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Om Malik / On my Om:
Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59  —  Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart.  He was surrounded by family and friends.
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Wall Street Journal:
Brendan Carr says ABC is running a “campaign of misinformation” about the FCC inquiry into The View and the agency isn't trying to control the show's guests  —  Regulator says the Disney broadcaster's TV spots about agency's inquiry into ‘The View’ are misleading
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: Hasbro is asking child actors on Peppa Pig to sign contracts letting their voices be used for AI; a group of agents condemns the terms  —  Hasbro, the U.S. entertainment giant that acquired the Peppa Pig brand in 2019, is asking child actors on the animated series to sign over their voices …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
NYT amends its lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, specifically accusing Microsoft of encouraging OpenAI to train AI systems using copyrighted NYT articles  —  In a new court filing, The Times accused Microsoft of encouraging OpenAI to train its A.I. systems using copyrighted articles.
Discussion: Bloomberg Law and Beyond Search
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Bloomberg Law:
Publishers that collectively own nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their products without permission or payment  —  Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content …
Washington Post:
Jacqueline Smith, the Stars and Stripes ombudsman who was fired in April, sues the Pentagon, claiming the government violated her First Amendment rights  —  Jacqueline Smith alleges the government violated her First Amendment rights when she was dismissed in April.  —  Summary
Ann Gehan / The Information:
Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models  —  Google is tightening the screws on news publishers.  —  In recent months, the tech giant has been pitching publishers …
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more  —  YouTube is rolling out a series of changes to Shorts, including a new method that lets users shrink the duration of short form videos.
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Jellyfish: YouTube creator content appears in 25%+ of major AI chatbots' answers; independent, niche creators outrank brand content and celebrity influencers  —  A Playbook for Marketers That Puts the Spotlight on the Culture Economy  —  BY JUSTIN CHIN
Discussion: Tubefilter
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Sports clips' rise on platforms like YouTube has left broadcasters debating whether to use them to attract younger viewers or protect their subscription revenue  —  As the New York Knicks clinched their first championship in 53 years and the NBA notched its highest Finals series ratings since 1998 …
 
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The Guardian:
Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues the company, arguing that its attempts to prevent her from publicizing her memoir violate the First Amendment
JD Knapp / The Wrap:
Memo: NBC News Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend is leaving NBCUniversal after seven years and will be replaced by Technology EVP Kyri Sarantakos on July 3
Discussion: Variety
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
UK-based B2B tech publisher The Stack buys Tom Krazit's Runtime newsletter, which has 20K subscribers, and names Krazit EIC of The Stack
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Jonathan Abrams / New York Times:
Fox, Bravo, BET, and other major networks are embracing microdramas; Omdia says the short-form video format made $11B in global revenue in 2025
Bloomberg:
Sources: a Chinese court sentenced the former CIO of GroupM's Chinese operation to life in prison for taking ~$176M in bribes through rebate-driven deals
 

 
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Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash

OpenAI:
OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery so it can fix bugs before wider deployment
 
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