It was supposed to be the future of creativity. In February 2024, OpenAI unveiled Sora — its text-to-video model that could turn a simple prompt into jaw-dropping, cinematic clips. Hollywood trembled. Creators cheered. Investors poured in.
In a move that further solidifies its position as the all-in-one creator platform, Beehiiv has officially rolled out native podcast hosting.
American film and television production is in serious decline, and last week a surprisingly candid hearing in Burbank made one thing crystal clear: the biggest problem isn’t greedy studios, lazy writers, or California wildfires.
The mood across Africa’s film and TV community is unusually somber. After months of losses, Canal+ has officially pulled the plug on Showmax, its once-ambitious pan-African streaming service. The closure marks another major retreat by global platforms from the continent, leaving local creators wondering who will fund and distribute African stories in the years ahead.
A new wave of consumer behavior is reshaping the entire sports media landscape.
In a candid interview with CBS Evening News, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon revealed that the world’s largest bank by assets is actively exploring whether to launch its own prediction-market platform — directly modeled after breakout successes like Polymarket and Kalshi.
Peter Thiel is placing a massive bet on the future of farming — and it literally comes with a collar.
In the middle of Tokyo there is a store called #FFFFFFT that sells literally nothing but white T-shirts.
The subscription economy in mobile apps has never been more polarized, more winner-takes-all, or more obsessed with short-term commitment.
Meta has pulled the plug on the VR version of Horizon Worlds, its long-promised social metaverse platform for Quest headsets.
Palmer Luckey is on a roll most founders can only dream of. At 21 he sold his VR hobby project Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion. He then built Anduril, the defense-tech unicorn now targeting a $60 billion valuation in 2026.
Most startups chase headlines from day one. ZaiNar did the exact opposite.Founded in 2017 in Belmont, California, the company stayed in total stealth for nine full years. No press releases. No demo videos. No funding announcements. Just quiet, relentless engineering.
Netflix has done it again. On March 26, 2026 — just over a year after its previous U.S. price hike — the streaming giant quietly updated its website and bumped up the cost of every subscription tier.
The era of OpenAI acting like a sprawling "venture studio" is coming to an abrupt end. In a high-stakes all-hands meeting held just this week, Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, delivered a sobering message to the team: the company is entering a "Code Red" phase.
OpenAI Is Going All-In on AGI — Safety Demoted, Sora Killed, and a Mystery “Spud” Model. Coincidence… or Something Much Stranger?