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Paramount appoints Kenneth Weinstein, former president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, as the ombudsman for CBS News (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-ombudsman-cbs-news-1236512021/

Paramount Picks Kenneth R. Weinstein As Ombudsman For CBS News
Paramount has tapped Kenneth R. Weinstein, former president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, to serve as ombudsman for CBS News. Skydance committed to hiring an ombudsman as it sought FCC regulatory approval of its acquisition of Paramount. He’ll report to Jeff Shell, president of Paramount. Per Paramount, under the ombudsman process, Weinstein will take […]

Varjo erneuert Premium-XR-Headsets für hochrealistische Flugsimulatoren
Varjo aktualisiert seine Mixed-Reality-Headsets für Simulatoren. Verbesserte Kameras und Eye-Tracking sollen das Training genauer und effizienter machen.

Chargers LB Perryman sidelined with ankle injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46201116/chargers-lb-denzel-perryman-indefinitely-ankle-injury

COMPACT: Common-token Optimized Model Pruning Across Channels and Tokens
Eugene Kwek, Wenpeng Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06836 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

COMPACT: Common-token Optimized Model Pruning Across Channels and Tokens
Making LLMs more efficient in memory, latency, and serving cost is crucial for edge deployment, interactive applications, and sustainable inference at scale. Pruning is a key technique toward this goal. However, prior pruning methods are limited: width pruning often breaks the standard transformer layout or requires custom inference code, while depth pruning removes entire layers and can cause abrupt accuracy drops. In this work, we propose COMPACT, which jointly (i) prunes rare vocabulary to s…

ARMOR: High-Performance Semi-Structured Pruning via Adaptive Matrix Factorization
Lawrence Liu, Alexander Liu, Mengdi Wang, Tuo Zhao, Lin F. Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05528

ARMOR: High-Performance Semi-Structured Pruning via Adaptive Matrix Factorization
Large language models (LLMs) present significant deployment challenges due to their immense computational and memory requirements. While semi-structured pruning, particularly 2:4 sparsity, offers a path to practical hardware acceleration, existing methods often incur substantial performance degradation. To bridge this gap, we introduce ARMOR: (Adaptive Representation with Matrix-factORization), a novel one-shot post-training pruning algorithm. Instead of directly pruning weights, ARMOR factoriz…

Paramount chief communications officer Justin Dini steps down following the Skydance merger; Dini started in 2017 and will be replaced by Melissa Zukerman (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Justin Dini to Exit Paramount
Dini, who had been chief communications officer, will exit in the wake of Skydance's acquisition of the company.

Sources: Paramount Skydance is in talks with private equity firms including Apollo Global Management to join its potential $60B bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/media/pa

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance talking to Apollo, buyout firms to join possible $60B Warner Bros. Discovery bid: sources
“These companies bring a lot to the table since they own stakes in Hollywood properties and have a lot of money,” said one source.