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10:25 AM ET, June 5, 2025

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Lila Shapiro / Vulture:
Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use  —  “We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I'll have the movie."  —  One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles …
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Emine Saner / The Guardian:
Some creatives and academics are rejecting generative AI at work and at home on environmental and ethical grounds, but realize they may end up using it anyway  —  Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone's jobs?  Not if this lot have anything to do with it
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC signs a deal with Runway to use its AI tech to generate marketing images and pre-visualize unproduced shows, the first cable player to work with Runway
Minho Kim / New York Times:
A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March  —  A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.
Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Tamara Bralo, the head of journalist safety at Radio Free Asia, on Trump's cuts, the future of at-risk visa holders, jailed staffers abroad, and more  —  “It's difficult to remain calm when you're dealing with this much trauma.”  —  The veteran journalist Tamara Bralo was at home …
Discussion: @liamjscott
Peter White / Deadline:
Sources: WBD initiates a round of layoffs in its cable TV divisions, affecting well under 100 employees and largely impacting the Discovery side of the company  —  Deadline understands the company is set to lay off employees on the cable television side of its business.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Sun appoints Jack Elsom as political editor, replacing Harry Cole, who is relocating to the US to become editor at large, and drops its business page  —  Jack Elsom has been named as political editor of The Sun taking over from Harry Cole.  —  This follows news that Cole is moving across …
Rhi Storer / Press Gazette:
Some YouTube channels are using AI to turn paywalled articles into videos without the consent of publishers, often adding inaccuracies  —  Youtube channels are using AI to steal words and photographs from paywalled news content and reproduce articles wholesale without the consent of publishers.
Discussion: lawsociety.ie and Press Gazette
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The New European rebrands as The New World, expands its coverage, and moves to a magazine format; the title made £2.6M in 2024 revenue and had 35K subscribers  —  Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year for less than $1,000  —  Tech company has talked with Disney and A24 about exclusive content for a premium VR device  —  Meta Platforms is courting Hollywood …
 
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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached formal licensing deals with OpenAI and Google
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Russell Simmons sues HBO and the directors of On the Record for $20M, alleging they defamed him in their documentary on sexual assault allegations against him
Tom Levitt / The Guardian:
UK-based BBC Persian journalists say their families in Iran are being terrorized and punished by the Iranian regime, with a sharp escalation in 2025
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The Nevada Legislature rejects a proposal to create a $95M annual tax credit for the Sony- and WBD-backed Summerlin Studios project in Las Vegas
Barbara Tasch / BBC:
The BBC rejects a White House claim that it took down a Gaza story, after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the BBC of taking “the word of Hamas”
Attila Mong / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Simon Owens / The Long Story with Simon Owens:
How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels
 

 
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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

Business Insider:
Google advises some employees on visas, including H-1B visas, not to travel outside the US due to processing delays, following new social media screening rules

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
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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