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.
Story page →
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.
Story page →
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%.
Story page →
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.
Story page →
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.
Story page →
Business and tech

06 · Business Insider
Meta says AI agents went rogue during hack testing
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on Google's AI departures and AI's balance sheet.
Story page →
07 · Business Insider
Amazon redesigns its Indiana data center for the AGI team
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on Google's AI departures and AI's balance sheet.
Story page →
08 · The Washington Post
FCC lifts the cap limiting the size of TV broadcasting companies
Why it matters
Brendan Carr's FCC voted 2-1 to eliminate the two-decade-old television ownership cap, clearing the way for consolidation in local TV.
Story page →
09 · Status
Dokoupil's Ratings 'Dagger'; Carr's TV Cap
Why it matters
CBS Evening News cleared 4 million viewers for the first time since March, its best week in seventeen, while Tony Dokoupil was on vacation.
Story page →
10 · Business Insider
Disney beats estimates in D'Amaro's first full quarter, cuts TikTok deal
Why it matters
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.
Story page →
11 · The Athletic
Competitive windows don't always cooperate. MLB teams should act like it.
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on sports business, health and the lightning round.
Story page →
12 · The Athletic
The Dodgers have lost six straight
Why it matters
Further reading from the day's section on sports business, health and the lightning round.
Story page →
13 · The Fourth Quarter
Can Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions Rival The UFC?
Why it matters
Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions is merging with the PFL to take on the UFC.
Story page →
14 · The Athletic
FIFA's U-turn on the commercial sale and Infantino's future
Why it matters
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.
Story page →

Browse the archive →

The long reads behind the daily digest, by email.

New pieces on cities, sport and power. Free, on Substack.

Subscribe on Substack

Where these stories come from

Each morning the Daily Newsletter Digest reads about fifty newsletters, groups them by theme and records an audio episode. These are the day’s most substantive stories from it, each with a direct link to the original article.

Links open the publisher’s own site, which may ask you to subscribe. The one-line summaries are ours; the reporting is theirs. A place tag links to that metro or country on this site, where the same story appears under In the news.