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4:00 PM ET, December 4, 2025

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Erik Wemple / New York Times:
The NYT sues the Pentagon in Washington, DC, arguing that the US DOD's new reporting restrictions infringed on its journalists' constitutional rights  —  The company said in a lawsuit that the Defense Department's new reporting restrictions infringed on the constitutional rights of journalists.
The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate  —  Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out after decision not to hold vote on Israel's participation
James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal  —  - CNBC is partnering with prediction site Kalshi to integrate its data, starting in 2026.  — Kalshi and Polymarket …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS Evening News co-anchor Maurice DuBois will exit CBS News on December 18, as EIC Bari Weiss and President Tom Cibrowski overhaul the evening newscast  —  DuBois follows his co-anchor John Dickerson, who will leave CBS at the end of the year.  —  CBS Evening News co-anchor Maurice DuBois …
CNBC:
Letter: Paramount expresses concern to WBD about the “fairness and adequacy” of the sales process, accusing WBD of favoring Netflix's offer  —  Paramount Skydance is calling foul on how Warner Bros. Discovery has conducted its sale process.  —  In a letter reviewed by CNBC …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Paramount has raised a proposed breakup fee in its WBD bid to $5B, up from a $2.1B fee; WBD would receive it if a deal is agreed to but not finalized
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
Sources: DOJ's Gail Slater and her senior reports have discussed plans to launch a multiyear investigation into Netflix if the company wins the WBD bid
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other news outlets  —  OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times …
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Harmeet Kaur / CNN:
Olivia Nuzzi's book American Canto is seeing slow initial sales, with the hardcover edition ranked No. 6,709 on Amazon's bestseller list as of early December 3  —  Storms  —  The news that Olivia Nuzzi had a book coming out was, in political and journalistic circles, the sensation of the fall season.
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Sam Becker / Fast Company:
TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC  —  The stock exchange's latest media partnership extends its push into new formats while giving TBPN a high-profile East Coast home base.  —  ADD ON GOOGLE
Discussion: @nyse, @lynnmartin and @dylanabruscato
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Future reports revenue down 6% YoY to £739.2M in the year to September 30, pre-tax profit down 11% to £91.9M; CEO Kevin Li Ying wants to cut its Google reliance  —  Future says it is cutting down on the correlation between page views and revenue as Google AI Overviews hit traffic.
Discussion: The Times
Reuters:
Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google's and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money”  —  Wikipedia is working with Big Tech on deals similar to its arrangement with Google, the online encyclopedia's co-founder …
Discussion: @macloo.bsky.social and Diff
Jamie Heller / Business Insider:
Business Insider launches a monthlong pilot AI program to publish quick news stories, edited by BI editors, created using a GPT trained on its archives  —  At Business Insider, we've been experimenting with AI, finding ways to harness it to be more efficient and effective.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Madison Malone Kircher / New York Times:
Spotify Wrapped's Listening Ages sparks widespread social media discussion and follows in Spotify's tradition of issuing gimmicky, loosely data-backed offerings  —  The wrinkle in this year's Spotify Wrapped release was an estimate of the user's “listening age.”  Some wore it like a badge of honor.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, which adds features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs
 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Thanksgiving NFL games averaged nearly 45M viewers each, up from 34.5M in 2024, driven by enhanced Nielsen measurement; streaming averaged 2.2M viewers, up 58%
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Condé Nast licenses its content for use across Microsoft Copilot experiences and hires Vasanth Williams as its new chief product and technology officer
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Ex-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests
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Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Internal documents: CBS News EIC Bari Weiss is scheduled to moderate a town hall with Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, set to air on December 13
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, after saying in November it needed “extra time for safety evaluations”
 
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