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CBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media
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A look at David Ellison's potential proxy fight for WBD, which could be Hollywood's most explosive battle in terms of cost and public scrutiny
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A profile of Wikipedia as it faces challenges, including attacks from Elon Musk and the far right, reduced traffic due to AI, and legal challenges in India
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web Find
A profile of Bari Weiss and an in-depth look at her hostile takeover of CBS News; a source says Weiss has said she is pursuing a “de-Baathification of CBS” Find
Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager in 2024, settles his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast, filed in March 2025; The Beast says he received no payment Find
On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones Find
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Prince Harry and celebrities including Elton John prepare for a roughly 10-week trial against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers for “unlawful activity” Find
CBS airs 60 Minutes' CECOT segment, which Bari Weiss shelved in December as it lacked an on-camera interview with a Trump official, without such an interview Find
CBS News airs the delayed 60 Minutes CECOT segment with new introductory and closing remarks; the core of the piece was untouched Find
Sources: Jan Philipp Burgard, Welt EIC and a top Axel Springer editor, was ousted after an investigation into inappropriate behavior toward female employees Find
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that President Trump would sue the network if it didn't air his interview with Tony Dokoupil unedited Find
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CBS airs 60 Minutes' CECOT segment, which Bari Weiss shelved in December as it lacked an on-camera interview with a Trump official, without such an interview — After accusations of “corporate censorship,” CBS aired a postponed “60 Minutes” segment about the CECOT prison that was largely unchanged.
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CNN: Sources: the 60 Minutes CECOT segment pulled by Bari Weiss in December is slated to air tonight; CBS News PR has not sent out any listings for the broadcast
Ted Johnson / Deadline: ‘60 Minutes’ Airs Delayed ‘Inside CECOT’ Story: Trump Officials Still “Declined Our Requests” For Interviews, Correspondent Says
Martin Holmes / TV Insider: CBS Viewers React After ‘60 Minutes’ Finally Airs El Salvador Prison Report That Got Yanked
Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite: 60 Minutes: Trump DHS ‘Deflected All Questions’ About ‘Brutal’ El Salvador Prison — Even After Report Was Delayed a Month
Siladitya Ray / Forbes: CBS Airs ‘60 Minutes’ Segment On Deported Migrants That Was ‘Spiked’ Last Month
Brian Steinberg / Variety: CBS News Ready to Unveil Delayed ‘60 Minutes’ Report That Pit Correspondent Against Chief
Scott Nover / @scottnover: Bari Weiss personally tried to arrange an interview with a Trump official for the “Inside CECOT” segment, but was unable to, per @liamjscott's reporting in our latest story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael Calderone / The Wrap: CBS Finally Airs Shelved ‘60 Minutes’ ‘Inside CECOT’ Report Despite Trump Admin No-Show
Jeremy Barr / The Guardian: CBS finally airs 60 Minutes segment on Venezuelan prisoners sent to Cecot in El Salvador
Tamsin McMahon / Bloomberg: CBS to Air ‘60 Minutes’ Episode on Migrants It Earlier Pulled
Avery K. Bristow / Filmogaz.com: ‘60 Minutes’ Premieres Long-Awaited ‘Inside CECOT’ Segment Tonight
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: One Month Later, CBS Airs Postponed ‘60 Minutes’ Report With Few Changes
Tamsin McMahon / Yahoo Finance: CBS Airs ‘60 Minutes’ Episode on Migrants It Earlier Pulled
Robert Davis / Raw Story: ‘Interesting timing’: Observers call out MAGA-friendly CBS News boss's latest flip-flop
Tamsin McMahon / Bloomberg Law: CBS Airs ‘60 Minutes’ Episode on Migrants It Earlier Pulled
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New York Times:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that President Trump would sue the network if it didn't air his interview with Tony Dokoupil unedited — In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline: ‘60 Minutes’ To Air ‘Inside CECOT’ Segment On Trump Deportations That Was Pulled From December Broadcast
Olivia Empson / The Guardian: White House press secretary tells CBS 'we'll sue your ass off' if it edits Trump interview
Emma Thwaites / Emma Thwaites on LinkedIn: This is the critical line - for me - in this story “Once a president is willing to sue a news outlet, and the outlet is willing to settle …
@Nonilex@masto.ai: 'We'll Sue'∶ White House's Warning to #CBS Is Sign of a New #Media Status Quo — In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary #KarolineLeavitt told CBS News that #Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited. …
Iesha / Baller Alert: Leaked Audio Reveals White House Threatened CBS News Over Donald Trump Interview, “We'll Sue Your Ass Off”
Susan McPherson / @susanmcp.bsky.social: “Make sure you guys don't cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full.” Ms. Leavitt said — “Yeah, we're doing it, yeah,” CBS's Dokoupil responded. — Ms. Leavitt replied: “He (Trump) said, 'If it's not out in full, we'll sue your ass off.'” — www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
Jordan Conradson / The Gateway Pundit: “If it's Not Out in Full, We'll SUE YOUR ASS OFF” - White House Press Sec Karoline Leavitt Threatened CBS Team that Trump Would Sue if They Edited Interview
Nick Arama / RedState: Media Shows You Don't Hate Them Enough With Hot Take on Karoline Leavitt Comment About Trump Interview
DR Alex Concorde / @doctoralex.bsky.social: The point of suing the BBC etc - dictating the news — After recording a 13-min interview with CBS Press Barbie warns: 'Make sure you don't cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full'" — “He said, 'If it's not out in full, we'll sue your ass off.'” — Now they're seeing the cost of pandering.
@socialmedialab.ca: ‘Inside CECOT’ is airing tonight on CBS's 60 Minutes. But, surprised, surprised, the promised interview (with a Trump official) did not materialize. — So in the end, all that drama about having the White House perspective was for absolutely nothing. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/ 176...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen.bsky.social: If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News, there's a development. — @brianstelter.bsky.social says the Inside CECOT report is to air tonight, “according to sources at CBS.” — view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/ 176... This part interested me most: “The promised interview did not materialize.” …
Dan Clarendon / TV Insider: White House Threatened to Sue CBS If ‘Evening News’ Interview Was Edited: 'We'll Sue Your Ass Off'
Mashkoorakhan / The Indian Express: 'We'll sue your a** off': White House press secretary warns CBS to run Trump interview unedited or get sued
Joshua Wilburn / RADAR: 'We'll Sue Your A— Off': White House Threatens Lawsuit as Donald Trump Spars With CBS Evening News Anchor on Camera
Isabel Keane / The Independent: Karoline Leavitt warned CBS that Trump will ‘sue your a** off’ if interview was cut
Bailey Richards / People: White House Warned CBS News 'We'll Sue Your Ass Off' If Donald Trump's Interview Was Edited at All
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Karoline Leavitt warned Tony Dokoupil and the CBS News team to air their Trump interview in full, or “we'll sue your ass off.” Scoop @nytimes with @BenMullin Click to hear it yourself:
Chuck Darwin / @cdarwin@c.im: Moments after Trump finished taping a 13-minute interview on Tuesday — with the “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil in Michigan, — Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, approached Mr. Dokoupil and his colleagues to convey a message from the president. …
Steve Herman / @newsguyusa@flipboard.social: “We'll sue your ass off.” - White House press secretary's threat to CBS News if it did not air in full an interview with President Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rick Ellis / Too Much TV Newsletter: Too Much TV Exclusive: CBS News Executive Offers Defense Of Bari Weiss
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin.bsky.social: Please listen to the audio of this Dokoupil-Leavitt exchange (halfway into the story, free link below) so you can hear the way he says, “Yeah, we're doing it, yeah.” — He sounds like an Olive Garden waiter who was just asked to bring another bowl of breadsticks. — 🎁 ⬇️ …
Ryan Mancini / The Hill: Leavitt told CBS News that Trump would sue if his interview was cut short on air: Reports
Michael J. Stern / @michaeljstern.bsky.social: The idea that the White House would sue a new station for editing an interview for time is outrageous. It's dictatorial. — www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
Catherine Rampell / @crampell.bsky.social: This is why you don't give in to bullies www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
Sandra Rhodes / IJR: Leavitt to Dokoupil: 'We'll Sue' If Trump Interview is Edited
McKinley Franklin / The Hollywood Reporter: White House Threatened to Sue CBS if Trump ‘Evening News’ Interview Wasn't Aired in Full
Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite: Karoline Leavitt Reportedly Threatened CBS Anchor Tony Dokoupil to Not Edit Trump Interview: 'We'll Sue Your Ass Off'
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Karoline Leavitt warned CBS that Trump would sue if interview was edited
Jen / @jenk3.bsky.social: And yet if they leave in “ums” or anything where his staff redirected him, it'll be tantrum time.
Stephanie Kaloi / The Wrap: Karoline Leavitt Threatened to Sue CBS News' ‘Ass Off’ Unless Trump Interview Aired in Full
Brian Steinberg / Variety: White House Threatened to Sue CBS Over ‘Evening News’ Interview With Trump
Nick Field / @nickfield.bsky.social: The New York Times, and not CBS, reporting that Karoline Leavitt told Tony Dokoupil that Trump would sue if the network edited his remarks. A reminder that Trump now holds the power over the network www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b... [image]
Jon Passantino / @passantino.bsky.social: Just weeks ago, Dokoupil promised he would be more transparent than Cronkite. Why didn't he report this WH threat? [embedded post]
@davidrlurie.com: Trumper's threat to a docile stooge: “If it's not out in full, we'll sue your ass off.” If they know you are a pushover, they will treat you as such. Far better not to be one.
Dean Baker / @deanbaker13.bsky.social: Trump threatened to sue CBS for editing an interview with him www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b... Just so everyone knows, the idea of a politician suing a news outlet for editing an interview is laughable. Trump was threatening to use his power as president against CBS.
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News airs the delayed 60 Minutes CECOT segment with new introductory and closing remarks; the core of the piece was untouched — CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss's decision to hold the segment in December ignited a firestorm within the network — A “60 Minutes” segment that was held …
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David Bauder / Associated Press: “60 Minutes” airing report on Trump deportations that was suddenly pulled a month ago
Joe Stonor / Yahoo Finance: European Stock Markets Tumble on Trump's Tariff Threats, But Analysts Caution Against Panic
Brian Stelter / CNN: ‘60 Minutes’ is finally airing the shelved ‘Inside CECOT’ segment
Brendan Rascius / The Independent: ‘60 Minutes’ segment controversially spiked by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss finally airs
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: ‘60 Minutes’ to air updated segment on El Salvador's CECOT prison after Bari Weiss shelved it
@60minutes: “When we got there, the CECOT director was talking to us... He said, ‘Welcome to hell,’” says Luis Muñoz Pinto, who was deported to a prison in El Salvador. He says he has no criminal record and did not enter the U.S. illegally. The White House claimed it was deporting [video]
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter.bsky.social: So now the “Inside CECOT” report has aired. — But there's definitely going to be fallout at CBS. — For one thing, Alfonsi's contract is up in just a few months. — Hard to imagine she'll be staying at “60.” — Lots more in my story here:
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter.bsky.social: Weiss felt Alfonsi was being overly stubborn. Here's an example of what Weiss wanted: She wanted the report to address the fact that one of the deportees interviewed has two tattoos, one of which is a swastika.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter.bsky.social: Alfonsi, according to sources, knew that media critics would compare the bootleg Canadian stream of her report to the finalized US broadcast and call out any changes. She didn't want to do anything that might lead viewers to conclude that “60 Minutes” had been compromised.
Alexander Willis / Raw Story: CBS News to air ‘torched’ prison report after getting snubbed by Trump admin: report
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: ‘60 Minutes’ runs the ‘Inside CECOT’ story previously shelved by Bari Weiss
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics: “60 Minutes” Airs Delayed “Inside CECOT” Report: “When You Get There, You Already Know You're In Hell”
Susie / @banikarim: this whole chapter ends up being a humiliating unforced error for bari. in the end there are no changes to the piece & she couldn't get anyone from the admin to go on the air proving alfonsi right. brutal.
@60minutes: President Trump expressed admiration for El Salvador's prison system, saying, “They're great facilities.” Former inmates say that inside CECOT, prisoners sleep on metal bunks with no mattresses or sheets. Inmates say they had no access to the outdoors, clean drinking water, or [video]
Jaymes / @jaymesl.bsky.social: Better late than never, I guess (also choosing to air it on what's likely to be a lower viewership night with no NFL lead-in on CBS) [embedded post]
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter.bsky.social: The backstage drama came to a head on Friday and Saturday. The ultimate solution: Alfonsi taped what's known in TV as a “tag,” a new ending to the report that included the points Weiss wanted. But the original report stayed as-is, just as it was in December.
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Update: “Inside CECOT” is confirmed to run tonight, there will be new reporting in Sharyn Alfonsi's intro/outro to the original piece, which remains unchanged. .... More on latest at CBS News in next edition of In The Room... https://puck.news/...
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: ‘60 Minutes’ Will Reportedly Run Segment Yanked By Bari Weiss On Tonight's Broadcast — Against Huge Timeslot Competition from NFL Playoff Game
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: So far, its seems like the same CECOT story that could've run in December (since we could watch the original after it was distributed to Canada)
@60minutes: Luis Muñoz Pinto describes the conditions upon arriving at CECOT, one of El Salvador's harshest prisons. “There was blood everywhere, screams, people crying, people who couldn't take it and were urinating and vomiting on themselves,” he says. Muñoz was seeking asylum in the [video]
Taiyler S. Mitchell / HuffPost: CBS News Finally Releases ‘60 Minutes’ Report ‘Inside CECOT’
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: ‘60 Minutes’ airs pulled segment on Venezuelan prison
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: CBS Confirms It Will Air ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on El Salvador Prisoners Previously Pulled by Bari Weiss
Matthew Sitman / @matthewsitman: Bari has in common with MAGA a willingness, nay eagerness, to be humiliated by Trump even as you destroy your reputation for him: “Bari Weiss said she would personally book an interview, two sources told me. So ‘60 Minutes’ producers flew to DC from New York, and Alfonsi flew in
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter.bsky.social: The “Inside CECOT” report finally aired on CBS tonight. Sharyn Alfonsi recorded a new beginning and ending to incorporate the additions Bari Weiss wanted. But the report itself remains the same as it was on the day Weiss delayed it. So, here's the backstory on what happened... [image]
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: The CECOT segment was supposedly held because it didn't have the Trump admin perspective. But it sounds like the new version doesn't have it either. 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi just noted: “Since November, 60 Minutes has made several attempts to interview key Trump
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Sharyn Alfonsi's new intro to CECOT story notes, “Since November, ‘60 Minutes’ has made several attempts to interview key Trump administration officials on camera about our story. They declined our requests.”
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A profile of Bari Weiss and an in-depth look at her hostile takeover of CBS News; a source says Weiss has said she is pursuing a “de-Baathification of CBS” — The network's new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself …
Discussion:
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The New Yorker profile cites “sources close to Weiss and Ellison” who say Weiss “readily realizes and admits that she was not as knowledgeable as she should have been about the timing of the marketing and promo process at ‘60 Minutes.’”
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “She brings the sometimes chaotic energy and work ethic of a startup, but she also realizes she needs to work on having more executive discipline,” the pro-Weiss “sources” said in a quote.
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
CBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer: The day that CBS News became literally ‘fake news’ for America
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona.bsky.social: Anyway, here's the full story on how Bari Weiss and Donald Trump enjoyed a warm embrace and kissed each other on the cheek during his 60 Minutes interview — which featured him praising her as a “great” leader. — www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ a...
@sachlichepolitik.bsky.social: “Some CBS News employees expressed concern after the network cited two anonymous “US officials” on Wednesday to report that the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis “suffered internal bleeding to the torso” after the incident.”
Abbey / @abbeyarletto.bsky.social: EXCLUSIVE: In a moment that sources said led to stunned reactions and dropped jaws, Bari Weiss excitedly introduced herself to the president and leaned in for a kiss on the cheek following his ‘60 Minutes’ interview.
@willpollock.com: “difference between these two stories is not their journalistic rigor. the difference is who they help.” @parkermolloy.com — if a bullseye itself threw a dart and hit the bullseye. — 🎩 @newsjennifer.bsky.social — www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t... [image]
Mike Stunson / Forbes: Was Minneapolis ICE Agent Hit By Renee Good's Car Or Not? Videos Raise Fresh Doubts
Sam Litzinger / @samlitzinger.bsky.social: A devastatingly accurate critique of a once-great news organization... [embedded post]
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen.bsky.social: If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: — “A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it.” www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...
Craig Aaron / @notaaroncraig.bsky.social: “A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it. The difference ... is not journalistic rigor. The difference is who they help.”
Pam Spaulding / @pamspaulding.bsky.social: Another feather in the cap of Bari Weiss at See-BS News! — Those Ross “internal injuries” were just propaganda. (We all knew that, of course, we have 👀.) — No journos left at CBS to pick up a phone to confirm *anything of that factual magnitude* given this case? …
@wdlindsy@toad.social: It's hard to choose material to excerpt from Parker Molloy's important essay “What the Trump Administration Is Buying with CBS's Reputation.” As with everything Molloy writes, it's rich, dense, thoughtful — and I encourage you to read the entire piece. — In what follows, I'll offer a few excerpts that get to the heart of her story. …
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy.com: Today's newsletter: The administration's narrative about Renee Good was collapsing. The video was everywhere. They needed something to change the conversation. A week later, CBS gave them “internal bleeding.” www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...
Garrett Owen / Salon: “Huge internal concern”: CBS report on ICE officer's injuries caused “big dissension” among staff
@murshedz.bsky.social: “The network's top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story (re Ross reportedly suffering “internal bleeding to the torso") on an editorial call." — The story was “viewed as a thinly veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who'd carry it online.” …
Jeremy Barr / The Guardian: Some CBS News staffers expressed deep skepticism about a story that used unnamed sources to report that the ICE officer who shot a woman had “internal bleeding”
@newsjennifer.bsky.social: “he was taken to a federal building” — EVERYTHING the Trump team has said about this deadly shooting is a lie including this now debunked claim that shooter Jonathan Ross went to the hospital. It's also further evidence that CBS News is doing propaganda for Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... …
Democracy Now: CBS News “Exclusive” That ICE Officer “Suffered Internal Bleeding” Draws “Huge Internal Concern”
@red-sparrows.bsky.social: They reported that he “suffered internal bleeding to the torso” which is awful reporting as that could mean a small bruise. They reported it from anonymous Trump admin sources without question. CBS is finished as a news source; there's no coming back from this. — www.theguardian.com/media/2026/ j...
Rhian Lubin / The Independent: Bari Weiss pushed story on ICE agent's alleged injuries after shooting - despite CBS staffers' concern, report says
Financial Times:
Prince Harry and celebrities including Elton John prepare for a roughly 10-week trial against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers for “unlawful activity” — Celebrities set to give evidence over claims that unlawful activity at the media group was ‘habitual and widespread’
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Ellise Shafer / Variety: Prince Harry Arrives at London Court as Privacy Case Against Daily Mail Publisher Kicks Off
Geraldine McKelvie / The Guardian: Prince Harry v the Daily Mail: high-stakes trial could have profound effects on UK media
Lizzie Dearden / New York Times: What to Know About Prince Harry's Case Against Daily Mail Publisher
Lily Ford / The Hollywood Reporter: Prince Harry, Elton John, and Elizabeth Hurley Among Claimants Against Daily Mail Publisher as Landmark London Trial Gets Underway
Lottie Verrier / Euro Weekly News: Prince Harry returns to London for landmark privacy trial against Daily Mail publisher
Max Goldbart / Deadline: Prince Harry, Liz Hurley & Sadie Frost Arrive At London's High Court For Landmark Privacy Case Against Daily Mail Publisher
People: Prince Harry ‘Feeling Confident and Ready’ as He Arrives for Final Legal Fight with U.K. Tabloids
Danielle Stacey / HELLO!: Prince Harry makes first appearance at High Court trial in London - live updates
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Study: local broadcast TV supported 1.5M+ US jobs in 2025 and had a $748B annual GDP impact, with advertising accounting for the largest share at $628B — The local television broadcast industry saw another year of strong contributions to the American economy, with more than 1.5 million jobs supported …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Jan Philipp Burgard, Welt EIC and a top Axel Springer editor, was ousted after an investigation into inappropriate behavior toward female employees — Jan Philipp Burgard was one of Axel Springer's most prominent editors, overseeing its influential German broadsheet Welt.
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Gerry Cardinale, head of RedBird, Paramount's second-largest shareholder, as he lobbies regulators and shareholders to accept Paramount's WBD bid — RedBird's Gerry Cardinale will tell anyone who will listen why the hostile $77.9 billion bid is superior
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at David Ellison's potential proxy fight for WBD, which could be Hollywood's most explosive battle in terms of cost and public scrutiny
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Lauren Ashley Davis / @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social: Paramount CEO David Ellison this week met with UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lisa Nandy as well as prominent European creatives, Deadline hears from sources, as the studio took its fight for Warner Bros Discovery overseas. — deadline.com/2026/01/davi...
Mike Meadway / @mmeadway.bsky.social: This isn't just a proxy battle between competing investors. This is an attempt by a billionaire to control a media empire. — www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/ bus...
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:NEW!
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web — A report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta's Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk's X on mobile devices.
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PhoneArena, Android Headlines, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Mashable, The Verge, Digit, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, Analytics Insight, Ukrainian National News, Irish Independent and Forbes, more at Techmeme »
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Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena: If you're still on X, you're becoming the minority (at least on mobile)
Tyler Lee / Android Headlines: Threads Beats X in Daily Mobile Users as Meta's Social Platform Gains Momentum
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Threads Usage Overtakes X on Mobile
Stan Schroeder / Mashable: Threads has overtaken X in daily users, but only on mobile
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Threads overtakes X on mobile, but still lags far behind
Jack Dunn / Variety:
On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones — Matt Damon and Ben Affleck recently appeared on the “Joe Rogan Experience” to promote their new Netflix film “The Rip,” …
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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Hollywood Cuts Off Its Future to Spite Its Present
Stuart Heritage / The Guardian: Matt Damon is right: phones + Netflix mean we are now in the pub bore age of cinema
Sam Warner / NME: Netflix tells directors to repeat plot for people using phones while watching, says Matt Damon
Jim Manzon / International Business Times: Matt Damon Explains Why Netflix Movies Feel Different on Your Phone — Streaming Incentives and Studio Reactions
Krys Shahin / KARE-TV: Matt Damon: Netflix wants movies to restate plot ‘three or four times’ for viewers on their phones
Claire Lehmann / @clairlemon: So much culture is downstream of economics
@zymazza: And then I'm on my phone because this movie is boring and they're just reiterating the same plot points 3-4x
Trung Phan / @trungtphan: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on Rogan taking about how Netflix has changed filmmaking. A major considerations is dealing with distracted viewers. To keep them tuned in, “you re-iterate the plot 3-4x in the dialogue because people are on their phones.” Then, in action films, you [video]
Jon Repetti / @pourfairelevide: this is how basically all TV shows and TV movies have always been written except for a tiny subset of prestige programs on a few cable networks. if we just accepted that Netflix is just TV by other means a lot of you could finally relax
Forrest / @forrestpknight: Honestly, Ben Affleck actually knowing AI and the landscape caught me off guard, but as a writer, makes sense. Great takes across the board. [video]
@dead_baseball: Had roommates that had never seen Die Hard so I decided to watch it with them. The entire movie they're doing chores and on their phones. At the end of the movie, one of them said “I didn't like it.” I asked him “why did the bad guys hold the building hostage?”...
@barondestructo: I prefer shows that repeatedly spoon feed me their plots as if I were a time traveling narcoleptic imbecile from the 17th century experiencing film and television for the first time.
@thecinesthetic: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on Rogan taking about how Netflix has changed filmmaking. “you re-iterate the plot 3-4x in the dialogue because people are on their phones.” [video]
Tom van der Linden / @tom_lsoo: Two guys who actually should have their own podcast
Craig Fuller / @freightalley: Affleck has a better grasp on the limitations and issues in AI than 99% of the VCs that are actively investing in the space
@bearlyai: Ben Affleck also went off on AI in Hollywood: ▫️LLM fim script outputs are mid ("by its nature, [the models go] to the mean, the average") ▫️but they are useful tools for research ▫️doesn't think it'll ever make a film whole cloth ▫️it's a tool just like VFX and will be useful [video]
Lyn Alden / @lynaldencontact: The idea of changing around movie craft to accommodate viewer distraction is so depressing.
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to: Matt Damon talks about how Netflix designs movies around distracted couch watching. — Front-load the big action scene in the first 5 minutes to keep people from bouncing versus the end in a theatrical release and repeat the plot 3-4 times in dialogue because people are on their phones while watching. …
Johann / @lookatmymeat1: Ever notice in Stanger Things how every season theres a scene where they all gather in a room and literally describe not only the plan but what they're doing EXACTLY at that moment
Daniel Richtman / @danielrpk: Oh so that rumor about Netflix was true 😐
@khuze_elikhulu: This is another reason why he was the perfect Batman. Coz he's actually smart. That line about AI being horrible because by its nature it always trends towards the mean? Excellent.
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: You must understand this: he's the smart one
Ross Hendricks / @ross__hendricks: Everyone slowly, then all at once, coming to the same realization that the AI hype is exactly that... hype. Used to justify trillions in capex that will likely never see a return.
Luke Thomas🏋️ / @lthomasnews: This is depressing.
Chris Tachio / @ctachio83984: the video of him speaking really good spanish with all the native inflections and stuff was somewhat surprising to me at the time but when i see this video with the sound off i feel like his body language fits his spanish voice a lot better than his english one
Jacob / @andthatsbb: Actual film writers and directors have to operate like youtubers now we really fucked everything up
Adam White / The Independent: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck confirm bleak, bizarre rumour about Netflix original movies
Carly Thomas / The Hollywood Reporter: Matt Damon Says Some Actors Would Prefer “to Go to Jail” Than Be Canceled
Lloyd Lee / Business Insider: Matt Damon says Netflix wants to make action movies differently to account for shorter attention spans
Mekishana Pierre / Entertainment Weekly: Matt Damon says Netflix wants plot repeated 3 or 4 times in movies for viewers watching while on their phones
William Hughes / The A.V. Club: Matt Damon says Netflix asks creators to repeat the plot “three or four times” for people on their phones
Quinn Eaton / Whiskey Riff: Ben Affleck & Matt Damon Reveal Why Netflix Is Intentionally Dumbing Down New Shows & Movies
Olivia Salamone / RADAR: ‘Follow You to the Grave’: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Discuss Cancel Culture with Joe Rogan
Jordan Ruimy / World of Reel: Matt Damon Says Netflix Demands Characters “Reiterate the Plot” Because “People Are on Their Phones”
Zackerie Fairfax / Dexerto: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon say Netflix is reshaping how movies are made for better and worse
Glenn Garner / Deadline: Matt Damon Explains How Audiences' Low Attention Spans Influenced Netflix's Rule For “How You Make Movies”
Paul Tassi / Forbes: Is Netflix's New No. 1 Hit, ‘The Rip,’ Worth Watching?
Just Jared: Matt Damon Says Netflix Movies Repeat Plot Points Because People Are on Their Phones While Watching
Haleigh Foutch / The Wrap: The 3 Best Movies to Watch on Netflix This Weekend
Danielle Ryan / /Film: Matt Damon And Ben Affleck's Action Thriller Is The First Must-Watch 2026 Movie Streaming On Netflix
Nicole Drum / Comic Book: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's New Crime Thriller Just Hit Netflix (& It Was Inspired By a True Story)
Anne Marie O'Connor / Star Magazine: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Reunite in Netflix's ‘The Rip’
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
An interview with Semafor's Justin Smith on growing its events business around tentpoles and how DC-focused media benefits from the corporate affairs market — - Semafor, the high-profile news startup founded in 2022, says it's now profitable — a rarity for a new media company.
Discussion:
Peter Kafka / @pkafka.bsky.social: Launching a media startup is hard. One way to make it easier is by targeting Washington, where there's a lot of ad money around the industry/policy complex. — My interview with Semafor CEO @Justin_B_Smith. Excerpt: www.businessinsider.com/semafor- just... full audio podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ c...
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager in 2024, settles his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast, filed in March 2025; The Beast says he received no payment — As part of the settlement, The Daily Beast was not required to apologize or issue any payment to Chris LaCivita, who sued the outlet last year.
Discussion:
Adam Nichols / Raw Story: Trump aide ditched Daily Beast lawsuit as it threatened to reveal admin insiders' secrets
Hugh Dougherty / The Daily Beast: Trump Aide Ditches Lawsuit Without Handing Over Tax Returns
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Daily Beast Settles Defamation Lawsuit With Former Trump Campaign Manager Chris LaCivita
Alex Isenstadt / Axios: Trump adviser LaCivita and The Daily Beast settle defamation suit
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A look at lessons from Wikipedia for journalism, including setting a clear set of standards and practices, preventing link rot, and using detailed documentation — It's not a news site. But there's a lot to learn from how Wikipedia constructs shared knowledge about what's happening in the world.
Discussion:
@niemanlab.org: It's not a news site. But there's a lot to learn from how Wikipedia constructs shared knowledge about what's happening in the world. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/afte...
John Marshall / WebProNews: Wikipedia's 25th Anniversary: Reshaping Journalism in an AI-Driven World
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News: Qatar Hired UK PR Firm To Edit Wikipedia Page: Report
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Darren Loucaides / Financial Times:
A profile of Wikipedia as it faces challenges, including attacks from Elon Musk and the far right, reduced traffic due to AI, and legal challenges in India
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Caitlin Dewey / Links I Would Gchat …: #755: Purgatory looks nice from hell
Thiago Carvalho / @cyrilpedia.bsky.social: 'The Heritage Foundation, which produced the Project 2025 plan for Trump's second term, even mooted identifying and targeting Wikipedia editors it disagrees with using facial recognition.' — www.ft.com/content/5137...
Ariel Parrella-Aureli / Block Club Chicago: Chicago Wikipedia Contributors Celebrate 25 Years Of Aggregating Knowledge
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
With a $1.7B global box office, Disney's Zootopia 2 becomes the highest grossing animated film from a Hollywood studio, behind the Chinese hit Ne Zha 2
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Variety, Dexerto, Screen Rant, Associated Press, Shane Glick on LinkedIn, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, The Movie Blog, Collider, Deadline and Just Jared
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety: China Box Office: ‘Zootopia 2’ Leads Again as Market Cools Further Ahead of Lunar New Year
Cameron Frew / Dexerto: Top 50 highest-grossing movies of all time
Brennan Klein / Screen Rant: Zootopia 2 Leaps Onto All-Time Top 10 Chart, Smashing Box Office Record For Animated Movies
Lindsey Bahr / Associated Press: Box Office: ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ opens behind ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
Shane Glick / Shane Glick on LinkedIn: Congratulations to everyone who worked so insanely hard on this incredible film. It's so amazing to be a part of something that brought so much joy into the world.
Samantha Masunaga / Los Angeles Times: ‘Zootopia 2’ is the highest-grossing U.S. animated movie of all time
Justin Carter / Gizmodo: ‘Zootopia 2’ Is Hollywood's Biggest Animated Movie Ever
Rahul Malhotra / Collider: ‘Zootopia 2’ Cages Chris Pratt's $1.6 Billion Blockbuster To Enter a Historic Box Office List
Davis Giangiulio / CNBC:
Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum to help it develop a system where AI developers pay creators for training content
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BusinessCloud, @matthewcp, @fredkschott, @_rishinsharma, @cloudflare, @astasiamyers, @zivreichert, @jws7, @cloudflare, Cassidy Williams on LinkedIn, Christopher Rotas on LinkedIn, Implicator.ai, WebProNews, Advanced Television, The Decoder, FinSMEs, Analytics India Magazine, Cloudflare, Tech in Asia, The New Stack, SiliconANGLE, Crypto Briefing and @druce.ai
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Patrick Killeen / BusinessCloud: $65bn Cloudflare makes swoop for London-based AI business
Matthew Phillips / @matthewcp: I've always admired Cloudflare engineers from afar and am honored to be joining them. There's a lot more Astro can do to help content sites adapt to the changing internet; and with Cloudflare's support we can double down on that mission.
@fredkschott: Excited to announce that our team is joining Cloudflare! Astro usage is growing 2-3x YoY and showing no signs of slowing. Big year ahead for Astro — let's push the web forward.
Rish / @_rishinsharma: Human Native was working on solving the original sin of LLMs, giving contributions to creators on the Internet Countless licensing / IP deals have fallen through because they're simply too hard to price. x402 + micropayments might just be a better model
@cloudflare: The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We're doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...
Astasia Myers / @astasiamyers: The Human Native acquisition fits Cloudflare's broader push to redefine internet economics: shifting from ad-driven human traffic to programmable monetization for AI agent. It fits in the bigger theme of agent-to-agent payments being the next major commerce unlock.
Ziv Reichert / @zivreichert: Very excited for @humannativeai to be joining forces with @Cloudflare, an inspiring company that underpins a significant share of the open web. Together, they can ensure incentives to create on the internet persist, while giving AI devs a clearer path to the data they need.
James Smith / @jws7: Human Native 🤝Cloudflare We are thrilled to announce that @humannativeai has been acquired by @Cloudflare ! Check out the full story: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...
@cloudflare: Cloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specializing in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic models for the Internet. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...
Cassidy Williams / Cassidy Williams on LinkedIn: I didn't see this coming, but it makes sense in retrospect! — https://lnkd.in/gRCxdHeD
Christopher Rotas / Christopher Rotas on LinkedIn: Excited to see Cloudflare start off 2026 announcing two acquisitions! Check them out below 👇 — Human Native: https://lnkd.in/gaMxuJTc …
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Cloudflare Wants to Build Napster for AI, Except This Time Everyone Gets Paid
Juan Vasquez / WebProNews: Cloudflare Acquires Astro JS Team to Boost Edge Computing
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: Cloudflare acquires Human Native to build new payment model for AI training data
Mohit Pandey / Analytics India Magazine: Cloudflare Acquires Human Native to Help Creators Monetise Content for AI Models
Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia: Cloudfare buys UK AI data marketplace Human Native
Loraine Lawson / The New Stack: Cloudflare Acquires Team Behind Open Source Framework Astro
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cloudflare buys Human Native to strengthen licensed data access for AI developers
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Sources: French studio Mediawan is in advanced talks to merge with Peter Chernin's North Road Company; the deal values North Road between $700M and $1B
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Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: New: France's Mediawan is in talks to buy Peter Chernin's North Road, which produces shows like love is blind. The deal values north road at between $700 million and $1 billion.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCU and AMC Theatres strike a deal to bring live coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics to 150+ AMC locations in the US between February 6 and February 22
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Sean McNulty / The Ankler: ☀️SONY's 16-Month Banger Drought Continues With ‘28 Years’
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TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: TikTok is now in the micro-dramas game with PineDrama app
Charles Adrian Cruz / Trusted Reviews: TikTok has a new app - but you probably can't download it
Marco Lancaster / Gizchina: TikTok's Next Experiment: 90 Seconds Microdramas
Will McCurdy / PCMag: TikTok Rolls Out Standalone ‘Microdrama’ Platform PineDrama
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
A look at long-running BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, which reaches 2M+ listeners a week, as Misha Glenny replaces original host Melvyn Bragg, who has retired
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@niemanlab.org: “[In Our Time] has built a devoted audience by doing something faintly perverse: convening a small panel of academics on a single subject — often esoteric like The Iliad or the historical concept of the Rapture or fungi — and simply letting these nerds cook.” www.vulture.com/article/in-o...
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but says it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers
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Vihan Mathur / Mediaweek: Ads enter the chat as OpenAI squares up Google's Gemini
Karan Mahadik / The Indian Express: ChatGPT ads are coming: Here's how OpenAI makes money now, and what's about to change
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: OpenAI Will Soon Test Ads On ChatGPT
Alberto Romero / The Algorithmic Bridge: Why I Deleted ChatGPT After Three Years
Maxwell Zeff / Maxwell Zeff on LinkedIn: New: OpenAI says it will start testing ads in the United States “in the coming weeks.” — The company says ads will NOT influence ChatGPT's responses …
Chance Townsend / Mashable: OpenAI to finally bring ads to ChatGPT
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: OpenAI caves to ads — it'll be fine
Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: ChatGPT will soon start showing ads, but they won't affect its responses
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Will OpenAI Ads Click with Users?
Shubhangi Chowdhury / The American Bazaar: OpenAI brings advertising to ChatGPT; Here's what it means
Daniel Abraham / @abraham.bsky.social: How goes the quest to monetize LLMs, you ask? — We're down to “sell ads.” — www.wired.com/story/openai...
Dave Mandl / @dmandl.bsky.social: Of course “ads are coming to ChatGPT.” Soon you won't be able to comb your hair without watching an ad first. But this piece suggests that the main concern is that the ads will bias ChatGPT's responses. (Also, don't use ChatGPT.) www.wired.com/story/openai...
Jez Corden / Windows Central: OpenAI is slapping ads into ChatGPT — Microsoft Copilot is obviously next
Nickolas Diaz / Android Central: OpenAI says yes to ads, testing begins soon as cheaper ‘ChatGPT Go’ tier debuts
Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: OpenAI Brings Ads to ChatGPT While Promising Answers Stay Ad-Free
Kahekashan / The Hans India: OpenAI Begins Testing Ads on ChatGPT, Promises Answers Will Stay Independent
Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: OpenAI announces ads for ChatGPT Free and Go tiers
Financial Times: OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: OpenAI considers Ads to support free ChatGPT amid growth
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: OpenAI says its new ChatGPT ads won't influence answers
AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: OpenAI Launches Cheaper Subscriptions, Starts Testing Ads Because It's Time to Pay the Piper
Martin Peers / The Information: OpenAI Changes Narrative With Ads Push
Martina Di Licosa / Forbes: OpenAI Will Test Ads On ChatGPT
Rosalia Ozibo / Nairametrics: OpenAI to introduce ads in ChatGPT globally, begins test
Brooke Osmundson / Search Engine Journal: ChatGPT To Begin Testing Ads In The United States
Cade Metz / New York Times: OpenAI Starts Testing Ads in ChatGPT
@the_blackwell_ninja@mastodon.online: So, it begins. If “We don't sell your data” sounds familiar, its the same line that Zuckerberg and Sergey fed us to describe their system of mircro-targeted advertising based on user data, and we saw how that turned out. Corporate provided AI is well down the path of becoming a supercharged manipulation machine and we are not prepared. …
Amy O'Brien / Vogue: OpenAI Introduces Ads in ChatGPT: Why It Matters
Clare Duffy / CNN: Ads are coming to ChatGPT conversations
Mary Cunningham / CBS News: OpenAI says it will start testing ads on ChatGPT in the coming weeks
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT
Associated Press: ChatGPT's Free Ride Is Ending: Here's What OpenAI Plans For Advertising On The Chatbot
Harkaram Grewal / Implicator.ai: OpenAI Puts Ads in ChatGPT: Why the $1.4 Trillion Bill Left No Choice
Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India Magazine: OpenAI to Test Ads on ChatGPT Free and Go Tiers in the US
Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: OpenAI embraces the inevitable: ads come to ChatGPT
Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land: OpenAI will begin testing ChatGPT ads in the U.S.
Zoe Kleinman / BBC: ChatGPT to carry adverts for some users
Newsmax Wires / NewsMax.com: OpenAI to Begin Testing Ads on ChatGPT in the US
James Titcomb / Telegraph: ChatGPT to show you adverts after losing billions
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
@hypervisible.blacksky.app: Suggestions for brands of rope will now appear at the bottom of the page when the bot encourages self harm.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI to Test Targeted Ads in ChatGPT, Stepping Up Revenue Push
Elissa Welle / The Verge: OpenAI releases a cheaper ChatGPT subscription
