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11:15 AM ET, July 19, 2023

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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Masters of the Universe, a live-action movie about He-Man and other Mattel toys, is dead at Netflix; sources: development cost estimates range from $30M to $60M  —  “Masters of the Universe,” a live-action movie based on He-Man and a slew of other popular Mattel toys, is officially dead at Netflix …
Or Goren / Cord Busters:
Netflix removes its $10 Basic tier, its most affordable ad-free tier, in the US and UK for new and rejoining members  —  Breaking: In a major shakeup of its pricing model, Netflix, the global streaming giant, has abandoned its low-cost ‘Basic’ tier in the UK and the US, echoing its earlier strategy in Canada.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted material for generative AI  —  If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Dan Wootton says he made “errors of judgment in the past” and suggests the claims he offered men money for sexual material were a campaign to undermine GB News  —  GB News presenter facing allegations he inappropriately offered colleagues large sums in return for sexual material
Jon Gertner / New York Times:
A look at the Wikipedia community's debates about AI, including AI's threats and potential benefits, knowledge creation, truthfulness, and legal concerns  —  Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach group EIC Lloyd Embley steps down after about 30 years with the publisher; Reach's editors will report directly “on operational matters” to CEO Jim Mullen  —  Lloyd Embley has been group editor-in-chief at Reach since 2014.  —  Reach group editor-in-chief Lloyd Embley …
Discussion: HoldtheFrontPage
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok debuts Elevate, a program to help rising music artists via amplification, early access to new features, and more, and signs a Warner Music licensing deal  —  TikTok is launching a new program that is designed to identify the next wave of rising artists in the music industry, the company announced on Tuesday.
Axios:
Sources: Vox Media plans to stop using Chorus, its CMS that the company licensed to external publishers from 2018 to 2022, and move its websites to WordPress  —  Vox Media, the parent company to websites such as New York Magazine, Eater and SB Nation, will no longer use Chorus …
Peter Kafka / Vox:
G/O Media executives plan to publish more AI-generated stories, despite the blowback from employees and media circles for their first botched attempts  —  Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots.  —  In early July, managers at G/O media, the digital publisher …
 
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Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
A bankruptcy court allows Diamond Sports to end its broadcasts of Arizona Diamondbacks games; MLB takes over streaming, starting with the first game on July 18
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Since Bloomberg cut open-market programmatic ads on January 1, its CPMs are up ~20%, its average ad-load time is down 15%, and its page-load time is down 40%
Reuters:
OpenAI commits $5M to the American Journalism Project in support of local news and $5M in API credits to help AJP's members assess and deploy emerging AI tech
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Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
The AMPTP says SAG-AFTRA declined a $1B+ deal with wage increases, pension, health contributions, residual increases, and “first-of-their-kind” AI protections
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 plans to cut ~400 roles, or ~10% of its staff, mostly in its entertainment business, ahead of its “digital transformation”
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