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Reuters:
Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight AI in an overhaul of the service, leading to an internal effort called Project Lighthouse — Jeff Bezos has identified a new, high-profile platform to help showcase the hundreds of billions of dollars Amazon (AMZN.O) has bet on artificial intelligence: Prime Video.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV — The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.
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TechCrunch, Neowin, The Verge, AFTVnews, CNBC, Aftermath, Variety, GeekWire, PCMag, Thurrott, Deadline, Video Games Chronicle, IGN, TechRadar, Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz, KitGuru, Polygon.com, Amazon Game Studios, 9to5Google, The Game Business, Push Square, DayOne and Blue's News, more at Techmeme »
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Comcast reports Peacock revenue up 54% YoY to $1.9B and its adjusted EBITDA of $189M, its first-ever quarterly profit; film revenue rose 25% YoY to $3.04B — Comcast Corp. reported earnings that beat analysts' estimates on key metrics, buoyed by the first-ever quarterly profitability …
Financial Times:
Financial firms, their lawyers, and ethics experts say there could be legal risks in paying Trump Media for fast access to Truth Social posts via an API — New venture has raised questions as financial firms decipher risk of paying for advanced access to market-moving feed
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Variety, @annmlipton@esq.social, @annmlipton@esq.social, @peterschiff, Joe.My.God., The Hill and Los Angeles Times
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Night-owned podcast network The Roost rebrands as Podium, signs Trisha Paytas, and says it reaches 50M monthly video and audio impressions — The Roost's parent, talent management and media company Night, has made the move two years after it acquired the podcast business …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
A specialist UK tribunal awards BBC correspondent Vincent Kearney £20K in damages after MI5 and police admitted to illegally obtaining Kearney's call records — Former BBC Northern Ireland journalist paid £20,000 in damages by MI5 and PSNI. — A journalist whose communications data …
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The Guardian, The Standard, ComputerWeekly.com and RTÉ
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
WNET, parent company of New York PBS station Thirteen, names Edward O'Keefe as its new CEO; O'Keefe was previously VP at CNN and executive producer at ABC News — Mr. O'Keefe, who was previously an executive at CNN, is the chief executive of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
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Radio & Television …, TVNewsCheck, Steve Bass on LinkedIn and Current
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
TelevisaUnivision reports Q2 revenue up 10% to $1.3B due to FIFA rights in Mexico, US ad revenue down 29% to $323.3M, subscription and licensing up 40% to $621M — TelevisaUnivision reported second-quarter financials largely shaped by the FIFA World Cup, which boosted results in Mexico …
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Inside Radio, The Hollywood Reporter and Telecompaper
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Forbes Chief Content Officer and magazine EIC Randall Lane has left after joining in 2011; executive editor Kerry Lauerman will oversee editorial operations — Randall Lane, the chief content officer at Forbes, has left the business news organization. — “We can confirm that Randall Lane …
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The Wrap and @benmullin
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
UK PM Andy Burnham keeping Lisa Nandy on as culture secretary renews pressure over potential streaming license fees and puts the WBD deal back in the spotlight — UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy was widely expected to change jobs when her good friend Andy Burnham became Prime Minister this week …
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The Wrap
The Hollywood Reporter:
SEC filing: Primordial Soup, Darren Aronofsky's AI film and content studio, is raising $15M in cash, selling over $11M in equity so far since July 1 — Primordial Soup, which launched last year, quietly filed with the SEC for a $15 million raise. … Earlier this month Primordial Soup Labs …
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The Wrap, World of Reel, Gizmodo, Deadline and Variety
David W Fitzsimmons / David Fitzsimmons:
Lee Publishing blocks cartoonist David Fitzsimmons from donating 10K+ cartoons to the University of Arizona by requiring the college to sign a licensing deal — For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life's work …
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Daniel Barr on LinkedIn and @andrewhsowards.bsky.social
