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11:10 AM ET, February 12, 2025

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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Morning Brew co-founder Austin Rief steps down as CEO, replaced by COO Robert Dippell; the company is on pace to generate $70M+ in revenue in 2025  —  The 10-year-old company, now wholly owned by Axel Springer, has transformed its newsletter business into a multimedia portfolio
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 …
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Ben Kochman / New York Post:
WWE CEO Vince McMahon's lawyer says US federal prosecutors dropped a criminal probe into whether McMahon tried to cover up sexual misconduct allegations  —  Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have dropped a criminal probe that focused on whether former World Wrestling Entertainment boss Vince McMahon tried …
John Ourand / Puck:
Sources: ESPN and the NFL are in renewed negotiations and have discussed a deal that would have ESPN take control of NFL Network and NFL RedZone  —  Once again, ESPN and the NFL are in renewed negotiations for the former to take on the latter's media assets.  What's changed since the last time these dance partners played footsie?
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says Fox and Tubi brought in $800M+ in advertising sales for the presentation of Super Bowl LIX  —  In addition to the record 127.7 million viewers for the game, Kendrick Lamar's performance was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Sources: more than 20 Observer journalists have taken redundancy, capped at £120,000 per person, and 46 staffers are transferring over to Tortoise Media  —  More than 20 Observer journalists are believed to have taken redundancy rather than transfer over to Tortoise Media.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon Prime Video, which already has NFL Thursday Night Football, plans to add the NBA in the fall and NASCAR in 2025, showing premier live sports year-round  —  The tech giant will add NBA and NASCAR rights this year, setting up to have premier live sports year-round, and it intends to capitalize on it.
Discussion: Variety, Adweek, Ad Age and Deadline
Eric Mack / Newsmax:
In a letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, FCC Chair Brendan Carr says he is opening a probe into Comcast and NBCUniversal, particularly over “promotion of DEI”  —  Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr is seeking to open an investigation into Comcast and NBCUniversal's diversity …
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
IAC reports Dotdash Meredith's Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $522.1M and plans to ramp up monetization efforts after Dotdash traffic grew 80% in 2024  —  Company aims to complete its spin off of Angi by the end of March  —  IAC is ready to move on from home-services company Angi …
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Reuters:
Sources: Les Echos-Le Parisien no longer plans to sue X, refraining from a lawsuit with other French papers accusing X of running content without compensation  —  LVMH-owned newspaper group Les Echos-Le Parisien is not party to a lawsuit involving French media against Elon Musk's X …
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Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
OpenAI partners with Schibsted, a newspaper publisher based in Norway, letting OpenAI integrate content from VG, Aftenposten, and others into OpenAI products
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Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
Filing: lawyers for a news outlet group say evidence from the sentencing of a January 6 rioter disappeared from a government platform and they want it restored
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
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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"
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
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”
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”
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
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A closer look at the iPhone 17 “Air”, which lays the foundation for major design changes in future devices, including possible portless and foldable iPhones

Bloomberg:
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

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Some developers say licenses for “open” AI models like Google's Gemma and Meta's Llama have limits that restrict commercial use without fear of legal reprisal
 
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