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6:55 AM ET, July 10, 2026

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James Faris / Business Insider:
Sources: Disney is discussing a potential free tier for Disney+; product and tech chief Adam Smith discussed the initiative at a town hall but gave no timeline  —  Disney is exploring making some of its streaming content available at an unbeatable price: free.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alisa Bowen, president of Disney+ since late 2022, is leaving to become CEO of Disney-controlled Fubo, succeeding David Gandler, who led Fubo for over a decade  —  Alisa Bowen, who has served as president of Disney+ since September 2022, is leaving that role to become CEO of Fubo …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock  —  Streamer is rethinking some of its core strategies to compete with rivals  —  Top Netflix executives who gathered …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
USA Today CEO Mike Reed says the company is prepared to opt out of Google Search in the next 6 to 12 months because it has no licensing agreement with Google  —  The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
The UK's YouTube-based TLDR News is supplementing digital ad revenue by selling a print magazine and merchandise, earning a profit in its latest fiscal year  —  Youtube-based publisher TLDR News has increased its revenue by 28% year on year after its print magazine and merchandise became its joint biggest source of income.
A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
NYT introduces The Local: Twin Cities, a pilot newsletter with original reporting, a goal of promoting local outlets, and an August launch date  —  “The Local” marks the latest step in the publisher's push to deepen regional coverage and engage its customer base
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Some longtime podcast hosts are ending or leaving their shows as video becomes dominant; increasingly, YouTube-first or video-first programs lead podcast charts  —  Veteran hosts like Marc Maron, Al Franken and the Culture Gabfest crew are hanging up their headphones and setting down their mics.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads  —  Google is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping people understand when an ad they're seeing was made using AI technology.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
iHeartMedia agrees to a consent decree to settle an FCC probe into claims iHeartMedia pressured artists to perform at shows in exchange for more radio airtime  —  iHeartMedia, the largest owner of radio stations in the U.S., agreed to enter into a consent decree with FCC to settle a probe …
 
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Patreon CEO Jack Conte announces a partnership with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers at the network level for all posts published on Patreon
Discussion: Tech Times
Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic:
How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The NYT and other outlets ask a court to sanction OpenAI for allegedly lying to the court about its inability to search its systems for copyrighted material
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
TF1 says it hit its 18-month audience targets for the Netflix deal in under three weeks; unique daily streams for TF1 shows jumped 16% in the first week
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Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Analysis: the 2026 Emmy nominations for acting and hosting hit an 11-year low with only 22 performers of color recognized, down 21% from the nominees in 2025
 

 
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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT “Super App”, which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions

Bloomberg:
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed

Wall Street Journal:
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment, says she will step down and become a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened; Simo joined in August
 
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