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Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Murdoch trumps Trump.

Prezzy T filed a $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal after it published Trump’s birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, but the judge just dismissed the case, saying Trump had “not plausibly alleged that the Defendants published the Article with actual malice.” (“Actual malice” here is a specific legal term that means publishing something you know is false.)

Trump will have another chance to refile an amended complaint, so we’ll see if he tries again.

TC Sottek
TC Sottek
Spotify Wrapped? No. Welcome to Tax Wrapped.

Okay: almost nobody wants a year-end “wrapped” for most things we do — food delivery, subscriptions, you name it. It’d be too embarrassing to look into that mirror. But this one seems legitimately useful to help Americans understand how their taxes are being spent. Enter Tax Wrapped, from Riley Walz. Find out how much of your money is going to health, war, and more.

Tax Wrapped

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Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic

“The market is as competitive as I have ever seen it,” wrote Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer.

Hayden Field
Pragmata is just okay, but it could’ve been great

Capcom’s new sci-fi game plays things too safe.

Andrew Webster
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Amazon’s online auto listings are expanding.

Since launching in 2024 with 48 Hyundai dealerships, we’ve seen Amazon Autos add used cars from Hertz and Ford, but now the Wall Street Journal says it’s active in over 130 cities with Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep vehicles listed. According to the article, one benefit to Amazon, beyond the listing fee, is attracting carmakers and dealers as advertisers.

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Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Amazon’s Starlink competitor now has an airplane antenna.

The new Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) antenna will enable air travelers bandwidth of up to 1 gigabit per second for downloads and 400 megabits per second for uploads on Delta, JetBlue, and any other commercial airlines Amazon signs up.

Still, Amazon isn’t close to meeting its deadline from the FCC to launch 1,600 satellites by July 2026, having recently requested a two year extension.

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Can Puck reinvent the news business for the influencer age?
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CEO Sarah Personette’s big bet on the place where influencers and reporters might meet

Nilay Patel
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Hollywood actors, directors, and producers sign letter opposing Paramount’s Warner Bros. acquisition.

Ben Stiller, Joaquin Phoenix, Tiffany Haddish, Bryan Cranston, and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among the over 1,000 Hollywood professionals pushing back on the $110 billion deal that they say will “further consolidate an already concentrated media landscape:”

We are deeply concerned by indications of support for this merger that prioritize the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good. The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised.