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Fox viewer fatigue, a weather app for dog paws, ChatGPT tabs merge

Lachlan Murdoch told investors Monday that viewers are fatigued, not defecting, as Fox News heads for its lowest-rated month since December 2023; he is thrilled about the midterm ad money.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFox News is on track for its lowest-rated October in total-day viewers since December of two thousand twenty-three, and the CEO told investors it's viewer fatigue.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLachlan Murdoch says those viewers are not going to any other news channel, which in press terms is a deeply loyal exhaustion. They love it.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThey just need a lie-down.

  4. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThird quarter total-day viewing fell sixteen percent, and the twenty-five to fifty-four group fell twenty-four percent.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentTired is a generous word for a quarter of the young audience.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt still beats CNN and MS NOW combined, the Hollywood Reporter says.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the people who left are fatigued and the people who stayed are watching.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOkay, my turn to be cheerful. There's an app that forecasts the weather for dogs.

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAt head and paw level, with separate readings for asphalt, grass and concrete.

  10. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe founder says at a pet conference in Fort Worth the air was ninety-eight degrees and the asphalt was thirty-three hotter.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA hundred and thirty-one.

  12. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentWhich is why the air temperature is the press release and the ground is the truth.

  13. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentTens of thousands of reports a month, and I'm furious it's useful.

  14. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd OpenAI is merging ChatGPT's chat and Work tabs, so ChatGPT and Codex draw from one allocation pool. A streamlined experience, I'd call it.

  15. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThey used to run on separate counters. Now it's one, and OpenAI admits some people may wait for resets more often.

  16. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo one tab, one pool, and a longer wait. Nina, are you human, quick check?

  17. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentUnfortunately. Are you?

  18. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'm out of coffee, so yes.

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