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12:40 PM ET, January 3, 2025

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Reuters and Gannett plan to launch a content bundle in Q1 2025, sold by Reuters; the bundle won't include access to games and puzzles from Gannett's newspapers  —  - Customers can access Reuters' national and international coverage, combined via a bundle with Gannett's national news coverage …
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Matt Pearce:
The Gannett-Reuters deal aims to supplant The Associated Press, which has resisted journalism's financialization through its longstanding cooperative model  —  Gannett and Reuters come for one of the final corners for legacy media that had resisted the financialization of journalism.
David Shepardson / Reuters:
A US appeals court rules the FCC did not have legal authority to reinstate net neutrality rules; incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr opposed the 2024 reinstatement  —  A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission did not have the legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules.
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Anthropic agrees with three publishers to stop Claude from providing lyrics to their songs or new lyrics based on copyrighted content, pending a court ruling  —  While the case is proceeding, Anthropic's Claude will no longer provide lyrics to songs owned by the music publishers or new lyrics based on copyrighted material.
George Winslow / TV Technology:
NBCUniversal launches CNBC+, a streaming service priced at $14.99/month; the service includes a feed of the CNBC cable news channel and on-demand programming  —  New streaming service includes a live feed of the financial news channel  —  As Comcast prepares to spin off many of its cable networks …
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
An unredacted lawsuit from Utah's AG claims TikTok has long known that TikTok Live promoted sexual content streams to minors and facilitated money laundering  —  - Unredacted lawsuit claims TikTok knew about teen safety issues  — Lawsuit also alleges company facilitated money laundering
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Molly White / Citation Needed:
An in-depth look at Elon Musk's criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing right-wing chorus of voices attacking information sources outside their control  —  The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts a Partner Program in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, letting popular podcast hosts monetize video content, after announcing it in November  —  Spotify announced Thursday the launch of its new “Partner Program” that lets popular podcast hosts monetize their video content.
Wall Street Journal:
Many advertisers on TikTok say they will shift ad dollars if and when a US ban actually takes effect, as the yearslong saga has dulled any real sense of urgency  —  Status-quo videos still proliferate on the Chinese-owned app, and Madison Avenue remains upbeat just weeks before potential U.S. ban
BBC:
The BBC says Gavin & Stacey: The Finale becomes the UK's most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since 2002 with 19.3M viewers  —  Smashing the show's own record from five years ago, the last ever episode of the hit British sitcom took the top spot on Christmas Day
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Influencer marketing company Later acquires Mavely, which pays commissions to social-media creators for the sales they generate, for $250M in cash and stock  —  Later, an influencer and social-media marketing company, acquired social commerce app Mavely for $250 million
 
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Reuters:
The Palestinian Authority suspends the broadcast of Al Jazeera TV temporarily over “inciting material and reports that were deceiving and stirring strife”
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Altice USA customers lose access to MSG Networks due to a carriage dispute over fees between the cable TV operator and James Dolan's RSN
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally
 

 
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Dell is rebranding its PC lines as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says that OpenAI, which isn't profitable, is losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because “people use it much more than we expected”

Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
AMD unveils Ryzen AI Max+, a laptop chip with new integrated memory and 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, claiming 84% faster rendering performance vs. the MacBook M4 Pro
 
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