Todd Spangler

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President Trump on Thursday officially issued his third executive order delaying enforcement of a law that effectively bans TikTok in the U.S. unless its Chinese parent company sells a controlling stake to non-Chinese parties. Democrats said Trump’s actions do not have any legal basis. Sen.

1 week ago | variety.com | Todd Spangler

Midjourney has released version 1 of its AI video model, coming a week after the start-up was targeted in a copyright-infringement lawsuit by Disney and NBCUniversal. At launch, Midjourney will charge about eight times more for a generative-AI video job than an image job; each job will produce four 5-second videos, the company said in a blog post.

1 week ago | variety.com | Todd Spangler

President Trump praised David Ellison, CEO of Skydance Media, as “great” and said that “he’ll do a great job” as head of the merged Skydance-Paramount Global — but his administration has yet to approve the deal. Speaking with reporters outside the White House Wednesday morning, Trump did not directly answer a question about what is holding up the FCC from granting regulatory approval of the proposed Skydance-Paramount deal, which was reached in July 2024.

1 week ago | variety.com | Todd Spangler

The back-and-forth between Elon Musk and the New York Times over the paper’s report about his alleged drug use during President Trump’s 2024 campaign has continued. Early Tuesday, Musk posted on X, the social network he controls, what looked like the results of a urine drug screen showing that he tested negative for 20 substances, including ketamine — which the Times last month had reported was among the drugs he had used “far more intensely than previously known” in 2024.

1 week ago | variety.com | Todd Spangler

Tubi is expanding its streaming buffet to include a helping of content licensed from YouTube creators. The Fox-owned free ad-supported streaming service launched Tubi for Creators, a new program that encompasses its various initiatives to bring creator content to its platform. As part of that, Tubi announced that it has inked deals with six YouTube creators to distribute more than 500 episodes from their shows.