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4:40 PM ET, June 19, 2026

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Variety:
Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment  —  The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios.
Andrew Cohen / InvestmentNews:
Robinhood plans to shutter the Sherwood News site in favor of newsletters and the Robinhood app; at least three reporters were cut in company layoffs this week  —  The fintech giant shifts its media strategy despite reporting record trading volumes this month amid its 10% staff reduction.
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
A report by LA officials estimates that the Paramount-WBD deal places about 2.5K jobs in LA and 6K jobs globally at risk due to duplicative roles  —  A new estimate by local officials who are in the process of assessing the impact of David Ellison's $111 billion merger places 2,500 jobs …
Hugo Lowell / Wired:
New book: Bezos told Trump that WaPo had been one of his worst investments and “the people there are terrible”; Trump told associates Bezos was “kissing my ass”  —  “You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman …
Jazz Tangcay / Variety:
How Netflix cultivated the KPop Demon Hunters fandom with brand tie-ins across gaming, fast-food, and more to keep the film a blockbuster for an entire year  —  June 20 marks the one-year anniversary of Netflix's “KPop Demon Hunters” release.  —  Since then, the animated feature …
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Netflix subscribers in France can now access TF1 broadcasts and TF1+ on-demand content within Netflix at no extra cost; TF1 handles ad sales and programming  —  A year after sending shockwaves through the television industry with news of their unexpected alliance, France's TF1 Group and Netflix …
Financial Times:
Source: DAZN is restructuring its business with a new holding company to make it easier to raise money and explore a potential public listing  —  Lossmaking sports streamer restructures business to make it easier to raise new money  —  DAZN, the lossmaking sports streamer owned …
Patrick Brzeski / The Hollywood Reporter:
At a conference, an Amazon Prime Video exec says Prime Video works with 600+ content partners, including 70+ in Japan, 50+ in Australia, and 30+ in India  —  At Asia's leading media conference, held this week in Bali, Amazon regional entertainment leaders touted its radical localization strategies …
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Owen Long / Wired:
A look at Fishtank, a live, unedited, and violent Big Brother-like show where contestants are locked in a house and viewers can pay to interact with the cast  —  It's like Big Brother without any limits, or broadcast standards.  WIRED goes on location—and on camera—with the cult hit.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
NOTUS says it has “amicably resolved” The Washington Star's lawsuit over NOTUS' planned rebrand as The Star and it is working toward a new name  —  The publication is abandoning a planned rebranding after resolving a trademark dispute with the new publisher of The Washington Star.
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media sells The Verge, SB Nation, Thrillist, The Dodo, and more to Penske; Vox's Ryan Pauley will join Penske as president of PMX, the new media brands unit  —  The deal formally winds down an era at Vox Media, which had sold its namesake site and podcast assets as well as New York magazine to James Murdoch.
 
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John Jumper / @johnjumpersci:
John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic

Maria Curi / Axios:
Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was “nice” and “smart” at G7

Terje Solsvik / Reuters:
Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning
 
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