‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Has A Post-Credits Scene, But There’s A Catch

Should you stick around after the credits roll on ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’? The answer is . . . complicated.

Netflix’s ‘72 Hours’ Is One Of Its Worst-Reviewed Comedy Movies Ever

Feel free to watch 72 Hours on Netflix, but know that it is one of the worst-reviewed comedies the service has produced.

Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google’s AI Into the Physical World

The latest version of Google DeepMind’s AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins
To find out what customers think, this $2bn startup asks their AI twins

A startup wants companies to stop asking real people what they think, and ask fake ones instead. Simile has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build “agentic twins,” AI stand-ins for real consumers that firms can survey by the million. Greenoaks led t…

Scale AI hired a cloud salesman as CEO. That tells you where it’s going.
Scale AI hired a cloud salesman as CEO. That tells you where it’s going.

A year after its founder left for Meta, Scale AI has a new boss. The choice says a lot about where the company is heading. It has named Francis deSouza, a veteran enterprise-cloud executive, as chief executive. deSouza starts on 10 August, Scale announ…

Pay Attention To The Victims Behind Scams, Various Groups Urge

Today marks World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, with the theme “Trapped Behind the Scam.” This draws attention to trafficking victims forced into online fraud.

A hidden line in a Word doc can rewrite your numbers, and infect the next file too
A hidden line in a Word doc can rewrite your numbers, and infect the next file too

A hidden line of text in a Word document can quietly halve the numbers in your financial report. Then it can smuggle a copy of itself into the clean file you send on. And 144 days after a researcher warned Microsoft, it still works. Håkon Måløy, a Norw…

ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.
ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.

ByteDance is quietly winning a race in China that most people are watching in America. The company behind TikTok now makes about $4bn a year from artificial intelligence. That is the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, the South China…

EY built an ‘AI router’ to stop its own AI bills from spiralling
EY built an ‘AI router’ to stop its own AI bills from spiralling

EY has built what it calls an “AI router,” a system that steers each task to the cheapest model that can handle it, in an effort to keep its own soaring AI bills under control. The tool, reported by Business Insider, is the Big Four firm’s answer to a …

DOGE Veterans Are Landing Big Jobs at Prediction Markets

Polymarket and Novig have both recently brought ex-DOGE affiliates onboard as scrutiny of the industry intensifies.