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• CultureHollywood just put Batman, Harry Potter, Star Trek, HBO, CNN and CBS under one roof.Paramount completed its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, creating Skydance, a media giant spanning two film studios, HBO, CBS, CNN, streaming services, sports and some of entertainment's biggest franchises.
• PeopleAI can make creators faster. It still cannot give them taste.A 2026 Adobe survey found creative AI has become part of everyday creator workflows. But the more production gets automated, the more valuable the human parts become: judgment, restraint, voice and knowing what is worth making.
• TechInstagram wants to tell creators what to post. What happens when everyone takes the advice?Instagram’s Edits app can now analyze performance and suggest ideas, hooks, captions, audio and scripts. It sounds like creator support. It also gives the platform a new role: coach for the content that feeds its own algorithm.
• ExplainedCountries keep emergency oil underground for moments exactly like this.The IEA is discussing another coordinated release of oil and diesel stocks as energy markets face supply disruptions. Strategic reserves exist to buy time during severe shortages, not to make fuel permanently cheap.
• CuriousTwo molecules can look like mirror images and behave like different drugs.Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that made it possible to favor one molecular mirror image over another. That matters because biology can treat two nearly identical molecules very differently.
• CultureFashion still says autumn. The weather increasingly does not.Paris Fashion Week reached 28°C as retailers were trying to sell coats and knitwear. Longer, hotter summers are creating a basic mismatch between the traditional fashion calendar and the weather customers actually experience.
• TechGoogle may have to put ChatGPT and Perplexity beside Search. The fight is really about the default.UK regulators have proposed putting AI assistants on Android and Chrome search-choice screens, while publisher disputes are putting pressure on how Google uses and pays for content. The bigger shift is distribution: the next search war may be decided before anyone types a query.
• TechSearch used to send you somewhere. Now it wants to answer you first.Google Search was built around a simple bargain: ask a question, get a list of places that might contain the answer. AI is changing that bargain. Increasingly, the answer arrives before you visit anywhere.
• NowBrazil is choosing a president. It is also choosing how it deals with the world.Nearly 159 million Brazilians are eligible to vote in a polarized presidential election between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro. The contest is domestic, but the consequences reach Washington, Beijing and the future of Latin America’s largest economy.
• CultureGreta Garbo died in 1990. An AI version of her is now selling ball bearings.A new SKF advertisement recreates the famously private Hollywood star with generative AI. The technology is impressive. The stranger question is what happens to a person’s image when death is no longer the end of their commercial presence.