Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites
The debut episode, moderated by Founders Fund Chief Marketing Officer Mike Solana, included a star-studded cast of current tech luminaries.
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Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation
U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the UK then rolled out globally.
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Spotify and Netflix are paying Jay Shetty up to $100 million to take his podcast off YouTube
Jay Shetty, the former Hindu monk turned self-help podcaster, has signed a deal to bring the video version of his show On Purpose exclusively to Spotify and Netflix. The arrangement is worth as much as $100 million over multiple years, according to people familiar with the deal cited by Bloomberg. That figure puts Shetty in […]
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Spotify now lets listeners clip and share moments from any podcast
Spotify has launched a feature called Podcast Clips that lets listeners select, trim, and share specific moments from podcast episodes. A new scissors icon in the Now Playing view opens a clipping tool where users can mark a segment of audio, preview it, and share it via social media, messaging apps, or a direct link. […]
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YouTube will now automatically label AI videos
YouTube will now automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI, instead of relying solely on creators to disclose AI-generated content themselves. It’s also making AI labels more prominent.
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Google’s AI search overhaul is great for Google and bad for everyone who makes the web worth searching
Google called it the biggest change to its search box in 25 years. At I/O 2026, the company unveiled a complete overhaul of Search built around AI mode, conversational follow-ups, and autonomous agents that monitor the web on your behalf. Head of Search Elizabeth Reid described the result as “AI search through and through.” For users, the […]
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Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms
Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, produce a structured overview, and deliver it as an audio episode narrated by two […]
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Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.
Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, hours before Lennon was shot and killed, […]
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News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it
The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director has called being ‘collateral damage’ in a war that is not really about them. The Internet Archive has preserved more than one trillion […]
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Letterboxd, the social platform for film buffs, reportedly looking for new owner
Potential buyers of Letterboxd include Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, and Hollywood media company The Ankler, according to Semafor.
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