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Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-deals-news-publishers

Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers
Meta's new partners include USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.

ShinyHunters publishes alleged personal data from Harvard, UPenn breaches
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/shinyhunters-claims-harvard-upenn-breaches-publishes-over-a-million-records/story

Hacker group publishes alleged personal data from Harvard, UPenn breaches
A notorious hacking group has released personal data allegedly stolen from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania during last year's breaches.

MyJobQuote, a trades-booking business, includes dubious "experts" who have provided AI-generated or misinformed commentary to the UK press at least 600 times (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Dubious experts deployed by MyJobQuote published more than 600 times in UK press
A network of apparently fake experts has polluted the British media with at least 600 pieces of often AI-generated and misinformed commentary.

Georgia public schools to receive overdose reversal kits - The Current
https://thecurrentga.org/2025/12/05/georgia-public-schools-to-receive-overdose-reversal-kits/

If I am reading this correctly, Northern Ireland police, who just received compensation of £7,500 per officer for having their personal details published in error on the internet, were revictimized today when the Northern Ireland court system again published their personal details.

‘It defies belief’: Names of PSNI officers published on court website in new breach
Some PSNI officers who had their names released in a catastrophic data breach in 2023 have now had their details published on the NI Courts website.

People Inc. reports Q4 digital revenue up 14% YoY to $355M, total revenue down 2% YoY to $512M, print revenue fell 21% to $168.5M, and ad revenue up 9% to $209M (Ray Schultz/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/4…

People Inc. Scores: Publisher Saw A 14% Rise In Digital In Q4
The former Dotdash Meredith exceeded $1 billion in digital for the full year.

DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

How Jeffrey Epstein Helped His Publicist Become A Big-Time Venture Capitalist
Masha Bucher is one of the more high profile female VCs in Silicon Valley. New emails released from the Department of Justice reveal a deep, years long relationship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

CPB board votes to dissolve the 58-year-old organization following the rescission of all federal funding by Congress at the behest of President Trump (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/01/05/corporation-for-public-broadcasting…

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Officially Votes to Disband - Radio Ink
After 58 years of service to the American public, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors has formally voted to dissolve the organization.

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

Meta says it has struck multiple multiyear commercial AI data agreements, including with USA Today, People, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, and Le Monde (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-deals-news-publishers

Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers
Meta's new partners include USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.