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9:40 AM ET, July 20, 2026

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Reuters:
Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others  —  Donald Trump's social media company has discussed charging Wall Street traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 a month …
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Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Spanish-language Telemundo captured 49% of the World Cup audience in the US through the first 48 matches, including viewers whose primary language is English
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99 per month, and some Apple One bundles, citing rising licensing costs  —  Apple has raised the price of Apple Music today in the United States and other countries.  Starting today, Apple Music's Individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, up from $10.99.
Deadline:
A US district court judge says she plans to issue a ruling by July 22 on state AGs' request for a temporary stay that would pause the Paramount-WBD merger  —  U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín heard arguments from both sides in an 80-minute hearing in Oakland on Friday.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey nets $124.5M at the domestic box office and $264.1M worldwide on its opening weekend; Universal spent ~$250M to make the film  —  Christopher Nolan's nearly three-hour epic was No. 1 over the weekend, with about $124.5 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada.
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Holly Willoughby, until recently the host of ITV's daytime show This Morning, plans a lifestyle series on YouTube, as the platform dominates viewing figures  —  Holly Willoughby, best known until recently as the host of ITV's daytime show “This Morning,” is set to make a comeback.
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The Athletic:
A profile of ESPN analyst Matt Miller, who is accused of stiffing winners of his charity fantasy football leagues and was nearly killed in a car crash in June  —  In the days before his Ford Bronco drifted into the path of an oncoming semi-truck, Matt Miller was settling debts.
Ned Holmes / Radio Times:
Netflix and Goalhanger agree to a new two-year deal to broadcast The Rest Is Football podcast through the next two Premier League seasons and the Euros in 2028  —  It's good news for fans of Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and Micah Richards...  The Rest Is Football will be back on Netflix …
Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Sinclair-owned TV stations affiliated with ABC and NBC aired Trump's speech about elections, using Sinclair's feed; Sinclair owns or operates 177 stations  —  Trump's address tonight began at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and lasted about 25 minutes.  As expected, the brunt of the remarks were regarding elections …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
President Trump says ABC and NBC should have their licenses revoked for not carrying his speech, alleging they are part of a “plot” to continue election “fraud”
Jon Passantino / Status:
Sources: a US judge granted NYT temporary reprieve from Trump admin subpoenas targeting three reporters, ahead of a July 23 hearing over confidential sources  —  Earlier this week, in a Manhattan courtroom, The New York Times asked a federal judge to block an extraordinary attempt …
 
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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Q&A with Fox podcast executive Chris Balfe on podcasts being synonymous with video and how clipping is shifting ad dollars from creators to short-form platforms
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Netflix paid $587M in cash for Ben Affleck's AI company, InterPositive, in March
Michael Schneider / Variety:
The TV Academy trims the number of Emmy awards in its primetime telecast on September 14, moving five categories to earlier ceremonies on September 5 and 6
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Axel Springer plans to confer the 2026 Axel Springer Award on Peter Thiel in a ceremony scheduled for September 24, with a tribute by CBS News EIC Bari Weiss
Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
DHS announces plans to shorten visas for foreign journalists in the US from up to 5 years to 240 days and cut those for Chinese journalists to 90 days
 

 
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Kate Conger / New York Times:
Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40%

Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist:
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5

Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum
 
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