AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Electric Bills. Who Pays?

Who pays for the enormous grid investment required to serve data centers — the companies building them or consumers?

Popsicle Crowns Stassi Schroeder As The Flavor Feud Champ

Inside Popsicle’s Strategy For Pairing Stassi Schroeder, Drew Afualo And Ashlee Simpson

An activist investor says the market has decided Lionsgate is an AI casualty. It wants the studio to prove otherwise or sell.
An activist investor says the market has decided Lionsgate is an AI casualty. It wants the studio to prove otherwise or sell.

Activist investor Anson Funds is pressing Lionsgate to redefine itself for the AI era or put itself up for sale, according to a July letter to the board reviewed by Semafor. The argument turns on how the market reads a film library. “The rise of genera…

‘House Of The Dragon’ Book Changes Keep Showrunner ‘Up At Night’

‘House of the Dragon’ showrunner Ryan Condall is sharing his thoughts about how difficult it is to deal with book changes and making the show work in spite of them.

Webtoon’s Growth Is Slowing But Its Ambitions Are Growing

The mobile comics platform’s surprising recent financial performance sugarcoats some troubling market dynamics. Will new strategic moves pay off?

The ‘Reacher’ Season 4 Rotten Tomatoes Review Score Is In

‘Reacher’ is back this week with season 4, and its Rotten Tomatoes review score from critics is certainly eyebrow-raising.

Google And Meta Shipped AI Tools That Fake Evidence—Then Pulled Them Days Later

Google pulled AI image generation from Google Earth one day after launch because of fraud concerns. A digital forensics expert on what happens next.

Finally, An Update On The ‘Pluribus’ Season 2 Release Date

‘Pluribus’ season 2 is taking forever to start filming, but there is new information from Vince Gilligan that gives us season 2 release date info.

Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty item is confirmed!” an email about my retainer cleaning tablets read. Shoppers have posted other iterations of the redacted emails as well: “Ordered: […]

Trump Media posts a $238m quarterly loss as its bitcoin bet sours
Trump Media posts a $238m quarterly loss as its bitcoin bet sours

Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the company’s slow drift from social network to crypto …