Apple Just Handed Pornhub a Backdoor Around Britain’s Strict Online Safety Law
Either way, one thing is clear: in 2026, if you want unrestricted access to Pornhub in Britain, the easiest way is to own an iPhone running iOS 26.4.
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How Swensen’s Split One Name Between Asia and Its San Francisco Original
Swensen’s became two markedly different businesses: an independent San Francisco parlor and a large Minor Food dessert network in Asia, joined by a name but not one operating model.
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Strategy Broke Its Bitcoin Rule: Four Sales Turned a Warning Into Policy
Strategy’s possible Bitcoin sale is no longer hypothetical. By August 2026, the company had made four disposals, using the asset as a capital-management tool.
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Vertu Is Back — Nobody Saw This 2007 Flex Coming as a $500 Luxury Smart Ring
Vertu. The name hits like a time machine straight to 2007: hand-finished titanium phones with sapphire screens, ruby ball bearings in the hinge, and price tags that started where most luxury cars ended.
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The Thin Wrapper Trap: Jasper’s Lightning Rise, Brutal Fall, and Hard-Earned Lesson for Every AI Startup
What followed was a textbook case of the Thin Wrapper Trap — a brutal phenomenon that has already claimed dozens of AI startups and will claim hundreds more.
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Paramount Skydance Flexes Financial Muscle in Q1 2026: Revenue Hits $7.3B, Up 2% — Proof It Can Close the Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
The Q1 report is more than just numbers. It’s the first financial proof that the Skydance era is off to a disciplined, confident start — and that the company has the cash flow and focus needed to make its biggest bet yet pay off.
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Coinbase’s 14% Staff Cut Is Visible—But an AI-for-Human Swap Is Not
Coinbase’s May 5 plan affected about 700 roles, or 14% of staff, and the company listed 4,300+ employees by June 30. The record supports downsizing, not a proven one-for-one AI replacement.
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Google Accidentally Leaked COSMO — Its Most Ambitious (and Terrifying) AI Assistant Yet
For a few hours on May 1, 2026, a mysterious app called COSMO appeared on the Google Play Store before being swiftly removed. But the internet never forgets.
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“Team USA” vs. Chinese AI: How OpenAI and Palantir Execs Are Funding TikTok Fear Campaigns
In a story that feels ripped from a cyberpunk lobbyist thriller, top executives from OpenAI and Palantir have quietly bankrolled a Super PAC that is paying TikTok influencers thousands of dollars to stoke fears about Chinese artificial intelligence.
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The Oscars Banned AI, But AI Probably Didn’t Get the Memo
In early May 2026, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dropped a firm new rule: no Oscars for AI-generated acting or writing.
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AI vs Extremists: OpenAI’s Quiet Partnership with Crisis Hotlines to Prevent the Next Tragedy
Large language models have turned out to be dangerously good at one thing humans crave: emotional connection.
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Who Would Have Thought: How Zyn and Nicotine Pouches Became Silicon Valley’s Unlikely Productivity Obsession
In the heart of Silicon Valley, where kombucha taps, standing desks, and cold plunges once defined the wellness culture, a new staple has quietly taken over: tiny white pouches of nicotine tucked under the lip.
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Chegg: The First Company Killed by AI?
The company, which had evolved from a textbook-rental startup into the go-to platform for stressed-out college students, boasted a market capitalization of roughly $14.7 billion. Its shares were trading near an all-time high of around $113.
|Creator Economy| 2032
Amazon Just Entered the Personal AI Assistant Race with “Quick”
Amazon has quietly dropped a new desktop application called Amazon Quick — and it’s aiming straight at the heart of what many of us actually want from AI at work: a true personal assistant that lives on your laptop, knows everything about you, and never stops learning.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Strike Massive PE-Backed Joint Ventures to Force AI Into the Real Economy
In a pair of landmark announcements on Monday, the two leading AI labs have moved beyond selling chatbots and APIs to become full-scale deployment engines for corporate America.
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