Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl s took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, the technology has become a star in its own …

In Brief Apple CarPlay users may soon be able to talk to their favorite AI chatbot. Apple is reportedly working on how to support AI chatbot apps within CarPlay, according to Bloomberg, which cites anonymous sources. Apple CarPlay is an app that runs on an iPhone and wirelessly communicates with …

HBO’s hit financial thriller “Industry” has delivered one of its most compelling storylines yet this season: a hunt to expose a fraudulent fintech company called Tender. The show follows Harper Stern, who’s leading her newly launched investment firm and looking for a company to short — essentially, betting that its …

The war on California’s proposed ‘Billionaire’s Tax’ is getting weird. This week, amid ongoing rancor from tech elites over the much maligned bill, it became apparent that someone was planning a so-called “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco. A website advertising the event popped up online, providing little in the …

This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of $23 billion — a nearly threefold increase from the $8. 1 billion valuation the Nvidia rival had reached just six months earlier. While the round was led by Tiger Global, a …

At the Grammy Awards last week, where he walked away with the ceremony's biggest prize, he was more direct. Before thanking his producers and label, he took the mic and declared "ICE out" - a reference to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who have led large operations detaining immigrants …

BBC The search by police officers at two properties linked to Peter Mandelson features prominently in Saturday's papers. The Metropolitan Police is investigating the ex-Labour minister after suggestions he passed on market-sensitive government information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Daily Telegraph leads with the story alongside a photo …

Tehreem agrees and, in contrast to content creator Melissa, says some of the locations she visited surprised her in person, telling us Ranger's House looked like a "normal building", with buses driving nearby and the rumble of tourists. She says it made her appreciate the show's dressing and post-production work, …

Epstein's associate writes to him in 2011: "Jonathan Rowland asked me to join his new fund to invest in China, Russia, CIS [former Soviet countries] & Europe. He will send me material this week. I said I am very busy but will look at it. You need to tell me …

In another, Epstein tells Steve Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants, he had a "present" for him – a woman he calls "tahitian speaks mostly french, exotic". In a statement, Tisch said he had a "brief association" with Epstein which he deeply regrets and adds: "I did not take …