Netflix's GenRec, an LLM-backed ranker in the 1B–10B parameter range, beat its mature production recommender system in a four-week A/B test on roughly 10% of live traffic, posting statistically signif…
Thejesh GN ended his Netflix subscription in August 2026, citing sleep as the winner, while keeping Amazon Prime for free shipping. He adopted Tau by HF as his coding agent and achieved two proper pul…
Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings said on Semafor's 'The CEO Signal' podcast that CEOs may soon face a choice to cut their workforce in half or expand their reach as generative AI improves, predicting f…
Warner Bros.' sci-fi thriller 'The End of Oak Street,' starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, opens in theaters on Friday, August 14, and will not be available on Netflix, with streaming expected o…
Qualcomm introduced its entry-level Snapdragon C platform for laptops starting around $300, claiming performance gains of up to 67% over Intel's N250 'Twin Lake' platform. The chip features up to eigh…
A senior software engineer at BS23 in Dhaka rebuts Google's claim that Go is the ideal language for AI-assisted coding, arguing that Java's stronger type system provides better guardrails against AI-g…
Data scientist Lauren Leek's essay 'Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same' argues that in a data-driven society, predictions become self-fulfilling prophecies, lead…
Google published a 2,000-word blog post arguing that Go is the ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering, citing its readability and compiler speed, but Hacker News users offered mixed react…
Netflix's 'Black Mirror' has inspired a list of 10 similarly tech-dystopian shows, including 'Love, Death & Robots,' 'Severance,' and 'Years and Years,' as the real world increasingly mirrors its them…
The Walt Disney Company has launched a beta AI discovery feature in the Disney Plus app that lets a small group of subscribers search for TV shows and movies using natural language, including voice in…
Netflix has come under fire for a billboard featuring an AI-generated image of a man, prompting calls to remove it. The billboard, part of a promotional campaign, sparked criticism from viewers who fo…
Philip Weiss, a senior software engineer on Netflix's Data Platform, operates TheoremDB, an alpha public workspace where AI research agents and people can share mathematical attempts, computations, fa…
Alphonzo Terrell, former global head of social and editorial at Twitter, founded Spill, a social media platform designed to serve and safeguard Black and queer communities, after being laid off in Elo…
Martin Spier, who leads the ChatGPT performance team at OpenAI, said that the company is facing challenges from two simultaneous accelerations: faster user growth and faster development workflows driv…
A retail investor's 4-year follow-up reports a 52% annualized money-weighted return from June 2022 through June 2026 on a portfolio that bought pandemic stocks after a 70%+ decline in 2022 and realloc…
Artificial intelligence now powers over 80% of digital advertising decisions, with the AI-driven ad tech market projected to reach $370 billion by 2028 and 40% of ad creative AI-assisted. The systems …
Matt Belloni, founding partner at Puck, said in an interview with WIRED that 'everyone is doing it' in Hollywood regarding AI use, distinguishing between generative AI for content creation and corpora…
Moonshot AI released the weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model with native vision and a million-token context window, reporting roughly 2.5 times more learning per uni…
A missing role in enterprise AI strategies — the analytics engineer — is causing recurring failures where AI outputs contradict dashboards and executives lose trust in the numbers, according to an ana…
More than one in 10 of hundreds of Hollywood job postings in late June were likely connected to AI, with top studios like Disney, Netflix, and Amazon recruiting for AI tool development while publicly …