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Jack Antonoff Calls AI Music Makers ‘Godless Whores’ and Embraces the Ancient Ritual
Jack Antonoff didn't hold back. The producer known for his work with Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar took to Instagram this week with a fiery letter. He labeled those who tur...
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California Bill Forces Game Makers to Keep Online Titles Playable or Offer Refunds
California lawmakers took a notable step this week toward changing how the video game industry handles the end of support for online titles. Assembly Bill 1921, known as the...
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AI Meets the Director’s Chair: How YC-Backed Flick Raised $6M to Reshape Filmmaking
Zoey Zhang once found the film industry nearly impenetrable. Hierarchies loomed. Gatekeepers blocked the way. Without funding or connections, breaking through seemed almost i...
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YouTube Turns Living Room TVs Into Stores With Two-Click Google Pay Purchases
  YouTube just made buying from your couch a whole lot easier. At its Brandcast 2026 event, the platform unveiled Buy with Google Pay for connected TV. Viewers ca...
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Hollywood Stars Push Machine-Readable Consent Standard to Counter AI Voice and Likeness Theft
AI systems devour voices, faces and performances at scale. They generate new content that sounds or looks identical to the originals. Yet the people whose identities fuel thi...
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Texas Takes Netflix to Court Over Child Data Harvesting and Addictive Streaming Tactics
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Netflix on May 11 in state court in Collin County. The complaint accuses the streaming service of running a vast behavior...
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Dua Lipa Takes Samsung to Court Over Her Face on TV Boxes
Pop star Dua Lipa filed a federal lawsuit against Samsung last week. She seeks at least $15 million. The complaint accuses the electronics giant of plastering her image acros...
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NBC Turns Wordle Into Primetime Game Show With Savannah Guthrie at the Helm
Wordle heads to television. NBC has given the green light to a primetime competition series based on the New York Times word puzzle that captivated millions during the pandem...
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The One-Chance Rocket Launch That Still Defines TV Bravado
James Burke stood at Cape Canaveral in 1977. Behind him, a real NASA rocket sat on the pad. No second chances. No visual effects. Just one live launch window and a presenter...
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Dua Lipa Sues Samsung for $15 Million Over Unauthorized Image on TV Boxes
Pop star Dua Lipa filed a lawsuit against Samsung last week. She seeks at least $15 million. The claim centers on the electronics maker placing her photograph on cardboard pa...
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The Substack Tax Drives Writers to Beehiiv and Ghost
Substack built an empire on the promise that writers could own their audience and keep most of their earnings. That pitch worked brilliantly for years. Now a growing number o...
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Amazon Brings Short-Form Video Feeds to Prime Video as Streaming Services Chase Quick Discovery
Amazon is rolling out a new feature called Clips to the Prime Video mobile app. The scrollable feed delivers short snippets from movies, series and live sports. Users swipe v...
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Amazon Brings TikTok-Style Clips to Prime Video as Streaming Services Chase Mobile Attention
Amazon is turning Prime Video into another place where users can lose themselves in endless vertical scrolling. The company announced on May 8 that it is rolling out Clips, a...
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Netflix Tests AI Voice Search on TVs That Understands Your Mood
Netflix subscribers have grown used to one frustration above all others. They sit on the couch. They pick up the remote. And they scroll. For what feels like forever.T...
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EU Startups Learn Hard PR Truths in Malta: No Shortcuts, Just Stories That Stick
Valletta, Malta, played host last week to roughly 2,500 founders, investors and operators gathered for the EU-Startups Summit 2026. Amid the Mediterranean sun and networking...
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