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1:00 PM ET, December 3, 2025

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, which adds features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs  —  Spotify Wrapped is back.  After last year's widely criticized flop that included an AI podcast as its highlight …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of the top 50 now offer video content  —  Almost half of the most-listened to 50 shows now have video available on Spotify  —  Spotify, as part of the annual Spotify …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
An interview with Olivia Nuzzi about her affair with RFK Jr., her book, and more; Nuzzi says “I did something wrong, like those ethics rules exist for a reason”  —  The author at the center of two major scandals—one roiling journalism, the other implicating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—speaks with Tim Miller.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:   Smartmatic and Fox News ask a judge to rule in their favor in a $2.7B defamation case over Fox's 2020 election claims; a ruling is expected in the coming weeks
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Economist reports revenue up 4% YoY to £170.3M in the six months to September 2025 and pre-tax profit up 28% YoY to £19.7M; a 27% stake is up for sale  —  The Economist revealed revenue and profit growth for the six months to September as potential buyers expressed interest in a 27% stake in the business.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Minho Kim / New York Times:
A November 25 notice to Congress: Kari Lake said the Trump administration plans to close VOA's six overseas news bureaus, saving $30M+, despite a judge's order  —  The push to close the offices appears to contradict a federal judge's order from April, which required Trump officials to resume operations at V.O.A.
Antonio Ferme / Variety:
A US federal trial of Carl Rinsch, accused of swindling Netflix out of millions when making sci-fi series White Horse, begins with an ex-Netflix exec testifying  —  “Our objective today is to figure out the nature of this project and what we must do to contain it.”
Discussion: Business Insider
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Scottish Sun editor Gill Smith will be the next editor of The US Sun, succeeding Natalie Evans, who was the inaugural editor of The US Sun from Feb. 2020  —  Smith to begin new role based in New York in the New Year.  —  Gill Smith has been named the next editor of The US Sun after leading The Scottish Sun for five years.
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Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Sources: if Netflix wins the auction for WBD, Paramount plans to go directly to WBD shareholders to argue that Netflix's bid would face regulatory issues
Bloomberg:
Sources: Comcast is looking to merge NBCUniversal, including NBC TV, studios, and theme parks, with WBD, whose shareholders would get cash and stock
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had many problems, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file  —  But the best one definitely did. … The 4K stream of the classic Lionsgate Television series for AMC Network came to HBO Max on Monday …
Alex Forbes-Calvin / GamesIndustry.biz:
The Observer partners with Magicave to feature the game developer's Mindset Go puzzles every Sunday in the newspaper's print edition  —  The company's Mindset Go puzzles will be appearing in the publication every Sunday  —  Game developer Magicave has partnered up with UK newspaper, The Observer.
Discussion: PocketGamer.biz
James Whitbrook / Gizmodo:
After an online backlash, Amazon Prime Video removes AI-generated English and Spanish dubs that it had quietly rolled out in beta for several anime titles  —  As quickly as they arrived, many of Prime Video's controversial generated dubs have been removed from the streamer.  —  READING TIME 2 MINUTES
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Newsweek is developing an AI-powered homepage, modeled after Google's AI Mode, aiming to boost time spent on-site and counter the drop in search referrals  —  Newsweek is developing an AI-powered homepage, modeled after Google's AI Mode search experience, as part of a broader partnership with Google Cloud.
 
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Amazon adds an Alexa+ feature to Fire TV that lets Prime Video users skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes
Ellise Shafer / Variety:
HBO Max plans to launch in six European countries, including Italy and Germany, on January 13, leaving only the UK and Ireland left to roll out in Europe
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
A profile of India-based sports website Essentially Sports, founded in a college dorm in 2014 and now reaching 30M monthly readers and $8M+ in annual turnover
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
YouTube says it will comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16s, after rejecting its inclusion in the crackdown and calling the regulation “rushed”
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google is conducting a small test for some Discover users, replacing original news headlines with short AI-generated ones that are sometimes misleading or inane
Zac Ntim / Deadline:
Netflix says Southeast Asian content on the platform grew nearly 50% from 2023 to 2024 and 40+ Southeast Asian titles were in its Global Top 10 in 2025
Discussion: Variety
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
The first four episodes of Stranger Things 5 were the second-biggest premiere for any Netflix original series, behind only the second season of Squid Game
Sara Fischer / Axios:
CNN partners with Kalshi to use its real-time prediction data in TV, digital, and social channel reporting, on-air data tickers, analysis, and fact-checking
David Bauder / Associated Press:
The Pentagon denied the AP and others access to a few news briefings, claiming they're orientation events for the new press corps, which now includes Matt Gaetz
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US on desktop and mobile, arriving globally next week
 

 
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Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal:
Meta signs deals with nuclear power providers Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to buy power and support new reactor projects, securing up to 6.6GW of power by 2035

Helena Horton / The Guardian:
Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery

Dan Primack / Axios:
a16z raises $15B+ across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund, the largest sum, and $3B for unspecified “other venture strategies”
 
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