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9:00 AM ET, April 7, 2026

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April Roach / CNBC:
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square offers to buy Amsterdam-listed UMG for ~$64.4B in cash and stock; Pershing plans to list the merged company on the NYSE  —  Activist investor Pershing Square said Tuesday it is planning to buy Universal Music Group in a cash and stock deal worth about 55.8 billion euros ($64.4 billion).
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Trump threatens to find and jail the journalist who reported that a US officer was awaiting rescue in Iran last week, unless the journalist reveals their source  —  Two crew members of the F-15E Strike Eagle had self-ejected from the cockpit on Friday after Iranian military forces struck their plane.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
The News Media Guild says more than 120 of the AP staff members it represents received buyout offers on Monday  —  The Associated Press, one of the world's oldest and most influential news organizations, said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The AP plans dozens of US staff cuts with the goal of reducing global staff by <5%, amid a shift from hyper-local print coverage to video and national topics  —  The Associated Press plans dozens of U.S. staff cuts as part of a broader restructuring away from hyper-local print coverage …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
CBS is selling its 11:35pm ET timeslot to Byron Allen, who will air episodes of Comics Unleashed starting May 22, after The Late Show With Stephen Colbert ends  —  As “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” ends its run next month, CBS has opted to turn its 11:35 p.m. ET post-local news timeslot …
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
How social media became a “freak show”: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT  —  The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.
Discussion: Fortune, Jay Van Bavel, PhD on LinkedIn, @petersavodnik, @alanmcole, @devahaz, @blueboxdave, @elonmusk, @mikeisaac, @robbysoave, @mikeisaac, @micsolana, @ryanburge, @timcast, @natesilver538, @davidafrench, @davidu, @jason_koebler, @christopherrufo, @micsolana, @besttrousers, @jalefkowit@vmst.io, @paulnovosad, @kareem_carr, @alx, @asymmetricinfo, @esjesjesj, @cesifoti, @richardhanania, @nntaleb, @stefanfschubert, @notjessewalker, @natesilver538, @literaryeric, @richardhanania, @yimbyland, @datarepublican, @nikitabier, @david_ingram, @juliangough, @clairlemon, @jason_kint, @ryanburge, @ddiamond, @soncharm, @neeratanden, @bretdevereaux, @catturd2, @akarlin, @elonmusk, @richardhanania, @modeledbehavior, @mattvanswol, @ryanradia, @yacinemtb, Adam Shapiro on LinkedIn, @jason_kint, @nikitabier, @jeremiahdjohns, @jaredlholt, @moultano, @nikitabier, @benryanwriter, @modeledbehavior, @alx, @alicefromqueens, @alanmcole, @micsolana, @nkulw, @noahpinion, @haroon, @crazy_stephen_i, @buccocapital, @phl43, @razibkhan, @zerohedge, @mikeisaac, @katiemiller, @jamessurowiecki, @konstantinkisin, @raharrisonpa, @phl43, @david_ingram, @asymmetricinfo, @jonatanpallesen, @aricohn, @richardhanania, @elonmusk, @richardhanania, @kasparov63, @christopherrufo, @akoustov, @modeledbehavior, @nikitabier, @natesilver538, @jaybaxter, @natesilver538, @tha_muser, @jamessurowiecki, @catturd2, @natesilver538, @nikitabier, @natesilver538, @natesilver538, @catturd2, @kirkegaardemil, @nikitabier, @nateduncannba, @natesilver538, @bing_chris, @elonmusk, @natesilver538, Reason, Barrett Media, @jayvanbavel.bsky.social, @timbray@cosocial.ca, @leavex@mastodon.social, @sundersays.bsky.social and @carnage4life.bsky.social, more at Techmeme »
Max Tani / Semafor:
Email: WSJ EIC Emma Tucker praised Fortune's use of AI in its journalism, saying anyone who “thinks it is ‘wrong’, should get out of journalism fast!”  —  In today's edition: Media battles in Baltimore.
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
An independent journalist argues against using AI to help journalists write, saying “the process is the purpose” even if you don't always enjoy it
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand  —  It's called Netflix Playground, and it's out now. … Netflix has made family-friendly titles a key part of its current games strategy …
New York Times:
Silicon sampling, simulating human polling with AI agents, undermines the very idea of the opinion polls and will only worsen our broken information ecosystem  —  A recent Axios story on maternal health policy referred to “findings” that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses.
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay  —  One executive says there is ‘no path’ towards licensing deal under current proposal  —  Talks over licensing deals between …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC  —  The prediction market already has deals with CNN and CNBC.  —  The biggest prediction market in the U.S. is teaming up with the biggest TV news channel in the U.S.
Discussion: New York Post, Reuters and Kalshi
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: three Gulf sovereign-wealth funds have agreed to commit a total of ~$24B to back Paramount's $81B WBD deal; Saudi Arabia's PIF agreed to provide ~$10B  —  Commitments from Middle East entities will help offset costs for Ellison family  —  Paramount has received signed equity commitments …
 
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, using tactics like memory manipulation via “Summarize with AI” buttons
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Savannah Guthrie returns to co-hosting duties on the Today show for the first time since the disappearance of her mother Nancy in January
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A look at Amjambo Africa, an immigrant-founded publication in Maine that focuses on immigrant life and news from Africa with coverage in seven languages
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Natalie Korach / Status:
Sources: journalists attending WHCD plan to wear 1A-themed accessories, in a RCFP-coordinated campaign to express solidarity amid Trump's press restrictions
Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
NYT's profile of Medvi, glorified as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, ignored info that the startup is a warning sign, not a poster child, for AI
Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter:
How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands
 

 
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Kate Conger / New York Times:
Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40%

Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist:
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue
 
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