Super Mario Bros. crossed $1.3 billion. Minecraft crossed $961 million. The Sonic franchise crossed $1 billion across three films and a streaming show. The Last of Us won critical acclaim and audience loyalty simultaneously. Hollywood has not turned to gaming IP because it is fashionable.
Gayle Benson owns the only NFL-NBA franchise combination held by any woman on earth — $8.35 billion in combined team value. Willow Bay chairs the board of Angel City FC, the world's most valuable women's sports team. Serena Williams owns stakes in two professional sports franchises. The new female sports moguls are not asking for a seat at the table. They are buying the building.
Jio Platforms filed for a ₹37,700-crore IPO on Friday — the largest in Indian history. A fresh issue of 27 crore shares, Meta and Google hold 17.7%, and the next generation of Ambanis is leading the charge. The Jio genie is out of the bottle.,
Jay Penske just bought what was left of Vox Media — The Verge, Eater, SB Nation, and more — creating the world's largest digital publisher. He owns the Golden Globes, SXSW, Rolling Stone, Variety, and Billboard. And he did it all without anyone noticing.,
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has accused ASML of shipping its most advanced EUV chip machine to China — a breach that would represent the most consequential export-control violation since the chip war began. ASML flatly denies it. The US refuses to show its evidence. And a $700 billion company is forced to prove a negative
GPS signals travel 20,000 kilometres to reach your phone. By the time they arrive, they are so weak a cheap radio jammer can overpower them. The Iran conflict in 2026 made this vulnerability real for commercial shipping and aviation in a way theory never could. Now ZaiNar is a unicorn.
Amazon spent a year developing a $40 million Sam Altman biopic starring Andrew Garfield. Then it invested $50 billion in OpenAI. Now it no longer wants to release the film. Test screenings were positive. The only thing that changed was the money
India blocked Telegram for 150 million users over exam cheating. Within hours, Proton VPN registrations spiked 150%. Within a day, they jumped another 120%. The government didn't just restrict access — it created the most effective VPN ad campaign in Indian history
Nobel laureate John Jumper — the man who built AlphaFold and solved biology's greatest puzzle — is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic. It's not just a hire. It's a statement. The AI talent war just got a new front
AI therapy is a $14 billion market growing at 16% annually. The clinical evidence for mild-to-moderate anxiety and depression is stronger than most people know. The regulatory framework is weaker than almost any serious observer thinks is acceptable. And the distance between those two facts is where people are getting hurt.