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11:25 AM ET, June 20, 2024

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Bloomberg:
Elon Musk tried to repair his often strained relationship with the ad industry through an appearance at the Cannes Lions, after Twitter skipped 2023's event  —  Elon Musk attempted to repair his often strained relationship with the advertising industry with an appearance at the Cannes Lions conference in France on Wednesday.
The Guardian:
Sources: WaPo's Will Lewis advised Boris Johnson and others to “clean up” their phones during UK's COVID-era Partygate scandal in December 2021 and January 2022  —  Sources' claim suggests advice by Will Lewis, an informal adviser to then prime minister, contradicted instructions to staff
Wired:
Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites  —  A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Sources: Sony is acquiring Queen's music catalog, excluding live performances, for £1B; Disney retains recorded music rights in the US and Canada  —  The Queen music catalog, along with a number of other rights, is in the process of being acquired by Sony Music for £1 billion …
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
MoffettNathanson: Q1 2024 was the worst quarter the pay-TV business has ever seen, losing 2.37M subscribers, down 6.9%, and even YouTube TV slightly shrank  —  - Pay TV just suffered its worst quarter in history — a stunning 6.9% drop.  — The TV industry used to hope digital services …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Interviews with Ethiopian journalists who fled the country due to civil war and conflict and who remain in exile, sometimes struggling to afford food and rent  —  When Belete Kassa's friend and news show co-host Belaye Manaye was arrested in November 2023 and taken to the remote Awash Arba military camp known …
Eltaf Najafizada / Bloomberg:
A French journalist says India refused to renew his journalism permit and forced him to leave this week, making him the third journalist to leave India in 2024  —  India has allegedly refused to renew a French correspondent's permit, making him the third journalist to leave India this year …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Spotify now lets all podcasters upload videos, rather than only creators who signed up to Spotify for Podcasters hosting; Spotify has 250K+ video podcasts  —  Spotify is now letting non-hosted podcasters upload videos to the platform.  The company quietly rolled out the new feature last week …
Discussion: Podnews
Rick Perlstein / American Prospect:
A look at Talking Points Memo's origins, its revenue models over the years, and why “both-sides” framing is due to political journalism's economic structure  —  The book I'm working on now is about how the last 25 years of American politics brought our democratic republic to the brink of collapse.
WBEZ:
Unionized journalists at WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times voted overwhelmingly for Chicago Public Media CEO Matt Moog's immediate removal, after layoffs in April  —  Unions for the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ criticized Matt Moog, who announced he planned to leave last year but later oversaw layoffs.
 
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Snap agrees to a $15M settlement with California after a three-year probe into employees' allegations of discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment
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Variety:
A look at Paramount's failed merger talks with Skydance and how Shari Redstone's unilateral decision to call off the talks shows her unusual power
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
X removes some of journalist Pablo Manriquez's viral posts on Senator Ted Cruz's donor info; X claims the posts violated its rules but did not give details
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Telegraph Media Group reports a record £244.6M loss in 2023 due to £277.6M of previously unidentified debt, despite operating profit rising 35.2% YoY to £54.2M
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Laura Kipnis / Wired:
A look at Rebind, a startup that turns Margaret Atwood's and other authors' voices into AI reading companions, and an interview with CEO John Dubuque
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Thomas Claburn / The Register:
A look at Mozilla's acquisition of Anonym, which offers “privacy-preserving” ad tools, and how Anonym might interact with a user base that tends to block ads
 

 
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Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused, and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to “vibe coding”

Bloomberg:
Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similarly to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5, both free

Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg:
The hype around AI agent Manus doesn't represent a second DeepSeek moment, but reveals that Chinese startups can compete with US companies building AI products
 
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