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5:30 AM ET, February 18, 2025

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
The WaPo rejected a print ad from Common Cause that said “Fire Elon Musk”, designed to wrap around the DC edition, after the group said it signed a $115K deal  —  The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft  —  The Scoop  —  The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools …
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Sources: Trump is targeting AP to amplify GOP and conservative criticisms that the AP Stylebook shapes political dialogue by favoring liberal words and phrases  —  - “This isn't just about the Gulf of America,” White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich told Axios.
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Jim Acosta / The Jim Acosta Show:
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta calls on news outlets to unite in opposition to the Trump administration's treatment of journalists and news organizations like AP  —  It was only a matter of time.  —  The Trump White House placed unconstitutional restrictions on the Associated Press last week …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Times wins three 2024 Polk Awards, the most of any publication; The New Yorker, ProPublica, Vanity Fair, and The Baltimore Banner also won  —  The Times was honored for an investigation into extremism in Israel, coverage of the civil war in Sudan and a narrative about a Russian soldier who defected from the war in Ukraine.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Source: Spotify struck deals with Universal and Warner for its Music Pro plan launch, which includes concert tickets, but doesn't yet have rights from Sony  —  Spotify is developing a more expensive version of its service that will offer high-quality audio, early access to concert tickets and remixing tools.
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
MPA: South Koreans streamed 131B minutes of premium VOD in 2024, up 18% YoY, as sector revenue reached $2B; Netflix held 35% viewership share, as Tving hit 34%  —  The report reveals that Korean viewers streamed a whopping 131 billion minutes of premium VOD content last year, marking an 18% jump from 2023.
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
HBO restores next-day YouTube posts for Last Week Tonight clips after imposing a few days delay in February 2024; sources say Max viewership saw little increase  —  HBO reverses a decision to keep John Oliver's show off of the platform for several days.
Advanced Television:
Ampere Analysis forecasts streamers' spending on sports rights to reach $12.5B in 2025, accounting for a fifth of global sports rights spend, led by DAZN  —  Streamers will account for a fifth of global sports rights spend in 2025 according to Ampere Analysis sports media rights data.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Olyn, which bills itself as a “Shopify for filmmakers” that lets makers directly sell their films to viewers, launches, offering 90% of revenue to creators  —  The recent Brian Epstein biopic “Midas Man,” a film about the manager of The Beatles, debuted not on a platform like Netflix or Amazon …
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Jim Zarroli / New York Times:
As local cinemas close around the US, residents in some small towns are forming nonprofits to buy and operate them; 250+ cinemas across the US are nonprofits
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The UK's Advertising Standards Authority tells Reach to stop posting ad features on social media without clearly labeling them as ads
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Katie Campione / Deadline:
WGA West President Meredith Stiehm asked studios to “stand up and fight back on AI” and said the guild recovered $78M in late pay and residuals owed in 2024
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount and YouTube cut a new carriage deal that will keep Paramount channels available on the YouTube TV video service; terms of the deal were not disclosed
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Bloomberg:
iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reaches a restructuring agreement to hand over control to its secured lender and main Chinese supplier Shenzhen Picea

Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes

Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI
 
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