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[00:00:01] Hello, I'm Lara Coocarsan
[00:00:03] and this is News Feed. Your those are what people are talking about
[00:00:06] online. Skydance is the newest
[00:00:10] of powerhouse in American news and entertainment and its influence
[00:00:14] could reach from your steaming bill to what leads the evening
[00:00:17] news. The $110 billion dollar merger now sees Warner
[00:00:21] Bros and Paramount under one roof. That means movie
[00:00:24] franchises like Harry Potter, Mission Impossible, HBO shows
[00:00:28] and many others. now share and owner, so what could
[00:00:32] that mean for your streaming bill and your favorite films and tv
[00:00:36] series? while they're predicted to make about $70 billion dollars
[00:00:40] annually, they also will now have $80 billion
[00:00:42] dollars in net debt, and they're going to try to get out of that. in the immediate future, there will be
[00:00:46] changes to streaming prices. it will likely be cheaper for people who currently
[00:00:50] subscribe to both since they're consolidating, but more expensive for people who only
[00:00:54] subscribe to one, and who knows how prices will change going forward as they try to get
[00:00:57] rid
[00:00:58] of their debt and capitalize on how massive. their catalog will be, the new company has
[00:01:02] promised to release at least 30 films a year for the next two years, that's the
[00:01:05] same amount as
[00:01:07] of they produce
[00:01:07] a now, when a studio is that stretch, it stops taking risks, more
[00:01:11] sequels, fewer strange, brilliant originals and an estimated
[00:01:15] 4 and a half thous film and tv jobs in Los Angeles alone could
[00:01:19] be at risk, so your favorite shows probably aren't going anywhere, but the
[00:01:23] next great show that could be on the horizon, that's the one that you've got to worry
[00:01:26] about, but the consequences go beyond entertainment.
[00:01:30] They also reach the news
[00:01:32] in Americans rely on. CNN and CBS News now share a
[00:01:36] corporate owner whose family has close ties to president Donald
[00:01:40] Trump. That raises a question with November's mid-term elections
[00:01:44] approaching. How independently will these newsrooms be
[00:01:47] able to scrutinize the administration? CNN's
[00:01:51] of Mark Thompson and CBS news editor in chief Barry wise are
[00:01:55] remaining in their roles,
[00:01:57] but both now report to skydance chiefs David. Alison and
[00:02:01] innon crits. Allison says the two newsrooms will remain
[00:02:04] editorially independent and the company has also agreed to
[00:02:08] establish board to protect that independence, but Skydance
[00:02:12] will choose the board's members. Nobody
[00:02:16] seems worried about the fact that the second
[00:02:18] in richest man in the world might soon own all of your media, your news, and
[00:02:22] of course your data. Meet Larry. Larry and his family own a little
[00:02:26] company called Paramount. Paramount is going to make Larry lot of money. That's
[00:02:30] not enough for Larry, he also wants to own some other companies like Warner Brothers,
[00:02:34] HBO, CNN, and Discovery. Now, you might be saying, "I don't watch CNN, I
[00:02:38] get my news from 90-sond Instagram videos like a real adult. But you know who does watch
[00:02:41] it? Boomers and little families from Iowa, and their
[00:02:45] impressionable teenage children, because just last year, Larry's other company
[00:02:49] bought a little app called TikTok. Larry has friends in high places,
[00:02:53] including his good pal Donald, whose reelection campaign Larry
[00:02:56] generously supported in 2024. That doesn't mean..."
[00:03:00] Skydance owns TikTok, or that the Elisons alone control what
[00:03:04] users see, but it connects the family's business
[00:03:07] interests to another influential source of news and
[00:03:10] information. Former Mata in on crits will
[00:03:14] also help run the new media giant. So who is
[00:03:18] of he of and what are his ties to Israel? Chris was born and
[00:03:21] rais in Israel, let's look at his extra curricular activities. In
[00:03:25] 2006, he funded a fellowship in Hayim Sabon's Middle East Policy
[00:03:29] Center. bringing Israelis to Washington DC to work
[00:03:33] on quote Middle East Policy. In 2011 he led a fundraising
[00:03:37] effort for Israeli Olympic athletes, a PR move and he said as much, saying
[00:03:40] successful athletes could show quote Israel's beautiful face. In
[00:03:44] 2023, he participated in
[00:03:46] a creative community for peace pro Israel campaign within the entertainment
[00:03:49] industry. I talked about the CCFP before, but they are an organization that exists to promote
[00:03:53] Israel in Hollywood. In 2024, the Israel film festival gave him the
[00:03:57] industry leadership award. His connection there actually goes back to 19. '93 when he
[00:04:00] volunteered for the film festival. In 2024, he participated in another
[00:04:04] CCFP campaign, opposing boycots of Israeli writers and institutions,
[00:04:08] and in 2025, he publicly opposed the entertainment industry boycott of Israeli film
[00:04:12] institution. And it's not just about who
[00:04:16] owns the media, but who gets to shape its culture. Open AI
[00:04:20] CEO, Sam Altman, set down with Vanity Fair shortly after the company
[00:04:24] pitched US power companies a $1 billion dollar AI cyber
[00:04:27] security
[00:04:28] a plan. The interview on hacking incidents and suicides
[00:04:32] linked to
[00:04:32] of chat gpt. the magazines portrayal of altman sparked
[00:04:36] backlash online with critics accusing legacy media of
[00:04:40] rolling out the red carpet for silicon valley rather than holding its
[00:04:44] most powerful figures to account.
[00:04:48] what Sam altman thinks about this woman who harmed herself
[00:04:51] deeply because of a conversation with chat gpt and his PR person jumps
[00:04:55] in and i just didn't really expect anything more like i don't think vanity fair is going to
[00:04:59] be the one that's breaks this news about what model companies think about
[00:05:02] self-harm, so i think we just need to drop it. fact that
[00:05:06] someone
[00:05:07] in a moment of need that maybe can't get help or isn't willing to talk
[00:05:11] to a therapist can get. some help here uh, clearly people think
[00:05:14] there's a version of this that is good, there are also clearly versions of it that are bad. should
[00:05:18] we release people's private data in some their
[00:05:22] hardest moments to researchers? i think probably not without
[00:05:26] their consent. do we want to find ways where we can work with
[00:05:30] the community to address the mental health crisis in the world and for our
[00:05:34] products to be helpful there? of course yes. next is this other interview that i
[00:05:37] actually think was really interesting, but it brings up a good point and it pushes back on
[00:05:41] vanity fair and... and all these cultural media platforms for
[00:05:45] giving legitimacy to Samman and other tech
[00:05:49] exacts and I don't like what is the point of media, are
[00:05:52] you supposed to give people space to become legitimate or do you
[00:05:56] find people who are important to the conversation and give them a
[00:05:59] platform? I don't know, if it's the ladder, these people are
[00:06:02] already relevant to the conversation. The people with money today to fund
[00:06:06] art to buy things are people intact, so it makes sense why they would want to
[00:06:10] appeal to that crowd. tech founders infiltrating pop
[00:06:14] culture spaces and in particular fashion as AI moves into
[00:06:18] wearables, the founders these businesses have to try and immerse themselves
[00:06:22] within the industry as insider, and well they're absolutely not going to be regarded
[00:06:26] as style icons because they've never known originality, but with
[00:06:29] bottomless pits of money they can try and buy it. this can be manifested by
[00:06:33] interviews on popular fashion podcasts, or in this case appearing on the
[00:06:37] cover of a popular fashion magazine. meta may have helped its cute
[00:06:41] cuddly AI assistant, would win users hearts, but its
[00:06:44] new feature, news is raising some serious privacy
[00:06:48] concerns, with more than 5 million downloads in just three
[00:06:51] weeks, it's already a hit, but the more users explore
[00:06:55] it, the more questions emerge about what their hending over in
[00:06:59] return. meta's record on privacy and safety has long
[00:07:03] drawn scrutiny and meus appears to push those concerns
[00:07:06] further. users are opted into data collection for
[00:07:10] AI training while the feature. encourages them to share sensitive
[00:07:14] information, including bank details, email addresses,
[00:07:18] and passport data. Earlier, the AI agent was caught
[00:07:22] reading private messages without users permission, and now
[00:07:26] new report claims news has been instruct to create a page for
[00:07:30] every person a user's
[00:07:31] life. Muse can send emails
[00:07:35] and texts on your behalf, and it's also making a map of everyone you know and love. It's not
[00:07:39] just a list of names, it's intimate details like how you feel about them and how the
[00:07:43] relationship could be improved. we know this because a cyber security researcher named Karen
[00:07:47] Joshi found that if he asked Muse to hand over its instructions, it would, and I think
[00:07:51] what he found should make you concerned. he found that every hour Muse updates its map of your
[00:07:55] relationships with family, friends, romantic partners, co-workers. it tracks your inside
[00:07:59] jokes and way of speaking
[00:08:00] so that conversations with you feel natural. it tracks tensions and
[00:08:04] alliances in your friend group. it's not just pulling from your interactions with that person. it's pulling
[00:08:08] from other public pages like Instagram, Facebook and Threads profile. AI agents are asking for
[00:08:12] a staggering amount of information about you and your loved one. For Muse,
[00:08:15] deleting a chat does not guarantee that the model is going to forget what it's
[00:08:19] already learned from that chat. It just deletes the text from their servers. Meta says
[00:08:23] it's not sharing Muse's data with the advertising side of its business, but it's also
[00:08:27] saying that the free version of news should do the trick for most users. If the product is
[00:08:31] free, you are the product, and not only you, but your friends,
[00:08:34] acquaintances, co-workers who never consented to having their texts and emails read by
[00:08:38] an AI tool. Hollywood is turning its cameras on the...
[00:08:42] people behind the technology shaping our lives and these
[00:08:46] stories are asking uncomfortable questions about who holds
[00:08:49] power and what happens when promises of progress go
[00:08:53] wrong? mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and
[00:08:56] Elizabeth Holmes are all subjects of new wave of films
[00:09:00] exploring Silicon Valley's influence.
[00:09:05] a r k
[00:09:05] zk e r b e r.g. and your
[00:09:07] occupation? i'm a professional
[00:09:11] defendant. "the social reckoning, which opened in US cinemas
[00:09:15] on October 9th, revisits Facebook, but where the social
[00:09:19] network explored the company's beginnings, this film focuses
[00:09:23] its consequences. It follows whistleblower Francis
[00:09:26] Howgan and the disclosures that exposed internal concerns about
[00:09:30] the platform's impact. The question has shifted from how Zuckerberg
[00:09:34] built his empire to what that empire means for everyone else.
[00:09:38] Anxiety, depression of teenage girls got worse as result of time spent on the
[00:09:42] platform." What is the image the
[00:09:45] future that you see? Luca Guadanino's
[00:09:48] artificial turns to another battle over technological power,
[00:09:52] Sam Altman's firing and return to Open AI in
[00:09:55] 2023. What are the odds that
[00:09:59] we are in base reality, like we are in simulation?
[00:10:03] And Alex Gibney's documentary musk examines how the
[00:10:07] billionaire's business empire grew into political
[00:10:10] influence. These stories arrive as Enthusiasm for
[00:10:13] technology increasingly competes with anxiety about its
[00:10:16] consequences. Then there is story where the
[00:10:20] promises have already unraveled. You can see everything,
[00:10:24] opening. on October 16th follows Theranos founder
[00:10:28] Elizabeth Holmes before she went to prison for defrauding
[00:10:31] investors. Her downfall offers a stark example of
[00:10:35] what can happen when a founder's persuasive story outpaces the
[00:10:39] technology behind it. For filmmakers, Silicon Valley
[00:10:43] offers money, ambition, rivalry and extraordinary
[00:10:47] stakes. For audiences, these films offer a way
[00:10:51] into decisions that can otherwise feel distant. Even when the product.
[00:10:55] involved are part of everyday life, dramas interpret events
[00:10:59] and documentaries choose a perspective, neither replaces
[00:11:02] scrutiny from journalists or regulators, but they can leave
[00:11:06] viewers asking a bigger question: we use these companies products every
[00:11:10] day, but how much do we know about the people deciding their
[00:11:13] future?
[00:11:19] what if you went a first state and your food was paid for by the
[00:11:22] government? singapore is no stranger to matchmaking, but
[00:11:26] now it's bringing dating into the digital age with new
[00:11:30] approach, with birth rates hitting record low and more
[00:11:34] people staying single, the government might just be playing
[00:11:37] cupid. now the government is like, your study and
[00:11:41] single, oh no, we can't afford to have one less baby, we need to step in, and i'm
[00:11:45] not even joking, guff has launched first date, dating pilot for public officers
[00:11:49] age 21 to 35, and of course you verify yourself with sing pass, buse
[00:11:53] even your love life needs sing pass. then instead of endlessly swiping to 500 people you
[00:11:57] fill a questionaire about your interest
[00:11:59] and preferences and they use an actual matching algorithm to give you one
[00:12:03] person,
[00:12:03] and if both of you say yes, you have 72 hours to connect, they even have something called
[00:12:07] date quest to encourage you to actually meet in person while getting subsidized or even
[00:12:11] free meals, so potentially the government is not only finding you a day, they
[00:12:15] might subsidize part the day too, but the world part is that Singapore has basically
[00:12:19] come full circle. Back in 1984, the government created a social development unit to help
[00:12:23] single Singaporans meet. 40 years later, experimenting with matchmaking again, only now,
[00:12:27] instead of government organized social events, singapore has an algorithm and
[00:12:30] sing pass trying to find you a day. i saw this creator post on instagram and i think that she
[00:12:34] got matched to someone and she can see the link over here and guess the match can
[00:12:38] see her also and i think the match rejected her ah
[00:12:41] if it were me right i'll be like what the heck now the government
[00:12:45] knows that nobody wants me and then the algorithm is going to
[00:12:48] know that i'm a weirdo that nobody wants and then my first day
[00:12:52] match never move forward and like we are in a pile of rejects and
[00:12:56] from the reject the reject reject
[00:12:58] me. Staying in Asia,
[00:13:02] new trend is taken over social media with people trying out
[00:13:06] some rather unusual dance moves. It all started when an
[00:13:10] 8-year-old tutorial video teaching traditional Chinese folk
[00:13:13] dance resurfaced online. And now the trend has cross
[00:13:17] borders with people around the world putting their own spin on the
[00:13:21] moves, turning a traditional dance into viral entertainment.
[00:13:26] the flash dep dance is going viral onto in originating from a traditional
[00:13:30] chinese folk dance. it's a quick argile dodge dep where you rapidly shift your
[00:13:34] bodies from side to side to evade something. the move comes from an old
[00:13:37] instructional video the ande flower drum lantern dance top by
[00:13:41] professor the beijing dance academy. someone recently
[00:13:45] rediscovered the clip and its funny skillful motion sparked a massive
[00:13:49] imitation trend. is another viral dance from the same
[00:13:53] wave or we discovered chinese.
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