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Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment files new lawsuit against AI startup Udio
Sony Music Entertainment on Monday filed a new lawsuit against artificial intelligence startup Udio, alleging it infringed on more than 30,000 recordings.Sony said Udio ripped off music recordings from...
Dodgy doc injected NYC woman who died with anti-aging IV boosted by Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner: DA
A dodgy doctor allegedly injected a Bronx woman before she died with a trendy supposed anti-aging molecule boosted by wellness-chasing celebrities such as Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner, prosecutors...
Cloud Computing Costs Shift as Meta Courts Anthropic
Anthropic wants to rent Meta’s spare hardware, and the arrangement under discussion could reach $10 billion across two years, according to CNBC’s July 17 report citing a person close...
PBS Dials Up Deal For Music Doc ‘CFNY: The Spirit Of Radio’
EXCLUSIVE: The story of a plucky Canadian station in the golden era of alternative radio is headed to PBS. CFNY: The Spirit of Radio will broadcast on PBS in...
Ben Affleck’s AI company is sold for more than $500 million
Netflix has revealed just how big it is betting on artificial intelligence, shelling out more than half a billion dollars for one of the early AI movers in Hollywood....
ZDF & ProSieben Strike Streaming Pact As Traditional Rivals Team To Fight Streamers: “A Strong, Forward-Looking Signal”
ZDF and ProSiebenSat.1 are the latest traditional European rivals to team on a streaming deal. The pact will see ZDF’s on-demand content integrated into ProSieben’s streaming service, Joyn, from...
Entrepreneurship
Cloud Computing Costs Shift as Meta Courts Anthropic
Entrepreneurship
Fed Rate Decision Nears as Inflation Cools This Summer
Entrepreneurship
ICHRA Health Benefits Can Cut Startup Costs Sharply
Entrepreneurship
AI Software Development Takes On the Consulting Giants
Entrepreneurship
QSBS Explained: How Founders Skip Capital Gains Tax
Fashion
Ben Affleck’s AI company is sold for more than $500 million
Netflix has revealed just how big it is betting on artificial intelligence, shelling out more than half a billion dollars for one of the early AI movers in Hollywood....
Meta accused of using AI to pick employees with medical conditions for layoffs
Twenty-six Meta employees sued the social media giant over allegations that the California company used artificial intelligence systems that targeted workers on medical or family leave for layoffs.The lawsuit,...
Nobel Prize winner leaving UC Berkeley for new role in China
Nobel Prize recipient Omar Yaghi is leaving his role at UC Berkeley to lead the development of a new artificial intelligence institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Chinese...
Even in the heart of L.A., they still rely on old-fashioned landlines and don’t want to lose them
Living high up in the Hollywood Hills, Peter and Nanci Ellis think of their landline as a lifeline.Most days, cellphone service in their Los Feliz Oaks home near Griffith...
Gossip
The Hamptons Art Rush, Five Years Later: What COVID Taught Us
Work in a Hamptons pop-up exhibition staged by the now defunct Castle Fitzjohns Gallery. Photo by Jared Siskin/Getty Images for Hamptons Magazine While its disruption was a mere inconvenience...
How Artists Are Using A.I. and Where They Are Drawing the Line
Installation view: Rachel Maclean’s “The Enchantment of Reason” at Josh Lilley, London. Courtesy the artist and Josh Lilley Even as A.I.’s integration into daily life continues, visual artists remain...
Lin Qiao’s Fireworks AI Bets on Specialized Models Over General A.I. Hype
According to Lin Qiao, the future of A.I. lies in millions of specialized models built on proprietary data. Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images The soaring demand...
The 30 Best East Coast Beach Resorts, From the Keys to Kennebunkport
July 17, 2026 Every summer, the East Coast performs one of the country's strangest migrations. Not the people—the season itself. In June, Palm Beach valet stands sit half empty...
Health
Fans React as Megyn Kelly Revives Book Excerpt Amid Nancy Guthrie Disappearance
Fans are speaking out after Megyn Kelly revisited a childhood story from Savannah Guthrie's book while Savannah's mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing.In a February 17 Instagram clip from "The...
Bayer Expands Litigation Liability With New $7.25B Roundup Proposal
Bayer said Tuesday that its Monsanto unit has proposed a new $7.25 billion settlement to resolve US lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma, expanding the company's total...
The $8.8 Trillion Problem AI Can’t Solve: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Corporate AI spending topped $252 billion in 2024. Yet 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable return on investment. The technology works. The people don't.What's missing? It's emotional...
GOP Rep. Warns Cuban Regime Not To ‘Continue Defying’ Trump: ‘Will Annihilate You In a Matter Of Seconds’
Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez warned the Cuban regime not to "continue defying" the Trump administration because it "won't last long" if they get on its "bad side.""The Cuban regime...
Innovation
ShinyHunters Claims Council of Europe HR Data, Threatens Leak
ShinyHunters has put the Council of Europe on the clock, claiming it stole 297GB of sensitive data and threatening to publish it unless its demands are met. The cyber...
Amazon’s ‘Proteus’ Robot Heads to Europe in $11B Automation Push
Amazon’s warehouse robots are starting to sound less like machines waiting for commands and more like coworkers taking direction. At its Delivering the Future event in London, Amazon unveiled...
Hilary Duff Admits She Worries Husband Matthew Koma Will Leave Her for an “Indie Songwriter”
Indeed, those inner thoughts are what Hilary—who shares daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 21 months, with Matthew, as well as son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie—sings...
Hailey Bieber Details How Past Stroke and Heart Surgery Forever Changed Her
“I have a whole new breath of life with it,” she explained on the Therapuss podcast. “I feel even more motivated and more passionate. And now that we have...
News
Sony Music Entertainment files new lawsuit against AI startup Udio
Sony Music Entertainment on Monday filed a new lawsuit against artificial intelligence startup Udio, alleging it infringed on more than 30,000 recordings.Sony said Udio ripped off music recordings from...
BlackRock eyes more than US$12 billion debt for Texas data centre
Published Mon, Jul 20, 2026 · 11:29 PM[WASHINGTON] BlackRock is looking to sell more than US$12 billion of bonds to help finance a data centre campus in El Paso,...
Pension funds try to come to grips with the scariest global warming scenario
The impact of any single climate tipping point being breached would be ‘highly consequential’, says JPMorganINSTITUTIONAL investors are trying to figure out what it would mean for their portfolios...
This is how Tennessee tries to woo Paramount and other companies away from California
Tennessee propositioned Paramount Skydance, hoping to tempt it to become the next company to leave California.As California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta gathered a coalition of 12 state attorneys general...
Politics
Dodgy doc injected NYC woman who died with anti-aging IV boosted by Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner: DA
A dodgy doctor allegedly injected a Bronx woman before she died with a trendy supposed anti-aging molecule boosted by wellness-chasing celebrities such as Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner, prosecutors...
Doc says Burger King menu is ‘worse than expected’ for health — with more than 120 ingredients in just one item
They’re dethroning the King. While fast-food junkies may consider it high treason, a healthcare whistleblower is exposing Burger King for allegedly pumping its most popular menu items, including the Whopper,...
Chilling video shows Monaco bomb attack that nearly killed Ukrainian oligarch, reportedly blew legs off gal pal
Newly released chilling video captured the moment a parcel bomb exploded in Monaco last month and nearly killed a Ukrainian tycoon and reportedly blew the legs off his girlfriend....
Sandy Brondello apologizes for calling Angel Reese a ‘protected species’ in latest WNBA controversy
Sandy Brondello is apologizing after facing the heat for a controversial comment she was caught making about Dream star Angel Reese. During Atlanta’s 111-92 win over Brondello’s Tempo on...
Special Edition
PBS Dials Up Deal For Music Doc ‘CFNY: The Spirit Of Radio’
EXCLUSIVE: The story of a plucky Canadian station in the golden era of alternative radio is headed to PBS. CFNY: The Spirit of Radio will broadcast on PBS in...
ZDF & ProSieben Strike Streaming Pact As Traditional Rivals Team To Fight Streamers: “A Strong, Forward-Looking Signal”
ZDF and ProSiebenSat.1 are the latest traditional European rivals to team on a streaming deal. The pact will see ZDF’s on-demand content integrated into ProSieben’s streaming service, Joyn, from...
William H. Wisher Jr. Dies: ‘The Terminator’ & ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ Screenwriter Was 71
William H. Wisher Jr., a producer and screenwriter who co-wrote The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, dies. He was 71. The Wisher family confirmed news of the filmmaker’s...
Rebel Wilson’s ‘The Deb’ Gets First Trailer, Digital Release Date Amid Legal Flap
It’s been a long and legally-winding road to release for Rebel Wilson‘s directorial debut, but we now have the first trailer for The Deb. Have a look above. Sunrise...
Trending Today
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The younger Ellison transitioned from a major Hollywood producer to a media mogul almost overnight last year when his company Skydance merged with Paramount in a deal predicated on...
Trump Now Wants to Tariff Canada Over the Wildfires
President Donald Trump and other Republicans are threatening retaliation against Canada for the wildfires ravaging Ontario, smoke from which has caused hazardous air quality in a significant swath of...
ICE Contractor Arrested After Shooting Protester Who Was Walking Away
“If the states choose not to participate with the state program, and they choose not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure that we make those...
Trump Blatantly Tries to Manipulate Markets With Truth Social Scheme
Namely, Trump said the following last week of Iranians and their leadership: “They’re scum. They’re sick people.… They’re vicious, violent people.… It’s just a waste of time dealing with...
