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7:45 AM ET, April 3, 2026

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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN, promising editorial independence; TBPN was on track to make over $30M in revenue in 2026 and will wind down its ad business  —  TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says
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Variety:
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024  —  If Shell remains at the company, he will most likely transition to a different, more advisory role, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
WME is selling sports marketing agency 160over90 to Publicis Groupe for, sources say, $500M+; WME bought the agency in 2018 for about $200M  —  Publicis Groupe is set to acquire 160over90 in a bid to win more of advertisers' spending in sports  —  Publicis Groupe is acquiring …
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Penguin Random House sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, alleging its LLM “memorized” a popular German children's book series and can reproduce the content  —  Publisher alleges AI research company's chatbot violated its copyright over Coconut the Little Dragon series
Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judges have now cited verbal attacks on the press by Trump and appointees when ruling against the US government in at least three cases involving news outlets  —  Judges have cited attacks on the press by the president and his appointees when ruling against the government in at least three court cases.
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
OpenAI partners with Smartly, an adtech company that helps clients optimize ads in real time, to design ad formats that match ChatGPT's conversational interface  —  Follow Lucia Moses … - OpenAI has signed Smartly as its first creative adtech partner.  — Smartly's ultimate goal …
The Intercept:
In an amicus brief, 42 media outlets and advocates argue Trump's EO targeting some law firms restricts media access to pro bono and inexpensive legal counsel  —  A cohort of 42 media organizations and press freedom advocates filed an amicus brief supporting court decisions against Trump's attempts …
Michael Calderone / The Wrap:
The Atlantic hired ~30 WaPo reporters in the last couple of years, including four since WaPo's cuts, indicating WaPo retention issues; Atlantic has 200+ staff  —  Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, has “a lot of affection” for the Washington Post, where he started his career …
Sam Spratford / Publishers Weekly:
HarperCollins partnered with AI animation studio Toonstar to adapt its books into YouTube series, starting with Friendship List by Lisa Greenwald  —  HarperCollins has announced a multi-year partnership with Toonstar, an “AI-powered” animation studio, to adapt a slate of the publisher's titles into original YouTube series.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot is closing its Los Angeles office and is expected to open a New York office, working with a smaller in-house team and outside producers  —  Word of the restructuring quickly spread around Hollywood Thursday despite the day being a major Jewish holiday, Passover.
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with WSJ EIC Emma Tucker on increasing digital-only subscriptions by 30% to 4.29M since 2023, culture change, events, print, AI tools, and more
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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
YouTube rolls out Stations for Coachella, 24/7 preprogrammed linear video streams that include an audience chat, after testing the feature with ~40 musicians
David Pierce / The Verge:
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta
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Reuters:
Australia says it will ban gambling ads featuring celebrities and limit online gambling ads to logged-in users over 18 starting in 2027
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Wired ends its UK print edition, after reducing from six to four issues per year at the end of 2024; seven London-based journalists left at the end of 2025
Discussion: The Overspill and Talking Biz News
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Beehiiv introduces Podcasts, letting creators host, distribute, and monetize podcasts directly on the platform, and plans to dynamically serve ads in podcasts
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
BBC sources reflect on Tim Davie's DG tenure, mired in impartiality disputes but succeeding in a cultural transformation, as Matt Brittin takes over on May 18
 

 
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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple price hikes are “unavoidable” to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, and “the situation has become unsustainable”

Financial Times:
Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US' block of Mythos

Wired:
Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access over alleged ties to China
 
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