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Mateusz Rabiega / Reuters:
UMG shares jump 10%+ following Pershing Square's €56B offer, which is a 78% premium to their April 2 close; UMG is down nearly a third since its 2021 listing  —  Bill Ackman's Pershing Square (PSHP.L) proposed a deal on Tuesday to merge Universal Music Group (UMG.AS) …
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Trump threatens to find and jail the journalist who reported that a US officer was awaiting rescue in Iran last week, unless the journalist reveals their source  —  Two crew members of the F-15E Strike Eagle had self-ejected from the cockpit on Friday after Iranian military forces struck their plane.
Michael Schneider / Variety:
CBS is selling its 11:35pm ET timeslot to Byron Allen, who will air episodes of Comics Unleashed starting May 22, after The Late Show With Stephen Colbert ends  —  As “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” ends its run next month, CBS has opted to turn its 11:35 p.m. ET post-local news timeslot …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
The News Media Guild says more than 120 of the AP staff members it represents received buyout offers on Monday  —  The Associated Press, one of the world's oldest and most influential news organizations, said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The AP plans dozens of US staff cuts with the goal of reducing global staff by <5%, amid a shift from hyper-local print coverage to video and national topics
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
How social media became a “freak show”: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT  —  The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Email: WSJ EIC Emma Tucker praised Fortune's use of AI in its journalism, saying anyone who “thinks it is ‘wrong’, should get out of journalism fast!”  —  In today's edition: Media battles in Baltimore.
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
An independent journalist argues against using AI to help journalists write, saying “the process is the purpose” even if you don't always enjoy it
New York Times:
Silicon sampling, simulating human polling with AI agents, undermines the very idea of the opinion polls and will only worsen our broken information ecosystem  —  A recent Axios story on maternal health policy referred to “findings” that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses.
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay  —  One executive says there is ‘no path’ towards licensing deal under current proposal  —  Talks over licensing deals between …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand  —  It's called Netflix Playground, and it's out now. … Netflix has made family-friendly titles a key part of its current games strategy …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, using tactics like memory manipulation via “Summarize with AI” buttons  —  Let's pretend you work in IT and you're looking for a new digital service desk platform to help your employees reset passwords or onboard new hires.
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year

Anthropic:
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