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9:25 AM ET, September 8, 2025

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Glenn Garner / Deadline:
After a USTA memo, ABC appeared to mute the audience booing President Trump before the US Open Men's Final on September 7, playing music over his appearance  —  Despite the United States Tennis Association's attempt to censor the U.S. Open audience's reaction to Donald Trump's presence …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement raises a drawbridge on its startup rivals, which could not afford to pay such fines, setting an AI copyright floor price  —  $1.5B.  Damn.  Who can afford to pay that?  —  There I was, just sitting there enjoying life when I got the push notification …
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Bloomberg:
Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books
Ad Age:
Amazon VP of Global Video Advertising Krishan Bhatia is leaving; Bhatia joined Amazon in April 2024 after more than a decade as an ad sales leader at NBCU  —  Krishan Bhatia is leaving Amazon Ads less than two years after joining as VP of global video advertising and partnerships …
Discussion: Adweek, TheDesk.net, Variety and The Wrap
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
PubMatic sues Google in Virginia over alleged illegal ad tech market monopolization, the second such suit since an April ruling that Google monopolized ad tech  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google was sued by advertising exchange Pubmatic Inc., which is seeking billions of dollars over its claim …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
NYT launches a new family subscription offering for four people, including the All Access Family plan at $30/month and the Games Family plan at $10/month  —  The New York Times on Monday introduced a new family subscription offering, the company's head of subscription growth Ben Cotton told Axios.
Discussion: @sarafischer
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howard Stern returns to SiriusXM, after trolling viewers with a joke that Andy Cohen had taken over his channel slot; rumors suggested his deal was canceled  —  “What pisses me off is now I can't leave,” Stern said Monday.  “I've been thinking about retiring, now I can't.”
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Skydance aims to revitalize its cable networks, including MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon, without increasing spending on them  —  The newly combined media company is exploring ways to revive MTV and other once-mighty channels while rivals spin them off
Washington Post:
A WaPo probe into BI's pulled articles finds links between fake journalist Margaux Blanchard and Onyeka Nwelue, a controversial figure with fake academic claims  —  “Margaux Blanchard” appears to be one dubious element of a broader scheme to peddle bogus articles to a number of publications.
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Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Reuters withdraws Xi and Putin's longevity chat video, after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it; the video was distributed to 1,000+ media clients
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Eric Fisher / Front Office Sports:
Senior analytics leaders from Fox and ESPN criticize Nielsen's opaque and unaccredited audience measurement method for YouTube's Chiefs-Chargers livestream
Alexandra Hudson / Reuters:
Ruth Weiss, a journalist who fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and chronicled apartheid for outlets including The Guardian, Reuters, and Deutsche Welle, has died at 101
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News implements a new policy: “Face the Nation will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews”, following complaints from the DHS
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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