Sam Altman shazam’ing Get Ur Freak On

UTA and Michael Kassan have agreed to "amicably end their dispute," per a spokesperson. Semafor first reported in June that the parties appeared to be nearing a settlement.

This was great fun - why UK politicians are better at tough interviews than their US counterparts - and whether the search for “balance “ can sometimes come at the cost of truth…

Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down cpb.org/pressroom/Corp…

the wedding-fication of mr. brightside has turned a song that was mildly annoying when it came out into a song that is truly unlistenable

Tidbit from last night's Semafor media newsletter: The day after the Coldplay incident, Astronomer brought on Blake Lively's crisis comms guy, former Obama admin NatSec/CIA official Nick Shapiro, to help manage PR

Four and a half years ago, Amazon paid about $300 million for Wondery. Now it is firing most of the podcast company's staff and dividing what's left between its two other audio businesses. Ashley Carman bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Potential real opportunity for the Post to annoy CA Dems in a hollowed out local media landscape. Obvious challenge is many LA news consumers are listening to the news while driving, they’re probably not gonna start picking up a print copy of the LA Post…

I got one of those ubiquitous, low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering me a highly paid remote job based on my excellent qualifications. I responded affirmatively. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm for a woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/202…

On News Corp's earnings call, CEO Robert Thompson makes a pretty unsubtle appeal to Trump to rein in AI, saying AI companies are 1) too woke and 2) ripping off Trump by stealing his "many successful books"...

Among the administration's potential plans to get out of the Epstein quagmire: send deputy attorney general Todd Blanche on Rogan. cnn.com/2025/08/05/pol…

The NYT, which will likely surpass 12 million subscribers at some point soon, continues to widen the gap between itself and every other news media company

Both Cuomo's camp and Trump seem to be pushing back on NYT reporting that the two spoke about the mayoral race when Cuomo was considering whether to stay in the race. NYT is standing by its story; a spox tells me the paper is "confident in the accuracy of our reporting."

New Paramount owner David Ellison doesn't want to talk about Donald Trump or politics. But becoming the new owner of Paramount required - at a minimum- Trump's blessing. So people are going to keep asking.

this is pretty much the plot of the movie clear and present danger