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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $12.56B, vs. $12.59B est., and says it will give fewer engagement updates starting in 2027; NFLX drops 7%+ after hours  —  Netflix reported second-quarter revenue and earnings that were in line with analyst estimates on Thursday as Wall Street is keeping …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Oliver Darcy's Status media newsletter is moving into live events with the Status Summit, planned for September 9 to discuss the forces shaping media  —  The status of “Status” is multimedia.  —  The buzzy media-industry newsletter that journalist and entrepreneur Oliver Darcy founded in 2024, is moving into live events.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Trump Media plans to launch the Truth API on August 1, providing real-time data from trending Truth Social accounts to news organizations and trading firms  —  Trump Media & Technology Group is launching a backend interface that will allow financial services companies to access real …
Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Marvel Comics is moving from NYC to Burbank, CA, the headquarters of Marvel Studios, and asks 100+ NY-based employees to move to California by July 2027  —  The Disney-owned publisher is also getting a new editor in chief as 100 employees are being asked to relocate to Burbank by next July.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Versant plans to overhaul its free streaming service, dropping the “Fandango At Home” branding in favor of a streamlined “Fandango” name and adding new features  —  The Versant-owned media company is adding content, changing the brand name and adding new features …
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate  —  Recently, I received a strange text from a new acquaintance.  “You have your own biography???” it read.
Rob Waugh / Press Gazette:
A look at issues with DMCA, which is weaponized to silence reporting, turbocharged by automated requests, and places the burden of proof on the attacked party  —  Copyright law has been weaponised to silence reporting around the world and Google is allowing this to happen
Andy Beckett / The Guardian:
How Paul Dacre broke new ground to sell readers an angry perspective at the Daily Mail and helped radicalize the UK's rightwing press, now run by his disciples  —  At the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective.  Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences, and adds programmatic ads  —  Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement by launching a feature called Community, which lets subscribers of a creator chat with each other.
Ashley Wong / Wall Street Journal:
How Prime Video has cornered the market on young adult fiction, notching hit after hit by tapping into the fervent BookTok community and catering to women  —  Prime Video has cornered the market on young-adult fiction, catering to a massive audience of women and girls who want to escape into love stories
 
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Mizy Clifton / Politico:
Ofcom launches a probe into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of using age inference to determine users' ages
Riddhi Setty / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Privacy Act lawsuits against the government that result in journalists being subpoenaed to reveal their sources, and their impact on press freedom
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The NYT filed a motion Wednesday to quash DOJ subpoenas of three of its reporters demanding they disclose their sources, following coverage of Air Force One
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A Paramount shareholder lawsuit claims David and Larry Ellison made an illegal deal with Trump in trade for approval of the WBD merger, promising to revamp CNN
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Brendan Carr proposes repealing the national ownership cap, which restricts amassing TV stations that cover more than 39% of households, and sets an Aug. 6 vote
 

 
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Kimi:
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27

Robert Hart / The Verge:
The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data

CNET:
OnePlus confirms it will no longer operate in North America or Europe but will keep operating in China, while Realme, another Oppo sub-brand, will exit China
 
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