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6:55 PM ET, April 29, 2026

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
The NAB's CEO says the FCC's “nearly unprecedented request” for Disney to reapply for TV licenses is contrary to established principles and creates uncertainty  —  In a statement Wednesday, the head of the top industry trade group said Carr's move to initiate an early review …
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New York Times:
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro faced several setbacks since taking over, and must now guide the company through federal regulatory review of ABC's station licenses  —  Josh D'Amaro, who took the helm in February, will have to lead Disney through surprising new scrutiny from the president.
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US FCC officially orders early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations, in LA, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, and more  —  The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday ordered early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations in a major escalation …
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Joel Khalili / Wired:
Q&A with Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards, who says Bloomberg is overhauling the Terminal with chatbot-style interface ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta  —  WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.
Discussion: Talking Biz News and Politico
Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Guardian US MD Steve Sachs says the paper has a larger audience than WaPo, and 700K paid supporters, with reader revenue up 35% per year for the past two years  —  It's now bigger than The Washington Post  —  Possible is in full swing.  The Rebooting hosted a dinner last night in partnership …
Scilla Alecci / ICIJ:
People posing as ICIJ journalists or whistleblowers targeted Taiwanese officials and real reporters after a 2025 ICIJ investigation called China Targets  —  Shortly after publication, a slew of fake ICIJ reporters approached journalists, Taiwanese officials, and human rights advocates seeking sensitive data.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $17.24B, vs. $16.87B est., and subscription services revenue up 15% to $13.43B  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.  — CNBC Councils  — Join the CNBC Panel
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Sky News says the Iran war has been a “breakthrough” for Sky in digital video, with high engagement for its eyewitness journalism and in-depth analysis  —  The top editor at Sky News has explained why the channel can no longer rely on covering “commoditised” breaking news.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025  —  Time spent viewing on YouTube, the internet's most massive video platform, keeps growing at a healthy clip — and with it …
 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
The CW and ESPN agree to let ESPN stream ~800 hours of CW sports per year; the CW and Roku plan to stream CW entertainment to The Roku Channel in Fall 2026
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023
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Ciara Zavala / Local News Matters:
A case study of using AI to aid election coverage at Bay City News, starting in 2024 and refining later, aiming to reduce journalists' manual, repetitive tasks
Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Leaked audio: Mathias Döpfner told Politico staff that employees who disagree with Axel Springer's values, or “the essentials”, shouldn't work for the publisher
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Advocacy groups including WGA West and The Tech Oversight Project write a letter urging the US FTC and DOJ to probe Netflix for antitrust issues
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is piloting a system in Apple Stores called Live Notes that lets Genius Bar staff make transcripts and summaries of conversations with customers

Bloomberg:
Alibaba launches a 2.4T parameter Qwen3.8 Max preview that it says rivals frontier AI models and is second only to Fable 5, plans to make it “open-weight soon”

Hugging Face:
Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach
 
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