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8:10 AM ET, January 13, 2023

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Connie Guglielmo / CNET:
After a report that it is using AI for writing articles, CNET explains its test, changes the byline on AI-written posts, and makes disclosures more prominent  —  For over two decades, CNET has built our reputation testing new technologies and separating the hype from reality.
TechCrunch:
Sources: Tokyo-based aggregator website and app SmartNews, valued at $2B in 2021, laid off ~120 people, or 40% of US and China staff, with more coming in Japan  —  SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app valued at $2 billion as of 2021, today announced a 40% reduction …
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Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
WWE says it has retained Kirkland & Ellis as its legal adviser for a review of strategic alternatives for the company and The Raine Group as financial adviser  —  World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE.N) said on Thursday it has retained bankruptcy and restructuring powerhouse Kirkland & Ellis LLP …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Over 54,000 people sign a letter objecting to a new planned Dungeons & Dragons game license, saying it taxes some creators at a 25% rate and stifles innovation  —  More than 54,000 fans signed an open letter in protest of a new game license  —  Once a game on the periphery for the nerdiest of nerds …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Barry Diller's IAC hires an investment bank to explore the sale of The Daily Beast, which Diller launched in 2008; the sale process is in early stages  —  The tech mogul's company has hired Whisper Advisors, an advisory firm, to find potential buyers for the digital publication.
Tony Stubblebine / The Official Medium Blog:
Medium launches a Mastodon instance on me.dm, promising members reliable moderation, smoother onboarding, an interesting local feed, and more  —  The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media  —  Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors …
Josh Ye / Reuters:
A look at Tencent's short-video service WeChat Channels, called “the hope of the company” by founder Pony Ma, as the tech giant tries to build its own TikTok  —  On a hot summer's day last year, the 90's boy band Backstreet Boys clambered on to a stage in Pennsylvania and belted …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Nine Reach regional brands in the UK have adopted a “newsletter-led approach”, meaning their websites are no longer their “flagship” means of content delivery  —  At nine brands the website will support the newsletters, rather than vice versa.
Discussion: @pressgazette and HoldtheFrontPage
Bill Bradley / Adweek:
Netflix, which added a tier with ads in November 2022, says it will host its first ever upfront week event for ad buyers in May, taking Paramount's former slot  —  It's official: Netflix is joining upfront week.  —  The streaming giant exclusively told Adweek that it will host …
 
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Axios:
Axios hires Alex Thompson as national political correspondent for its expanding politics team, which includes recent hires Eugene Scott and editor David Lindsey
Inae Oh / Mother Jones:
Letting C-SPAN choose what to film could increase transparency but would also play to some of politicians' worst instincts of grandstanding and viral content
Brian Veseling / WAN-IFRA:
After enabling online subscription cancellation, Minnesota Star Tribune finds the new process retains 18.5% of customers canceling vs. 8.8% via a call center
Discussion: Nieman Lab
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: Coinbase's internal “sentiment” tracker showed Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX was consistently viewed more favorably by the media right up until its collapse
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery announces HBO Max's first price hike, two years after its launch, increasing the ad-free monthly subscription by 7% from $14.99 to $15.99
New York Times:
Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, sold 1.43M+ copies on its first day, including preorders, a new record for a nonfiction book published by Penguin Random House
Saksha Menezes / Bloomberg:
Research: in the UK, vinyl sales grew 11% YoY to £150.5M in 2022, topping CD sales, which fell 17.4% YoY to £124M, the first time vinyl outsold CDs since 1987
Discussion: ERA Ltd
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Tim Davie says the BBC is “not proactively putting a date on a digital switchover” and the aggressive plan won't “remove things used by lots of people too soon”
 

 
From Techmeme:

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces internal reorganizations, including an AI-focused Platforms and Devices group overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, and more, led by Rick Osterloh

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others
 
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