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12:30 PM ET, January 7, 2026

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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has “significant” risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer  —  The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer “significant costs, risks and uncertainties” compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix
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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Semafor raised $30M at a $330M valuation after generating $2M in EBITDA in 2025, its first profitable year, and plans to expand its annual CEO gathering in DC  —  The digital media outlet, which aims to inform the ‘global leadership class,’ plans to expand its events business and add journalists
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Tony Dokoupil's CBS Evening News debut left some staffers embarrassed and alarmed over the chaotic on-air rollout and MAGA-friendly editorial choices  —  On Tuesday evening, newly installed “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil closed out just his second official broadcast with a surreal segment …
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Daniel D'Addario / Variety:
After promising to be “more accountable” than Walter Cronkite, Tony Dokoupil didn't challenge Pete Hegseth in an interview or cite sources in another segment
Jazz Tangcay / Variety:
NLRB: DreamWorks remote workers, Netflix animation production workers, and “Ted” production workers vote to unionize with the Animation Guild and Editors Guild  —  DreamWorks Animation (DWA) remote workers across the United States, feature production workers at Netflix Animation Studios …
Elizabeth Hernandez / Denver Post:
After its domain registration expired, the student news outlet at the University of Colorado Boulder was plagued by a copycat site using AI to create content  —  Copycat websites increasingly common amid rise of artificial intelligence, CU Independent's attorney says
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The White House debuts a website to revise the history of January 6, with false claims blaming police for fomenting the attack and calling Mike Pence a coward  —  The website appeared to be a way to counter what has been a daylong commemoration at the Capitol, featuring primarily Democrats …
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Polymarket agrees to supply Dow Jones outlets like the WSJ and Barron's with prediction market trading data for online and in print, its first media partnership  —  Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges …
Sibylla Brodzinsky / The Guardian:
Venezuela's union representing press workers said at least 14 were detained on January 5, including 13 from international media organizations; one was deported  —  Thirteen of those detained were released according to the country's National Union of Press Workers
 
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Asian streaming giant Viu launches Viu Shorts, a new vertical video section for microdramas on its app, featuring episodes that are one to three minutes long
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Grupo Televisa's co-CEOs acquire $106M worth of the company's shares in a swap with ex-chairman Emilio Azcarraga, who upped his stake in sports spinoff Ollamani
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Bill Bradley / Adweek:
NBCUniversal says it has sold out its Winter Olympics ad inventory, about a month before the games begin, adding over 100 new advertisers for the games
Eva Baron / Publishers Weekly:
HarperCollins France says it is testing using AI-assisted translation, citing declining sales and following in the footsteps of Taylor & Francis and others
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus

New York Times:
How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented
 
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