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9:40 AM ET, September 6, 2025

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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 DHS  —  The Sunday public affairs show will now run live or live to tape interviews, after an edit to an interview with the Homeland Security Secretary drew pushback.
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  —  Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) was accused by authors in a lawsuit on Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train …
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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  —  Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading of millions of pirated books …
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman
Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:
How YouTube prepared to stream, for free, the Brazil NFL game globally: it partnered with NBC for production, ran multiple tests, and set up backup plans  —  Also: How a hit AI film was made … How YouTube plans to pull off Friday's NFL live game  —  This year, football season kicks off with a twist …
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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  —  Even before YouTube streams its NFL game Friday night in Brazil between the Chiefs and Chargers, other league rights holders …
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Ads during the Chargers-Chiefs NFL game on YouTube on September 5 will cost ~$30 for every 1,000 viewers, more than double what YouTube usually gets
Wall Street Journal:
The EU fines Google €2.95B for abusing its dominance in digital ads, and says its preliminary stance is that Google must divest parts of its ad-tech business  —  Bloc's antitrust regulators say search giant may need to divest parts of its business  —  BRUSSELS—The European Union fined …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
After the EU fined Google €2.95B, Trump threatens a trade probe, saying the Trump administration “will not allow these discriminatory actions to stand”
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments  —  WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks.
Joshua Hunt / New York Times:
A look at the history of anime in the US, its impact, and the forces that keep it distinct from other mass-market animation, including Japanese IP law  —  Like the name Walt Disney, the word “anime” brings to mind not just an aesthetic but a distinctive storytelling ethos.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A federal judge dismisses Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit against Fox News as a “shotgun complaint” and gives Newsmax until September 11 to refile  —  U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, in an order issued on Friday, noted that Newsmax alleged violations of the Sherman Act …
 
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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images

The Information:
Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B+ in OpenAI at a $500B+ valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models

Bloomberg:
Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B led by Alphabet at a valuation near $100B, and has achieved an annual revenue run rate above $350M
 
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