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9:15 AM ET, May 12, 2025

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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
The Trump administration fired US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about xAI using copyrighted content to train AI  —  The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Lachlan Murdoch says the new Fox streaming service will be called Fox One and Fox plans to launch it the start of football season in fall 2025  —  Lachlan Murdoch said the new Fox streaming service he's been teasing for months will be called Fox One and will launch before the start of football season this fall.
Discussion: CNBC and The Wrap
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The Guardian:
Sources: the UK Foreign Office asks the BBC World Service to draw up a budget of up to £70M per year lower than the BBC management says it needs  —  Exclusive: David Lammy asks BBC bosses to draw up tightened budget amid criticism move could harm UK's global influence
Max Tani / Semafor:
G. Elliott Morris, the data journalist who took over 538 in 2023, launches Strength In Numbers, a paid Substack; his relationship with ABC deteriorated in 2024  —  The Scoop  —  The former head of 538, shuttered last year by ABC News, is building a new media outlet aimed at recapturing …
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
How OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google responded to EU court orders to block DNS resolution for pirate sites; OpenDNS left France and Belgium instead of complying  —  The frontline of online piracy liability keeps moving, and core internet infrastructure providers are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs.
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
A look at the costs, incentives, benefits, and tradeoffs of filming in California as experienced by the show Fallout, which is shooting its second season in CA  —  The show's producer, Jonathan Nolan, has put himself at the forefront of Hollywood's push to get California to approve $750 million in tax rebates.
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
Zach Schonfeld / The Guardian:
The line between documentaries and PR is blurring as streaming platforms opt for docs produced by the subjects themselves and shy away from controversy  —  As Netflix scraps an epic series exploring the Purple Rain star's complexities, and Max takes down Leaving Neverland, we ask …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
YouTube suspends several fake movie trailer channels from its partner program after an investigation showed the scale of AI-generated fake movie trailers  —  YouTube has further cracked down on fake movie trailer channels.  —  The video giant has suspended ad revenue on Screen Trailers and Royal Trailer …
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Propagate Content acquires a majority stake in Parker, which represents dozens of influencers; sources: CAA Evolution is raising money to buy YouTube channels  —  Streaming services, talent agencies and studios are throwing money at social media influencers (and their managers)
 
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Luke Plunkett / Aftermath:
Giant Bomb goes independent as Fandom sells the site to longtime staffers Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb, and announces a new subscription model
CNN:
Memo: the Pentagon orders all military academies to identify and remove books from their libraries promoting “divisive concepts” like race and gender ideology
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
WMG launches the WMG Pulse app in beta to let artists and their teams access real-time information about streaming performance and more across various platforms
BBC:
Over 400 British musicians, writers, and artists ask Keir Starmer to back a rule requiring developers to be transparent about using their material to train LLMs
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Matt Hughes / The Guardian:
Sources: Sky and TNT are asking for more access from English Premier League clubs, like the right to film in dressing rooms, after paying £6.7B for TV rights
Discussion: The Indian Express
Andrew Marchand / New York Times:
Sources: YouTube is favored to stream the NFL's opening week Friday night game, its first exclusive NFL broadcast, which may be available globally for free
New York Times:
Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, who co-authored an op-ed criticizing Israel in a student newspaper last year, is released from ICE custody after a judge's order
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: ESPN will call its forthcoming flagship streaming app ESPN; the cheaper option will still be ESPN+, which doesn't include the most-watched live games
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Indian news outlet The Wire says the government blocked access to its English site in India; the government blocked four outlets' social media accounts on May 8
 

 
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Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts

Don Clark / New York Times:
IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a “nanostack” 3D transistor architecture, which it says can maintain chip innovation for 10 years

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data center CPU built for agentic AI, and says Meta will use the chip when production starts in 2028
 
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