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Ex-Marvel artists speak out on Disney layoffs, possible AI use in MCU

Polygon - All

Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe was a dirty secret until he saw success

Polygon - All

Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)

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Behind the Violent End of Justin Fairfax’s Marriage

The Root

Disney introduces Infinity Vision which is definitely not IMAX

Polygon - All

Everything You Need to Watch, Listen To Before You See the New Michael Jackson Movie

The Root

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust still looks better than most anime 25 years later

Polygon - All

Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Our new favorite budget phones

The Verge - All Posts

TMZ Launches D.C. Bureau

The Onion

Live Nation CEO Sentenced To 10 Years In Online Queue

The Onion

The best budget smartphones you can buy

The Verge - All Posts

The best weapons and mods in Pragmata

Polygon - All

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

The Verge - All Posts

China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share (Ivan Lam/Counterpoint Research)

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Coachella Cancels Weekend 2 After Drugs Found On Festival Grounds

The Onion

How to get and use Cabin Coins in Pragmata

Polygon - All

Allbirds Pivots To AI

The Onion

Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

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Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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