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12:30 AM ET, April 17, 2026

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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits  —  Co-founder won't stand for re-election to the board, Netflix says in first earnings report since pulling out of Warner Discovery bid
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours  —  Netflix Inc. gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts expectations, sending the shares down in extended trading.
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Filing: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos received $53.9M in 2025 compensation, down from $62M in 2024; co-CEO Greg Peters received $53.2M, down from $60M in 2024  —  Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw their compensation come in just above $53 million in 2025, which actually marked …
Reshmi Basu / Bloomberg:
QVC Group, owner of TV shopping channels QVC and HSN, files for bankruptcy as part of a plan to cut more than $5B in debt; shares closed down 69% on Thursday  —  Television shopping network QVC Group filed for bankruptcy Thursday as part of a plan to cut more than $5 billion of debt …
Rebecca Keegan / NBC News:
Paramount CEO David Ellison makes an unexpected appearance at CinemaCon, promising a 45-day theatrical window for all Paramount movies going forward  —  The Paramount Skydance chief spoke at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, after opting out of a congressional hearing on the merger earlier this week.
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Memo: Condé Nast is shuttering Self magazine, folding its content into other brands, and winding down Glamour's publishing arms in Mexico, Spain, and Germany  —  The company will also stop publishing Wired's Italian edition and several of Glamour's international editions
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR receives two of its largest ever gifts: $80M for innovation in use of digital tech and $33M to build and buy tools to be shared with US public media orgs  —  NPR has received two of the largest gifts in the public media network's existence, totalling $113 million.
Sandor Zsiros / Euronews:
Hungary's Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar says he plans to suspend state broadcaster MTVA and “create independent, objective, and impartial conditions”  —  Magyar has threatened to suspend the state broadcaster following a heated on-air clash, accusing it of spreading …
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The transfer of digital operations and print ad work from the UK's Standard to The Independent is complete; of 75 Standard staff, 23 moved to Independent Media
Emily Zemler / The Wrap:
A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Joseph Collins, a top executive at HBO, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast, a founder of C-SPAN and a pioneer in cable transition to broadband, died April 2 at 81
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The UK CMA tells Getty Images to sell Shutterstock's editorial business, which includes Backgrid and Splash, to secure approval for the $3.7B merger of the two
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Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Roku says it is in 100M+ homes globally and its devices are used by “more than half of all US broadband households”; Roku had $4.15B in 2025 platform revenue
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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Analysis: global Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter/X has fallen 70% since Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition; Facebook traffic has also declined sharply
NBC News:
A US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled
 

 
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Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash

OpenAI:
OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery so it can fix bugs before wider deployment
 
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