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As of Tue 4 Aug 2026 · 17 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest

Tuesday 4 August 2026

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  1. 01 · The Washington Post

    "The 5-Minute Fix: Senate Republicans are pushing back on Trump"

    Republicans got Todd Blanche's written statement rescinding the $1.8 billion fund, but no change to the president's tax immunity arrangement.

  2. 02 · Puck

    "How to Win the Democratic Nomination in 2028"

    Peter Hamby moves the Democrats' argument to 2028 and the reshuffled early-state primary calendar.

  3. 03 · Semafor

    "Iran diplomacy ruptures"

    Monday morning brought called-off strikes and oil down 5%, but by night Tehran denied talks were happening at all.

  4. 04 · Semafor

    "Analysts warn about shipping threats"

    A Kpler analyst says threats to crude shipping are the highest of the war, and Hapag-Lloyd says even a brisk Hormuz reopening needs months to normalize.

  5. 05 · Semafor

    "Boeing plots its comeback"

    Further reading from the day's section on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz and Treasury's yen intervention.

  6. 06 · Semafor

    "Amazon hits $3 trillion valuation"

    Amazon crossed $3 trillion in market cap and posted $19.8 billion in Q2 ad revenue.

    Advertising

  7. 07 · Semafor

    "Data center projects boost hiring"

    Data-center construction is bidding electricians and plumbers away from residential building, with data-center trade jobs paying 42% more.

    Data centres

  8. 08 · Puck

    "Ellison's Escape Hatch & The Zaslav Lottery Ticket"

    Puck's read is that taking the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger to trial may hand the Ellisons an escape hatch, and Zaslav wins either way.

    M&A

  9. 09 · Digiday

    "The case for and against agencies betting on tokens"

    Agencies are working out how to resell AI tokens at a markup, effectively a futures market with the incentive problems of principal media trading.

    AI

  10. 10 · Digiday

    "Who owns the creative brief?"

    Further reading from the day's section on media mergers and the advertising business.

  11. 11 · Digiday

    "Time has started serving ads to AI agents"

    Further reading from the day's section on media mergers and the advertising business.

    AI

  12. 12 · The Athletic

    "Which MLB teams need a trade the most?"

    At the MLB trade deadline, Toronto and Washington both sold without, per The Athletic's writers, getting enough back.

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  1. 13 · The Athletic

    "What we're hearing with hours to go until the MLB trade deadline"

    The MLB trade deadline produced a quieter kind of drama, with the Dodgers already holding Tarik Skubal.

  2. 14 · Semafor

    "China favored in Africa's space race"

    Bundled satellite packages are beating technical superiority in Africa's space race, and the same logic is showing up in AI infrastructure.

    Space · AI

  3. 15 · Puck

    "The War on Art Flippers"

    An obscure 1991 ruling explains why gallery resale restrictions on art flippers mostly don't hold.

  4. 16 · Puck

    "Buying the Kering Dip"

    Reformation went public, Shein filed in Hong Kong, and the fashion IPO is back.

    IPO

  5. 17 · Digiday

    "Inside Unilever's 300,000 creator network"

    What the headline number behind Unilever's 300,000-creator network actually means.

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