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8:40 PM ET, October 31, 2025

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with “no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us”  —  Disney top brass told the troops that the media company's leaders are going to continue to fight for a “fair deal” …
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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Disney networks including ABC and ESPN go dark on YouTube TV after the two sides failed to reach a new carriage deal  —  YouTube TV customers have lost access to ABC, ESPN, and other Disney-owned channels this evening as a contract between Google and Disney failed to reach a renewal in negotiations …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: after earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, Trump is set to be interviewed for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase  —  The Scoop  —  CBS News is learning that several million dollars go a long way to healing a relationship with President Donald Trump.
Justin Baragona / The Independent:
CBS has cut two streaming shows, disbanded its race and culture unit, eliminated the Johannesburg bureau; all eight on-air correspondents cut were women  —  EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following …
Brianna Tucker / Washington Post:
An NC Republican Party spokesman appeared to threaten ProPublica, citing party ties to Trump's administration, and tried to coerce the outlet to kill a story  —  Communications director Matt Mercer later says in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings  —  Social network Bluesky, which on Friday announced a new milestone of 40 million users, will soon start testing “dislikes” as a way to improve personalization on its main Discover feed and others.
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Memo to staff: a Times of London editor says two incidents where reporters were duped, including the de Blasio case, “did serious damage to our reputation”  —  Ian Brunskill, an associate editor at The Times, emailed the newsroom lamenting the “humiliating” botched interview with the former New York City mayor.
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of AI training datasets, compiled by The Atlantic, shows AI models were trained on hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from news publishers  —  YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
The White House says that journalists can no longer access “Upper Press” in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment  —  The White House on Friday announced it would no longer allow members of the media to freely access a part of the West Wing …
Michelle Kim / Rest of World:
A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise  —  In an industry studded with megastars like BTS and Blackpink, virtual idols are building powerful new fandoms even while their true identities remain obscured.
Discussion: @restofworld.org
 
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Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
Getty and Perplexity sign a multi-year licensing agreement to let the AI startup display Getty's images across its search and discovery tools
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Trump Media & Technology drops its $1.5B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against 20+ media outlets for misreporting that Truth Social lost $73M in 2023
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Siobhan McKenna, News Corp's Australian broadcasting chief, is leaving in Q4; she was Lachlan Murdoch's top adviser, including for the family trust case
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Reuters:
Sources: Netflix is exploring a bid for WBD's studio and streaming business and has tapped investment bank Moelis & Co to evaluate a prospective offer
Variety:
Sources: Gayle King, who has anchored CBS News' morning show for over a decade, is expected to leave the program next year; her existing contract expires in May
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A federal judge sets a December date for a bench trial in NPR's lawsuit claiming the CPB yanked away a planned $36M contract under intense White House pressure
 

 
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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI debuts GPT-5.2, its “best model yet”, in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning benchmarks

Reuters:
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, with AI chip sales doubling to $8.2B
 
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