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As of Tue 4 Aug 2026 · 17 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest
Tuesday 4 August 2026
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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.
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.
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.
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.
05 · Semafor
"Boeing plots its comeback"Further reading from the day's section on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz and Treasury's yen intervention.
06 · Semafor
"Amazon hits $3 trillion valuation"Amazon crossed $3 trillion in market cap and posted $19.8 billion in Q2 ad revenue.
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.
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.
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.
10 · Digiday
"Who owns the creative brief?"Further reading from the day's section on media mergers and the advertising business.
11 · Digiday
"Time has started serving ads to AI agents"Further reading from the day's section on media mergers and the advertising business.
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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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.
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.
15 · Puck
"The War on Art Flippers"An obscure 1991 ruling explains why gallery resale restrictions on art flippers mostly don't hold.
16 · Puck
"Buying the Kering Dip"Reformation went public, Shein filed in Hong Kong, and the fashion IPO is back.
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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