After nearly four months on the picket lines, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has reached a tentative deal for a new contract with Hollywood studios, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, that will protect actors against AI and increase streaming residuals. (The Logic)

Talking point: Television and film performers were seeking better wages, working conditions, and health and pension benefits, in addition to guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence. The agreement says that companies can’t use AI or other digital technologies to create a replica of an actor without receiving the actor’s permission, disclosing how the replica will be used and providing compensation, SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told Rolling Stone. However, the union’s push for actors to receive a per-subscriber fee that would cost streaming services like Apple and Disney 57 cents per subscriber each year was rejected. Instead, the parties agreed upon new residuals for streaming programs based on performance metrics.