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Filing: Netflix paid $587M in cash for Ben Affleck's AI company, InterPositive, in March (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-price-ben-affleck-ai-company-r…

Netflix Paid $587 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Company
The streaming giant disclosed the figure in a footnote in a securities filing Friday.

Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m

How social media influencers have become a magnet for political campaigns and groups in the US that want to push their priorities without disclosures (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Political Money Is Flowing to Influencers. But From Whom?
Social media stars have become a magnet for campaigns and political groups that want to push priorities without disclosing where their money is going.

Q&A with Steven Soderbergh about using AI to visualize 10% of his John Lennon documentary after running out of "time and money", facing a backlash, and more (Jake Coyle/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/john-lennon

Steven Soderbergh on John Lennon and AI
The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments. In “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” Steven Soderbergh pp those surviving tapes into a new documentary that debuted Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. But his decision to fill in some visuals using Meta's AI software has prompted an outcry. One of America’s leading filmmakers was using AI? In a film about a Beatle, no less? Soderbergh…

In a filing disputing state AGs' request for a temporary restraining order, Paramount argued its merger with WBD would increase theatrical motion picture output (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-slams-stat…

Paramount Slams States' Lawsuit Over Warner Bros. Merger
Paramount filed its opposition to the states' request for a temporary restraining order to pause the Warner Bros. merger.

Netflix says it is "not interested" and has no plans to pursue Lionsgate; Lionsgate shares closed up 13.85% on Tuesday before falling ~4% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/netflix-lionsg…

Netflix Isn't Interested in Lionsgate Despite Takeover Speculation
Sources familiar with the matter disputed Semafor's reporting, telling TheWrap that the streamer is not interested and has no plans to pursue an acquisition

The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-accepts-act…

Sources: CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil is broadcasting from Taipei this week after failing to obtain a Chinese visa in time for the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/13/2026

Exclusive: CBS’ Tony Dokoupil to broadcast from Taiwan after failing to get China visa in time
It was a stumble in the network’s efforts to play a leading role in this week’s dominant global story.

Filings: the US government says it is considering joining Donald Trump's lawsuit against the BBC; the BBC says the "conflict of interest is clear and stark" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/614297a1-57ed-4439-b37a-fc9cfe52ccbc

The NYT filed a motion Wednesday to quash DOJ subpoenas of three of its reporters demanding they disclose their sources, following coverage of Air Force One (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

New York Times Files Motion to Quash Subpoenas of Its Journalists
The Justice Department is seeking to compel grand jury testimony as part of an investigation into Times reporting on the president’s new Air Force One jet.