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3:45 PM 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
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 …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will unveil an Android app for Apple TV+ as early as Wednesday as it looks to boost subscriptions and compete with Netflix and Disney+  —  Apple Inc. is set to announce that it's expanding the TV+ streaming video service to Android phones for the first time, according to people familiar with the move.
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?
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches Generate Video in public beta via its re-designed Firefly web app, alongside new image generation, translation, and AI credit subscription tiers  —  Generate Video is now in public beta, allowing anyone to generate five-second video clips at 1080p.
Mark Yarm / Long Lead Presents:
Q&A with Ashlee Vance about launching the media company Core Memory, why mainstream media's tech coverage feels like activism, AI's threat to journalism, more  —  After 14 years as a tech writer and video host at Bloomberg Businessweek, Ashlee Vance feels liberated.
Discussion: @markyarm
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.
Discussion: @katebevan.com
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Sean “Diddy” Combs sues NBCUniversal and Peacock for $100M over his depiction in the Diddy: Making of a Bad Boy documentary that launched on Peacock in January  —  Set to go on trial for sex trafficking and more in May, the much accused and already incarcerated Sean “Diddy” …
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.
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.
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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
Discussion: Reuters and A Media Operator
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”
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
Discussion: Schibsted and OpenAI
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
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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
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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
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:
Sources: Apple is planning an AirPods feature that will enable live translation of in-person conversations, coming in an update due later in 2025 tied to iOS 19

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google says Gemini can now personalize answers based on users' search history, an experimental feature for Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers on the web

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Sources: President Trump's family representatives have held talks to take a stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him
 
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