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Friday, September 26, 2025

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Sinclair Resumes Airing Jimmy Kimmel Live After Dispute (6)

5 months

YouTube Music Trials AI Hosts for Interactive Experiences (5)

5 months

Electronic Arts Nears $50B Acquisition, Deal Heats Up (6)

5 months

Apple Tests ChatGPT-Inspired Siri Upgrade Amid Lawsuit (13) hot

Siri Delay Lawsuit: Legal claims on postponed features
Internal ChatGPT Siri Testing: Apple’s secret AI trials
iPhone 17 Glitches: Bug in Apple Intelligence setup

5 months

Meta Launches Vibes, Its New AI Video Feed Platform (8)

5 months

Facebook and Instagram roll out ad-free subscription in the UK (9)

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TikTok deal sealed with $14B backing amid muted Chinese response (9)

In Detail Full day, Friday, September 26, 2025, Timezone: America/Chicago

Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway

Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Sorry, Brendan Carr: Sinclair and Nexstar stop preempting Kimmel on ABC affiliates.

#entertainment #media #censorship #tv #broadcasting

Trump’s new target: Microsoft head of global affairs Lisa Monaco

5 months / theverge / Sean Hollister

Trump calls for the firing of Lisa Monaco, Microsoft president of global affairs

5 months / cnbc

Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway

5 months / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

Sinclair Caves, Will Resume Airing ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on Local Stations

5 months / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

TV giant Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air

5 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Broadcast TV Is a 'Melting Ice Cube.’ Kimmel Just Turned Up the Heat

5 months / wired / Steven Levy

YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - YouTube Music's new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform's new hub for AI experiments.

#ai #innovation #streaming #aiethics #genai #youtube #music

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5 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes

5 months / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary

5 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music

5 months / theverge / Jay Peters

YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that present relevant stories, trivia and commentary

5 months / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.

#gaming #stockmarket #investment #privateequity #business #acquisitions #technology

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5 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

RIP ea https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/reports-ea-set-to-be-sold-to-private-investors-for-up-to-50-billion/

5 months / bsky / @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion

5 months / arstechnica / Kyle Orland

Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B

5 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Video game maker Electronic Arts nears $50bn deal to go private - Financial Times

5 months / google

Electronic Arts stock jumps 15% after report company nearing $50B deal to be taken private

5 months / cnbc

Apple reportedly made a ChatGPT-clone to test Siri's new capabilities

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - In the pursuit of actually releasing the updated version of Siri the company promised way back at WWDC 2024, Apple is taking a page out of OpenAI's book. According to Bloomberg, the company has created a ChatGPT-inspired app to test Siri's new capabilitie…

#ai #voice #apple #aiethics #genai #chatgpt #assistant

Internal ChatGPT Siri Testing: Apple’s secret AI trials (8)
iPhone 17 Glitches: Bug in Apple Intelligence setup (2)
Siri Delay Lawsuit: Legal claims on postponed features (2)
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Internal ChatGPT Siri Testing: Apple’s secret AI trials

Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot shows how far Siri still has to go

5 months / implicator / Robert Brown

Apple Trails Rivals with ChatGPT-Like Siri App Still in Testing

5 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Apple develops internal ChatGPT-style app to test revamped Siri

5 months / ithinkdiff / Imran Hussain

Apple reportedly made a ChatGPT-clone to test Siri's new capabilities

5 months / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Report: Apple Has Developed an Internal ChatGPT-Like Tool for Testing Siri Features

5 months / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Apple's secret Veritas chatbot could be the key to fixing Siri

5 months / appleinsider

Apple Built A ChatGPT-Style App To Test The New Siri, But We'll Probably Never See It

5 months / bgr

Apple Testing LLM Siri With ChatGPT-Like App

5 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Meta Launches Vibes, An Instagram-Like Feed For AI Video Slop

bgr - Meta's latest venture in the AI domain is a platform titled Vibes -- aimed to be an Instagram-like service where users can generate and share AI content.

#ai #meta #aiethics #apps #creativity #videogames

Meta's new AI TikTok clone gives me bad Vibes

5 months / pocket-lint / John Kanellakos

Meta launches AI video feed "Vibes," considers using Google's Gemini for ads

5 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Meta AI funnels AI videos from creators into new ‘Vibes’ feed

5 months / theverge / Elissa Welle

Meta AI App Gets New “Vibes” Feed of AI-Generated Content

5 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

AI Promises Pile Up, Proof Points Don't

5 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Meta’s New ‘Vibes’ Lets You Remix AI Videos Like TikToks

5 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Meta bets big on AI video feed

5 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Meta Launches Vibes, An Instagram-Like Feed For AI Video Slop

5 months / bgr

Ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram are coming to the UK – for a price

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Meta has announced that it is launching a subscription service in the UK that will let users of Facebook and Instagram pay to avoid ads. The plan has already been rejected by the European Union, but this does not affect post-Brexit UK. Separate subscripti…

#digitalmarketing #meta #uk #privacy #facebook #instagram

Facebook and Instagram Are Now Offering No-Ad Paid Subscriptions in the UK

5 months / cnet / Gael Cooper

Facebook and Instagram Without Ads? It’ll Cost You in the UK

5 months / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Facebook, Instagram to offer paid ad-free UK subscriptions

5 months / techxplore

Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version. Subscription service is Meta’s response to regulatory warnings over crunching users’ data to serve targeted ads. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

5 months / bsky / @ianmoody.bsky.social / ianmoody.bsky.social

Meta announces paid subscriptions for both Instagram and Facebook in the UK

5 months / engadget / Matt Tate

Meta to Offer Ad-Free Subscription to Facebook and Instagram in UK

5 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Facebook and Instagram to offer ad-free service in UK for up to £3.99 a month

5 months / theguardian

Ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram are coming to the UK – for a price

5 months / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ approach to ads is coming to UK after being rejected in EU

5 months / theverge / Robert Hart

Trump approves $14 billion TikTok deal backed by Oracle and MGX, but questions linger

techspot - President Donald Trump has signed an executive order approving a plan for a group of US and global investors to take control of TikTok's American operations, a move intended to satisfy a 2024 law that requires the divestiture of the app from its Chinese p…

#techpolicy #china #business #tiktok #bytedance #oracle #mgx

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order approving a plan to restructure TikTok operations in the country to address national security concerns.

5 months / bsky / @bleepingcomputer.com / bleepingcomputer.com

The TikTok deal raises more questions than answers

5 months / theverge / Emma Roth

US investors to take over TikTok operations in the country

5 months / bleepingcomputer / Bill Toulas

Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

5 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

5 months / theguardian

Tick tock, TikTok

5 months / theverge / David Pierce

The Download: shoplifter-chasing drones, and Trump’s TikTok deal

5 months / technologyreview / Charlotte Jee

Trump approves $14 billion TikTok deal backed by Oracle and MGX, but questions linger

5 months / techspot

China stays conspicuously quiet after Trump’s TikTok deal declaration

5 months / cnbc

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