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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Sources: DOD barred press photographers from briefings on the Iran conflict after they published photos of Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering” — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff took issue with images taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut …
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Miles Klee / Wired:
Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved “misappropriation” — The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions “inspired by” real writers without permission, after backlash — Now it will ‘reimagine’ the Expert Review feature, and allow experts a choice about participating in future AI plans.
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Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Google's AI Futures Fund invests $1M into Animaj, an AI animation studio focused on making high-quality videos for children on YouTube — Google is investing in an artificial intelligence content studio focused on making videos for children on YouTube, part of an effort to seed the platform …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at Newpress, a production company and community platform for “creator journalists”, which helps them build shows on platforms including YouTube — A creator couple launched a wildly successful YouTube channel with longform video. Now they want to help other journalists do the same.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix will pay as much as $600M for InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI moviemaking company, including bonuses for meeting certain performance targets — Netflix Inc. will pay as much as $600 million for InterPositive, the AI moviemaking company founded by Ben Affleck …
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Martha Bellisle / Associated Press:
A federal judge declines to issue a restraining order that would force Washington state's legislature to give press passes to three conservative media figures — Washington state lawmakers were within their rights when they declined to issue press passes to three conservative media figures …
Nadia Khomami / The Guardian:
The UK's Society of Authors launches a “Human Authored” logo to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books — Tracy Chevalier announces registration scheme at the London Book Fair as AI works flood market
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
US-based politics newsletter Tangle Media reports $4.15M in annual revenue in 2025, with 85% coming from 71,000 paid subscriptions and $500,000 from ads — A US-based politics newsletter makes most of its $4m+ in revenue from subscriptions despite offering most of its content for free.
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
Binance files a New York defamation suit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iranian-linked transactions — The situation adds pressure to Binance, which is already operating under a compliance monitor following its $4.3 billion anti-money laundering …
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Time says revenue from events is on pace to make up over 50% of total revenue, up from 28% in 2023; it hosted 11 events in 2022 and plans to host 40+ this year — The business is on pace to generate more than 50% of its total revenue in 2026 — The legacy news brand Time has nearly completed …
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Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K+ in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country — “The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless,” Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday
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