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4:05 AM ET, February 11, 2026

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Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show averaged 128.2M viewers, above 124.9M for the game overall and down from 133.5M for Kendrick Lamar in 2025  —  Measured by Nielsen, that's above the 124.9 million average viewers achieved by this year's Super Bowl overall but down from the 133.5 …
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor  —  Australia's longest-serving editor credited with transforming a fledgling news organisation into the fourth most-read news website
Tina Brown / FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary:
The Jeff Bezos who bought WaPo in 2013 is not the same one allowing its destruction now, and he has ended the myth that a tech billionaire could save journalism  —  The whole debacle of the Washington Post brand hara-kiri last week dispatched the myth that a tech billionaire could save serious journalism.
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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Tim Davie says the UK Foreign Office's deal with the BBC World Service ends in seven weeks; the office contributed £137M to the service's £400M funding in 2025  —  As trust in Russia and China's state broadcasters grows, director general warns of the dangers of cutting back the service
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: activist investor Ancora Holdings has built a roughly $200M stake in WBD and is planning to oppose the Netflix-WBD deal, favoring a deal with Paramount  —  Ancora builds a roughly $200 million stake in Warner Bros. Discovery and favors a deal with David Ellison's Paramount Skydance
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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
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
Newspaper publishers relying on the US Postal Service for delivery say widespread and sometimes extreme delays are damaging their businesses  —  Newspaper delays are just one consequence of cost cuts and changes to a fraying 250-year-old system.  —  Many publishers first noticed the complaints spike last summer.
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
A judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a student threatened with deportation after co-authoring an op-ed critical of Israel  —  The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote …
TMZ.com:
Sources: Britney Spears sold her music catalog and other rights to Primary Wave, in a deal estimated to be “in the ballpark” of $200M  —  BRITNEY SPEARS I SOLD A PIECE OF ME ... AND THE WHOLE DAMN CATALOG!!! … Britney Spears just signed a massive new music deal …
New York Times:
In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network  —  The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform.  The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
At a US Senate hearing on the ownership cap for local TV, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy spoke against lifting the cap, and NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt supported raising it  —  The Senate Commerce Committee heard expert testimony from the commercial broadcasting industry's main lobbyist and the founder …
 
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Alicia Park / Forbes:
Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch “attention markets”, letting users bet on “mindshare” and “sentiment” metrics from social media
Megan Farokhmanesh / New York Times:
YouTuber Markiplier's self-funded horror film Iron Lung debuted at No. 2 at the US box office with $22M after a fan campaign helped land it on 2,500 screens
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Sources: Amazon is planning a marketplace where publishers can sell content to companies offering AI products; Microsoft has rolled out a similar service
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
Discussion: Irish Examiner and WinBuzzer
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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
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
Discussion: InPublishing
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”
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 11% to 751M, above estimates, and Premium users up 10% to 290M; SPOT closes up 14.75%
 

 
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Financial Times:
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba says he is leaving, the sixth xAI co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts show 6+ researchers left in recent weeks

Matt Shumer:
GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can handle the full app development lifecycle on their own, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience
 
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