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00:00:01Hello, I'm Lara Coocarsan
00:00:03and this is News Feed. Your those are what people are talking about
00:00:06online. Skydance is the newest
00:00:10of powerhouse in American news and entertainment and its influence
00:00:14could reach from your steaming bill to what leads the evening
00:00:17news. The $110 billion dollar merger now sees Warner
00:00:21Bros and Paramount under one roof. That means movie
00:00:24franchises like Harry Potter, Mission Impossible, HBO shows
00:00:28and many others. now share and owner, so what could
00:00:32that mean for your streaming bill and your favorite films and tv
00:00:36series? while they're predicted to make about $70 billion dollars
00:00:40annually, they also will now have $80 billion
00:00:42dollars in net debt, and they're going to try to get out of that. in the immediate future, there will be
00:00:46changes to streaming prices. it will likely be cheaper for people who currently
00:00:50subscribe to both since they're consolidating, but more expensive for people who only
00:00:54subscribe to one, and who knows how prices will change going forward as they try to get
00:00:57rid
00:00:58of their debt and capitalize on how massive. their catalog will be, the new company has
00:01:02promised to release at least 30 films a year for the next two years, that's the
00:01:05same amount as
00:01:07of they produce
00:01:07a now, when a studio is that stretch, it stops taking risks, more
00:01:11sequels, fewer strange, brilliant originals and an estimated
00:01:154 and a half thous film and tv jobs in Los Angeles alone could
00:01:19be at risk, so your favorite shows probably aren't going anywhere, but the
00:01:23next great show that could be on the horizon, that's the one that you've got to worry
00:01:26about, but the consequences go beyond entertainment.
00:01:30They also reach the news
00:01:32in Americans rely on. CNN and CBS News now share a
00:01:36corporate owner whose family has close ties to president Donald
00:01:40Trump. That raises a question with November's mid-term elections
00:01:44approaching. How independently will these newsrooms be
00:01:47able to scrutinize the administration? CNN's
00:01:51of Mark Thompson and CBS news editor in chief Barry wise are
00:01:55remaining in their roles,
00:01:57but both now report to skydance chiefs David. Alison and
00:02:01innon crits. Allison says the two newsrooms will remain
00:02:04editorially independent and the company has also agreed to
00:02:08establish board to protect that independence, but Skydance
00:02:12will choose the board's members. Nobody
00:02:16seems worried about the fact that the second
00:02:18in richest man in the world might soon own all of your media, your news, and
00:02:22of course your data. Meet Larry. Larry and his family own a little
00:02:26company called Paramount. Paramount is going to make Larry lot of money. That's
00:02:30not enough for Larry, he also wants to own some other companies like Warner Brothers,
00:02:34HBO, CNN, and Discovery. Now, you might be saying, "I don't watch CNN, I
00:02:38get my news from 90-sond Instagram videos like a real adult. But you know who does watch
00:02:41it? Boomers and little families from Iowa, and their
00:02:45impressionable teenage children, because just last year, Larry's other company
00:02:49bought a little app called TikTok. Larry has friends in high places,
00:02:53including his good pal Donald, whose reelection campaign Larry
00:02:56generously supported in 2024. That doesn't mean..."
00:03:00Skydance owns TikTok, or that the Elisons alone control what
00:03:04users see, but it connects the family's business
00:03:07interests to another influential source of news and
00:03:10information. Former Mata in on crits will
00:03:14also help run the new media giant. So who is
00:03:18of he of and what are his ties to Israel? Chris was born and
00:03:21rais in Israel, let's look at his extra curricular activities. In
00:03:252006, he funded a fellowship in Hayim Sabon's Middle East Policy
00:03:29Center. bringing Israelis to Washington DC to work
00:03:33on quote Middle East Policy. In 2011 he led a fundraising
00:03:37effort for Israeli Olympic athletes, a PR move and he said as much, saying
00:03:40successful athletes could show quote Israel's beautiful face. In
00:03:442023, he participated in
00:03:46a creative community for peace pro Israel campaign within the entertainment
00:03:49industry. I talked about the CCFP before, but they are an organization that exists to promote
00:03:53Israel in Hollywood. In 2024, the Israel film festival gave him the
00:03:57industry leadership award. His connection there actually goes back to 19. '93 when he
00:04:00volunteered for the film festival. In 2024, he participated in another
00:04:04CCFP campaign, opposing boycots of Israeli writers and institutions,
00:04:08and in 2025, he publicly opposed the entertainment industry boycott of Israeli film
00:04:12institution. And it's not just about who
00:04:16owns the media, but who gets to shape its culture. Open AI
00:04:20CEO, Sam Altman, set down with Vanity Fair shortly after the company
00:04:24pitched US power companies a $1 billion dollar AI cyber
00:04:27security
00:04:28a plan. The interview on hacking incidents and suicides
00:04:32linked to
00:04:32of chat gpt. the magazines portrayal of altman sparked
00:04:36backlash online with critics accusing legacy media of
00:04:40rolling out the red carpet for silicon valley rather than holding its
00:04:44most powerful figures to account.
00:04:48what Sam altman thinks about this woman who harmed herself
00:04:51deeply because of a conversation with chat gpt and his PR person jumps
00:04:55in and i just didn't really expect anything more like i don't think vanity fair is going to
00:04:59be the one that's breaks this news about what model companies think about
00:05:02self-harm, so i think we just need to drop it. fact that
00:05:06someone
00:05:07in a moment of need that maybe can't get help or isn't willing to talk
00:05:11to a therapist can get. some help here uh, clearly people think
00:05:14there's a version of this that is good, there are also clearly versions of it that are bad. should
00:05:18we release people's private data in some their
00:05:22hardest moments to researchers? i think probably not without
00:05:26their consent. do we want to find ways where we can work with
00:05:30the community to address the mental health crisis in the world and for our
00:05:34products to be helpful there? of course yes. next is this other interview that i
00:05:37actually think was really interesting, but it brings up a good point and it pushes back on
00:05:41vanity fair and... and all these cultural media platforms for
00:05:45giving legitimacy to Samman and other tech
00:05:49exacts and I don't like what is the point of media, are
00:05:52you supposed to give people space to become legitimate or do you
00:05:56find people who are important to the conversation and give them a
00:05:59platform? I don't know, if it's the ladder, these people are
00:06:02already relevant to the conversation. The people with money today to fund
00:06:06art to buy things are people intact, so it makes sense why they would want to
00:06:10appeal to that crowd. tech founders infiltrating pop
00:06:14culture spaces and in particular fashion as AI moves into
00:06:18wearables, the founders these businesses have to try and immerse themselves
00:06:22within the industry as insider, and well they're absolutely not going to be regarded
00:06:26as style icons because they've never known originality, but with
00:06:29bottomless pits of money they can try and buy it. this can be manifested by
00:06:33interviews on popular fashion podcasts, or in this case appearing on the
00:06:37cover of a popular fashion magazine. meta may have helped its cute
00:06:41cuddly AI assistant, would win users hearts, but its
00:06:44new feature, news is raising some serious privacy
00:06:48concerns, with more than 5 million downloads in just three
00:06:51weeks, it's already a hit, but the more users explore
00:06:55it, the more questions emerge about what their hending over in
00:06:59return. meta's record on privacy and safety has long
00:07:03drawn scrutiny and meus appears to push those concerns
00:07:06further. users are opted into data collection for
00:07:10AI training while the feature. encourages them to share sensitive
00:07:14information, including bank details, email addresses,
00:07:18and passport data. Earlier, the AI agent was caught
00:07:22reading private messages without users permission, and now
00:07:26new report claims news has been instruct to create a page for
00:07:30every person a user's
00:07:31life. Muse can send emails
00:07:35and texts on your behalf, and it's also making a map of everyone you know and love. It's not
00:07:39just a list of names, it's intimate details like how you feel about them and how the
00:07:43relationship could be improved. we know this because a cyber security researcher named Karen
00:07:47Joshi found that if he asked Muse to hand over its instructions, it would, and I think
00:07:51what he found should make you concerned. he found that every hour Muse updates its map of your
00:07:55relationships with family, friends, romantic partners, co-workers. it tracks your inside
00:07:59jokes and way of speaking
00:08:00so that conversations with you feel natural. it tracks tensions and
00:08:04alliances in your friend group. it's not just pulling from your interactions with that person. it's pulling
00:08:08from other public pages like Instagram, Facebook and Threads profile. AI agents are asking for
00:08:12a staggering amount of information about you and your loved one. For Muse,
00:08:15deleting a chat does not guarantee that the model is going to forget what it's
00:08:19already learned from that chat. It just deletes the text from their servers. Meta says
00:08:23it's not sharing Muse's data with the advertising side of its business, but it's also
00:08:27saying that the free version of news should do the trick for most users. If the product is
00:08:31free, you are the product, and not only you, but your friends,
00:08:34acquaintances, co-workers who never consented to having their texts and emails read by
00:08:38an AI tool. Hollywood is turning its cameras on the...
00:08:42people behind the technology shaping our lives and these
00:08:46stories are asking uncomfortable questions about who holds
00:08:49power and what happens when promises of progress go
00:08:53wrong? mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and
00:08:56Elizabeth Holmes are all subjects of new wave of films
00:09:00exploring Silicon Valley's influence.
00:09:05a r k
00:09:05zk e r b e r.g. and your
00:09:07occupation? i'm a professional
00:09:11defendant. "the social reckoning, which opened in US cinemas
00:09:15on October 9th, revisits Facebook, but where the social
00:09:19network explored the company's beginnings, this film focuses
00:09:23its consequences. It follows whistleblower Francis
00:09:26Howgan and the disclosures that exposed internal concerns about
00:09:30the platform's impact. The question has shifted from how Zuckerberg
00:09:34built his empire to what that empire means for everyone else.
00:09:38Anxiety, depression of teenage girls got worse as result of time spent on the
00:09:42platform." What is the image the
00:09:45future that you see? Luca Guadanino's
00:09:48artificial turns to another battle over technological power,
00:09:52Sam Altman's firing and return to Open AI in
00:09:552023. What are the odds that
00:09:59we are in base reality, like we are in simulation?
00:10:03And Alex Gibney's documentary musk examines how the
00:10:07billionaire's business empire grew into political
00:10:10influence. These stories arrive as Enthusiasm for
00:10:13technology increasingly competes with anxiety about its
00:10:16consequences. Then there is story where the
00:10:20promises have already unraveled. You can see everything,
00:10:24opening. on October 16th follows Theranos founder
00:10:28Elizabeth Holmes before she went to prison for defrauding
00:10:31investors. Her downfall offers a stark example of
00:10:35what can happen when a founder's persuasive story outpaces the
00:10:39technology behind it. For filmmakers, Silicon Valley
00:10:43offers money, ambition, rivalry and extraordinary
00:10:47stakes. For audiences, these films offer a way
00:10:51into decisions that can otherwise feel distant. Even when the product.
00:10:55involved are part of everyday life, dramas interpret events
00:10:59and documentaries choose a perspective, neither replaces
00:11:02scrutiny from journalists or regulators, but they can leave
00:11:06viewers asking a bigger question: we use these companies products every
00:11:10day, but how much do we know about the people deciding their
00:11:13future?
00:11:19what if you went a first state and your food was paid for by the
00:11:22government? singapore is no stranger to matchmaking, but
00:11:26now it's bringing dating into the digital age with new
00:11:30approach, with birth rates hitting record low and more
00:11:34people staying single, the government might just be playing
00:11:37cupid. now the government is like, your study and
00:11:41single, oh no, we can't afford to have one less baby, we need to step in, and i'm
00:11:45not even joking, guff has launched first date, dating pilot for public officers
00:11:49age 21 to 35, and of course you verify yourself with sing pass, buse
00:11:53even your love life needs sing pass. then instead of endlessly swiping to 500 people you
00:11:57fill a questionaire about your interest
00:11:59and preferences and they use an actual matching algorithm to give you one
00:12:03person,
00:12:03and if both of you say yes, you have 72 hours to connect, they even have something called
00:12:07date quest to encourage you to actually meet in person while getting subsidized or even
00:12:11free meals, so potentially the government is not only finding you a day, they
00:12:15might subsidize part the day too, but the world part is that Singapore has basically
00:12:19come full circle. Back in 1984, the government created a social development unit to help
00:12:23single Singaporans meet. 40 years later, experimenting with matchmaking again, only now,
00:12:27instead of government organized social events, singapore has an algorithm and
00:12:30sing pass trying to find you a day. i saw this creator post on instagram and i think that she
00:12:34got matched to someone and she can see the link over here and guess the match can
00:12:38see her also and i think the match rejected her ah
00:12:41if it were me right i'll be like what the heck now the government
00:12:45knows that nobody wants me and then the algorithm is going to
00:12:48know that i'm a weirdo that nobody wants and then my first day
00:12:52match never move forward and like we are in a pile of rejects and
00:12:56from the reject the reject reject
00:12:58me. Staying in Asia,
00:13:02new trend is taken over social media with people trying out
00:13:06some rather unusual dance moves. It all started when an
00:13:108-year-old tutorial video teaching traditional Chinese folk
00:13:13dance resurfaced online. And now the trend has cross
00:13:17borders with people around the world putting their own spin on the
00:13:21moves, turning a traditional dance into viral entertainment.
00:13:26the flash dep dance is going viral onto in originating from a traditional
00:13:30chinese folk dance. it's a quick argile dodge dep where you rapidly shift your
00:13:34bodies from side to side to evade something. the move comes from an old
00:13:37instructional video the ande flower drum lantern dance top by
00:13:41professor the beijing dance academy. someone recently
00:13:45rediscovered the clip and its funny skillful motion sparked a massive
00:13:49imitation trend. is another viral dance from the same
00:13:53wave or we discovered chinese.
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