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The ‘Toy Story’ Franchise Forgot Its Own Message

Pixar made a classic trilogy about growing up. At that point, the studio should have left its toys behind.

This struggling rideshare stock could reap rewards of robotaxi boom, Rothschild & Co. says

Lyft stock is poised to climb on the autonomous vehicle trend, despite fears that the technology could disrupt its business, per Rothschild & Co. Redburn.

Disclosure Day is great. But Spielberg overestimates our capacity for empathy

Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor may be spectacular, but it misjudges how much humans are prepared to tolerate abuse of groups we see as ‘other’

'There’s a kind of magic to her work': Maren Hassinger’s one-of-a-kind sculptures

The artist has her most significant retrospective to date in a new exhibition that encourages attenders to take part

'A neoliberal nightmare': my ride on the Vegas Loop

Ten years ago, after complaining that traffic was ‘driving him nuts’, Musk’s Boring Company began building underground tunnels to ease congestion on the roads. Did he overpromise and underdeliver?

‘Vegetarian Nigella’ and flirty hair flips: John Early and Kate Berlant take on diet culture in new influencer satire

In his directorial debut Maddie’s Secret, Early plays a food influencer with bulimia in a wild flip on the modern melodrama

The Curious Case of Elias Thorne – And What He Tells Us About AI Inbreeding

A character bearing that name appears in a remarkable number of chatbot-generated stories. He could be a messenger from the future – or a warning that generative AI is in danger of ‘model collapse’

Will it take a ‘Chernobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI?

Unsafe AI systems are leading to cyber weapons of mass destruction

Fashion goes pop! How Yves Saint Laurent created photography magic

Yves Saint Laurent saw the power of photography to push boundaries and take risks that had an impact in the fashion world and beyond. New exhibition Yves Saint Laurent and Photography at New York’s International Center of Photography includes nearly 300 iconic photographs and archival objects with images by artists including Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn, Andy Warhol and others

SpaceX posts first losing day as stock sinks 5%, losing momentum after a multiday rally

Elon Musk's space and AI company has seen its stock surge since its blockbuster IPO on Friday.

'A signal of where power sits': Trump and world leaders joined by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google at G7

Frontier AI risks, infrastructure and sovereignty are all expected to be discussed at the world leaders' summit.

I Will Find You review

Severance’s Britt Lower stars in Netflix’s latest lot of cobblers. It’s an eight-part saga of fists and mumbling, with a script made from Play-Doh