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3:25 PM ET, July 23, 2026

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Reuters:
Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight AI in an overhaul of the service, leading to an internal effort called Project Lighthouse  —  Jeff Bezos has identified a new, high-profile platform to help showcase the hundreds of billions of dollars Amazon (AMZN.O) has bet on artificial intelligence: Prime Video.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV  —  The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.
Financial Times:
Financial firms, their lawyers, and ethics experts say there could be legal risks in paying Trump Media for fast access to Truth Social posts via an API  —  New venture has raised questions as financial firms decipher risk of paying for advanced access to market-moving feed
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Comcast reports Peacock revenue up 54% YoY to $1.9B and its adjusted EBITDA of $189M, its first-ever quarterly profit; film revenue rose 25% YoY to $3.04B  —  Comcast Corp. reported earnings that beat analysts' estimates on key metrics, buoyed by the first-ever quarterly profitability …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Hearst, Dow Jones, Condé Nast and NJ.com are setting subscription renewal prices using dynamic pricing, often using AI and referred to as “personalized offers”  —  Outlets like Wired, NJ.com, and The Wall Street Journal are setting renewal prices just for you — and being forced to disclose it.
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Night-owned podcast network The Roost rebrands as Podium, signs Trisha Paytas, and says it reaches 50M monthly video and audio impressions  —  The Roost's parent, talent management and media company Night, has made the move two years after it acquired the podcast business …
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Email: Patreon laid off 93 employees, totaling 20% of its workforce, on Thursday as part of a restructuring  —  In an internal email shared with creators, CEO Jack Conte wrote that AI doesn't replace human creativity — but it does affect how the company operates.
Discussion: The Verge
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
A specialist UK tribunal awards BBC correspondent Vincent Kearney £20K in damages after MI5 and police admitted to illegally obtaining Kearney's call records  —  Former BBC Northern Ireland journalist paid £20,000 in damages by MI5 and PSNI.  —  A journalist whose communications data …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Forbes Chief Content Officer and magazine EIC Randall Lane has left after joining in 2011; executive editor Kerry Lauerman will oversee editorial operations  —  Randall Lane, the chief content officer at Forbes, has left the business news organization.  —  “We can confirm that Randall Lane …
Discussion: The Wrap and @benmullin
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
TelevisaUnivision reports Q2 revenue up 10% to $1.3B due to FIFA rights in Mexico, US ad revenue down 29% to $323.3M, subscription and licensing up 40% to $621M  —  TelevisaUnivision reported second-quarter financials largely shaped by the FIFA World Cup, which boosted results in Mexico …
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
UK PM Andy Burnham keeping Lisa Nandy on as culture secretary renews pressure over potential streaming license fees and puts the WBD deal back in the spotlight  —  UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy was widely expected to change jobs when her good friend Andy Burnham became Prime Minister this week …
Discussion: The Wrap
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says ABC's decision to not carry Trump's July 16 speech about elections live will be part of its review for ABC-owned station licenses
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue up 13% YoY to $11.06B, above $10.8B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $81.63B, up from $71.34B in Q2 2025
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California's Rob Bonta and a 13-state group challenge the appointment of current and recent Nexstar personnel to Tegna's board, after a preliminary injunction
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: three OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, an attack that would have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks

Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving

Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally
 
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