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The Pentagon deployed 700 Marines and an additional 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles yesterday, as tensions between the federal government and California escalated over immigration-related protests and clashes in the city. The action marks a rare domestic deployment of Marines and brings the total Guard troops to 4,000, as demonstrations over immigration arrests continued for a fourth day. Read the statement from the US Northern Command here.
The deployments came the same day California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) filed a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the first batch of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the weekend. Trump threatened to arrest Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) if they impeded the Guard’s work. The Marines and Guard have been ordered to protect federal property and personnel in the nation's second-largest city.
Trump used Article 10 authority to bypass Newsom and take charge of the Guard Saturday. The approach was last used in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to protect civil rights marchers. Learn more about the Guard—a nearly 400-year-old reserve force of the US military—here. |
Warner Bros. Discovery is breaking up into two publicly traded companies by mid-2026, separating its film and streaming operations from its global cable networks. The new Studios & Streaming company—including HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros. Television, and DC Studios—will be led by current CEO David Zaslav. The Global Networks unit—including CNN, TNT Sports, and Discovery—will be run by current CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels.
The move follows a corporate reorganization late last year that split the company into two internal divisions. Executives say the split will let the streaming group respond more quickly to market trends, while the networks group focuses on managing its legacy portfolio. Streaming now accounts for 44.3% of total TV usage in the US, surpassing cable (24.5%) and broadcast (20.8%).
A significant portion of the company’s debt will go with Global Networks, which will retain a 20% stake in the streaming business with plans to monetize that stake in the future to help reduce its debt. As of March, Warner Bros. Discovery reported about $34B in debt, much of it tied to the 2022 WarnerMedia-Discovery merger. |
Getty Images v. Stability AI |
Oral arguments in Getty Images’ landmark case against Stability AI began in the British High Court yesterday, marking the first major copyright trial involving a generative AI company. The outcome could shape how intellectual property law applies to training AI models.
The Seattle-based Getty Images alleges the London-based AI startup used around 12 million copyrighted images without permission or payment to train its text-to-image tool, Stable Diffusion. The tool draws on a repository of outsourced images to generate artwork and hyperrealistic photos from text prompts (see overview of generative AI here). Stability argues its use of Getty’s content is protected under narrow exceptions in copyright law—known as “fair dealings” in the UK and “fair use” in the US. Stability also says the trial, which could last three weeks, shouldn’t be heard in the UK since the trainings were run on computers in the US.
Getty filed a parallel suit against Stability in the US in early 2023; it’s one of many pending cases on a growing docket of litigation involving AI and media companies. |
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