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- The Invisible Messenger: How imo Quietly Built 200 Million Users by Serving Migrant Workers
- Slopaganda: How Iran Weaponized Memes, AI Videos, and Lego-Style Animation to Fight Back in the Information War
- The Swiss OnlyFans Clone Just Made Face ID Mandatory for Every Login and Every DM — And It Might Be the Smartest Move in Adult Tech
- SATO: AI UV Unwrapping Meets Artist-Grade Topology in 3D Generative AI
Subscriptions for Superfans Are Dying, But Superfans Are Here to Stay
The music industry is quietly closing the book on a once-hyped idea: that superfans — those die-hard devotees who already buy merch, vinyl, tickets, and stream obsessively — would happily pay a monthly fee for exclusive access to an artist’s world.
David Zaslav Calls HBO Max Warner Bros. Discovery’s “Most Important Asset”
For Zaslav, the message was clear: in the new family being formed with Paramount, HBO Max isn’t just another streaming service — it’s the crown jewel. And he has no intention of letting anyone forget it.
Kalshi Raises $1 Billion at $22 Billion Valuation as Prediction Markets Go Institutional
Kalshi, the prominent U.S. prediction-market platform, has closed a massive new $1 billion funding round, pushing its post-money valuation to $22 billion.
Substack’s Growing Pains: Why Top Publishers Are Quietly Walking Away
Substack remains an extraordinary tool for new writers. Its discovery engine, easy onboarding, and built-in payments are still unmatched for creators starting from zero. The platform’s network effects can still launch careers.
Air New Zealand’s Skynest: Turning Economy Hell into a $495 Nap Pod on 16-Hour Flights
Air New Zealand just announced one of the most creative (and quintessentially Kiwi) innovations in modern aviation.
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The Invisible Messenger: How imo Quietly Built 200 Million Users by Serving Migrant Workers
I installed imo “just in case” and immediately noticed something strange. My contact list filled with people from Central Asia. Within minutes, I was being added to random group chats in Bengali and Arabic.

Slopaganda: How Iran Weaponized Memes, AI Videos, and Lego-Style Animation to Fight Back in the Information War
When the bombs started falling on Iran, the script seemed obvious. An isolated, theocratic regime with heavy internet censorship, run by aging clerics — surely they would respond with stiff religious sermons, state TV rants, and maybe some clumsy Arabic/ Persian hashtags. The information battlefield would belong to the West by default.

The Swiss OnlyFans Clone Just Made Face ID Mandatory for Every Login and Every DM — And It Might Be the Smartest Move in Adult Tech
RedPeach, a Swiss adult platform positioning itself as a premium, privacy-first alternative to OnlyFans, just dropped a nuclear-level authenticity policy: mandatory Face ID verification before every single login and before every private message.

SATO: AI UV Unwrapping Meets Artist-Grade Topology in 3D Generative AI
Deemos Tech, the team behind the popular Rodin AI 3D generator at Hyper3D.ai, is taking a serious swing at both problems with their latest research: Strips as Tokens (SATO).

NVIDIA Launches Spectrum-X Ethernet with MRC: The Network Is Now a First-Class Citizen in AI Factories
When you’re training frontier models on hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the bottleneck is no longer just compute — it’s the network.

Hollywood’s AI Era Has Finally Arrived: Decoding The Hollywood Reporter’s Institutional Shift
For years, skeptics dismissed AI-generated imagery and audio as "AI slop"—a cheap, soulless novelty. But The Hollywood Reporter’s special issue proves that this dismissal is officially outdated.

Allbirds Just Sold Its Shoes for $39 Million and Rebranded as NewBird AI: The Most 2026 Pivot Ever?
A few years ago, Allbirds was the darling of Silicon Valley. Its signature Merino wool sneakers — soft, sustainable, and ridiculously comfortable — became the unofficial uniform of tech bros, founders, and anyone who wanted to look casually eco-conscious.





