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12:05 PM ET, November 20, 2025

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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Sources: a White House official discussed cutting CNN hosts that President Trump loathes, with Larry Ellison and running CBS assets like 60 Minutes on CNN  —  Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The White House sends out a press release calling ABC News “a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network” and cataloging perceived offenses  —  A day after President Donald Trump blew up at ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce and called for the network to lose …
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Reuters:
The FCC opens a review of agreements between national networks and local TV stations, including about rules controlling how stations preempt network programs  —  - FCC reviews network-affiliate agreements after Trump's ABC license comments  — FCC to ask whether national broadcasters …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company  —  Netflix Inc. has told management of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. that it will keep releasing the studio's films in theaters …
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Cornell University researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times  —  An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
Nicholas Hune-Brown / The Local:
How a freelancer's suspicious pitch led an editor to dig into past work, finding inconsistencies and falsehoods, as tech makes falsifying writing trivially easy  —  A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work.
Defector:
Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet  —  Purpose of this report  —  Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025.  It is a great honor, and something of a burden …
Paul Roberts / Seattle Times:
Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen plans to step down December 31 after four decades, to be succeeded by his son, Ryan Blethen; Alan Fisco will become CEO  —  Ryan Blethen will serve as the next publisher of The Seattle Times, the daily newspaper his great-great grandfather founded in 1896, the company announced Wednesday.
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired  —  Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts.
The Japan Times:
A Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay a ~$3.2M fine to four major Japanese publishers for its role in hosting servers for manga piracy sites  —  The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million ($3.2 million) to major Japanese publishers after the U.S. firm …
 
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Letterboxd:
Letterboxd says it will launch rental platform Letterboxd Video Store, curated with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in early December
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools
Rachel Behrndt / WFAA-TV:
Hearst plans to lay off 26 people at The Dallas Morning News, outsourcing print page production; the Dallas News Guild says the action violates its contract
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia
 

 
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Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries

Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Amazon plans to invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the nearly $40B it has invested in India, and expects to create 1M more jobs

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA
 
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