WordPress.com will allow AI agents to draft, edit and publish content on clients’ websites, the firm announced on Friday, TechCrunch reports. The web hosting platform will also allow users to manage comments, update metadata and manage comment. This may lead to the filling of the web with content written by machines, not people.   

Intuit won a legal victory on Friday when the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a Federal Trade Commission decision barring Intuit, the maker of the Turbo Tax tax preparation software from advertising the product as “free," Reuters reports. The appeals court, in a 3-0 decision, determined that it was unconstitutional for an FTC administrative law judge to rule on deceptive advertising claims. 

Radio is the most trusted medium, with 85% of Americans finding it trustworthy or very much so, Radio Ink reports based on Katz Radio Group’s 2026 Media Trust Study. It is followed by newspapers (77%), television (73%), podcasts (70%), magazines (70%) and social media (49%).   

Traffic is plummeting for seemingly resilient publications, including Digital Trends (97%) and The Verge (-85%). But traffic decline doesn’t necessarily mean business decline, Fast Company writes. The Verge, an early questioner of AI’s impact on content, is pursuing a four-point strategy that includes a paywall. So while AI may be seen as a traffic destroyer, it is also an audience qualifier. 

Layoffs in the entertainment industry are continuing this year after an avalanche of job cuts in 2025, Deadline reports. Among the more recent ones are a 3% staff reduction at William Morris Endeavor announced the day after St. Patrick’s Day and layoffs at Axios, Lionsgate and Universal Music Group’s Mercury Studios. 

Costco has introduced what it calls personalized “digital end caps” in an upgrade to Costco Velocity, its retail media network, Supermarket News reports. The platform, which is powered by Moloco’s commerce media technology, uses machine learning trained on purchase behavior to serve shoppers with product ideas on the Costco.com site. It is the first new ad product built on the Costco Velocity stack. 

X suffered an outage on Wednesday, going down just before noon, the New York Post reports. Data from Downtector indicates that complaints spiked in just a few minutes, with tens of thousands of reports coming in. X users cited problems loading posts, and with feeds and notifications across mobile and web.

DIRECTV is losing its long-time role distributing NFL Sunday Ticket to bars, restaurants, and other businesses as the NFL shifts to a streaming-only model via EverPass Media, according to Cord Cutters News. Years earlier, the NFL shifted residential rights for Sunday Ticket from DIRECTV to YouTube and YouTube TV, but DIRECTTV kept access through a partnership with EverPass.

Billionaire media owner Robert Allbritton plans to double the staff of his digital news publication Notus (News of the United States) by the end of this year, a decision precipitated by the layoffs at The Washington Post, The Guardian reports. The staff now consists of 50 people. Saying he was “pained” by the layoffs, Allbritton has already hired Post political columnist Dana Milbank, Congress reporter Paul Kane and chief economics correspondent Jeff Stein. “Opportunity knocks, and you’re going to decide if you’re going to answer the door or not,” he said. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom has lashed out at Brendan Carr for his call to broadcast networks to “correct course” in reporting on the war in Iran, saying “That cannot happen in America,” WMFD reports. Newsom argued, “Now, in the middle of a war, now we’re talking about propaganda that suits the ‘Dear Leader’? Because they don’t like independent media? So we have to have state media and content that’s driven by state media that comports to their perspective of truth?”