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Sources: Washington Post CEO Will Lewis criticized Sally Buzbee's judgment in publishing a May 2024 article about a UK phone-hacking lawsuit that involved him — Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.
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James Pearson / Reuters:
China-linked app NewsBreak used AI to write 40+ inaccurate local US stories since 2021 and in March added a note that its content “may not always be error-free” — Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States …
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The Wall Street Journal:
Founder Shane Smith returns to Vice as Vice News EIC, but with no management responsibilities, and will host a series of shows and create social media content — Shane Smith is sorry, but not sorry. The 54-year-old co-founder of Vice Media said he has few regrets as he embarks on a new role …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the NBA is closing in on deals with NBC, ESPN, and Amazon that would bring in ~$76B in media revenue over 11 years; the deals will include WNBA rights — The National Basketball Association entered its first TV negotiations in a decade with a problem: Its main business partners seemed to be on shaky footing.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
CEO Nicholas Thompson shares why The Atlantic partnered with OpenAI: publishers can benefit from tech platforms, as long as they avoid becoming wholly dependent — Shortly before The Atlantic announced “a product and content” partnership with OpenAI, the magazine published a piece …
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The Atlantic, LinkedIn, @sarahscire, @jessicalessin, Business Insider and MIT Technology Review
Nikkei Asia:
An analysis finds 90K+ images of popular anime characters on generative AI image sharing sites; ~2.5K images had multiple similarities to the original artwork — —An animator working for a Tokyo-based production company — “This Pikachu” was drawn by generative AI.
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Nikkei Asia and @hrfm_yamamoto
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Stability AI releases Stable Audio Open, a text-to-audio model for generating up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, prohibited for commercial use — Stability AI, the startup behind the AI-powered art generator Stable Diffusion, has released an open AI model for generating sounds …
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Bloomberg Media unveils product updates, including more deep-dive long reads on Businessweek, set to become a monthly in July, and reports 540K subscribers — Bloomberg Media is betting on increased website functionality and deeper reporting to keep it ahead of generative AI-based information providers.
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Dominic Ponsford on LinkedIn and Talking Biz News
Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Five former colleagues of exiled Uyghur journalist Kasim Kashgar have been imprisoned in China's Xinjiang region, seemingly over their ties to the VOA reporter — Former colleagues of exiled Uyghur journalist Kasim Kashgar have been imprisoned in China's Xinjiang region …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Four educational publishers sue Google, accusing it of promoting pirated copies of their textbooks and ignoring copyright infringement notices — Google (GOOGL.O) was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday by educational publishers Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Elsevier accusing …
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Publishing Perspectives, Bloomberg Law and Search Engine Land
Ash Parrish / The Verge:
An interview with Netflix VP of External Games Leanne Loombe about the popularity of interactive fiction games on the service, reality TV shows, and more — And while the “serious gamer” might be enticed by the pending arrival of The Case of the Golden Idol or Don't Starve Together …
Will Shanklin / Engadget:
YouTube plans to restrict some content pertaining to the real use of guns from viewers under 18 starting on June 18, a year after a watchdog group report — Last year, a nonprofit flagged gun-related videos recommended to children's accounts. — YouTube quietly snuck in a policy change …
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