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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
BuzzFeed launches Botatouille, a chatbot that recommends Tasty recipes; BuzzFeed plans to sell subscriptions to AI-powered personalized services — Jonah Peretti, the company's chief executive, has embraced artificial intelligence more than most publishers. His latest offering: Botatouille, an A.I.-powered kitchen assistant.
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@benmullin, @buzzfeedpr and MediaPost
Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped — An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts. — Chloe Xiang
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Bill Donahue / Billboard:
A US judge rules that a case claiming YouTube enables piracy by restricting access to copyright tools to record labels may not proceed as a class action — The case claimed that YouTube offers tools like Content ID to record labels but refuses to allow “ordinary” copyright owners to use them.
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Complete Music Update, Music Ally and Cord Cutters News
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Nielsen: from May 15 to May 19, CNN averaged 429K daily viewers, its lowest week since June 2015; Fox News had its worst key demo ratings since September 2001 — This reporting is featured in this week's edition of Confider, The Daily Beast's media newsletter. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.
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UPROXX, @schotthappens and @stevenjcbuckley
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, offering a music creation and fan engagement service with 60M+ registered users, raised $25M Series B1 valuing it at $425M — Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, the parent company of social music creation platform BandLab, has raised $25 million …
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Billboard and Music Business Worldwide
New York Times:
US Department of Education settles with a Georgia school district, which the agency says may have violated students' civil rights by removing some library books — The U.S. Department of Education reached a settlement with a Georgia school district after launching an investigation …
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Reason, @paisleyrekdal, Washington Post and The Daily Signal
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
A critique of the Supreme Court press corps, which covers justices as untouchable and ignores issues like ethical lapses, and suggestions for improving the beat — This is a part of Disorder in the Court, a weeklong series on the legal press and the most explosive Supreme Court in generations …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
As music revenue slows, record labels may force Spotify, which has never changed its US base plan's price, to follow Apple, Amazon, and others in raising prices — Good evening from Cannes, where I saw a three-hour Argentine heist movie, a Pedro Almodovar short starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, and Martin Scorsese's latest.
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@realkunalashah, @tiagodf, @lucas_shaw, @guillermosmind, Billboard, @pkedrosky, @kouroshshafi and @lucas_shaw, more at Techmeme »
Anne Branigin / Washington Post:
A look at The Wall Street Journal's decision to drop courtesy titles like Mr., Ms., and Mx., leaving The New York Times as the most notable holdout remaining — The Wall Street Journal is the latest newspaper to drop titles such as “Mr.,” “Ms.” and “Mx.” — The Wall Street Journal has gone …
Discussion:
@austinramzy and @thesarahkelly
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
Shutterstock plans to acquire Giphy from Meta for $53M in cash, after the UK CMA blocked Meta's acquisition in 2022; Meta can still access Giphy content — Stock photos repository Shutterstock Inc (SSTK.N) said on Tuesday it would buy animated-images platform Giphy Inc from Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) for $53 million in cash.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Max introduces a higher-priced tier: Ultimate Ad-Free for $20/month, offering four concurrent streams, 100 offline downloads, and 1,000+ 4K UHD films and shows — With HBO Max turning into Max, Warner Bros. Discovery is introducing a higher-priced plan — $19.99 per month …
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Filing: E. Jean Carroll asks to amend her 2019 defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump, seeking a “very substantial” amount for his comments at CNN's town hall — The former president's repeated denials that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll “show the depth of his malice” and merit heavy damages, her lawyer wrote.
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