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3:20 AM ET, December 28, 2023

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New York Times:
The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue  —  Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
Washington Post:
Sources: India pressed Apple to come up with alternative explanations for warning Indian journalists and opposition politicians of state-sponsored iPhone hacks  —  NEW DELHI — A day after Apple warned independent Indian journalists and opposition party politicians in October that government hackers …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon plans to start showing ads in movies and shows on Prime Video from January 29, with an option for customers to pay an extra $2.99 per month to avoid them  —  Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Box office trends in 2023: audiences sought comfort, flocking to see Barbie, Taylor Swift, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and mostly skipped superhero movies  —  Movie audiences flocked to Taylor Swift, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” but were cooler toward returning superheroes like the Flash, Captain Marvel and Aquaman.
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Wall Street Journal:
A look at ReelShort, a Chinese-backed app featuring dramas with one-minute episodes; its CEO says ReelShort has generated $22M+ in revenue since its 2022 launch  —  ReelShort aims to succeed where Quibi failed—with cheesy plots and supernatural elements packed into one-minute episodes
Financial Times:
Insider Intelligence: LinkedIn's annual advertising revenue, which rose 10.1% YoY to nearly $4B in 2023, is expected to grow 14.1% YoY in 2024  —  Microsoft-owned professional networking site has increased revenues as big brands boycott rival platform  —  Professional social networking site LinkedIn …
Financial Times:
Disney, WBD, Comcast, and Paramount face a year of reckoning in 2024 after losing $5B+ in 2023 from the streaming services they built to compete with Netflix  —  Tie-ups and cuts on menu as Disney, Warner, Comcast and Paramount seek new ways to keep up  —  The world's largest traditional …
Andrew Jack / Financial Times:
Sorbonne University plans to use OpenAlex, a nonprofit academic data provider, from January 1, boosting a growing movement to make research available for free  —  Paris university's ‘radical decision’ to join OpenAlex challenges for-profit providers  —  A leading French university has cancelled …
 
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Erin Nolan / New York Times:
Major outlets sign a letter complaining about NYC's plan to move police reporters out of NYPD's HQ; NYC says the move would let more outlets cover the police
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen: YouTube's share of US viewership by 2- to 11-year-olds jumped from 29.4% in September 2021 to 33% in September 2023, while Netflix fell from 25% to 21%
The Information:
Sources: Reddit expects 2023 ad revenue to grow 20%+ YoY to slightly over $800M; a source says Reddit was not profitable through the first nine months of 2023
Maris Kreizman / New York Times:
Goodreads' combative culture is antithetical to the spirit in which the service was started, and fixing that requires more human moderation to monitor its users