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4:00 PM ET, April 7, 2026

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April Roach / CNBC:
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square proposes to acquire Amsterdam-listed Universal Music Group for €56B in cash and stock, form a merged company, and list 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).
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Mateusz Rabiega / Reuters:
UMG shares jump 10%+ following Pershing Square's €56B offer, which is a 78% premium to their April 2 close; UMG is down nearly a third since its 2021 listing  —  Bill Ackman's Pershing Square (PSHP.L) proposed a deal on Tuesday to merge Universal Music Group (UMG.AS) …
George Grylls / The Times:
A profile of Aaron Rupar, who manages a social media news operation monitoring Trump across 12 TV channels simultaneously, supported by a $50/year Substack  —  Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences.
New York Times:
Journalist Shelly Kittleson, abducted in Iraq by an Iranian-aligned militia, has been freed after a week in captivity, per the militia and two Iraqi officials  —  The journalist, Shelly Kittleson, was abducted by a militia allied with Iran and held for a week.
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.
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 …
John Ourand / Puck:
Sources: ESPN plans to cut ~30 jobs in the coming weeks, primarily in off-camera departments, partly due to a $100M loss tied to its 2025 YouTube TV dispute  —  Layoffs are coming as the sports network deals with cord-cutting, the YouTube TV blackout, and uncertainty around whether Josh D'Amaro …
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 …
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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.
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.
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
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries  —  Spotify said today that it is expanding its AI-powered feature to create playlists, called Prompted Playlist, to include podcasts as well.
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
McClatchy began rolling out a “content scaling agent” that summarizes and repurposes reporters' work with new headlines in Q1, prompting some employee pushback  —  Sacramento Bee staffers refuse bylines over a new AI tool as colleagues at the Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer harbor concerns
 
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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
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
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 Earlier Picks: 
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
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!”
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Savannah Guthrie returns to co-hosting duties on the Today show for the first time since the disappearance of her mother Nancy in January
 

 
From Techmeme:

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time

Wall Street Journal:
KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing
 
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