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7:20 PM ET, May 7, 2025

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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Netflix unveils its ChatGPT-powered search that lets users express preferences using natural phrases, to be rolled out this week to iOS users as an opt-in beta  —  After hinting at a new AI-powered search experience during its recent earnings call, Netflix officially unveiled the feature at its tech and product event on Wednesday.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix unveils a new homepage design for TVs, its first major update since 2013, featuring fewer titles but more video and animation, rolling out next week  —  The implications for the industry could be significant, given that most other streaming services have copied Netflix's design.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix says it plans to start testing a TikTok-like feed of vertical videos in its mobile app “in the coming weeks” to help users find more content to watch  —  The streaming service has experimented with vertical video feeds before. … Netflix is going to start testing …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Kari Lake says OAN will provide its newsfeed and video service “free-of-charge” to USAGM networks, including VOA, OCB, and Radio Martí  —  Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the Voice of America.
Lachlan Cartwright / Breaker:
Sources: NYT reporter Rob Copeland filed a HR complaint against editor Ellen Pollock after she threatened to “kill” him if a Harvard story exceeded 2,000 words  —  Pamela Paul's new gig; Keith McNally censored; VERSANT vs Vaulter  —  In partnership with … Newsrooms plus pressure equals... more drama.
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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times reports Q1 revenue up 7.1% YoY to $635.9M, subscription revenue up 14.4% YoY to $335M, and operating profit up 21.3% YoY to $58.6M
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Daily Dot laid off 15 people, or much of its staff, after a sudden and unexplained collapse in referral traffic starting April 10 that it couldn't fix  —  After a sharp and abrupt traffic collapse, the Daily Dot was forced to lay off much of its staff—and it may be a preview of the tough road ahead for digital publishers.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
In Q2, Disney says Disney+ subscribers rose by 1.4M to 126M, while Hulu rose by 1.1M to 54.7M, and operating income hit $336M, up from $47M in Q2 2024  —  Despite gathering economic storm clouds, chief Bob Iger said the Mouse House remains “optimistic” about its current fiscal year guidance.
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Jessica Testa / New York Times:
Dear Media, the woman-focused podcast network launched in 2018, says it has between $51M and $100M in revenue and has raised $12M  —  Men dominate the top of the podcasting charts.  As listeners, they slightly outnumber women, too.  “Brocasters” and the “manosphere” have even become a media obsession, and for good reason.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBCU reaches an agreement that will allow it to sell Versant's US ad inventory for the next two upfront cycles  —  NBCUniversal is parting ways with many of its cable networks, but the company will continue to sell all the commercials that appear on those outlets for the next two years.
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
In a letter, nine US senators urge Shari Redstone not to settle Trump's $20B lawsuit, saying it will only embolden him to “extort” CBS and other outlets  —  The letter signed by nine senators urges Redstone to “Stand up for freedom of the press and our democracy.”
 
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The Malheur Enterprise, a rural weekly in Oregon, is closing after more than 115 years, as its owners plan to retire; the last print edition is May 7
 

 
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”

Eli Tan / New York Times:
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model

Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
 
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