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93
1:05 PM
Ann Gehan /
The Information
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Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales
12:41 PM
Carmen Arroyo /
Bloomberg
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Sources: X reported $752M in Q3 revenue, up 17% YoY, a net loss of $577.4M, and EBITDA of ~$454M, up 16%; revenue for the first nine months of 2025 was $2B+
12:25 PM
Daniel Thomas /
Financial Times
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Sources: DMGT has locked down funding for its £500M acquisition of the Telegraph, in a funding package expected to comprise equity and debt
11:05 AM
Ben Weiss /
Fortune
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YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD
9:55 AM
Gergely Orosz /
@gergelyorosz
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[Thread] Substack quietly added a feature that forced subscribers to download the app to read full newsletters but say they've rolled it back after complaints
9:15 AM
Emma Roth /
The Verge
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Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps
8:55 AM
Benjamin Mullin /
New York Times
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Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost
8:00 AM
Mark Stenberg /
Adweek
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Sources: the tenure of Anastasia Nyrkovskaya, Fortune's outgoing CEO, was marked by turmoil over a clash with Victor Pang, a lawyer for the company's owner
5:50 AM
Alice Brooker /
Press Gazette
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The Guardian names Netflix's former director of product Allan Donald as its first VP of product; Donald oversaw the content discovery operation at Netflix
4:55 AM
Jay Peters /
The Verge
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Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service launches on “eligible” Comcast and Rogers X1 and Xfinity stream boxes in the US and Canada
12:55 AM
Alex Heath /
Sources
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An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking
December 11, 2025
10:55 PM
Reuters
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Reddit files a lawsuit against Australia to overturn its social media ban for under-16s, saying it “infringes the implied freedom of political communication”
9:45 PM
Sara Guaglione /
Digiday
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The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs
5:45 PM
Max Tani /
Semafor
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Sources: WaPo's top standards editor decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, announced this week for users of its mobile app
5:30 PM
Todd Spangler /
Variety
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In a message to members, the WGA says Disney's licensing deal with OpenAI “appears to sanction” OpenAI's “theft of our work”, and it plans to meet with Disney
4:15 PM
Axios
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Sources: during the bidding process, Paramount promised WBD that its foreign partners and Jared Kushner's fund wouldn't have any voting or governance rights
3:55 PM
Bloomberg
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A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple but says Apple can charge commissions on external links, with the rate to be set by a lower court
2:40 PM
Jacob Shamsian /
Business Insider
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A Manhattan jury finds director Carl Rinsch guilty on all seven counts of defrauding Netflix of $11M when making sci-fi show White Horse
2:10 PM
Dade Hayes /
Deadline
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NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially
1:00 PM
Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter
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Bob Iger says the OpenAI deal “does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all” because it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices
12:20 PM
Dan Friedman /
Mother Jones
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Jack Posobiec, a new Pentagon press corps member, seems to be working in coordination with the Pentagon to threaten a journalist writing about a DoD official
12:00 PM
Axios
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The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations
11:40 AM
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli /
Financial Times
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Journalists at Italian newspaper La Stampa go on strike to protest against a potential sale of its parent company Gedi to Greek media organization Antenna
10:00 AM
Todd Spangler /
Variety
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Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist letter, accusing Google of “massive scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” its content
9:40 AM
Sara Fischer /
Axios
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Pinterest agrees to acquire tvScientific, a CTV ad platform that automates and optimizes ad buying; tvScientific was founded in 2020 and has raised ~$60M
9:33 AM
Ashley Capoot /
CNBC
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Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer
9:05 AM
OpenAI
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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney's brands to Sora
8:40 AM
Yael Krifcher /
Committee to Protect Journalists
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A look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship
6:45 AM
Alice Brooker /
Press Gazette
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UK sports publisher GRV cut ~60 staff since September, reducing its workforce to 94, citing drops in Google traffic; other sports sites report similar declines
6:05 AM
Charlotte Tobitt /
Press Gazette
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Mirror Editor-in-Chief Caroline Waterston steps down after less than two years, to be succeeded by Chloe Hubbard, currently UK editor at The Independent
3:35 AM
Peter Kafka /
Business Insider
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The value of WBD's cable networks including CNN is a key number for Netflix and Paramount bidders; Ellison says they're worth ~$2.5B, while analysts say ~$10B
3:10 AM
David Peisner /
New York Times
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Timbaland's Stage Zero launches TaTa Taktumi, an AI pop artist created using Suno's tools; Timbaland says ~85% of the creative work is still done by humans
December 10, 2025
7:20 PM
Aisha Malik /
TechCrunch
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Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid
6:25 PM
Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill
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President Trump told reporters “it's imperative” for CNN to be sold: “Any deal it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately”
6:00 PM
Emily Graffeo /
Bloomberg
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A look at Netflix's funding plan for WBD: $59B of debt financing via Wall Street banks, to be eventually replaced with bonds, term loans, and revolving credit
5:40 PM
David Bauder /
Associated Press
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The NYT says it won't be deterred in its work after Trump posted on Truth Social that reporting by The NYT and others about his health was “seditious”
4:55 PM
Ted Johnson /
Deadline
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Two representatives on the US House Financial Services Committee warn WBD CEO David Zaslav of national security concerns about the financiers of Paramount's bid
4:30 PM
Barry Schwartz /
Search Engine Land
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Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize “top stories” in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions
4:05 PM
Sarah Perez /
TechCrunch
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Spotify says it will test Prompted Playlist, which lets users describe what they want to hear and receive a unique set of songs based on their listening history
3:30 PM
Joe Wilkins /
Futurism
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McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash
2:55 PM
Kara Voght /
Washington Post
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A profile of Brian Glenn, Real America's Voice WH reporter and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, who is giving up his WH gig after the Trump-MTG split
2:20 PM
Lauren Johnson /
Adweek
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Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts
1:55 PM
Amanda Silberling /
TechCrunch
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Reddit starts a limited alpha test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark next to the usernames of notable people or businesses
1:00 PM
Max Tani /
Semafor
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Democrats warn that their party, when it returns to power, may attempt to block or unravel any Paramount acquisition of WBD due to national security concerns
12:25 PM
Jem Aswad /
Variety
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TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato
11:45 AM
Sarah Perez /
TechCrunch
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Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026
11:15 AM
Todd Spangler /
Variety
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YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1
10:15 AM
Emanuel Maiberg /
404 Media
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Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results
9:25 AM
Emma Roth /
The Verge
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The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, which lets publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers
8:50 AM
Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter
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CBS names Tony Dokoupil as the new anchor of CBS Evening News as part of a major overhaul under Bari Weiss; Dokoupil is currently an anchor on CBS' morning show
8:45 AM
Reece Rogers /
Wired
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Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations
7:45 AM
Rohan Goswami /
Semafor
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Sources: some WBD investors warm to David Ellison and his top team, after they were reassured that Paramount's Middle Eastern financing is secure
7:05 AM
Bloomberg
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Australia's under-16 social media ban excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids
6:20 AM
Francesca Stevens /
Bloomberg
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Vietnam's parliament passes amendments to its press law that tighten restrictions over information gathering and sharing, weakening confidentiality protections
5:45 AM
Nick Vivarelli /
Variety
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The UK's Channel 4 names Priya Dogra as CEO, starting March 2026, replacing Alex Mahon, who stepped down after eight years; Dogra currently works for Sky
4:25 AM
New York Times
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A look at Alan's Universe, a YouTube channel for Gen Alpha with 98.3M subscribers that releases long-form, episodic videos as viewers shift to watching on TV
2:25 AM
The Guardian
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Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be “booted off” the platforms in time
December 9, 2025
11:55 PM
Wall Street Journal
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Chernin Group agrees to take a minority stake in Entangled Publishing, a publisher of romance-fantasy books; sources say the deal values Entangled at ~$400M
7:15 PM
Tim Wu /
New York Times
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WBD merging with either Netflix or Paramount should be challenged by US antitrust authorities and would be bad for US streaming market competition
6:35 PM
Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter
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Disney nominates former Apple COO Jeff Williams to its board; he retired from Apple in November after overseeing the design team, supply chain work, and more
5:35 PM
Katie Robertson /
New York Times
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Email: USA Today EIC Caren Bohan has abruptly left the company, the second editor in chief to do so in less than two years; she became EIC in September 2024
4:40 PM
Christopher Palmeri /
Bloomberg
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Money manager Mario Gabelli said it's “highly likely” he will tender his clients' WBD shares to Paramount in an effort to spark a bidding war for WBD
4:25 PM
Josh Taylor /
The Guardian
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Australia's ban on under-16 social media users takes effect, as Meta, YouTube, and others remove users; platforms that don't comply risk up to AU$49.5M in fines
3:55 PM
Washington Post
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Right-wing influencers such as Benny Johnson, Laura Loomer, and Jack Posobiec campaign against Netflix's bid for WBD, casting Netflix as a Democratic stronghold
3:31 PM
Emily Sundberg /
Feed Me
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Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now
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