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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16M to settle his 60 Minutes lawsuit, stating the money will go to his future presidential library, without offering an apology — Paramount Global has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to end his lawsuit over edits to a “60 Minutes” interview …
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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Law360 now requires every story go through an AI-powered “bias” detection tool before publication after a LexisNexis exec accused the newsroom of liberal bias — The policy was announced after an executive accused the newsroom of bias in its Trump administration coverage.
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Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
A US immigration judge grants bond to Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara, after he was arrested by police while covering a protest and turned over to ICE — An immigration judge in Georgia on Tuesday granted bond for a well-known Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
A YouTube report made in consultation with 10K+ UK creators calls for UK government recognition, industry representation, and better access to finance — Top YouTubers like Amelia Dimoldenberg, Brandon B and Max Klymenko have put their names to a first-of-its-kind report from YouTube calling …
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Bloomberg:
Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites — Google has ended tests of a feature that would have let users open a snapshot of cooking-recipe content directly in web search results …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own “fact-checking” AI agents for review — Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed …
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Richard Rushfield / The Ankler:
Sources: the HFPA voted to reconstitute itself on Monday, two years after disbanding, to reexamine Jay Penske and Todd Boehly's deal to buy the Golden Globes — As California's AG withholds deal approval, the voting body required to dissolve for the transaction reverses course and is seeking to oust Helen Hoehne
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default — Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace …
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
In a filing, the Newhouse family, which owns Condé Nast, says it is selling 100M WBD shares worth around $1.1B total; WBD closes down 4%+ — The media giant's stock tumbled over 4% during Tuesday's trading session after the Condé Nast owners sold 100 million shares
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Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Apple unveils Apple Music Studios in Culver City, CA, where musicians can come for radio interviews, to record new music, do photo shoots, and film content — “We want this to be an open house for artists, songwriters or any creator to come in, hang out and create content …
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
AMC Entertainment reaches an agreement with creditors to reduce debt, including raising ~$223.3M and converting $143M of debt into equity; AMC falls ~6% — Agreement comes after AMC posted a wider loss and lower sales in the first quarter — AMC Entertainment reached an agreement …
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Financial Times:
Warner Music and Bain announce a $1.2B joint venture to buy song rights; sources: Warner is in talks to acquire the Red Hot Chili Peppers' catalog for $300M+ — Acquisition would be a coup for record company and private equity firm's new song rights joint venture
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