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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
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Yusra Farzan / LAist:
The LAPD files an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction restricting the use of force against the press as it creates “impracticable standards” — With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever.
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Ethan Shanfeld / Variety:
How Lionsgate built a roster of about 15 TikTok movie fans to make “fan edits” to market movies, using language that feels “native to the platform” — What if a movie trailer had filters and huge neon text, and was set to, say, a Dua Lipa song?
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Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies — The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.
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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Doc: 15 people signed the Pentagon's press rules, including from The Federalist, The Epoch Times, OANN, and overseas media, plus freelancers and independents — The Federalist, the Epoch Times and One America News signed the Defense Department's press rules.
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Samuel Axon / Ars Technica:
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers — It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions …
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Cumulus Media sues Nielsen, accusing it of anticompetitive moves by requiring the purchase of local radio ratings data in order to access its national analytics — U.S. radio network Cumulus Media has sued ratings giant Nielsen in federal court, accusing it of illegally leveraging its dominance …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
India's JioStar reports gross revenue of $815M for the quarter ending September 30 and $149M profit after tax; JioHotstar averaged 400M monthly active users — JioStar, the Indian media giant formed from the merger of Disney's Star India and Reliance's Viacom18, reported record quarterly EBITDA …
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Peter Adams / Marketing Dive:
Amazon's Twitch begins testing livestream shopping ads that keep “viewers immersed” to discover and buy products “in real time”, starting with e.l.f. Cosmetics — A new integration powered by Amazon Ads' retail media data is meant to drive “more measurable business outcomes” for E.l.f. on the platform.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Susan Stamberg, an original NPR staffer who went on to become the first US woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died at 87 — Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, died Thursday at the age of 87.
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