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8:35 AM ET, May 13, 2026

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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Source: Bari Weiss let Netanyahu choose Major Garrett to interview him over veteran reporter Lesley Stahl for 60 Minutes; Garrett also interviewed Pete Hegseth  —  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a newsy interview with “60 Minutes” with Major Garrett that aired …
Adam Jacobson / Radio & Television Business Report:
Salem Media agrees to be acquired by The Christian Community Foundation, doing business as WaterStone, in a deal that will take Salem Media private  —  Salem Media Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by The Christian Community Foundation, Inc., doing business as WaterStone …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Grazia Editor-in-Chief Hattie Brett is stepping down in September after an eight-year tenure during which the outlet launched brand extensions like Grazia CASA  —  Grazia editor-in-chief Hattie Brett will leave the publication in September after eight years at the helm.
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A group of award-winning journalists, podcasters, and audiobook narrators sue Google for allegedly misusing recordings of their voices to train AI models  —  Google (GOOGL.O) has been sued by a group of award-winning journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators in Illinois federal court …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA's tentative contract lets studios use synthetic actors if they add “significant” value and requires bargaining if studios license performances for AI  —  The deal, unveiled on Monday, allows studios to use synthetic performers only if they bring “significant additional value” to a project.
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Paramount sent a letter to California AG Rob Bonta last week saying “Paramount and WBD have every intention” to keep filling theaters in the state and worldwide  —  THE SCOOP  —  Paramount is racing to reassure Hollywood that its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery …
Sam Schube / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Kareem Rahma, host of Subway Takes, which has 2M Instagram followers, as he prepares to launch 10-episode YouTube series Keep the Meter Running  —  Kareem Rahma is making programs for the one screen everyone's watching  —  | Photography by Tonje Thilesen for WSJ.  Magazine
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Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: ad-supported tiers make up ~50% of all US premium subscription VOD sign-ups; ad tiers drove 78% of ~65M net subscriber adds in the past nine quarters  —  Advertiser spending on streaming is projected to hit $20 billion by 2029, as consumers flock to cheaper ad-supported plans
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Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
Google launches Intrusion Logging, a feature developed with Reporters Without Borders and others to log sophisticated attacks, on Android 16 Pixel devices  —  Intrusion Logging marks the first feature from a major device vendor to aid with forensic detection of sophisticated threats, Amnesty International said.
 
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Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
Internal email: in a “periodic reminder”, NYT tells freelancers they must not submit any material for publication that contains content generated by AI tools
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
In a meeting, the BBC announces a pay freeze for executive committee members, the organization's 12 highest-paid bosses, including the director general
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Ofcom is investigating GB News over a Trump interview from November for “due impartiality and material misleadingness”, after initially declining to investigate
Merin Curotto / Observer:
Film critic Rex Reed, who was known for his distinctive prose and wrote for six decades for major publications, including The New York Observer, dies at 87
Sarah Fielding / Fast Company:
BuzzFeed's shares jump 90.44% following the deal with Allen Family Digital; BuzzFeed plans to set up BuzzFeed Studios and Tasty as a new independent entity
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify
Sara Fischer / Axios:
CNN launches the CNN Weather app, its first standalone lifestyle product since its digital strategy overhaul in 2025, available for free to iOS users in the US
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix launches a website saying it has invested $135B+ in films and TV over the past decade, contributing $325B+ to the global economy and creating 425K+ jobs
Luke Barr / ABC News:
The US DOJ charges Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, CA, with acting as an illegal foreign agent for China; Wang worked on a website called U.S. News Center
 

 
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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-parameter unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory

Financial Times:
Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada

Emily Mullin / Wired:
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among the signatories on a public letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA that could be used in AI-developed bioweapons
 
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