"One of the few Indian American women on television throughout her 19-season tenure, Lakshmi became known for her low-key banter, love of bold flavors and fearsome critiques of chefs who dared to try Indian dishes and fell short." - Los Angeles Times
Individual creators on TikTok, Insta, and other social media streams won't be required to have a certain percentage of Canadian content, or Indigenous rep - only commercial broadcasters are included in the law. - CBC
The 34-year-old show is ... good again? Like the old days. The really old days. "Aficionados know there were some great episodes even in the Dark Ages ... every episode feels like the 'Treehouse of Horror' Halloween special now in terms of its ambition." - Vulture
"Mark Walters, who hosts the Salem Radio Networks-distributed 'Armed American Radio' program, is suing OpenAI after its ChatGPT program accused him of embezzling funds from the Second Amendment Foundation. Walters says he is the victim of what is called an AI 'hallucination,' when the technology generates false events." - Inside Radio
Less than 10 million people watch cable news nightly; 155 million voted in the 2020 election. There simply aren’t enough rabid news consumers who are also staunch centrists to sustain a network. - The Atlantic
A serious news organization in 2023 cannot adopt a “view from nowhere” mentality that draws false equivalence between the two major political parties—at least not as long as the Republican Party remains in thrall to a seditious liar. - Slate
The Academy may seek to apply all of the provisions to the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike for more than five weeks, and to SAG-AFTRA, which began negotiating on Wednesday. Both guilds have said they will not be beholden to the terms negotiated by the DGA. - Variety
Over time, she began to realize that she wasn’t the problem. The issue, she said, was that Instagram was implementing changes that she felt were benefiting only the company, not the influencers who were sharing content. - Wired
Universal has generated more than $1 billion in premium V.O.D. revenue in less than three years, while showing little-to-no decrease in ticket sales. In some cases, box-office sales even increased when films became available in homes, which Universal has decided is a side effect of premium V.O.D. advertising and word of mouth. - The New York Times
It drives writer Devin Gordon nuts, but he learns that people have good reasons for doing it. (At least one of those reasons is the fault of streaming studios.) - MSN (The Atlantic)
"So are we on the cusp of major studios forcing Meryl Streep into a sequel by casting her digital double? Not quite. It's not that studios wouldn't want to. But, unions aside, A.I. can't replicate top-notch acting from scratch. Just yet." But here are four things it's already doing. - Slate
The Frost is a 12-minute movie in which every shot is generated by an image-making AI. It’s one of the most impressive—and bizarre—examples yet of this strange new genre. - MIT Technology Review
Spotify is laying off 200 workers from its podcast division, or about 2% of its total global workforce, the company said in a memo disclosed publicly Monday. - The Wrap
"The 'yes' vote does not trigger a strike, but allows the union's top negotiators to potentially call a work stoppage once their TV/theatrical contracts have expired on June 30, if negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers falter." - The Hollywood Reporter
