YouTube reorganizes its product group, naming Christian Oestlien as head of all subscription products, including YouTube TV, Music, and Premium (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-product-r…
Metric response of relative entropy: a universal indicator of quantum criticality
Pritam Sarkar, Diptiman Sen, Arnab Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22515 https://
Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop "responsible" AI products and is building a generative AI research lab (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/spotif…
Optical Response by Time-Varying Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Miguel Verde, Paloma A. Huidobro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21009 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21009…
MSRS: Evaluating Multi-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Rohan Phanse, Yijie Zhou, Kejian Shi, Wencai Zhang, Yixin Liu, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20867
WGA Urges CBS News Staffers to Not Respond to Bari Weiss Info-Seeking Memo Until Company Provides Details on Purpose of Her Email (EXCLUSIVE) (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wga-cbs-news-staffers-not-respond-bari-weiss-memo-1236546038/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p159#a251010p159
Mubi's founder and CEO responds to criticism of Mubi's acceptance of Sequoia funding, after some directors criticized it over Sequoia's ties to Israeli military (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/mubi-ceo-re…
Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop "responsible" AI products and is building a generative AI research lab (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/spotif…
As viewers move online, animation studios are forced to find new ways to finance their work; YouTube is emerging as a testing ground and launchpad for originals (Ben Croll/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/global/animation-gigantos…