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Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fable-amaz

Amazon-backed Showrunner courts Hollywood for AI streamer: pitch deck
Fable Studio got Amazon backing for its AI streaming platform, Showrunner. Here's its pitch to Hollywood studios.

Doing business in Ukraine's front-line regions: Myths vs. reality: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/doing-business-in-ukraines-frontline.html

Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fable-amaz

Amazon-backed Showrunner courts Hollywood for AI streamer: pitch deck
Fable Studio got Amazon backing for its AI streaming platform, Showrunner. Here's its pitch to Hollywood studios.

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
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My initial reaction to this was "Oh Fuck", it probably won't change until the season starts.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/114941185367673176

Sources: Anthropic's annualized revenue hit ~$3B at the end of May, driven by business demand, up from $2B around the end of March and ~$1B in December 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-hits-3-…

WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TV and Film Writing Jobs Grew More Scarce, Even If Earnings Were Up Slightly in 2024
The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available.

The judge in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit strikes down 16 of OpenAI's 55 affirmative defenses, accuses both sides of "gamesmanship" and over-litigating the case (Laura Italiano/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-v-alt

Musk v. Altman judge dings both for "gamesmanship" as AI clash drags
The judge for Musk's racketeering lawsuit against Altman granted the Tesla CEO a legal victory, but dinged both tech titans for excessive litigation.

McClatchy will shutter In Touch, Life & Style, Closer, and First for Women in June, laying off their staffs, after acquiring the titles in a December merger (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreport…

In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women Magazines to Shutter, Lay Off Entire Staffs
“Despite the best efforts of many of our talented colleagues, we have been unable to develop a profitable business model for four of our magazine titles,” a McClatchy spokesperson tells THR.

Nvidia reported record gaming revenue of $3.76B in Q1, up 42% YoY, driven by sales of its Blackwell chips that are used to enhance game graphics through DLSS (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/nvidia-finally-had-a-quarter…

Nvidia finally had a quarter for the gamers again
Nvidia’s former cash cow posted record sales in the first quarter, carrying the company to a sales beat.