Ryan Coogler’s Sinners dominated the 2026 Academy Awards nominations, leading the pack with a record-breaking 16 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. One Battle After Another was right behind, earning 13 nominations, while Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value followed with nine apiece. This year’s nominations also marked a significant career […]
As if we all have not been so sick and tired of seeing AI everywhere, an AI-generated artist named Sienna Rose has quietly slipped into the mainstream, with not one but three of its songs featuring on Spotify’s Top 50. Sienna Rose remains virtually invisible as an artist, with no online presence whatsoever. It does
A few years ago, the violinist Tasmin Little tweeted that she had earned £12.34 from Spotify for 6 months for around 5-6 million streams. For artists like her and smaller bands, if a record sells for about £20, they receive 10-15 percent of the sale price, which is often the difference between making a profit
A fan of Olivia Rodrigo says her aunt’s life was saved thanks to the singer’s recent concert in the Philippines, which supported a nonprofit offering free cancer screenings. In a viral post, the fan explained that tickets for the concert were sold at a flat rate, with all proceeds donated to Jhpiego, a global health
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made his late-night debut on The Tonight Show, and in true Silicon Valley fashion, he used the opportunity to frame himself as both disruptor and dad, offering up a new kind of paternal humility in which even basic child-rearing requires artificial intelligence. It was an odd bit of tech-evangelism disguised as
A friend and I were discussing J.K. Rowling yet again. Not the books, not the legacy, but the endless churn of her anti-trans commentary, this time directed at Emma Watson after Watson offered her a soft but sincere olive branch in a recent interview. We were also discussing something I had written about Rowling’s latest
Olivia Dean just did what the biggest artists in the world routinely avoid: she took on Ticketmaster publicly, and won. After the singer blasted Ticketmaster, Live Nation, and AEG for allowing “vile” price-gouging on resale tickets for her The Art of Loving tour, the ticketing monopoly have now agreed to cap resale prices and refund