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Meta and TikTok agree to fact-check border content after Ceuta tragedy

Meta and TikTok have agreed to fact-check content about Spain’s border crossings, a voluntary commitment brokered by Brussels after a catastrophe that showed how quickly a viral video can turn into a matter of life and death. The accord follows the events of 30 July, when more than 70,000 migrants surged towards Ceuta, the Spanish […]

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An activist investor says the market has decided Lionsgate is an AI casualty. It wants the studio to prove otherwise or sell.

Activist investor Anson Funds is pressing Lionsgate to redefine itself for the AI era or put itself up for sale, according to a July letter to the board reviewed by Semafor. The argument turns on how the market reads a film library. “The rise of generative AI has led the market to sort companies bluntly into […]

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The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved

The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie and Ben Shimkus obtained a staff memo from chief executive Paul Edmondson, confidential until 4:05 PM ET, five minutes after the closing bell. […]

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YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program

From 1 February 2027, a channel applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need 1,000 subscribers and 8,000 valid public watch hours over the previous 365 days. The current bar is 4,000 hours over 12 months. The Shorts route doubles as well. Twenty million valid public Shorts views over 90 days, up from 10 million. […]

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X shuts down revenue sharing on September 7. The replacement only pays for original content.

X is shutting down its revenue-sharing programme on September 7 and replacing it with a new system called the Original Content Rewards Programme. The change is designed to reward creators who post original work, not people who repost other users’ content with a caption slapped on top. Under the new rules, creators earn money based […]

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Disney+ and ESPN are testing AI-powered search that lets users describe what they want in plain language

Disney is testing AI-powered search inside both ESPN and Disney+, the company announced on Wednesday. ESPN Search lets a small group of users ask sports questions in natural language and receive answers, stats, related content, and recommendations drawn from decades of ESPN’s articles, videos, research data, and internal knowledge repositories. On Disney+, a separate beta […]

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The New York Times falls short on digital subscribers as competition bites

The New York Times has hit a rare bump in an otherwise smooth climb. The publisher added 280,000 net digital subscribers in the second quarter, short of Wall Street’s forecasts, and its shares slipped despite healthy profits. The New York Times remains the standout success of the subscription era, ending the quarter with 13.4 million […]

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Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.

We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunger looks like from the other end. In Australia, secondhand booksellers fear someone is slicing apart and pulping the rarest […]

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Brazil banned Bolsonaro from speaking. His AI avatar spoke anyway.

Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally anyway. At the launch of his son Flávio’s presidential bid in São Paulo on Saturday, a video avatar of the jailed former president loomed over the crowd. The clever part was the confession. “What you see […]

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Winamp is making another comeback, this time with Deezer-powered streaming

It really whips the llama’s ass, and apparently it is not done yet. Winamp, the music player millions of us loaded up before Spotify existed, is planning another comeback. This time it has real streaming behind it. Winamp and Deezer announced a partnership on Wednesday that will let Deezer power a new Winamp premium subscription. […]

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