Amazon has been alerting publishing executives that it plans to launch a marketplace where they can license their content directly to AI companies, TechCrunch reports. Amazon reportedly circulated slides on the proposed marketplace, but did not directly confirm the plans. 

Fox News Media plans to add a daily 90-second news brief on Monday, Feb. 23, anchored by Bill Melugin. Airing at 5:58 p.m., The Fox News Report will deliver headlines on breaking news, politics, sports and entertainment, TVTechnology reports. It will air on Fox’s television stations and affiliated stations.

Performance TV is now the top channel for advertising investment, according to tvScientific’s 2026 State of Performance TV Report. Advertising on streaming channels now accounts for 24% of total media spend as budgets shift from YouTube, Meta, and TikTok, Demand Gen Report writes.    

Western media outlets were accused of cheerleading or propaganda in covering the Ukraine war. But the problem was not that journalists were biased. “It was that journalism could not keep pace with the war’s informational structure,” writes Charles Edward Gehrke, a Navy war gamer whose job it is to identify institutional failure, in Fortune. “What looked like ideological bias was, more often, temporal lag.”  

Microsoft has for the first time revealed how many clients are paying for Copilot, its artificial intelligence chatbot and assistant. Microsoft 365 Copilot has 15 million paid Copilot seats, showing growth of160% year over year, the company said during a recent earnings call. The Motley Fool reports. And, several Microsoft customers now have over 35,000 seats using Copilot. Businesses can pay a monthly fee of $30 per user.

Substack profits from allowing antisemitic newsletters to publish on its platform, The Guardian charges. One such product is  NatSocToday, which published a recent post stating that the Jewish race was responsible for World War II, and that Adolf Hitler was one of the greatest men of all time, The Guardian continues. 

The Longmont News Network, a platform based in Longmont, Colorado, increased its frequency, but the AI-generated content has included “fabricated information, misspelled names, and AI-generated images that some residents mistook for real photographs,” writes the Times-Call. Scott Converse, who started Longmont News Network, explained what hs is trying to do. 

Will Lewis has stepped down as chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post only days after the Post laid off 30% of its, staff, including 300 journalists, The New York Times reports. Owner Jeff Bezos announced the departure in a press release. Lewis thanked Bezos in a statement but did not mention the Post’s journalists.

Workers at Hearst Magazines staged a half-day walkout in New York City, demanding better wages, protection against AI and work flexibility, Democracy Now! reports. Their old contract expired last month.  

A bill recently signed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul requires advertisers to disclose the use of synthetic performers in publications and advertisements, Reuters reports. Another bill signed by the governor prevents a deceased person’s name, image or likeness from being used for commercial purposes without the permission or heirs or executors.