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Sealed doc: Rupert Murdoch failed in an attempt to change his family trust to consolidate Lachlan's control of his empire and lock in Fox News' right-wing bent — A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan …
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz joins OANN to host a weeknight political talk show and co-host a weekly podcast with Dan Ball, starting in January 2025 — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was President-elect Donald Trump's first pick to be attorney general before removing his name from consideration …
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Rob Golum / Bloomberg:
Sirius XM's shares drop 9%+ after the company issued a 2025 revenue forecast below est., plans a cost-cutting drive, and expects to reduce debt by $700M — The stock was down 8.7% to $26.25 in New York trading after falling as low as $25.92, the steepest one-day drop since late September.
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM names Wayne Thorsen as COO and unveils a strategic plan focused on costs, including $200M in annualized savings, and on its car subscription business — The company will also move its marketing and other resources away from “high-cost, high-churn audiences in streaming.”
Elias Leight / Billboard:
Source: Sony Music removes its catalog from African streaming service Boomplay over late royalty payments; several labels and distributors report similar issues — Multiple rightsholders tell Billboard they have failed to receive recent royalty payments from the streaming service, which has a sizable user base in Africa.
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Josh Parry / BBC:
Interviews with 30+ current and former PinkNews employees detail multiple incidents of alleged sexual misconduct by founders Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James — The couple who run PinkNews, the world's largest LGBT news website, have been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct.
Financial Times:
Sources: in October 2024, EU regulators asked Google for more information about its secret ads deal with Meta that skirted Google's rules for targeting minors — Regulators request information after FT investigation into partnership that skirted search giant's rules on minors
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: The Washington Post Acting Executive Editor Matt Murray blocked a story on the departure of Matea Gold, a contender to be WaPo's new executive editor — As the Washington Post newsroom awaits the appointment of a new top editor, its acting news chief intervened to block an article …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Channel 4 Chair Ian Cheshire plans to step down next year, at the end of his first three-year term; Ofcom says a search for Cheshire's successor will begin soon — Channel 4 Chair Ian Cheshire is to step down at the end of his three-year term next year. — Regulator Ofcom …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram officially rolls out “trial reels”, which give creators a way to test out videos by publishing them only to people who don't follow them — Instagram is officially rolling out “trial reels” to give creators a way to test out new content by publishing videos that don't appear to their followers.
Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone:
Over 350 musicians sign Fight for the Future's open letter demanding that major labels drop a lawsuit over Internet Archive's efforts to preserve 78-rpm records — Over 300 artists signed Fight for the Future's open letter opposing the major label-led litigation over the Archive's preservation of 78rpm records
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A Florida judge allows a contractor's defamation case against CNN over a November 2021 report on war profiteers during the US' Afghanistan withdrawal to proceed — A judge ruled Friday that a security contractor can seek punitive damages against CNN over a November 2021 report about war profiteers …
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OpenAI:
OpenAI launches Sora in select countries; ChatGPT Pro offers up to 500 videos per month at up to 1080p, and ChatGPT Plus offers up to 50 videos at up to 720p — We're moving our video generation model out of research preview. — Learn more System Card — Our video generation model …
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says it will give only a “subset” of Sora users access to a feature for creating videos of a real person using uploaded photos or footage of the person
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Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube:
A review of OpenAI's Sora video generator: excels at landscapes, people, and stylistic content, but often fails with basic physics like object permanence
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