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8:35 AM ET, March 26, 2025

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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Court docs: a federal judge has ordered USAGM to restore operational grants to RFE/RL, after the outlet sued to stop the blocking of funds allocated by Congress  —  A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to stop depriving Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty …
The Atlantic:
The Atlantic publishes Houthi attack plans that Trump advisers shared on Signal, after Trump and other officials asserted no classified information was shared  —  The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic's editor in chief.
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Mansueto Ventures tightens Fast Company and Inc. paywalls, reserving four daily stories for subscribers, up from one, to grow revenue amid traffic volatility  —  Fast Company and Inc. are tightening up their paywalls.  Up until a few weeks ago, the Mansueto Ventures-owned publishers would put one new story a day behind a paywall.
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by UMG and other music publishers to train Claude  —  Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK-based agency Newsflare, which counts the NYT, the BBC, and Mail Online among its clients, withdraws AI-generated videos from social media after criticism  —  AI-generated video of cat in an owls' nest has been viewed millions of times.  —  UK-based agency Newsflare has withdrawn a number …
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Game Informer, closed by GameStop in 2024, returns with its full staff and new owner Gunzilla Games; EIC Matt Miller says it will stay editorially independent  —  The publication resumes under the new ownership of Gunzilla Games.  —  Gaming journalism stalwart Game Informer has risen from the ashes.
Ruth Michaelson / The Guardian:
A prosecutor in Turkey remands eight journalists to custody, reversing a decision to release them after they were arrested for covering anti-government protests  —  Arrests condemned as ‘unlawful’ by press freedom groups, highlighting growing repression amid demonstrations against President Erdoğan
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: YouTube made up 11.6% of all US TV use, the most of among media providers; viewers over age 50, accounted for 36% of time spent watching YouTube on TV  —  The service supplants Disney atop the Nielsen list for the second time.  —  YouTube commanded more TV time than any other media provider …
 
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Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Alex Konrad, who worked for 12 years at Forbes covering startups and broader tech stories, launches Upstarts Media on Substack, about the startup ecosystem
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Megyn Kelly plans to launch podcast network MK Media, starting with shows hosted by Mark Halperin, columnist Maureen Callahan, and commentator Link Lauren
Reuters:
India's finance minister says the country will scrap a 6% tax on digital advertisements, easing costs for US tech giants, as a way of soothing US trade concerns
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The UK CMA says Ticketmaster may have broken consumer protection law in how it sold 900K+ Oasis tickets in 2024 and told it to change how it gives pricing info
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness; Synthesia was valued at $2.1B in January 2025
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Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac:
Apple Music is opening its catalog to DJs by integrating with popular DJ software and hardware platforms including Algoriddim's djay Pro and AlphaTheta
Ian Youngs / BBC:
Barb: Netflix's Adolescence becomes the first streaming show to top the UK's weekly TV ratings, with the first episode drawing 6.45M viewers in its debut week
Deadline:
No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham says co-director Hamdan Ballal has been freed after being beaten by Israeli settlers and arrested by soldiers
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher are set to testify to Congress on March 26 at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's “Anti-American Airwaves” hearing
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
3D tech company Infinite Reality acquires Napster for $207M; Infinite's CEO says that the file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse
 

 
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's signature

Wall Street Journal:
How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips

Nick Mokey / VentureBeat:
In an Oxford study, LLMs correctly identified medical conditions 94.9% of the time when given test scenarios directly, vs. 34.5% when prompted by human subjects
 
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