📰 From the Digest

13 · Vox

Caitlin Dewey argues MAGA elevates ambitious women only when they exercise power on Trump's behalf; four of 23 cabinet-level posts are held by women.

14 · The New York Times

Further reading from the day's section on the Wisconsin primary, a press secretary's exit and the Kennedy Center.

Immigration

15 · Platformer

Town spends roughly $100 per user in the first two weeks building a dossier before users ask it for anything, CEO Jean-Denis Greze says.

16 · Business Insider

Business Insider reports Silicon Valley therapists are treating what one calls complicity grief among tech workers.

17 · Business Insider

Further reading from the day's section on AI assistants, the jobless boom and the model race.

AI

18 · AI Secret

The model market lost its excuse as DeepSeek V4 Pro and Grok 4.6 shipped two hours apart.

19 · The Washington Post

Further reading from the day's section on AI assistants, the jobless boom and the model race.

AI

20 · The Refresh

DoubleVerify's value was being the neutral referee, and with IAS taken private the measurement layer is now concentrated in very few hands.

21 · Digiday

AppLovin grew revenue 53% and lost nearly a fifth of its market value, while The Trade Desk grew 3% and dropped 22%.

Advertising

22 · Digiday

CMOs are buying tools that score their visibility inside LLM outputs and cannot connect any of it to sales.

AI

23 · Forbes

Nielsen is buying DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion in cash, a 30% premium, creating a company with more than $4 billion in annual revenue.

24 · The Hollywood Reporter

Further reading from the day's section on Nielsen's DoubleVerify deal and Wall Street's cold read on ad tech.

25 · Puck

Further reading from the day's section on Nielsen's DoubleVerify deal and Wall Street's cold read on ad tech.

26 · The Times

Infantino is backing CONMEBOL's push for a 64-team 2030 World Cup to lock in South American votes.

27 · Yahoo Finance

Sportsbooks are projected to burn over $500 million in adjusted EBITDA chasing prediction-market users, which PENN calls an irrational arms race.

Sports betting

28 · Sky Sports

NBA Europe's London franchise has become a three-way fight between Daniel Levy, the Lewis family and Nikesh Arora.

29 · The Athletic

Buster Posey, an unassailable Giants legend, is 131-152 as head of baseball operations and openly risking his legacy.

30 · The Athletic

Further reading from the day's section on FIFA's revolt, prediction markets and the money behind sports.

31 · Vox

HYROX is an eight-round fitness competition that reportedly subsumes your entire existence.

32 · The Rebooting

Brian Morrissey's Balkans postcard ends on Palagruža, a Croatian island where two men maintain a lighthouse a month at a time.

33 · The Washington Post

Further reading from the day's section on inflammation, HYROX and life on a Croatian island.

34 · The Washington Post

Molly Hensley-Clancy investigates how AAU, the country's largest youth sports organization, is failing to protect athletes from sexual abuse.

35 · Stateline

The procurement side of AI in education: schools spend billions but struggle to figure out what is worth it.

AI

36 · North Dakota Monitor

The local-paper version of a national policy change: refugees among thousands of North Dakotans losing SNAP benefits.

37 · Business Insider

Jeff Dean is raising at an 11-figure valuation for Discovery Loop, a startup barely a week old.