Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Forbes | Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | The next phase of the streaming wars (4 min read)
• The New York Times | States Take Up A.I. Regulation Amid Federal Standstill (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Hubris, Revenge and a Breakup Brought Down Big Tech’s Proudest Ally (13 min read)
• The New York Times | Grab Them. Then Stump Them. (6 min read)
• Axios | Dark money news outlets outpacing local daily newspapers (4 min read)
• Variety | Streamers’ Spend to Eclipse Commercial Broadcasters in European TV Market Shake-Up, Ampere Forecast (2 min read)
• Pew Research | Black Americans and racial conspiracy theories about the news media (3 min read)
• Capitol Forum | Jason Kint on the US vs. Google Antitrust Trial (52 min listen)

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Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The New York Times | Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling (7 min read)
• Politico | Feds set stage for antitrust probes of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | The media bosses fighting back against AI — and the ones cutting deals (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google Ad Tech Class Action Gets Go Ahead From London Judges (1 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | NBA Nears $76 Billion TV Deal, a Defining Moment for Media and Sports (8 min read)
• The Atlantic | A Devil’s Bargain With OpenAI (6 min read)
• Bloomberg | The US Antitrust Crusade: A Brief Overview of Cases Against Live Nation, Big Tech (4 min read)
• The New York Times | OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (8 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• NiemanLab | The Battle Over Using Journalism to Build AI Models is Just Starting (8 min read)
• The Washington Post | Meta walked away from news. Now the company’s using it for AI content. (9 min read)
• The Atlantic | OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game (6 min read)
• Digiday | Digital Content Next divests TRUSTX to Symitri (2 min read)
• The Guardian | The big idea: the simple trick that can sabotage your critical thinking (7 min read)
• INMA | With major elections ahead, what should news media companies do about paywalls? (7 min read)
• WSJ | TV Networks Embrace Their Aging Audience With a New Mantra: Age Doesn’t Matter (7 min read)
• Reuters Institute | How news coverage, often uncritical, helps build up the AI hype (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | The education of Lina Khan, whose superpower is busting monopolies (26 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The New York Times | Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web? (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (8 min read)
• The Financial Times | How our sense of economic reality is being distorted (4 min read)
• Variety | The Re-Reinvention of Television: Streamers Dust Off Some of the Old Broadcast Playbook for a New Era (11 min read)
• CNN | News publishers sound alarm on Google’s new AI-infused search, warn of ‘catastrophic’ impacts (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | This journalism professor made a NYC chatbot in minutes. It actually worked. (11 min read)
• Politico | Bipartisan group of senators unveil long-awaited guidance on AI bills (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds (5 min read)
  

Here are some of the best media industry stories our team has read so far this week:

• Axios | News industry divides over AI (3 min read)
• The Guardian | Danger and opportunity for news industry as AI woos it for vital human-written copy (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Zuckerberg’s Free AI Is a Clever Form of Bait (5 min read)
• American Press Institute | Americans have concerns about election coverage. Here are 3 ways to respond (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Even if mistrust in news isn’t entirely reporters’ fault, it is their problem (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity (2 min read)
• Techcrunch | OpenAI says it’s building a tool to let content creators ‘opt out’ of AI training (3 min read)
• Associated Press | News organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll finds (4 min read) 
• Politico | The Collapse of the News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down With It (20 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Axios | Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement (3 min read)
• The New York Times | F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | How good is OpenAI’s Sora video model — and will it transform jobs? (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | “Objectivity” in journalism is a tricky concept. What could replace it? (7 min read)
• The Associated Press | News organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll finds (4 min read)
• The New York Times | With YouTube Booming, Podcast Creators Get Camera-Ready (8 min read)
• Nielson | The Record: U.S. audio listening trends powered by Nielsen and Edison Research (2 min read)
• The New Yorker | Don’t Believe What They’re Telling You About Misinformation (20 min read)
• The New York Times | Strongest U.S. Challenge to Big Tech’s Power Nears Climax in Google Trial (7 min read)
• Wired | Net Neutrality Returns to a Very Different Internet (5 min read)
  

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The New York Times | Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. (7 min read)
• Axios | Local journalism tax credits included in 2025 N.Y. state budget (3 min read)
• Reuters | In Paramount takeover effort, Silicon Valley and Hollywood worlds collide (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Russian Court Rejects WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich’s Appeal Against Detention (4 min read)
• The Verge | Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (2 min read)
• Oigo | We can’t let anti-DEI laws kill public media (6 min read)
• Digiday | Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again (3 min read)
• Edward Zitron | The Man Who Killed Google Search (18 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Wired | How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105 (10 min read)
  
• Reuters | When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow (5 min read)
  
• CNN | News publishers group urges government to investigate Google for blocking some California news outlets (3 min read)
  
• Axios | Strategic buyers breathe new life into struggling media outlets (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | Who can run Disney? The four insiders competing for Bob Iger’s job (9 min read)
• Pressgazette | More women in top roles as media industry gender pay gap slowly narrows (5 min read)
• Journalism.co.uk | How do journalists really want to use generative AI? (5 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Reuters | Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data (8 min read)
• Dick Tofel | What Changes in Who’s Using AP Wires Tell Us About the News Business Now (5 min read)
• The New York Times | How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. (14 min read)
• The Washington Post | OpenAI prepares to fight for its life as legal troubles mount (7 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers turn to other platforms to address platform referral traffic issues (5 min read)
• The Financial Times | Speed of AI development stretches risk assessments to breaking point (5 min read)
• Poynter | AI is already reshaping newsrooms, AP study finds (3 min read)
• The Wrap | Entertainment and Media Jobs Decline in March, Despite Overall Gains Nationwide (2 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• Future Media | ChatGPT quietly changes its rules on copyrighted news content (2 min read)
• New Lines Media | A global court and regulatory battle could have ramifications far beyond the news (27 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | OpenAI courts Hollywood over plans for video generation model Sora (3 min read)
• Quartz | AI is quietly revolutionizing the news. Here’s how (7 min read)
• Digiday | Four months in, here’s the rundown of Google’s Chrome cookie conundrum so far  (6 min read)
• Financial Times | US local news swamped by ‘pink slime’ as political influence ramps up (6 min read)
• Press Gazette | How publishers will need to change subscription policies due to Digital Markets Bill (7 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The Financial Times | Media groups look to AI tools to cut costs and complement storytelling (6 min read)
• Wired | Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content (5 min read)
• MediaVoices | 5 years of pain ahead for the industry: Why publishing needs to go old-school to survive AI threats (6 min read)
• Bloomberg | Apple, Google, Meta Probed by EU in Test of New Digital Law (3 min read)
• The New York Times | The Trustbuster Who Has Apple and Google in His Sights (8 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Race and leadership in the news media 2024: Evidence from five markets (20 min read)
• Tech Policy Press | The AI Act and the Existential Risk Facing Journalism (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Would a subscription model make social media better? (4 min read)

Here are some of the best media news stories our team has read so far this week:

• Bloomberg |  Google Fined €250 Million in French Clash With News Outlets (1 min read)
• NiemanLab | The Intercept charts a new legal strategy for digital publishers suing OpenAI (8 min read)
• The New York Times | France Fines Google Amid A.I. Dispute With News Media (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | No One Is Ever Ready to Be the Next CEO of Disney (4 min read)
• Digiday | Frequency management is capping CTV ad spend (3 min read)
• PressGazette | ‘Diversity still not a priority in practice’ in news industry, survey finds (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | I used ChatGPT as a reporting assistant. It didn’t go well. (5 min read)
• Pew Research | How Hispanic Americans Get Their News (4 min read)