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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Comcast reports Q1 revenue down 0.6% YoY to $29.89B, Media revenue up 1% YoY to $6.4B, and adjusted EBITDA up 21.5% to $1B; Comcast lost 427K cable subscribers  —  Comcast delivered first-quarter results slightly better than Wall Street expectations, but its shares fell in pre-market trading Thursday.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Tortoise plans to launch Observer.co.uk on April 25 and publish eight to 12 stories per day; Tortoise co-CEO Richard Furness says “we can buck the market trend”  —  Press Gazette speaks to new co-CEO, digital editor and creative director of The Observer under Tortoise.
Michael Schneider / Variety:
The Golden Globes plans to air the 83rd annual ceremony on January 11, 2026, live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ in the US  —  The Golden Globes has unveiled its 2026 ceremony date — and it's moving back a week.  The 83rd annual Golden Globes is set to be held on Sunday, Jan. 11 …
Associated Press:
Harvey Weinstein's retrial opens with a new jury assessing previous sexual assault allegations and a new claim; his 2020 rape conviction was overturned in 2024  —  Harvey Weinstein 's #MeToo retrial opened Wednesday, giving a new jury a fresh look at familiar rape and sexual assault allegations …
Associated Press:
Iran arrests four state TV staff members accused of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims, the first such open prosecution of state TV staff in decades  —  Iranian authorities on Thursday arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims …
Associated Press:
The UK lifts sanctions on Syrian media outlets, including on the state-run agency General Organization of Radio and TV, Cham Press TV, and newspaper Al Watan  —  The British government lifted sanctions against a dozen Syrian entities, including government departments and media outlets, the Foreign Office said Thursday.
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Imogen Heap releases five “stylefilters” on AI music platform Jen for $4.99 for 90 minutes of creations; user prompts are fused with one of five Heap songs  —  “We can't let only the people who want to do it for profit or want to do it for their own gain be making the decisions,” Heap says.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The New York Times names Natalie Kitroeff and Rachel Abrams as co-hosts of The Daily alongside Michael Barbaro  —  Times veterans Natalie Kitroeff and Rachel Abrams are joining its flagship podcast.  —  The New York Times has found not one, but two new co-hosts who will join Michael Barbaro …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more  —  Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
TelevisaUnivision Q1: $11.7M in net income, up from a $52M loss in Q1 2024, revenue down 11% YoY to $1.02B, subscription and licensing revenue down 7% to $438M  —  Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision said its first quarter swung to a profit as the company reduced expenses and saw …
 
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Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
UK licensing bodies announce a collective license to ensure authors are paid for the use of their works to train AI models, expected to be available this summer
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Conservative outlet The Dispatch acquires SCOTUSblog; the blog will remain free and co-founder Amy Howe and some writers are signing long-term contracts to stay
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Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025

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The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M+ in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M
 
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