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Optimism for a strike-ending deal is high as issues like streaming compensation and AI consent are on the table for SAG-AFTRA and the studios.

Writers Guild leaders had an emotional meeting with a diverse Hollywood showrunners including Courtney Kemp and Yvette Lee Bowser seeking progress toward ending the crippling strike now in its fifth month.

As suicides rise in Hollywood, the question is debated whether the industry, as a whole, has done enough to support people who may be in crisis.

Anyone with knowledge of Microsoft's history as a gaming company would have perfectly good reason to wonder whether Sony's positioned to perpetually outclass the home of Xbox when it comes to gaming. But there's evidence to suggest that while Microsoft may sometimes fumble the proverbial ball on the micro level, its macro plays mean it could easily come out the long-term king of gaming. "Different businesses," said Michael Pachter, managing...