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1:35 PM ET, June 16, 2023

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Financial Times:
Sources: media companies like News Corp and The Guardian have discussed LLM copyright issues and a subscription fee with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Adobe  —  Google and OpenAI are discussing agreements to pay publishers over using content to train generative AI models
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The Guardian:
As part of its new policy on AI, The Guardian says it will use AI only when it contributes to original journalism and to help with corrections and suggestions  —  Over the last three months, colleagues from our editorial, creative, engineering, product, legal, commercial and partnerships teams …
Helen Coster / Reuters:
Gannett plans to launch an AI tool to create bulleted summaries of USA Today articles in Q4 and is developing a tool to break stories into various formats  —  Publisher Gannett plans to include generative artificial intelligence in the system it uses to publish stories as it and other news organizations begin …
Discussion: @iatalkspace and @martinpatience
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Spotify and Prince Harry and Meghan's production company Archewell Audio end their partnership less than a year after Meghan's podcast debuted on the platform  —  The couple's production company and the streaming service announced an end to their relationship, less than a year after Meghan's podcast debuted on the platform.
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Alex McCaskill, the Fox News producer who wrote the chyron labeling President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator”, has left the company  —  Sources identified the culprit to The Daily Beast as Alex McCaskill, a longtime producer on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
The Wrap:
As Southern California Public Radio plans cuts, tax records from 2021 show ex-CEO made ~$580K while retired and another exec made ~$560K working part-time  —  Tax returns show that two former public radio CEOs at NPR's affiliate LAist made massive salaries until 2021
Financial Times:
Ogilvy sets out plans for an AI accountability code to clearly disclose AI-generated influencer campaigns and commits to using an AI “watermark” on its ads  —  Agency Ogilvy is pushing for more industry disclosure when lifelike virtual characters are used in ads
Discussion: The Drum
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Email: Twitter blocks paid promotion of a campaign video by North Carolina Sen. Rachel Hunt, who is running for lieutenant governor, due to “abortion advocacy”  —  “The mention of abortion advocacy is the issue here,” a Twitter employee told North Carolina candidate Rachel Hunt, according to emails HuffPost reviewed.
CNBC:
Christine McCarthy, Disney's CFO since 2015, is stepping down; Kevin Lansberry, finance chief for parks business, will work as interim CFO starting July 1  —  - Christine McCarthy will step down as Disney's chief financial officer.  — She is taking family medical leave and will advise the company as it seeks a successor.
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Hanan Elatr, the widow of Jamal Khashoggi, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company's Pegasus tool to track them both  —  In the lawsuit, Hanan Elatr says Saudi Arabia used NSO's Pegasus spyware to track her and her husband's whereabouts before he was murdered
 
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The Guardian:
Boris Johnson joins The Daily Mail as a weekly columnist to write “completely unexpurgated stuff”, a day after a report found he deliberately misled parliament
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
How a local news site founder and an ex-Microsoft engineer created an AI to listen to meetings and write usable summary articles, and how human nuance gets lost
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Kari Paul / The Guardian:
The CCDH estimates Google made $10M in two years from anti-abortion organizations' ads misdirecting users to “pregnancy crisis centers” that do not provide care
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitch launches a Partner Plus tier, offering a 70/30 revenue sharing split to creators who have 350+ recurring paid subscriptions for three consecutive months
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Guardian announces a global ban on gambling advertising, arguing that taking money from services that can lead to addiction is unethical