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Sling TV debuts shorter-term packages aimed at sports fans: a day pass for $4.99, a weekend pass for $9.99, and a week pass for $14.99 (Austin Karp/Sports Business Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/08/12/s…

Sling TV offering new products ahead of football
Dish-owned Sling TV will begin offering day, weekend and weeklong passes for fans to dip in and potentially dip out of the service. A day pass for Sling TV, which is a first-of-its-kind for a vMVPD, will run fans $4.99 for a 24-hour window. Weekend passes go for $9.99 and weeklong passes for $14.99.

Physics Supernova: AI Agent Matches Elite Gold Medalists at IPhO 2025
Jiahao Qiu, Jingzhe Shi, Xinzhe Juan, Zelin Zhao, Jiayi Geng, Shilong Liu, Hongru Wang, Sanfeng Wu, Mengdi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01659

Physics Supernova: AI Agent Matches Elite Gold Medalists at IPhO 2025
Physics provides fundamental laws that describe and predict the natural world. AI systems aspiring toward more general, real-world intelligence must therefore demonstrate strong physics problem-solving abilities: to formulate and apply physical laws for explaining and predicting physical processes. The International Physics Olympiad (IPhO)--the world's most prestigious physics competition--offers a rigorous benchmark for this purpose. We introduce Physics Supernova, an AI agent system with supe…

EchoStar reports losing 383K subscribers in Q2 for ~7.1M in total and pay TV revenue down 8% YoY to $2.5B; Sling TV lost 109K subscribers for a total of 1.78M (Daniel Frankel/StreamTV Insider)
https://www.streamtvinsider.com/technology/…

Dish, Sling TV lose 289K pay TV subs in Q2 as bankruptcy bell tolls
In the words of one prominent analyst, it’s no longer a question of if Dish-parent EchoStar will liquidate, but when. | In the words of one prominent analyst, it’s no longer a question of if Dish-parent EchoStar will liquidate, but when.

Sling TV launches Sling Select, a smaller bundle including Fox News, FX, and FS1, for $20/mo in some places and rising to $25-$30 with ABC, Fox, and NBC access (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/sling-tv-sling-select-launch/

Sling TV launches low-cost Sling Select package for $20 per month
August 19, 2025 - The plan includes access to streaming versions of cable channels like Fox News, NFL Network and Vice TV.

Derk Sauer, a Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times and later supported Russian journalists in exile, died at 72 from sailing accident injuries (The Moscow Times)
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/31/

Derk Sauer, Moscow Times Founder and Dutch Media Entrepreneur, Dies at 72
Derk Sauer, the Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times, died on Thursday at age 72, his family said in a statement.

A coalition of European writers, publishers, and others warns that Europe's AI Act is not properly protecting copyrights and is selling out the creative sector (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

European Creators Slam AI Act Implementation, Warn Copyright Protections Are Failing
Europe’s writers, actors, musicians and producers accuse the EU of selling out creative industries in favor of GenAI giants and demand urgent reforms to safeguard IP rights.

Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/lowpass-newsletter/724970/google-tv-ad…

Google TV’s uncertain future
Google isn’t very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV.

DirecTV experiments with discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several US regions and directing subscribers toward its streaming option (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/directv-stop…

DIRECTV Stops Selling Satellite TV for New Customers in Select Areas | Cord Cutters News
DIRECTV, a leading provider of television entertainment, has announced a significant shift in its service offerings, discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several regions across the United States. The company is now directing new subscribers toward its streaming option, as part of a broader strategy to adapt to evolving consumer preferences and technological […]

WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels says the company is considering selling a 20% stake in its studio and streaming business before its planned separation in Q2 2026 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09…

The UK CMA says it has provisionally found Google meets the legal tests to designate it with "strategic market status" in general search and search advertising (Financial Times)
https://t.co/B2evUJQFta

Google faces UK push to loosen its grip on search
Big Tech giant slams Competition and Markets Authority’s plan as ‘punitive’ and risk to economic growth