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1:50 PM ET, May 7, 2026

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Microdrama actors say their images were used to create misleading, sexual promos, pushing them to include contract clauses requiring consent for AI manipulation  —  - Actors say micro drama apps manipulated their images to create misleading, sexual promos.  — The AI-generated ads showed …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Australia's NBI incentivizes Google, Meta, and TikTok to bargain with news outlets, but should just distribute money levied from the platforms  —  Its proposed replacement for the News Media Bargaining Code retains its original sin: pretending that a public policy decision is actually just a little nudge to help the free market.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Axios' total Q1 content output was down 22% YoY, but page views rose 30% and page views per visitor rose 22%, as the outlet shifts away from chasing traffic  —  Axios output in Q1 was down 22% compared to a year earlier but page views were up 30%.  —  US newsbrand Axios has cut its output …
Discussion: Acast
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
ElevenLabs, creator of Eleven Music, says it crossed $500M in ARR and announces new investors including BlackRock and Jamie Foxx as part of a $550M+ Series D  —  ElevenLabs says it has crossed $500 million in annual recurring revenue, up from $350 million at the end of 2025.
Lizbeth Diaz / Reuters:
UK-based journalist advocacy group Article 19 says eight journalists disappeared or were murdered in Mexico in 2025; four journalists were murdered in 2024  —  Eight journalists disappeared or were murdered in Mexico in 2025, the UK-based journalist advocacy group Article 19 said in a report published …
Discussion: Middle East Monitor
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months  —  Amazon MX Player is being absorbed into Prime Video, combining India's free and paid streaming catalogs under a single platform.
Associated Press:
A look back at Ted Turner's invention of global 24-hour cable TV news and how it dramatically changed politics, journalism, and civic engagement  —  When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, Beth Knobel, a future TV news correspondent, was in graduate school.
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CNN:
Ted Turner, a pioneer of 24-hour cable TV news who founded CNN, dies at 87; the Ohio-born Atlanta businessman eventually sold his networks to Time Warner
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
Filing: music industry organizations oppose a proposed 43% average increase to US Copyright registration fees, say the hike would lock out independent creators  —  A group of ten music industry organizations formally opposed a proposed 43% average increase to copyright registration fees …
Discussion: Hypebot and Music Ally
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Survey: 59% of Gen Z streaming app users in the US, the UK, and Australia add and drop a service to view a movie or series; 71% stopped buying physical music  —  But younger viewers are 13% more likely to go to the movies on opening weekend  —  Gen Z is unsubscribing …
 
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Ziff Davis acquires PopSci, Dwell, Business of Home, and Domino from Recurrent Ventures; one M&A executive estimated the price of the deal at less than $20M
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Brendan Carr says an FCC inquiry into media sports rights might not lead to new rules; Fox and Sinclair have filed comments supporting sports on broadcast TV
Discussion: Awful Announcing
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Some NYT staffers say a white male editor's claim that he faced discrimination is absurd and hands the Trump administration a weapon to persecute journalists
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Julie K. Brown's Epstein work didn't win a Pulitzer in 2018 due to at least one juror's concerns; this year's citation is seen as a “corrective”
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its $400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $8.9B, a net loss of $2.9B, largely due to Netflix's breakup fee, ad revenue down 8%, streaming up 7%, global subs hit 140M+
 

 
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve's Steam Machine, its new living room Linux PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model without a controller, and will go on sale starting June 29
 
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