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1:55 PM ET, February 10, 2026

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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” …
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 …
John Kelly / @johnkelly:
The Washington Post's February 10 print edition featured two full pages of AP stories in the A section and a total of eight stories from the wire service  —  An entire page of wire stories in @murraymatt's @washingtonpost today, three of eight AP stories in the A section. [image]
Discussion: @adamliptak
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's Reach plans to close two of its three remaining printing plants to focus on digital, even as £194.1M out of its H1 2025 revenue of £256M came from print  —  Glasgow and Watford sites to close and outsource most of their work.  —  Reach has proposed to close two of its three remaining print sites across the UK.
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 and HoldtheFrontPage
Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Sports journalists at Italy's state broadcaster Rai stage protests over blunders by sports director Paolo Petrecca during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony  —  Director of state broadcaster Rai Sport welcomed viewers to wrong stadium and mistook Italian actor for Mariah Carey
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 …
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 …
Kyle Tharp / @kylewilsontharp:
Turning Point USA added 900K followers on YouTube between February 2 and February 9, the day after it hosted an “alternate” Super Bowl halftime show  —  📈 FYI, about that half-time show... Turning Point USA has added nearly 1 million new YouTube subscribers in the past *week*, far more than any other political channel on the platform. [image]
Discussion: Media Play News and The Wrap
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.
 
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
 

 
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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

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt
 
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