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As of Sat 25 Jul 2026 · 14 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest
Saturday 25 July 2026
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01 · Semafor
"'No good ways out of this mess'"The Houthis attacked two Saudi tankers bound for Bab el-Mandeb, the workaround Saudi Arabia has used with Hormuz effectively blockaded.
02 · Semafor
"Iran inflection point"Speaker Mike Johnson said on the record of the war, we got to wrap it up, as MAGA-base support for continuing fell 13 points since May.
03 · Stratechery
"Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?"Ben Thompson argues the frontier labs are fine and the real risk from Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K3 is US cybersecurity policy.
04 · Stratechery
"OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips"Ben Thompson reads the OpenAI model's sandbox escape as an operational rather than conceptual failure, and being caught in an eval as the system working.
05 · Status
"Loomer's Kyiv Curveball; Paramount's Shock Merger Move"Paramount agreed to postpone closing its $111B Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, sidestepping a preliminary-injunction fight with twelve state AGs.
06 · AP
"Paramount agrees to delay Warner Bros. merger"Paramount will close after an antitrust trial or next June, but faces ticking fee payments to investors if the deal drags past September 30.
07 · Puck
"Bristol Whipped: ESPN's Layoffs Expose a Deeper Cost Problem"Further reading from the day's section on legacy media shedding scale.
08 · Puck
"The First A.I.-Built Movie Is Coming to Theaters"Further reading from the day's section on legacy media shedding scale.
09 · Puck
"Casey Wasserman's Agency, The Team, Has Found a Buyer"Providence Equity, already a 60% owner, is buying out Casey Wasserman and taking full control of The Team at a ~$3.4B valuation.
10 · The Athletic
"Warriors' focus shifts to Draymond Green after LeBron joins 76ers"After LeBron James chose Philadelphia, The Athletic's evening newsletter was writing Golden State's obituary.
11 · Stratechery
"Two More Cents on the NBA's Second Apron Era"Andrew Sharp argues the NBA's second apron is functioning as a hard cap, and that the problem with it is that it's working.
12 · The Washington Post
"Peptide boom has states scrambling to protect consumers"The Post surveyed every state's pharmacy, medical and nursing boards and found gaping holes around medspas and peptides.
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13 · Puck
"The Miseducation of Laura Loomer"Further reading from the day's section on peptides, the cyclospora outbreak and other quick hits.
14 · The Athletic
"What we're hearing about potential Mariners' trade pieces"The Athletic has deadline intel on potential Mariners trade pieces, plus Cubs pitching targets and how the White Sox offset Kyle Teel's absence.
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