$280 million. That’s what Live Nation agreed to pay across 40 states in antitrust penalties. And somehow, the consensus is that it was too soft. The […]
Stop giving away 15 cents of every dollar. Tidal just launched direct-to-fan downloads with a 90/10 revenue split — the most aggressive artist-friendly rate in the […]
One socket. 288 cores. 38% less power than the dual-socket system it replaces. Intel just dropped the most significant server CPU in years at MWC 2026 […]
Java 26 just dropped yesterday — and this isn’t your typical “maintenance release with a couple of deprecation warnings.” Oracle shipped 10 JEPs on March 17, […]
Microsoft just played its multi-model card — and the implications are massive. On March 9, 2026, Microsoft 365 Copilot Claude Sonnet integration went live, giving 400 […]
The man who called AI-generated music ‘platform pollution’ just shook hands with AI. In October 2025, Universal Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grainge sent a company-wide […]
One trillion parameters. 37 billion active per token. A million-token context window. $0.42 per million output tokens. And not a single NVIDIA chip was used to […]
$775 million. That is the price Universal Music Group just paid to absorb Downtown Music Holdings — and the European Commission almost blocked the entire thing. […]
Forget generating 10-second video clips — Runway just leapfrogged the entire AI video industry. Their new GWM-1, the first-ever General World Model, doesn’t just create video. […]
Concord acquires Ninja Tune in a deal that redefines what it means to be an independent label in 2026. While major labels continue swallowing catalogs whole, […]