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9:30 AM ET, March 14, 2025

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Costas Pitas / Reuters:
Filing: Newsmax paid $40M in 2024 to settle the Smartmatic defamation lawsuit over false claims that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 US election  —  Newsmax Media has agreed to pay $40 million to settle allegations it defamed Smartmatic by reporting false claims …
Washington Post:
John Feinstein, a Washington Post sportswriter who wrote more than 40 books including A Season on the Brink, about basketball coach Bob Knight, has died at 69  —  He had a long affiliation with The Washington Post and wrote books including “A Season on the Brink,” about Indiana University men's basketball coach Bob Knight.
Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian:
Reuters journalist Raphael Satter sues the Indian government for revoking his Overseas Citizen status, after he wrote about hack-for-hire company Appin in 2023  —  Raphael Satter had his OCI card taken away after publishing a story critical of an Indian businessman
Reuters:
Dazn announces a multi-year deal to stream LIV Golf in Japan, Canada, and several European countries, alongside the LIV Golf+ service  —  LIV Golf's broadcast reach will extend to Japan, Canada and much of Europe thanks to a multiyear partnership with London-based sports entertainment platform DAZN …
Bloomberg:
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square is raising about $1.4B from the sale of a ~2.7% stake in UMG; after the sale, UMG will be about 17% of Pershing's portfolio  —  A group of Universal Music Group NV shareholders affiliated with billionaire Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square is set to raise …
Agence France-Presse:
Kari Lake, who joined the USAGM in February, says she is canceling the agency's contracts with news services including AP, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse  —  A senior advisor to President Donald Trump said Thursday she was moving to cancel long-established contracts between three international …
Katie Campione / Deadline:
WGA begins talks with CBS News for a new union contract, focusing on AI and using the recently ratified contract at ABC News as a foundation for bargaining  —  Artificial intelligence is taking center stage in yet another set of union negotiations as the Writers Guild of America began talks …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast and the International Olympic Committee sign a $3B deal to keep NBC and Peacock as the TV and streaming homes for the Olympics through 2036  —  The deal with the IOC also includes technical and advertising support surrounding the games.  —  In a major deal, Comcast …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Brave sues News Corp to try to head off a copyright lawsuit by News Corp, which threatened to sue over Brave's search engine scraping and indexing its content  —  News Corp (NWSA.O) has been sued by Google search engine rival Brave Software, which seeks to forestall a lawsuit by Rupert Murdoch's company …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Meghan Markle and Lemonada Media announce Confessions of a Female Founder, a weekly podcast featuring conversations with women entrepreneurs, premiering April 8  —  Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is back with her first new podcast in more than two years: “Confessions of a Female Founder,” …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties”  —  Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan says in exclusive interview community notes won't penalize users
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Meta:
Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta says Community Notes will use the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes, but it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its apps
Hayden Field / CNBC:
In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material”  —  After President Trump, in one of his initial actions upon returning to the White House, revoked the country's …
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google releases its proposals for White House's AI Action Plan, arguing that “fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions” are “critical” to AI development
 
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Wesley Lowery leaves the Investigative Reporting Workshop as the executive editor, after accusations of improper behavior with colleagues and female students
Jay Peters / The Verge:
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A closer look at the iPhone 17 “Air”, which lays the foundation for major design changes in future devices, including possible portless and foldable iPhones

Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused, and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to “vibe coding”

Bloomberg:
Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similarly to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5, both free
 
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