April 2025

Illustration: Cold War Steve; Photos: Getty Images, Courtesy Everett Collection, Warner Bros. David Zaslav is a member of a regular Zoom call that includes Howard Stringer, 83, who once ran Sony; Tom Freston, 79, who once ran Viacom; Walter Isaacson, 72, who once ran CNN and Time magazine; Graydon Carter, 75, who once ran Vanity

Photo: Marc Levy/AP Early Sunday morning, a “targeted” arson attack forced Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and his family to evacuate the governor’s residence in Harrisburg just hours after they had held Passover Seder at the home. Police have since arrested a 38-year-old suspect, Cody Balmer, who now faces multiple charges including attempted murder and terrorism.

Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP It’s yet another token of the chaotic beginning of the second Trump administration that the confirmation of Mike Huckabee to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Israel received little or no attention beyond the ranks of those mostly focused on Middle Eastern affairs. The Senate quietly okayed him on a near party-line vote

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Chris Unger/Getty Images Meta’s big pivot to AI, which Mark Zuckerberg says could cost the company another $65 billion this year, isn’t going so smoothly at the moment. Industry watchers say its models aren’t competitive with the latest from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Its head of AI research just left, an internal