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12:10 PM ET, June 28, 2024

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Max Tani / Semafor:
The Wall Street Journal EIC Emma Tucker says she felt vindicated by the debate, after previously facing criticism for coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity  —  The News  —  Prominent liberal columnists are calling for President Joe Biden to step aside following a widely-panned debate performance …
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Tests show that ChatGPT is hallucinating URLs in some citations, directing users to broken links for at least 10 news publications with OpenAI licensing deals  —  Nieman Lab's tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.
Wired:
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so  —  AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …
Reuters:
In a parliamentary hearing, Meta says it is considering blocking news content from Facebook in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees  —  Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is considering blocking news content from the platform in Australia if the government makes it pay licensing fees …
Margaret Fleming / Front Office Sports:
A Los Angeles jury sides against the NFL in a Sunday Ticket antitrust trial, saying the league owes $4.7B+ to subscribers and $96M to bars and restaurants  —  A jury in Los Angeles sided against the NFL on Thursday in the Sunday Ticket trial that could cost the league billions.
Laurel Rosenhall / Los Angeles Times:
The California State Senate passes SB 1327, a bill aimed at imposing a “data extraction mitigation fee” on Big Tech to help fund local journalism  —  The California state Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at helping the news industry by imposing a new tax on some of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Neil Griffiths / Mumbrella:
Nine CEO tells staff that around 200 jobs, ~4% of its workforce, will be cut, including up to 90 roles from Publishing and 38 from news and current affairs  —  Up to 200 jobs are set to be made redundant at Nine as soon as Friday.  —  Nine Entertainment CEO Mike Sneesby notified staff of the move …
Bloomberg:
Naver-owned Webtoon shares closed up 9.5% at $23 in the online comics company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of ~$2.9B, after an IPO that raised $315M  —  - Online comics company's first-time share sale priced at top  — Firm sees growth beyond Korea coming from Japan, France
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Comcast is adding the sports-focused Fubo app to supported Xfinity Flex, Xumo TV, and Xumo Stream boxes  —  Customers of Comcast's broadband product Xfinity Internet now have access to sports-centric streaming service Fubo on the company's lased streaming boxes.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Time strikes a multi-year content licensing deal with OpenAI; Time will gain access to OpenAI's tech and tools to develop new products  —  - It also gives the AI giant access to Time's real-time content to help answer user queries as news unfolds.  — Under the agreement …
 
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Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press:
Seven nonprofits including the Freedom of the Press Foundation file a brief saying the US law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban is unconstitutional
Tom Warren / The Verge:
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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