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SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, says free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk  —  The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday …
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CNN:
Trump says he will “be making the decision” about TikTok and confirms he had a conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the app  —  The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a controversial ban on TikTok may take effect this weekend, rejecting an appeal from the popular app's owners …
The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at efforts by Meta, YouTube, Snap, X, and Substack to attract TikTok's 170M US creators and users; Substack is offering a $25K “TikTok Liberation Prize”  —  Tech giants like Meta and YouTube want to poach TikTokers, with Snapchat, X, Substack and others also planning efforts to coax them to their platforms.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount execs held internal talks about settling a Trump lawsuit over a CBS interview with Kamala Harris, to avoid Paramount/Skydance merger hurdles  —  Paramount, owner of CBS, its namesake studio and several cable channels, has a major piece of business in front of the new administration …
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A Florida jury finds that CNN defamed a US Navy veteran in a 2021 report portraying him as illegally exploiting Afghans, awards the veteran $5M  —  Zachary Young alleged CNN defamed him in a report by chief security correspondent Alex Marquardt that said he operated in a “black market.”
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
Court documents show CNN's revenue dropped about $400M, or 18%, from 2021 to 2023; net income was $600M in 2021, $300M in 2022, and $400M in 2023  —  Shortly after a Florida jury found that CNN had defamed Navy veteran Zachary Young and awarded Young $5 million in damages on Friday …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Instagram now lets users upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit, as TikTok is set to go dark on Sunday  —  Instagram will now let you upload Reels that are up to 3 minutes long, doubling the 90-second limit the platform had in place before, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri announced today.
Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Netflix agrees to release Greta Gerwig's Narnia film in about 1,000 Imax theaters on Thanksgiving Day 2026 and to not stream it on Netflix until Christmas  —  Netflix has finally conceded to put the big-budget film on about 1,000 Imax screens over Thanksgiving as a streaming-theatrical hybrid …
Justin Curto / Vulture:
Three media lawyers weigh in on Drake's lawsuit against UMG on claims of defamation and deceptive business practices; they doubt the suit will ever go to trial  —  Rap fans weren't the only ones shocked by Drake's decision to sue Universal Music Group for releasing Kendrick Lamar's diss track “Not Like Us.”
 
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Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
A group of 18 former European heads of state call on the EC to break up Google's advertising tech business, claiming it erodes Europe's media landscape
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Coldplay's biggest-ever Indian concert on January 26 will be streamed exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar, as the platform makes a move into live music content
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Prime Video says Beast Games, MrBeast's competition series, has attracted 50M viewers globally in its first 25 days; about half the viewing is outside the US
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta's Community Notes won't apply to paid ads, but will be enabled for organic content, which includes brands' and influencers' unpromoted posts
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple disables notification summaries for News & Entertainment apps in iOS 18.3 beta and makes other changes to summaries, including using italicized text
 

 
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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time

Leo Schwartz / The Information:
White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution
 
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