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As generative AI has taken off since ChatGPT’s debut, inspiring hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and infrastructure developments, the top question on many people’s minds has been: Is generative AI a bubble, and if so, when will it pop? To help us potentially answer that question, I’ll be hosting a live conversation with prominent AI critic Ed Zitron …

Mark SavageMusic correspondent TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift’s 12th album comes from “the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place”, she said ahead of release The last time we met Taylor Swift, she was spiralling. Her last album, The Tortured Poets Department, was an emotional purge – a stunned post mortem of two bitter, messy break-ups. We found her at her …

Some people think artificial intelligence will be the most important technology of the 21st century. Others insist that it is an obvious economic bubble. I believe both sides are right. Like the 19th century railroads and the 20th century broadband Internet build-out, AI will rise first, crash second, and eventually change the world. The numbers just don’t make sense. Tech …

Taylor Swift: 6 Key Pop Moments on Her Path to ‘The Life of a Showgirl’  The New York Times How Elizabeth Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and more have inspired Taylor Swift’s songwriting  USA Today Taylor Swift and ‘productive paranoia’: HBR breaks down the hustle and mindset that built a $1.6b net worth and a generational musician  Fortune There is no confusion as to the …

The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon’s entry-level smart speakers, and both are currently on sale ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days), which officially kicks off on October 7th. Both speakers are currently discounted to their lowest prices since the middle of June, which means they’re beating their summer Prime Day prices. Both speakers …

After collapsing onstage during a show in New York City, 24-year-old singer-songwriter Lola Young canceled her Sunday appearance at the All Things Go Music Festival in Washington, D.C., just hours before she was set to perform. “I’m sorry to confirm that i won’t be playing all things go in DC today,” the British pop star said in an Instagram post …

A number of Tt Lego games could be on the way for Nintendo Switch 2, including Lego games based on notable franchises like Star Wars and Harry Potter. Whilst not confirmed by either Nintendo or Lego directly, an eagle-eyed fan spotted a number of classic Lego games advertised under the Switch 2 banner at Zurich Pop Con over the weekend. …

The similarities are striking. Like the internet companies of two decades ago, AI firms today attract massive investments based on transformative potential rather than current profitability. Global corporate AI investment reached $252.3 billion in 2024, according to research from Stanford University, with the sector growing thirteenfold since 2014. Meanwhile, America’s biggest tech companies—Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft—have pledged to spend …

Is this just another troll? Doja Cat’s new album is titled Vie – French for “life” – and the original artwork (changed at the last minute) features the 29-year-old Angeleno surrounded by roses, ever the picture of congeniality. Doja has become known, in recent years, as mainstream pop’s master agitator: she tells her superfans to “get off your phone, get …

Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has officially ended operations of the lone mission left in our neighboring planet’s orbit. Earlier this week, JAXA determined that the recovery of its Venus probe was unlikely, prompting it to formally end the 15-year-old mission. Akatsuki, which translates to “dawn” in …