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4:30 AM ET, March 30, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some Disney executives learned about Sora's shutdown less than an hour before OpenAI's announcement; Disney was in talks about company-wide ChatGPT use  —  When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …
Brent Lang / Variety:
Project Hail Mary becomes Amazon MGM's highest-grossing film ever, grossing $300.8M globally, including $54.1M from 86 markets just this weekend  —  “Project Hail Mary” is officially Amazon MGM's highest-grossing film ever.  —  The space odyssey has grossed $300.8 million globally …
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
The NBC News-Joanna Stern deal offers a new model for independent journalists to grow audiences via institutional support while retaining editorial independence  —  Tech journalist Joanna Stern's partnership with NBC News points to a new model of editorial independence with institutional support
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A MoffettNathanson chart showed Netflix delivered 48 cents of revenue per hour viewed in 2025, below competitors, giving it room for its price hike this week  —  As the “KPop Demon Hunters” Oscar-winning hit song “Golden” says: “We're goin' up, up, up.”  —  It's not rocket science.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Beehiiv plans to launch a podcasting program in the coming days and is privately courting podcasters on Substack and elsewhere as founding members  —  Newsletter and creator startup Beehiiv is making a push into podcasting, and wants to peel off talent from Substack and Patreon.
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week  —  ‘Fruit Love Island’ averages over 10 million views for each of its episodes  —  A new viral dating show featuring sexy …
Discussion: Gizmodo and BBC
Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:
At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted “Trump is winning”, citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others  —  During a Friday CPAC appearance, FCC Chair Brendan Carr bragged that he's remaking the media by pushing out left-leaning figures …
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
A US judge grants DirecTV a temporary restraining order blocking the Nexstar-Tegna merger, finding DirecTV's position that it violates antitrust laws persuasive  —  A federal judge in California has granted DIRECTV a temporary restraining order in a legal challenge brought against Nexstar Media Group's $6.2 billion merger with TEGNA.
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
A look at Vogue's wedding coverage and efforts brides make to be featured; Chloe Malle says it generates “some of the most time spent on articles”  —  On paper, the couple seemed perfect, ticking all the boxes for their wedding to be featured in Vogue: career, family history …
 
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Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan
David Smith / The Guardian:
Jane Fonda led a Kennedy Center rally Friday with ~100 invited guests, including journalists Jim Acosta and Joy Reid, to protest free speech threats under Trump
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Internal figures show Business Insider's paid subscribers have consistently declined, from about 185K at the end of 2022 to 135K at the end of 2025, a 27% drop
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The Writers Guild Staff Union, on strike for almost six weeks, has offered a contract proposal to WGA West management, seeking a response by Monday at midnight
Discussion: Page Six
John Ourand / Puck:
Sources: advertisers were generally unpersuaded by Netflix's pitch that Opening Night was a “big event”; some ads ran as make-goods for NFL Christmas guarantees
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Reuters:
Sources: US DOJ has sent subpoenas in its Paramount WBD acquisition probe, seeking information on how the deal would affect studio output, theaters, and more
Michael Calderone / The Wrap:
A judge orders the US Defense Department and NYT back to court Monday after NYT said US officials “are contemptuously defying” a ruling restoring press access
Discussion: MS NOW and WNYC Studios
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Fortune editor Nick Lichtenberg, who uses AI to research and write articles; AI-assisted stories made up ~20% of Fortune's web traffic in H2 2025
 

 
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Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI

Jason Nelson / Decrypt:
Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages

Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders
 
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