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4:05 AM ET, January 12, 2026

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amy Poehler's Good Hang won the Golden Globes' inaugural podcast award, beating five other nominees, including Call Her Daddy, SmartLess and NPR's Up First  —  Amy Poehler won the inaugural Golden Globes podcast award for her talk show “Good Hang,” which features her freestyle riffs with fellow comedians, friends and celebs.
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Circana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise  —  Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...  For the second consecutive year, unit sales of print books …
Discussion: @publisherswkly
César López Linares / LatAm Journalism Review:
How independent Venezuelan outlets, operating from exile and in alliance with reporters who remain in the country, managed to cover Maduro's ouster  —  It was around 2:00 a.m. on Jan. 3 when reports of explosions and low-flying aircraft in the city of Caracas began circulating on social media.
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Luke Kawa / Sherwood News:
Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18 to 44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week  —  That's enough AI music to last the run time of “Avatar.”  —  Video may have killed the radio star, but AI is starting to dance on its grave.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Google introduces new personalized ads in its Gemini-powered AI Mode, letting advertisers offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product  —  Tech giant moves to gain an edge in race to monetise popular AI tools  —  Google is introducing new personalised advertising into its AI shopping tools …
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Television Academy sets Emmys rules to allow inquiries about AI use in submissions, and renames Outstanding Television Movie category to Outstanding Movie  —  The TV Academy also made rule changes for short-form programs and a few other categories.
Bloomberg:
Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users  —  Few major companies have tried to pull off a pivot to AI as swiftly as Kuaishou Technology.  —  Long known as a laggard …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount is seeking a strategic partner to invest in MTV as it aims to refocus MTV on music; Nielsen: MTV averaged <200K viewers in primetime in 2025  —  Paramount Skydance Corp. is looking to revive MTV — and it wants the music industry's help.
Jennifer Swann / Wired:
How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles  —  Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials  —  Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the visual investigations of the Minneapolis ICE shooting by The NYT, WaPo, and Bellingcat, and how they helped people trying to make sense of events  —  When everyone has seen the same videos, what service do news sites provide?  —  Late Wednesday afternoon …
 
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Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted
Titus Wu / Bloomberg Government:
California's Department of Finance director says Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn't plan to commit more funding in 2026 to a Google partnership to help local newsrooms
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
The San Francisco Standard hires Elizabeth Ralph to oversee its Opinion section; Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and Politico managing editor
The Hollywood Reporter:
X sues the National Music Publishers' Association and its members, claiming they conspired to force X into group licensing deals at inflated rates
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Ryan Autullo / Bloomberg Law:
A district court judge denies Texas AG Ken Paxton's request for a restraining order preventing Samsung from collecting data on TV watchers
Jordan Moreau / Variety:
The Golden Globes signs a deal with Polymarket, which will provide stats and predictions about the awards show at the official 2026 viewing party
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Under its contract with Artists Equity, Netflix will pay the crew a bonus if The Rip performs well, a departure from its usual refusal to make back-end payments
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Bari Weiss has kept Anderson Cooper's unaired 60 Minutes piece about Trump's decision to accept South African refugees in a prolonged editorial process
 

 
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Ofcom opens an investigation under the OSA into Grok over the sexualized deepfakes of women and kids being generated on X and threatens it with a ban or a fine

Rachael Levy / Reuters:
President Trump says “we may speak to Elon” about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the country imposed an internet blackout amid protests

Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings
 
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