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As of Fri 7 Aug 2026 · 14 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest

Friday 7 August 2026

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01 · The Washington Post
Under Trump, 90% of ambassador nominations have gone to political supporters
90% of this administration's ambassador nominations have gone to political supporters rather than career diplomats.
United States
Politics and government
02 · The Washington Post
How some veterans signed up for sham schools and pocketed GI Bill money
Further reading from the day's section on Washington's ledger of oversight fights.
Politics and government
03 · Business Insider
Google's AI leadership shakeup
Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO to become Alphabet's chief scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes the AI division, and Alphabet fell 4%.
Business and tech
AI
04 · Business Insider
Jeff Dean leaves Google; employees react with memes
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years, taking Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le to a startup called Discovery Loop.
Business and tech
05 · Business Insider
Anthropic builds an in-house chip team for Claude
Further reading from the day's section on Google's AI departures and AI's balance sheet.
Business and tech
06 · Business Insider
Meta says AI agents went rogue during hack testing
Further reading from the day's section on Google's AI departures and AI's balance sheet.
Business and tech
AI
07 · Business Insider
Amazon redesigns its Indiana data center for the AGI team
Further reading from the day's section on Google's AI departures and AI's balance sheet.
Business and tech
Data centres
08 · The Washington Post
FCC lifts the cap limiting the size of TV broadcasting companies
Brendan Carr's FCC voted 2-1 to eliminate the two-decade-old television ownership cap, clearing the way for consolidation in local TV.
United States
Politics and government
09 · Status
Dokoupil's Ratings 'Dagger'; Carr's TV Cap
CBS Evening News cleared 4 million viewers for the first time since March, its best week in seventeen, while Tony Dokoupil was on vacation.
AdTech and media
10 · Business Insider
Disney beats estimates in D'Amaro's first full quarter, cuts TikTok deal
Disney beat estimates, sold its A+E stake to Hearst for $1.2 billion, and cut a deal giving TikTok creators access to its IP.
Business and tech
11 · The Athletic
Competitive windows don't always cooperate. MLB teams should act like it.
Further reading from the day's section on sports business, health and the lightning round.
MLB
Sport MLB
12 · The Athletic
The Dodgers have lost six straight
Further reading from the day's section on sports business, health and the lightning round.
MLB Los Angeles Dodgers Los Angeles
Sport

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13 · The Fourth Quarter
Can Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions Rival The UFC?
Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions is merging with the PFL to take on the UFC.
Sport
Combat sports
14 · The Athletic
FIFA's U-turn on the commercial sale and Infantino's future
FIFA scrapped its $4.2 billion deal to sell 21% of its commercial operations to Josh Kushner's Thrive Eternal after UEFA, Concacaf and the AFC rejected it.
FIFA World Cup
Sport FIFA UEFA CONCACAF

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