She Is Not a Robot
Joanna Stern’s book about AI is a fascinating, approachable glimpse of the future
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Tech
We Read the Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders’ Letter So You Don’t Have To
What’s ahead for WBD? Plenty of ‘eventization,’ quantification and ‘monetization.’ Oh, and some movies.
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The Week Everything Went To Hell, Studio Ghibli-Style
Open AI meme trend is “An insult to life itself”
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‘The Brutalist’ Truth About AI
Controversy over Oscar nominee’s sound enhancement is just the beginning
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How Veo 2 Can Eat Hollywood
Google has the cash and the distribution channel, and is inventing a new way to create entertainment product.
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Will AI Eat Hollywood?
Studio execs say “AI” and “capital efficient” in the same breath, things aren’t good for workers in the industry who like to, well, work
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Oprah Meets AI
Her tech special treads cautiously in the middle of the revolution, to its benefit.
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Book Review: Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Madhumita Murgia’s extraordinary book explores the potential for innovation, as well as dehumanization, in artificial intelligence
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Need to Spice Up Your Relationship? Try BookTok!
Romance lovers bring their favorite novel tropes to real-life relationships
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Bookstagrammers Demand Publishers Pay Up
What does the book industry owe its influencers?
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The Things That Got Us Through the Pandemic Year
In a tough 12 months, our contributors turned to what they could
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The Death of Quibi
We hardly knew you: The mobile-only streaming service was only six months old
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We’re Talkin’ Blaseball
The weirdest fantasy baseball sim ever is part-satire, part social-media experiment, all fun
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PornHub and the Next Sexual Revolution
You can get anything you need–except human companionship
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TikTok: A Total Timeline
A brief history of the world’s most notorious video app
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