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8:15 AM ET, August 22, 2023

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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content  —  Universal Music artists and songwriters plan to explore the future of royalties and content-creation tools in the age of generative AI.
Kylie Robison / Fortune:
Elon Musk says X will remove headlines from link previews in posts with news articles, so that the previews display only the lead image and the news site's URL  —  X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
Maria Heeter / The Information:
Memo: Bloomberg LP names Vlad Kliatchko as CEO, JP Zammitt as President, and plans to form a new board chaired by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney  —  Bloomberg LP made a sweeping overhaul of its top ranks, putting in place a new CEO, president and chief financial officer …
The Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump says he plans to skip the GOP primary debates, as “the public knows who I am”; Trump has counterprogramming options like a Tucker Carlson interview  —  Trump has repeatedly criticized Fox News, the host of Wednesday's primetime event, insisting it is a “hostile network” …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: on a call this summer, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy told GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to buy more ads if he wants more coverage on the network  —  The Scoop  —  If Vivek Ramaswamy wants to appear on Newsmax, he should pay to do it.  —  That was the message …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform  —  Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR's podcast and programming chief, Anya Grundmann, plans to leave at the end of 2023, as NPR combines news and programming under one chief content officer  —  NPR's top programming executive, Anya Grundmann, announced today she will step down at the end of the year after nearly three decades at the network.
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Jezebel EIC Laura Bassett resigns, becoming the seventh EIC to quit G/O Media in eight months; sources detail harsh working conditions under CEO Jim Spanfeller  —  In this week's edition of Confider, we look at how G/O Media just lost its seventh EIC in eight months—a sign of absolute tumult at the private equity-owned media empire.
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Nick Clegg says Meta now lets Instagram and Facebook users opt out of its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Stories, Search, and more, to comply with EU DSA  —  Instagram and Facebook users in Europe are getting more options to opt out of Meta's recommendation algorithms, the company has explained in a blog post today.
Discussion: Meta, more at Techmeme »
Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more  —  The most powerful people in podcasting weigh in with their predictions, plans and biggest pet peeves.
Discussion: @thr, more at Techmeme »
Ben Aris / bne IntelliNews:
An interview with Kommersant's EIC as the business-focused outlet faces both Russia's shrinking press freedoms and EU sanctions after a controversial article  —  Kommersant editor: “It's not a question of pushing press freedoms outwards, but of preventing them from shrinking inwards.”
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Tim Adams / The Guardian:
An interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Novaya Gazeta EIC Dmitry Muratov on the documentary about him, attacks on reporters, his motivations, and more
 
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Catherine Thorbecke / CNN:
Justin Trudeau criticizes Meta for “putting corporate profits ahead of people's safety” as the company continues blocking news content during Canadian wildfires
Robert Draper / New York Times:
A profile of George Chidi, an Atlanta journalist who writes on Substack and who documented a 2020 meeting of “alternate” Georgia electors favoring Donald Trump
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Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
Analysis: 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz are in Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J
Steven Kurutz / New York Times:
A look at Standard Industries, a roofing conglomerate that employs some Vanity Fair alumni and has invested in media startups like Puck, Air Mail, and Pushkin
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
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