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June 25, 2026
June 25, 2026
On June 24, 2026, the Minnesota Star Tribune announced the elimination of 24 union positions, the great majority drawn from the newsroom [[1 • MPR News]]. The cuts are the second and most visible stage of a 15 percent workforce reduction unveiled two and a half weeks earlier by publisher and CEO Steve Grove, who on Jun…
On June 23, 2026, Superhuman, the productivity platform that emerged from Grammarly's June 2025 acquisition of the eponymous email client and its subsequent November 2025 rebrand, announced an agreement to acquire GPTZero, the AI content detection startup Edward Tian first built as a Princeton senior thesis project in…
This brief evaluates the headline claim that "Australia's under-16 social media ban is not working." The Australian ban was enacted by the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 and took effect on 10 December 2025, making Australia the first jurisdiction to legislate a minimum age of 16 for holdi…
On February 27, 2026, Paramount Skydance Corporation (PSKY) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) signed a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger in which PSKY's wholly-owned merger sub, Prince Sub Inc., will acquire WBD for $31.00 per share in cash, valuing the target at roughly $110.9 billion in enterprise value an…
Between January and June 2026, Meta Platforms publicly reorganized the workload of content moderation around large language models (LLMs), with two anchoring disclosures: a March 19, 2026 corporate announcement on "boosting your support and safety on Meta's apps with AI," which framed the shift as a multi-year effort t…