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4:00 AM ET, September 3, 2025

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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
US v. Google: a US federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android, but it must share search data; GOOG jumps 6%+ pre-market  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.
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Wall Street Journal:
A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple
Alison Durkee / Forbes:
Content creators are among the professions covered under the “no tax on tips” policy passed as part of Trump's spending bill signed in July  —  Topline  —  Influencers, rideshare drivers, performers, baristas and more will be covered under the “No Tax on Tips” …
Bloomberg:
Sources: the EU delayed a planned September 1 fine against Google over its ad tech practices due to fears it could provoke Trump to unravel EU-US trade progress  —  The European Union paused its immediate plans to punish Alphabet Inc.'s Google for abusing its dominance over advertising technology amid fears …
Vjosa Isai / New York Times:
Canada's Alberta province pauses its broad ban on books depicting sex or “inappropriate” topics in schools, after backlash from authors like Margaret Atwood  —  Alberta ordered schools to pull “inappropriate” books, but paused its plan after a large school district banned scores …
Jessica Testa / New York Times:
Vogue's new editor, Chloe Malle, says print issues should be released less frequently, and she wants to build a “smaller, healthier audience” for the website  —  Ms. Malle, 39, succeeds Anna Wintour, a titan in fashion.  “There has to be a noticeable shift that makes this mine,” Ms. Malle said in an interview.
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Vogue:
Anna Wintour announces Chloe Malle as the new editor of American Vogue; Malle began working at Vogue in 2011 and became the editor of Vogue.com in 2023
Al Jazeera:
Reporters Without Borders says 250+ outlets in 70+ countries staged a front page protest highlighting the killing of 200+ journalists in Israel's war on Gaza  —  Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
The NFL says Nielsen is “systematically undercounting” millions of viewers of league games, as it experiments with alternatives to Nielsen for additional data  —  League says Nielsen underestimates game viewership; TV ratings firm says this season will be its most accurate
Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline:
Canal+ says it is in talks to acquire a 34% stake in production and cinema company UGC, with an option to take full control of UGC in 2028  —  France's Canal+ group announced on Tuesday that it had entered into negotiations with UGC to acquire a 34% minority stake in the historic French cinema company.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney pays $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney collected children's data by failing to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for kids  —  The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday said it has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a children's privacy lawsuit …
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
A profile of Dan Rather, now 93, as he publishes his Steady newsletter three times a week to over 530K subscribers, 20 years after signing off as a CBS anchor  —  During his 24 years as anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” Dan Rather and the program's leadership team gathered most days …
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Dolby launches Dolby Vision 2, with AI tools that optimize TVs based on content and a feature for “authentically cinematic” smoothing, first on Hisense TVs  —  The updated format promises ‘authentically cinematic’ use of motion smoothing, and settings that automatically …
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; Matt Mullenweg said it is a “V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress”
Punchbowl News:
Trade group NCTA, which represents cable and telecom giants, names former Republican Senator Cory Gardner as president and CEO, succeeding Michael Powell
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount and Activision sign a deal for a live-action film based on Call of Duty; Paramount CEO David Ellison says it is his “dream come true”
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Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
A profile of Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster with a history of plagiarism and spreading conspiracies, who now sits in the White House's new media seat
Max Tani / Semafor:
NYT began bundling its digital subscription with The Economist in the UK earlier in 2025; the bundled price is less than an annual digital sub to The Economist
Discussion: Cautious Optimism
Sebastian Modak / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Radio Garden, a free website and app launched in 2016 as an art project, which streams feeds from 37K radio stations worldwide; the app has 3M MAUs
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities
 
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