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11:40 AM ET, May 20, 2026

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New York Times:
James Murdoch's Lupa Systems acquires around 50% of Vox Media, including its podcast network, New York magazine, and Vox.com, sources say for $300M+  —  James Murdoch is acquiring roughly half of Vox Media, a dramatic expansion in American media for the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
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The Guardian:
Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use  —  Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Paramount hopes to close its acquisition of WBD by July 15, a far more ambitious timeline than Paramount has publicly telegraphed  —  Paramount is hoping to close its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery much sooner than the company has publicly stated, Status has learned.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Roku launches a creator hub with licensed creator content and programming from partners like Peacock and HBO Max, alongside new FAST channels from top creators  —  Roku will also expand its licensing of creator content, its content chief tells THR.  —  Roku is making a big bet on creator content …
Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central:
Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app  —  Seriously, who is asking for all these tools? … What you need to know  — Ask YouTube now supports conversational searches instead of relying only on simple keywords.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Jeff Bezos says Amazon MGM Studios' decision to acquire and release Melania “was a good business decision”, denying that it was “a way of buying influence”  —  Jeff Bezos insists that Amazon MGM Studios' decision to acquire and release “Melania,” a documentary about the First Lady …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs  —  Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models, called Stability Audio 3.0.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Steven Rosenbaum acknowledges that The Future of Truth, his book about truth in the AI age, released this month to great fanfare, contains quotes made up by AI  —  Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
YouTube partners with the Television Academy to stream the Sports and News & Documentary Emmys; sports will be on May 26 and news and documentary on May 27-28  —  YouTube will partner with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to stream next week's Sports and News and Documentary Emmys.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Audio from an all-hands: BBC's new DG Matt Brittin said he wants to use data to build a “sat nav around bias” and iPlayer is not doing a “good enough job”  —  In his first address to staff on his second day in office, former Google executive Matt Brittin said that he wanted …
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Canal+ says it will no longer work with 600+ cinema figures who signed a petition voicing concern over the influence of its right-wing owner Vincent Bolloré
 

 
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Anthropic:
Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the US government issued an export control order, citing national security concerns

Allan Smith / NBC News:
Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth ~$130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states

Michael Peel / Financial Times:
After years of false dawns, Big Tech, startups, and governments are betting on commercially useful quantum computers by 2030, as skeptics worry about hype
 
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