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7:45 PM ET, October 31, 2024

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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.5B and AWS operating income of $10.4B, up from $7B in Q3 2023, and subscription sales up 11% to $11.3B  —  - CNBC Councils  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Supply Chain Values  — Select Shopping  — Ad Choices
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Steven Waldman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Jeff Bezos should donate The Washington Post to a public charity that maintains its quality and independence, as he is too financially compromised to own it  —  His conflicts of interests are insurmountable.  He can take a heroic path to strengthen journalism.
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: potential buyers line up in case Jeff Bezos ever sells WaPo, including Kara Swisher, who would assemble investors and seek to merge it with Vox Media  —  Potential suitors for The Washington Post are eagerly positioning themselves, waiting for the day in which Jeff Bezos might choose …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google  —  The new option will let the chatbot's users search for timely information much as they would on the web.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In its Q3 earnings call, Comcast CEO Mike Cavanagh says the company is weighing spinning off its cable networks and open to “partnerships in streaming”  —  Comcast President Mike Cavanagh delivered an eye-opening update to investors on this morning's third-quarter earnings call …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast reports Peacock's Q3 losses fell to $436M, down from $565M in Q3 2023, revenue rose 82% YoY to $1.5B, and subscribers rose 3M from June to 36M
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Comcast reports Q3 net income down 10% YoY to $3.63B and revenue up 6.5% YoY to $32.07B; revenue for media, mainly composed of NBCU, rose 37% YoY to $8.23B
ProPublica:
An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's platforms that collectively controlled 340+ Pages and placed 160K ads to collect users' information  —  Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism  — Deceptive Political Ads: Eight deceptive advertising networks …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump sues CBS News in a Texas court, claiming CBS engaged in election interference “through malicious, deceptive” editing of its 60 Minutes Harris interview  —  Former President Trump is suing CBS News over a “60 Minutes” interview it broadcast with Vice President Harris earlier …
Washington Post:
Analysis: 26 prominent podcasts have amplified unfounded claims about the integrity of the 2024 US election, in a format challenging for researchers to monitor  —  Claims aired on the free-flowing and beloved medium could undercut trust in the results of a razor-tight election, experts say.
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Media Matters: from May to August 2024, the top 30 conservative YouTube channels posted 286 videos containing US election misinformation, racking up 47M+ views  —  In June 2023, YouTube decided to stop fighting the most persistent strain of election misinformation in the United States …
Kali Hays / Fortune:
Internal memo: Block CEO Jack Dorsey says Tidal is in for another mass layoff; insiders say as many as 100 people could be laid off, or ~25% of Tidal's staff  —  Block CEO and founder Jack Dorsey wants streaming music app Tidal to operate like a startup again - and that means layoffs
John O'Nolan:
Ghost's CEO details the organization's governance structure and says the open-source CMS generates ~$7.5M in annual revenue and has been profitable for 12 years  —  Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Guardian Media Group CEO Anna Bateson shares details of Tortoise Media's bid for The Observer and says “difficult decisions” are ahead if the deal falls through  —  Anna Bateson says Observer is loss-making but has chance to be sustainable with Tortoise.
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom fines GB News £100K for giving Rishi Sunak a “mostly uncontested platform”, but won't enforce payment until judicial review of its decision is complete
Meta Investor Relations:
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $40.59B, net income up 35% to $15.69B, and family daily active people up 5% to 3.29B on average for September 2024
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Fox, ABC, and others are broadcasting graphic and hateful ads paid for by political candidates during the World Series; the FCC requires stations accept the ads
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Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Nintendo launches Nintendo Music, an iOS and Android app that lets Switch Online subscribers stream or download gaming tunes from Nintendo titles
New Jersey Digest:
The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, plans to end its print edition on January 30, 2025, citing growing costs and a shrinking demand for print
 

 
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Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple's M5 chip to use TSMC's advanced N3P node; M5 Pro, Max, and Ultra will use a new server-grade SoIC packaging featuring separate CPU and GPU designs

Financial Times:
Sources: Meta plans to add displays to its Ray-Ban glasses as soon as H2 2025 to show notifications or AI responses, and has accelerated Orion's development

Bloomberg:
Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC sent a cease-and-desist order to Google
 
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