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Julie Pace / The Associated Press:
The AP says it was blocked from a White House event after the WH threatened to bar the organization if it did not adopt Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico  —  The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace:  —  As a global news organization …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV”  —  YouTube CEO Neal Mohan released his annual letter Tuesday morning, outlining his priorities for the video platform.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Neal Mohan says AI auto dubbing will expand to all YouTube Partner Program creators, and YouTube will use ML to estimate users' ages for age-appropriate content
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources and a memo: Disney makes changes to its DEI programs, like scraping its Reimagine Tomorrow initiative and changing content disclaimers on some titles  —  - Other Performance Factors (OPFs): Beginning this fiscal year, Disney will replace the “Diversity & Inclusion” …
Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
A BBC study finds 51% of AI answers to questions about the news had “significant issues”, and 19% of answers citing BBC content introduced factual errors  —  Most answers had ‘significant issues’ when researchers asked services to use broadcaster's news articles as source
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Updated figures via Nielsen and Fox: Super Bowl 2025 averaged a record 127.7M viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes, Telemundo, Tubi, and NFL sources; Tubi had 13.6M  —  Fox says 126 million viewers watched the game across all platforms.  —  A blowout on the field didn't deter a record number of viewers from watching Super Bowl LIX.
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
In a potential blow to AI companies, Thomson Reuters wins a major AI copyright case against AI startup Ross Intelligence, which copied Westlaw content  —  The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Business Insider:
Sources: Netflix is exploring licensing video podcasts and looked into doing a deal with Alex Cooper in 2024 that included creating original shows  —  - Netflix is exploring potential deals with video podcasters as it looks to its next phase of growth.  — YouTube's success with video podcasts …
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
PBS closes its DEI office to comply with President Trump's EO and says affected staff are leaving, as it faces an FCC investigation and threats to its funding  —  The public broadcaster is also facing an investigation by the FCC and potential threats to its funding.
Maggie Severns / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Steve Bannon's War Room, an unscripted podcast and TV show that features lawmakers and is among the most popular politics podcasts on Apple Podcasts  —  How the former Trump adviser reclaimed his MAGA throne with a shoestring Gen Z crew
Discussion: TVNewsCheck and CBS News
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Philo reveals $450M in 2024 revenue, 20% YoY growth in subscribers to 1.3M, the acquisition of TVOD outlet Row8, and the hiring of Tubi alum Edward King as CPO  —  The company has hit 1.3 million subscribers, posting a 20% year-over-year growth rate in 2024.
Michael Bürgi / Digiday:
Publicis Media debuts a women's sports investment unit, to help advertisers invest in women's sports media, and unveils a partnership with Disney Advertising  —  We may have just finished football season with a blowout Super Bowl, but women's sports is where the real competition is at — at least from an ad marketplace point of view.
Discussion: Ad Age, Variety and MediaPost
Lewis Empson / What Hi-Fi?:
Sky unveils two new TVs in the UK: Sky Glass Gen 2, a successor to its 2021 model, and the cheaper Sky Glass Air, coming later in 2025, both in 43", 55", or 65"  —  Plus the elusive new Sky Glass Air has been revealed...  Sky has announced two new TVs today, including an overdue successor to the Sky Glass, which launched in 2021.
 
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed says it's developing its own social media platform designed to spread “joy” and that uses “AI to give users agency instead of stealing their agency”
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
A planned walkout at New York magazine was averted on Feb. 7 after its union reached a three-year tentative deal with wage increases and guardrails on AI use
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similarly to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5, both free

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's Station Q team trying to build a quantum computer; source: Microsoft spends ~$300M annually on quantum research
 
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