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12:00 PM ET, April 30, 2026

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X says it has begun a “phased rollout” of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern “retrieval and ranking systems” powered by AI  —  Elon Musk's X is still trying to woo back advertisers — this time with a rebuilt, AI-powered ads platform that started to rollout on Thursday.
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New York Times:
Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for creating ads, translating copy, targeting, bidding, measuring results, and more
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon executives, including MGM Studios head Mike Hopkins, have discussed rebooting The Apprentice for Prime Video, with Donald Trump Jr. as the host  —  Studio executives have held internal discussions about making new episodes of reality TV show  —  First it bought the “Melania” documentary.
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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Meta:
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $56.31B, net income up 61% to $26.77B, says “scrutiny on youth-related issues” and trials may “result in a material loss”
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 …
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
UMG artists will receive a share of the proceeds from UMG's Spotify stock sale, regardless of debts; WMG paid out $126M to artists from its 2018 stock sale  —  Years ago, as part of her negotiation process to sign with UMG, Swift demanded that the company pay out artists …
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Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg:
UMG reports Q1 subscription revenue grew 12.5% YoY to €1.3B, with recorded music revenue up 8.9% to €2.25B, and plans to sell 50% of its Spotify stake
Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
A Texas court stays the turnover of Infowars to the official who agreed to license it to The Onion; Sandy Hook families will seek emergency relief from courts  —  “[This] just warms my heart and still gives me faith in America and our legal system,” the Infowars founder adds
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Analysis: in 2025, total UK ad spend grew 6.4% YoY to £46.7B; of that, £31B went to Google, Meta, and Amazon, and £1.6B went to magazines and news, down 5.1%  —  Three US tech giants accounted for two thirds of every pound spent on advertising in the UK last year.
Hua Hsu / New Yorker:
How The Fast and the Furious franchise, which grossed $7B+ across 10 films, tells the story of Hollywood, pioneering diverse casting and technical innovations  —  The Marvel Cinematic Universe is often held up as the exemplar of the Hollywood mega-franchise.  The “Fast” movies may have been just as influential.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to get sucked into an infinite scroll of videos on school-issued devices  —  Parents find their kids captive to the video streaming site on their school-issued devices; for one, it was 13,000 YouTube videos in three months
 
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix starts rolling out its new Clips vertical video feed as a separate tab in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, India, and four other countries
Scilla Alecci / ICIJ:
People posing as ICIJ journalists or whistleblowers targeted Taiwanese officials and real reporters after a 2025 ICIJ investigation called China Targets
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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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit “and Other Stuff” and built by an early Twitter employee, debuts with ~500K restored Vine videos
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Antenna: Roku's $2.99-per-month streamer Howdy hits 1M subscribers, after adding 300K subscribers in its first month and 100K+ every subsequent month
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised $150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1.2B in 2025
 

 
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Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Mythos 5, setting in motion new export restrictions

Allan Smith / NBC News:
Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth ~$130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states

Jessica Loudis / Bloomberg:
A review of The Yahoo Boys, a deeply reported book on four online scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam and the local impact of the trade
 
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