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UMG partners with AI music generator Udio to launch a subscription service for creating music with licensed songs in 2026, in part to settle a copyright lawsuit (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)

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Disney and YouTube settle their legal dispute over YouTube's hiring in May of former Disney executive Justin Connolly to be global head of media and sports (Dominic Patten/Deadline)

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CoreStory, whose AI platform automates generating documentation for legacy code bases, raised a $32M Series A led by Tribeca, NEA, and SineWave (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

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Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 8.85% YoY to ~$60.5B, vs. ~$60.4B est., and operating profit up 32.9% YoY to ~$8.57B, vs. ~$7.9B est., more than doubling from Q2 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

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Sources: Consensys, maker of crypto wallet MetaMask, plans to go public, with JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs leading its IPO; Consensys was valued at $7B in 2022 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO that could value it at ~$1T and has looked at raising $60B+, filing as soon as H2 2026 and listing in 2027 (Reuters)

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Microsoft says it’s recovering after Azure outage took down 365, Xbox, and Starbucks

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Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom, launched in 2021, and will focus on software and data, continuing its main newsletters and podcasts (Pooja Rajkumari/TheStreet)

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Council Clears Queens for New Housing and Gives Bronx Armory Another Go

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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Launches With AI-Cloned Pages From Wikipedia

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Rode has a better way to connect your tiny wireless mics to your digital camera

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Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 1% (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

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Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150M DAUs, up from 100M+ in December 2024, and Meta has rolled out ads globally in the Threads feed with plans to add video ads (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Meta repents again to Republicans in hearing over moderation, while Google stands its ground

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DOJ indicts a congressional candidate in Chicago

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Trump administration charges influencer and congressional candidate over ICE protests

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Mark Zuckerberg is excited to add more AI content to all your social feeds

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Vendors Press Council for New Licenses After ICE Canal Street Raid

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Xbox hardware sales continue to tank

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The best way to help Hurricane Melissa survivors may not be what you think

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