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11:20 AM ET, February 10, 2026

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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operating income, above €639.1M est.  —  Spotify Technology SA, the Swedish music streaming giant, signed up significantly more users than analysts expected …
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Paramount sweetens its WBD bid with a “ticking fee” worth ~$650M/quarter if the deal isn't closed by year-end and offers to fund WBD's $2.8B Netflix breakup fee  —  Paramount Skydance said Tuesday it has sweetened its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, adding a so-called “ticking fee” …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Candle Media sells a majority stake in ATTN: back to ATTN:'s founders and others; the digital media company was valued at $150M when Candle bought it in 2022  —  - It also signals a strategy shift for Candle Media.  — When Candle Media was created, it aimed to eventually take its house …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Publishers Council files an EU antitrust complaint against Google over AI Overviews, for “using its market power” to take content without consent  —  Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by the European Publishers Council on Tuesday …
Discussion: Irish Examiner and WinBuzzer
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Independent names Barney Henderson, Newsweek's publishing director, as UK editor and Jacqui Merrington, Mail Metro Media's AI director, as executive editor  —  The Independent has named Newsweek's director of publishing Barney Henderson as its new UK editor.
Discussion: InPublishing
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View:
NYC-based AI video startup Runway raised a $315M Series E led by General Atlantic, a source says at a $5.3B valuation, and says it will pre-train world models  —  The AI industry just got another indicator that the future lies beyond words alone.  —  On Tuesday, video AI firm Runway announced a $315 million Series E funding round.
Deana Kjuka / Bloomberg:
Russian media: Russia's communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, as the government promotes its Max “super app”  —  Russia's communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, the RBC news service reported …
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: despite AI ads outnumbering traditional Super Bowl ad categories like beer, nostalgia-driven ads from Budweiser and Dunkin' dominated social media  —  Budweiser and Dunkin' got the most attention on social media, but big tech's AI product demos may still have the last laugh, experts say
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists  —  YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered playlist-generation feature that allows Premium users on iOS and Android to use text prompts to create playlists.
OpenAI:
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on its Free and Go tiers, and says that the ads do not change ChatGPT's answers  —  Ads that support free access and don't change ChatGPT answers.  —  Today, we're beginning to test ads in ChatGPT in the U.S. The test …
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Madison Mills / Axios:   OpenAI says ChatGPT ads are not eligible to appear near “sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health, or politics” and won't be shown to under-18s
 
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Max Tani / Semafor:
DOJ files show how Epstein courted media to launder his image by easily exploiting some digital media figures, but also the impact of accountability journalism
Sean James / Mediaite:
Dan Bongino returns to Fox News tonight as a contributor following his stint as the deputy director of the FBI, starting with Sean Hannity's show
Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Academy will no longer show Oscar-nominated films to members on big screens after the screenings drew “an average of five members” over the last years
Discussion: Mediaweek
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nexstar seeks to broaden The Hill's sponsors, pitching it as “non partisan and brand safe” ahead of midterms; Comscore: its page views grew 7% in 2025 to 1.24B
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's weekly street newspaper Big Issue makes its two top digital editors redundant as part of a “difficult but necessary” restructure of the organization
Valida Pau / The Information:
Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube launches genre-specific YouTube TV Plans as lower-cost alternatives to the $82.99 monthly subscription; the Sports Plan is priced at $64.99 per month
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
Holywater, the Ukrainian-founded company behind microdrama platform My Drama, acquires AI-assisted VFX company Jeynix and rebrands as Holywater Tech
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Juro Osawa / The Information:
xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he “resigned”, following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA says Apple and Google committed to making app store changes to ensure fairness to developers and consumers, and asks market players for their views
 
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