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Filing: ABC says the FCC hasn't refuted "substantial evidence" of Trump administration retaliation in ordering an early review of eight ABC TV station licenses (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/abc-fcc-lawsuit-donald-trump-1237107012/

ABC Pushes Back On FCC’s Justification For Early License Renewal Order, Highlights “Substantial Evidence” Of Trump “Retaliatory Motive”
The network said that there was "substantial evidence" of a Trump administration "retaliatory motive"

OpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/18/openai-pause-astra-preparedness-framework

OpenAI to rewrite its safety rules post-Hugging Face
The changes follow the Hugging Face incident and increased cybersecurity risk of new Astra model

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

Filing: Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch's FY 2026 compensation was $31M, down from $33M a year earlier; COO John Nallen's compensation rose from $15.3M to $18.1M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Dipped to $31 Million Last Year
Fox Corp.'s pay disclosure comes as the company seeks to complete its deal for Roku.

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NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3df8edae-ae3b-4f56-83a3-40602edc17a3

Fox revamps sports site OutKick following Clay Travis' departure, hiring Matt Calkins, who quit The Seattle Times after it spiked his column on trans athletes (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

Outkick Moves Past Its Clay Travis Era
Fox is revamping the sports site following the exit of its founder, Clay Travis. It’s hiring a writer who resigned from The Seattle Times over a column about transgender athletes.

NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3df8edae-ae3b-4f56-83a3-40602edc17a3

Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/fili

Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat | TechCrunch
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.

Filing: Paramount seeks a $1.88B bond from state AGs, based on its calculation of ticking fees and other costs it will have to pay due to the WBD deal delay (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/paramount-bond-merger-delay-costs.html