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7:50 AM ET, October 27, 2025

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Natalie Korach / Status:
Sources: CNN staff were taken aback when Mark Thompson suggested easing up on covering Trump's East Wing demolition after a rare White House visit last week  —  CNN chief Mark Thompson made a rare appearance at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: Bari Weiss is looking to poach conservatives from other networks and met with CNN personality Scott Jennings; Weiss reportedly approached Bret Baier  —  Bari Weiss hasn't said much publicly about the direction she wants to take CBS News in.  But her office meeting calendar is starting to show clues.
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Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Sources: Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is leaving Paramount after closing a major film and TV deal with NBCU; he was unhappy with Paramount's new regime  —  TV's top creator has just closed a massive deal with rival NBCUniversal for film and TV when his commitments with Paramount are up.
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
ICE detained British journalist Sami Hamdi on October 26 at SFO; the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it was retaliation for his criticism of Israel  —  Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi's detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’
New York Times:
US progressives are embracing debate shows long used by conservatives, seeing the format as a more authentic alternative to “spoon-fed” political talking points  —  As millions tune in to hyperpartisan face-offs on YouTube or TikTok, can the left find its own Charlie Kirk?
Discussion: New York Daily News
Max Tani / Semafor:
Ex-Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper launch Decoherence Media to cover “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements”  —  Two veteran data journalists are launching a new investigative publication to cover rising authoritarianism from the shadowy corners of the internet.
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it  —  Is the world's biggest online encyclopedia a bastion of wokeness?  Co-founder Larry Sanger thinks so, and his claims of mismanagement are being embraced on the right.
Andrew Byrd / AdMonsters:
A look at Search.com, which is building an AI chatbot to be integrated into publisher websites, giving 60% of ad revenue back to its publisher partners  —  With the integration of its new AI tool, Search.com proposes to pay publishers for their content.  —  AI search is getting crowded.
Harry Taylor / The Guardian:
British Airways pulls sponsorship from Louis Theroux's podcast after he interviewed Bob Vylan about his Glastonbury comments, saying it “breaches” its policy  —  Airline says singer's defiant interview breached its policy on politically sensitive or controversial subjects
 
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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
The American Journalism Project, known mostly for providing grants to US local news outlets, is offering a “field guide” to AI tools for local reporting
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube says it paid out $8B+ to the music industry in the 12 months to June 2025, up from $6B+ in 2022 and $4B+ in 2021
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix shuts down Boss Fight Entertainment, the game studio behind mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed, after acquiring it in March 2022
Bloomberg:
Sources: Canal+ is exploring buying the remaining 30% stake in Showmax, Africa's biggest streaming service, from Comcast
Discussion: Techpoint Africa and TechCabal
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Sources: Trump administration prefers that Paramount Skydance buy Warner Bros. Discovery; a source says “who owns WBD is very important to the administration”
 

 
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Helena Horton / The Guardian:
X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others
 
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