06 · The Washington Post
"In Trump Gaza deal, Hamas disarms, Israel withdraws. Neither wants to go first."
Why it matters
The Board of Peace's 15-point Hamas disarmament plan immediately hit the sequencing problem every ceasefire since the 1990s has died on.
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07 · Puck
The Grill Room: "Netflix NFL Murmurs & A World Cup Scandal"
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on FIFA's failed World Cup sale and the week in sport.
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08 · Puck
"Inside Mark Cuban's Maverick War Against the Adelsons"
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on FIFA's failed World Cup sale and the week in sport.
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09 · Puck
"The CompleteAct: California's Antitrust Threat to Hollywood"
Why it matters
Eriq Gardner decodes Rob Bonta's antitrust threat, which moves WarnerMount's central legal risk to an elected state AG in Hollywood's home state.
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10 · Puck
"The Billion-Dollar Bet Behind Paramount's WBD Merger Delay"
Why it matters
Eriq Gardner assesses the billion-dollar bet behind Paramount angling for a trial rather than a settlement.
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11 · Puck
"WarnerMount on Ice: Town Reacts to Deal Delay"
Why it matters
Kim Masters reads why the Ellisons froze the deal, reporting on a labor market told to hold still with no announced end date.
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12 · Puck
"What Foss Told ESPN Staff at Bristol Town Hall Post-Layoffs"
Why it matters
John Ourand got inside ESPN's post-layoffs town hall in Bristol.
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13 · Puck
"The Real Reason CEOs Still Post on X"
Why it matters
Dylan Byers on why the moguls still can't quit X, when every structural argument says they should have left.
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14 · Status
"The Race to Rebuild '60 Minutes'"
Why it matters
Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton are reconstituting 60 Minutes with Ross Douthat as a correspondent.
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15 · Status
"Byron's HuffPost Hatchet"
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on Hollywood's frozen merger and the media business.
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16 · Status
"The WSJ's Tech Tremors"
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on Hollywood's frozen merger and the media business.
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17 · Puck
"Inside Greg Brockman's OpenAI Charm Offensive"
Why it matters
Ian Krietzberg interviews Greg Brockman about OpenAI's charm offensive, which follows its models compromising Hugging Face.
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18 · Puck
"OpenAI Hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress Wants a Kill Switch."
Why it matters
Ian Krietzberg sits down with Rep. Ted Lieu on his AI kill switch bill, after OpenAI's models compromised Hugging Face.
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19 · Puck
The Varsity: "Is the A.I. Arms Race Coming for Sports?"
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on AI labs, Congress's kill switch push and the FCC's robot ban.
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20 · The Washington Post
"The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China"
Why it matters
Peter Jamison spent the final day at a Conn-Selmer band-instrument factory in Ohio whose work is moving to China, with 150 people there at the end.
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