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10:35 AM ET, January 19, 2024

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
A look at the reasons why Artifact failed, including not growing its user base outside the US and user confusion about its ever-growing set of features  —  Last week, Artifact, a buzzy news app from Instagram's co-founders, announced it was shutting down after failing to gain critical mass …
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
The LA Times Guild calls for a one-day walkout on January 19 to protest planned cuts; sources: layoffs may affect at least 100 people, or ~20% of the newsroom  —  Los Angeles Times newsroom guild leaders called for a one-day walkout  —  Friday to protest planned cuts to offset steep financial losses …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: PE firm Silver Lake plans to sell parts of Endeavor after it takes the entertainment company private; Silver Lake holds a 71% voting stake in Endeavor  —  The group's bid will be delivered in coming weeks to Endeavor's independent directors, who will hire advisers to evaluate the terms …
Discussion: The Wrap and @lucas_shaw
Alicja Ptak / Notes From Poland:
After a top Polish court rejected the government's changes to state media management and liquidation of state media, the government declared the ruling invalid  —  Poland's Constitutional Tribunal (TK) has ruled that using commercial law to implement changes in the management of public media …
Discussion: Reuters and Bloomberg
Marc Hogan / Rolling Stone:
As Condé Nast merges Pitchfork with GQ, a longtime Pitchfork staffer reflects on the publication's evolution and its impact on music journalism and his own life  —  As the hugely influential music site is being “folded into GQ,” a longtime staffer looks back on what P4K meant and how working there changed his life
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at the reasons behind Pitchfork's decline, including shrinking ad revenue and the rise of Spotify and AI-powered personalized playlists
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Luminate: US program premieres dropped 21% YoY to 1,784 in 2023, the lowest level since at least 2018; US theatrical-wide film releases were up 41% YoY  —  Premieres of new and returning TV shows fell sharply last year while the number of movies getting a theatrical wide release went way up.
Emilia David / The Verge:
TikTok is testing AI Song, a tool powered by the LLM Bloom that generates songs from text prompts and allows users to toggle the song's genre  —  TikTok has launched many songs that have gone viral over the years, but now it's testing a feature that lets more people exercise their songwriting skills... with some help from AI.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Filing: Apple details new US App Store rules letting devs link to external payments, says apps in its Video Partner and News Partner program are not eligible  —  Apple this week updated its App Store rules to comply with a court order after the Supreme Court declined to hear …
Gillian Brassil / Sacramento Bee:
The US House of Representatives passes the PRESS Act, protecting reporters from being compelled by the government to disclose their sources and information  —  The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to strengthen journalists' protection of confidential sources from federal investigation.
New York Times:
A look at the struggles of billionaire-owned Time, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, all of which, sources say, lost millions of dollars in 2023  —  Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times — owned by Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong — are still losing money.
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Email: Amazon Prime Video is restructuring its European teams to focus on regional content, and cuts local content and staff in Africa and the Middle East  —  Amazon Prime Video is restructuring its international business to focus on European originals.  The re-org includes cutting content and staff in Africa and the Middle East.
 
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Bloomberg:
YouTube and, according to a source, Spotify are not planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or to allow their iPad app to run on the platform
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Google News is boosting sites that use AI to rip off other outlets and churn out content; Google says News doesn't focus on whether articles are by humans or AI
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
TikTok details its plans for the 2024 US elections, including a ban on political ads, work with fact-checking organizations, and reports on influence campaigns
Discussion: TikTok and The Wrap
Reuters:
Sources: Reddit has drawn up plans for an IPO in March 2024, with a public filing in late February, the first major social media IPO since Pinterest's in 2019
 

 
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Forbes:
AI startup founders and VCs hope that a Trump administration will lead to lighter regulations and the return of real acquisitions, not “contorted” ones

Financial Times:
Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday

Ming-Chi Kuo:
Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the high-end iPhone 18's wide-angle lens in 2026 to a variable aperture camera; Sunny Optical will be the primary shutter supplier
 
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