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3:50 PM ET, April 14, 2025

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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
The AP says its journalists were barred from an Oval Office event featuring Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction  —  The Associated Press on Monday said its journalists were barred from covering an Oval Office event featuring President Trump …
Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
How David Zaslav became an “accidental mogul” who is navigating WBD out of its cultural, generational, and technological obsolescence during the Trump era  —  In a declining industry, the aspiring mogul has defied the odds — for now — based on an unlikely set of skills.
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Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
Report: the Trump team pointed to Amazon's $40M deal for a Melania documentary and floated a Don Jr. outdoors show as a way for WBD to curry favor with Trump  —  Michael Wolff relayed the “reported message” in a Monday New York magazine profile of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A retrial of Sarah Palin's case against the New York Times begins, after a judge's misstep in the initial suit in 2022 opened the door to a retrial  —  As another New York City institution once said, it's deja vu all over again for The New York Times and former Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin.
Bloomberg:
Source: the Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut $9B+ in funding for PBS, NPR, and foreign aid in the current fiscal year  —  The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
After CBS aired two 60 Minutes segments, Trump calls on CBS to lose its license and asks FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to “impose the maximum fines and punishment”  —  Donald Trump again lashed out at 60 Minutes, this time angry over two segments the newsmagazine ran on Ukraine and Greenland.
Associated Press:
Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week  —  Social media company Meta said Monday that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train …
Andrew Marchand / New York Times:
Sources: College GameDay host Rece Davis agreed to a new seven-year deal worth tens of millions to stay with ESPN, after being heavily pursued by Fox Sports  —  College football's pregame battle between ESPN's iconic “College GameDay” and Fox Sports' upstart “Big Noon Kickoff” …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Less than a week before A Minecraft Movie had a $160M+ opening weekend in the US and Canada, experts projected ~$65M, following four high profile misses in 2024  —  A Minecraft Movie took in more than $500 million in 10 days.  Nobody saw that coming  —  Good evening from New York …
Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
A profile of Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust denier who has become one of the most popular podcasters in the US and has tens of thousands of Substack subscribers  —  All of a sudden, everyone was coming for Darryl Cooper.  —  There were the newspaper columnists, the historians, the Jewish groups …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple rebrands Search Ads as Apple Ads, amid rumors it is exploring expanding advertising from the App Store to other apps like Apple Maps  —  Apple today announced that it has officially rebranded Search Ads as ‘Apple Ads’, reflecting the expanding scope of Apple's advertising business.
 
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Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Greg Gutfeld will host a Fox Nation game show where contestants who are isolated for three months guess what really happened during Trump's second term
New York Times:
FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek”
New York Times:
Current and former editors discuss whether Vanity Fair's EIC remains an appealing and fun job given the magazine industry's decline and a loss of lavish perks
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Andrew Trunsky / New York Times:
A profile of Natalie Winters, a Steve Bannon protégée, War Room reporter, and Piers Morgan Uncensored contributor, who now has a White House press pass
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News:
A group of current and former BBC World Service journalists warn that cuts to the international service risk fracturing “the core identity of the World Service”
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: WBD CEO David Zaslav's 2024 pay package was worth $51.9M, up 4% YoY, driven by $23.9M in non-equity incentive plan pay and $23.1M in stock awards
 

 
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Bloomberg:
iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reaches a restructuring agreement to hand over control to its secured lender and main Chinese supplier Shenzhen Picea

Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes

Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI
 
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