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4:25 AM ET, November 26, 2025

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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD asks bidders to submit improved offers by December 1 and says it may enter a period of exclusive negotiations with one company after those bids  —  Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the parent of HBO and CNN, has asked potential buyers to submit new, sweetened offers after receiving …
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Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Sources: Netflix ramps up a charm offensive in its pitch to WBD and is sowing doubts about the inevitability of Paramount's bid from an antitrust standpoint  —  Netflix is ramping up a major charm offensive with Warner Bros. Discovery and US regulators as it pursues the media giant's streaming service …
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick  —  Warner Music Group and AI music generator Suno have struck what they call a “first-of-its-kind partnership”.
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Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and just $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024  —  Suno has raised $250 million in a quest to become a “verticalized” creation, social media and streaming service, according to investment documents obtained by Billboard.
Bloomberg:
In interviews, 22 indie food creators say Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics on Pinterest and Facebook have decimated traffic and yielded unusable recipes  —  Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures  —  Eb Gargano has been writing recipes …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sources: Paramount plans to distribute Brett Ratner-directed Rush Hour 4 after Trump asked it to revive the franchise; Ratner directed Amazon's Melania doc  —  “Rush Hour 4” is in the works, with Paramount on board to distribute the newest installment in the buddy-cop series.
Tyler Falk / Current:
The NPR Network revenue programs brought in $18.3M in FY25, including $9M from NPR Network donations and podcast subscriptions via NPR+, up nearly 5x YoY  —  NPR's programs to help raise funds for public radio stations have exceeded expectations, network executives reported during a Friday board meeting.
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ampere: US sports rights spending expected to increase 20% by 2030 to over $78B; recent NBA and MLB rights deals will account for nearly half of all spend  —  Ampere Analysis forecasts a 20 percent increase by 2030.  —  If you thought you were paying a lot for your sports-TV package now, just wait until 2030.
Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press:
38 North: outside radio broadcasting to North Korea is down 85% since the start of 2025 due to the shutdown of US broadcasters and South Korean policy changes  —  For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea.
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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Dutch author Rutger Bregman says the BBC removed his Reith Lecture claim that Trump is “the most openly corrupt” US president ever; the BBC cites “legal advice”  —  Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
Emmett Lindner / New York Times:
Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B+ in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's  —  The popular app's online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok's popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.
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