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12:05 AM ET, December 7, 2023

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Front Office Sports:
Sources: two execs of Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group are out, following issues with AI-generated articles by fake authors; CEO Ross Levinsohn remains  —  One week after Sports Illustrated suffered an embarrassing artificial intelligence scandal, the company's latest leader laid down the law for his new employees.
Shirley Zhao / Bloomberg:
Filing: Wanda Group's billionaire founder Wang Jianlin plans to transfer his 51% stake in Beijing Wanda Investment, which controls Wanda Film, to China Ruyi  —  - Wang Jianlin plans to sell control in Wanda Film to China Ruyi  — Group has seen years of decline after debt-fueled expansion
Reuters:
Reuters temporarily removes its article titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with an Indian court order, and plans to appeal the decision  —  Reuters has temporarily removed the article “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with a preliminary court order issued …
Press Gazette:
BBC Nations' director says the BBC is a “good neighbor” and its local news expansion won't harm existing media outlets, after concerns from local news outlets  —  Rhodri Talfan Davies says the BBC is not a neighbour from hell but a “good neighbour”.
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Tidal lays off ~40 employees, or 10%+ of its staff, including part of its playlist curation team, as part of parent company Block's austerity cuts  —  Tidal, the music streaming service once owned by recording artist Jay-Z, laid off more than 10% of staff as part of a wider round …
Discussion: @dnas.is and Variety
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Alibaba's paper on its Animate Anyone AI model goes viral after videos show the model can replace TikTok influencers after being trained on their videos  —  A team of researchers from Chinese retail and technology giant Alibaba released a paper this week detailing a new model, which they call “Animate Anyone.”
Discussion: The Decoder
David Bauder / Associated Press:
A look at NewsNation, which bills itself as an unbiased rival to Fox News and MSNBC, as the network prepares to host the fourth GOP presidential primary debate  —  Fourth Republican presidential debate will feature four candidates, Trump skips again  —  By airing the fourth Republican …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney adds a Hulu tile to Disney+'s app homepage, alongside brands like Marvel, Pixar, Disney, and Star Wars, available to subscribers of both Disney+ and Hulu  —  Hulu content is now available on Disney+ for subscribers to both services, with a wider rollout planned for March.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Andy Borowitz says The New Yorker decided to stop publishing The Borowitz Report due to “its financial difficulties”, part of a larger wave of Condé's cost cuts  —  Borowitz announced that the New Yorker was dropping his long-running Borowitz Report satire features because of “its financial difficulties.”
Max Tani / Semafor:
The Allbritton Journalism Institute plans to launch News of the United States, or NOTUS, in January 2024, focused on Washington, DC and training young reporters  —  The Scoop  —  A high-profile nonprofit is launching a Washington D.C.-focused newsroom early next year that promises …
 
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Felix Gillette / Bloomberg:
Independent film company A24 announces a multiyear deal with WBD, as part of which its movies will stream exclusively on HBO cable networks, Max, and Cinemax
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Phil McGraw partners with Christian TV broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network to launch a TV network and has “commitments already exceeding” 65M TV homes
Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok releases its 2023 list of top videos and trends, again showing how disparate users' individual experiences are on the app and how siloed its content is
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The UK picks veteran TV executive Samir Shah for BBC chair, to replace Richard Sharp, who resigned earlier in 2023; Shah needs parliamentary committee approval
Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat:
Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024, saying the country was “prohibitively expensive” to operate in despite working to reduce costs
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
A poll of 2,000+ Britons on Israel-Hamas coverage: 36% consider BBC News as neutral, the most among five outlets, 15% as pro-Palestinian, and 17% as pro-Israel
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Polymarket says the FBI seized CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and electronics; source: the DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly accepting bets from US users

Ramish Zafar / Wccftech:
AMD says it will lay off ~4% of its global staff to align “resources with our largest growth opportunities”; SEC filing: AMD had 26,000 employees at 2023's end

Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch a new AI agent codenamed Operator, which can use a computer to take actions on a person's behalf, in January
 
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