Tech

Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership

The web giant announced that Artificial, a biopic about the controversial tech executive, ‘will be better served if it were released by a different studio’

NetJets' first fatal crash kills influential Texas VC founder

NetJets is not speculating on what caused one of its planes to crash onto a highway in Laredo, Texas late Tuesday, killing a prominent tech entrepreneur.

Tay Keith, Grammy-nominated producer, found dead in Nashville at 29

Grammy-nominated record producer Tay Keith was found dead in his Nashville apartment on Thursday, the city's police department said on social media. He was 29 years old.

This nuclear stock will benefit from AI datacenter buildout and soaring energy demand, Roth Capital says

Stock in Nano Nuclear Energy should appreciate as it nears commercialization of its reactor plans while energy demand is surging, Roth Capital said.

Jio Platforms eyes low-orbit satellite rollout as Starlink awaits India launch

Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom operator and digital services company, wants to rollout statelite communication in the country where Starlink still awaits launch.

Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation

Over 40 years, Italy’s Il Cinema Ritrovato – or ‘rediscovered cinema’ – has evolved into an influential international gathering

'It's time for it to end': Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the final, delicious season of The Bear

It turned its cast into global stars, triggered fashion crazes and even made an omelette go viral. As The Bear bows out, ‘cousin’ Ebon Moss-Bachrach talks obsessive fans, fork tattoos and why he’s ‘dumbly proud’

When rare bipartisanship threatens US tech leadership

It’s no secret European bureaucrats aren’t fans of American Big Tech. Now, some American lawmakers are crossing party lines to steal pages from their playbook. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) recently reintroduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which revises a 2022 bill that stalled in the Senate. Like the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, it purports to stop large digital platforms like Amazon, Meta, Google, and Apple from harming consumers and the businesses that use their platforms to reach them. Instead, AICOA would police many conventional business practices that generally benefit both consumers and business users.

'Toy Story' Confronts a Nightmare of Modern Parenting

The Pixar franchise’s latest installment makes an enemy out of screen time.

Add to playlist: the wild club-pop of Zara Larsson cowriter Helena Gao and the week’s best new tracks

The Chinese-Danish artist wrote nine 10ths of Larsson’s breakout album then got a Grammy nod. It’s a fine springboard for her own revelatory pop

Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds

Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research says

Datacenters driving US clean energy growth while still threatening climate

As datacenters’ connections to electric grids are held up, big tech is forced to throw money at producing its own power