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9:55 PM ET, August 21, 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.
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 …
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 …
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” …
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  —  George Chidi's cameo appearance in the indictment of Donald J. Trump in Georgia was a plot twist, but not an accident.
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.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
More media consolidation is likely, but most analysts say high interest rates, regulatory hurdles, and a shaky ad market make for one of the worst times to sell  —  Experts agree the media business needs to consolidate.  But high interest rates, a hostile government and a shaky advertising market …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Triller's S-1 filing claims the short-form video app has had 550M signups, but Apptopia estimates it has been downloaded just 73.2M times since its 2015 launch  —  TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers into question.
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  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blasted Facebook for “putting corporate profits ahead of people's safety” …
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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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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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A judge upholds a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection as “human authorship is a bedrock requirement”