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1:15 PM ET, March 13, 2025

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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties”  —  Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan says in exclusive interview community notes won't penalize users
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta says Community Notes will use the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes, but it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its apps  —  Meta's upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk's X for its similar service.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected  —  An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast and the International Olympic Committee sign a $3B deal to keep NBC and Peacock as the TV and streaming homes for the Olympics through 2036  —  The deal with the IOC also includes technical and advertising support surrounding the games.  —  In a major deal, Comcast …
Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal:
Scientific journals struggle with quality control as some scientists say the industry's fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work  —  Some scientists say the for-profit industry's fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work
Hayden Field / CNBC:
In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material”  —  After President Trump, in one of his initial actions upon returning to the White House, revoked the country's …
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
TollBit launches Content Cache, a new tool for its publishing partners that redirects AI crawlers to a TollBit subdomain to license content via micropayments  —  AI search bots, despite their claims, are sending on average 95.7% less referral traffic than traditional Google search
Columbia Journalism Review:
Wesley Lowery leaves the Investigative Reporting Workshop as the executive editor, after accusations of improper behavior with colleagues and female students  —  Lowery said he left voluntarily and denied any impropriety or wrongdoing.  —  Wesley J. Lowery, a Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with NYT Investigations Editor David Enrich on his book Murder the Truth, legal threats faced by publishers, efforts to overturn NYT v. Sullivan, and more  —  “The rhetoric and actions that Trump and his allies take at a national level are being mimicked across the country at a much smaller level.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Snapchat introduces AI video Lenses, powered by Snap's in-house generative video model, available to subscribers of the $16/month Snapchat Platinum tier  —  Snapchat is introducing its first ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively.
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches a program to publish audiobooks from independent authors; it will pay an advance and royalties and will handle the production and distribution
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NPR says it will now let All Things Considered anchor Ari Shapiro attend a corporate Pride event, after a leaked email showed NPR dissuading him from doing so
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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Food delivery startup Wonder acquires media company Tastemade, sources say for ~$90M, the latest step in its effort to create a mealtime “super app”
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Bill Simmons says he has agreed to a new Spotify contract and will continue his show for at least two years; he'll also serve as Spotify's head of talk strategy
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Guardian agrees to pay Spectator Associate Editor Douglas Murray “substantial” damages for a column's claim Murray spoke in favor of far-right summer riots
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sources: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, which was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025
Jacob Gallagher / New York Times:
A profile of fashion magazine i-D, acquired by model Karlie Kloss in 2023; EIC Thom Bettridge aims to restore “the spirit of what it was but for right now”
 

 
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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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