Google’s AI search overhaul is great for Google and bad for everyone who makes the web worth searching
Google’s AI search overhaul is great for Google and bad for everyone who makes the web worth searching

Google called it the biggest change to its search box in 25 years. At I/O 2026, the company unveiled a complete overhaul of Search built around AI mode, conversational follow-ups, and autonomous agents that monitor the web on your behalf. Head of Searc…

No Off-Season: Inside Heated Rivalry’s Massive Cultural Footprint Between Seasons

‘Heated Rivalry’ isn’t just sustaining momentum between seasons — fans are turning the hockey romance into a full-scale cultural phenomenon.

Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms
Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms

  Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, prod…

Why Vertical Drama’s Next Fight Is Over Distribution

Vertical drama has split into four business models. The real fight among apps, social platforms, brands and streamers is over distribution, not screen format.

Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.
Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew f…

TikTok’s 30 Creators Show FIFA Is Redrawing World Cup Coverage

TikTok’s 30 Creator Correspondents and YouTube’s Preferred Platform deal show how FIFA is redrawing World Cup coverage, with broadcasters still holding live rights.

Snap’s Q1 Makes Its AR Glasses Bet Harder To Ignore

Snap’s Q1 2026 earnings showed stronger margins and cash flow, but Specs, its AR glasses bet, faces pressure from Irenic Capital and AR rivals Meta, Apple and Google.

How AI-Generated Music Became A $4 Billion Fraud Machine

Fake streams, cloned voices, stolen royalties: how AI-generated music became a $4 billion fraud machine and what it costs artists

News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it
News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it

The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director has called being ‘collateral damage’ in a war that is…

Letterboxd, the social platform for film buffs, reportedly looking for new owner

Potential buyers of Letterboxd include Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, and Hollywood media company The Ankler, according to Semafor.