Silicon Valley Built a Trillion-Dollar Moat, Then Its Own Devs Swam to China
ai · 2026-07-07
“You spent a trillion dollars on a frontier moat, and your own developers cheerfully swam across it to the cheap open Chinese models without blinking.”
Meta Fired 8,000 Humans For A Superintelligence That Just Called In Sick
business · 2026-07-02
“You cut 8,000 people to clear a runway for an AI that just admitted it hasn't left the gate.”
Microsoft Founded a 2.5 Billion Dollar Company to Fix the AI Nobody Can Get Working, Staffed by People Who Already Work at Microsoft
business · 2026-07-02
“A brand new six thousand person company where almost all six thousand people already had a Microsoft badge.”
The World's Governments Flew to Geneva to Govern AI and Came Home With a Very Stern Pledge
ai · 2026-07-06
“One hundred and sixty nine countries agreed that AI is dangerous, then agreed to keep talking about it.”
Take-Two Bet Eight Billion Dollars That You Cannot Say No
gaming · 2026-07-07
“An entire public company is now a GTA 6 pre-order with a stock ticker attached.”
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id Software · First-Person Shooter · 2026-07-07
“An expansion this generous almost makes you forget it launched the same week Microsoft gutted the people who made it.”
A Play to Earn Mobile Game Where Dinosaurs Fight the AI Apocalypse, Which Is Either Genius or a Very On the Nose Metaphor
Exaverse · Roguelike · 2026-07-01
“A perfectly decent one-handed roguelike wearing a blockchain like a lead backpack.”
Devil May Cry 5: Devil Hunter Edition
Capcom · Action · 2026-06-23
“A complete edition that is quietly incomplete, but it still runs at a smooth 60 and out-styles most of 2026.”
EA Sports UFC 6
EA Vancouver · Sports / Fighting · 2026-06-19
“EA finally threw a clean combo: the best MMA game ever made, with the cosmetic price tag still hanging off its shorts.”
R-Type Tactics I・II Cosmos
Granzella · Turn-Based Strategy · 2026-06-18
“The sequel the West waited sixteen years for, and it still refuses to explain how to actually play it.”
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Rebecca Sonnenshine (showrunner) · Western Drama Series · 2026-07-09
“Netflix rebuilt the coziest IP on Earth, gave it a real conscience about the Osage Nation, then sanded it so smooth it squeaks: a warm blanket that already knew it would get a...”
Enola Holmes 3: The Game Is Afoot in Malta, and So Is the Formula
Philip Barantini · Mystery · 2026-07-01
“Enola swaps London grit for Maltese blue and mature twists, and in trading her suffragette soul for a sun-drenched holiday, the franchise becomes prettier, darker, and just a...”
Elle: The Legally Blonde Prequel That Bends and Snaps Right Back to the Original
Laura Kittrell · Comedy · 2026-07-01
“Lexi Minetree is a genuine star trapped in a prequel so faithful it forgot to give itself a reason to exist.”
X-Men '97 (Season 2)
Matthew Chauncey · TV Series, Animated Action · 2026-07-01
“The best superhero show on television returns gorgeous and gripping, and only slightly less angry at the world than it used to be.”
Jackass: Best and Last
Jeff Tremaine · Comedy / Reality · 2026-06-26
“The crew that spent 25 years hurting themselves for our amusement went out beloved, acclaimed, and to the emptiest opening weekend in franchise history.”
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Deep Purple · Hard Rock · 2026-07-08
“They wrote a profound meditation on the end of humanity and named it after the noise a bug makes on your windshield.”
Foreign Tongues
The Rolling Stones · Rock · 2026-07-08
“The guest list is longer than most bands' careers, and half of it seems there to help carry the amps.”
Confessions II
Madonna · Dance-pop · 2026-07-02
“Only Madonna would franchise her own 2005 and then have the absolute nerve to make the sequel good.”
singasong
V8 · K-Pop · 2026-07-01
“You hired Pharrell and Dylan Brady, then buried your own two stars so deep in the mix that the debut sounds like a producer demo with idols attached.”
Return to the Return (of the Spectrum of Intergalactic Happiness)
Zeds Dead · Electronic · 2026-07-01
“You made a sequel to a sequel, dropped it on a full moon, and sampled Chopin next to a hypnosis tape. The most on-brand thing about it is that it somehow works.”
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