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  Twitter’s CEO had a wild, combative appearance at the Code Conference

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  Linda Yaccarino used to sell TV advertising. Selling Elon Musk is a whole different deal. Linda Yaccarino is angry. Not at Elon Musk, the man who hired her to be the CEO of Twitter, the company he subsequently renamed X. Yaccarino says he’s a brilliant leader who is turning his company into something …

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  Why is Rupert Murdoch leaving his empire now?

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  Lachlan Murdoch will be formally in charge of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and everything else his father built and bought. For now. Rupert Murdoch spent a lifetime building one of the world’s most important media empires. Now, at age 92, he says he’s no longer going to run it day to day. In …

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  Even Elon Musk can’t fully wreck Twitter’s one great superpower

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  “A place to make fun of what you see on TV” is less compelling than “the global town square.” But it’s more accurate. Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate also had a meta contest: Who would win the fight between traditional TV — in this case, Fox News, which broadcast the debate — and …

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  Disney used to hate gambling. Now it’s doing a $2 billion sports betting deal.

  Vox - Peter Kafka

  What Disney’s ESPN/Penn Entertainment tie-up tells us about sports, pop culture, and the media business. Here’s a story that would have been very, very hard to imagine a few years ago: ESPN, Disney’s sports behemoth, is doing a $2 billion deal with Penn Entertainment, a gambling company you’ve …

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  The creator of Black Mirror is okay with tech. People, on the other hand ...

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  A chat with Charlie Brooker about AI, creativity, and why tech can be like growing an extra limb. It’s tough to remember, but in 2011, lots of us felt pretty good about our Silicon Valley overlords. The iPhone was going fully mainstream, Facebook felt like a fun place to share ideas, and Twitter was …

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  Coming to your internet, whether you like it or not: More AI-generated stories

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  Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots. In early July, managers at G/O media, the digital publisher that owns sites like Gizmodo, the Onion, and Jezebel, published four stories that had been almost entirely generated by AI engines. The stories — which included multiple …