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5:05 PM ET, November 21, 2025

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New York Times:
Sources: Paramount Skydance, Comcast, and Netflix bid in the first round for WBD; Comcast and Netflix are seeking just the studio and streaming parts of WBD  —  The outcome of the sale could alter the trajectory of the entertainment business.  —  The heavyweights of Hollywood made their cases …
Barbara Peng / Business Insider:
Business Insider joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace pilot, which compensates publishers when their content is used in AI-generated results  —  Business Insider is one of the most-cited sources in large language models, but we are often not appropriately credited or compensated by AI companies.
Discussion: @maxwelltani
David McCabe / New York Times:
A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing  —  Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is on the clock.  —  The federal judge, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia …
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the system for distribution of direct media subsidies developed for the government of Denmark, which spends ~0.2% of its GDP on direct media subsidies  —  “A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources.
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Nexstar's FCC filing in its $6.2B proposed merger with Tegna asks for urgent approval, which would require changing rules that limit station ownership  —  The broadcaster is pressing the FCC to fast-track a $6.2B deal that would expand its reach to more than half of US households
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Google says ads that some users are seeing in AI Mode are part of a test; the ads have a “sponsored” label and appear at the bottom of the page  —  Google has started rolling out ads in AI mode, which is the company's “answer engine,” not a search engine.
Aisha Down / The Guardian:
Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in “LLM grooming”, flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT  —  Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible
Wall Street Journal:
Source: UEFA Champions League media rights sold for €10B over four years, starting in 2027, across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain  —  Amazon.com's Prime Video, Comcast's Sky, France's Canal+ and Spain's Telefonica were named alongside Paramount as preferred bidders
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Matt Hughes / The Guardian:
Paramount wins UK rights to show most UEFA Champions League games from 2027 to 2031; sources say its bid was much higher than TNT's current £1B per year deal
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Eros Innovation, an AI and IP company which owns 12K+ film titles and 100K+ AI-ready characters, closed ~$150M in capital and acquisitions at a $2B valuation  —  Eros Innovation has closed approximately $150 million in capital and strategic acquisitions as the company accelerates its transformation …
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
BBC board member Shumeet Banerji resigns, saying he was cut out of discussions that led to the resignation of the BBC's director general, Tim Davie  —  Shumeet Banerji was away during crucial discussions that led to resignation of director general and BBC News chief
 
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Renju Jose / Reuters:
Australia adds Twitch to teen social media ban; Twitch plans to deactivate accounts for 16-and-under users from Jan. 9 and bar new underage users from Dec. 10
Wall Street Journal:
A look at CBS News under Bari Weiss: plans for a makeover of the CBS Evening News, concerns among veterans about her outspoken support of Israel, and more
John Buckley / Capital Brief:
Sources: US officials raised concerns with Australia over its streaming content quotas that the government is trying to push through the Senate before year end
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Q&A with Variety's new publisher and co-president, Dea Lawrence, on her career, on AI and digital creators being “crucial” for the outlet, and more
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
A look at the “explosion” of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press
Bloomberg:
Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads
 

 
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Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum

Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist:
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5

Kate Conger / New York Times:
Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40%
 
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