
Bebe Rexha blocks Olivia Rodrigo rivalry after “Olivia outsold u” comparison
Rexha says she is happy for Rodrigo and doubles down on celebrating women instead of turning pop into a cage match.
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Rexha says she is happy for Rodrigo and doubles down on celebrating women instead of turning pop into a cage match.

Major awards target newcomers, while industry initiatives keep young directors moving from script to screen.

Washington’s investment and technology-transfer restrictions are tightening, and industry analysts expect deal complexity to keep rising.

After Prime Video declined to renew ‘Kevin,’ Plaza compares it to NBC’s earlier faith in ‘Parks & Rec.’
CEO Tony Douglas argues Riyadh Air can raise the bar, while Boeing eyes its biggest China push in nearly a decade.

Mickey Down and Konrad Kay say the show’s insider engine shifts genres for Season 5 without writing into a corner.

A leaked directory named participants at Peter Thiel's invitation-only Dialog retreats, pulling politics, tech, and media into one spotlight.

Massive tech-industry bonuses run into central bank nerves, raising the question: can rate-cut logic survive pay spikes?

Stop Killing Games loses the legal fight, but tries to funnel fixes into the Digital Fairness Act.

San Diego startup Aether AI challenges the scale-first playbook with causal AI, using new capital to pursue machine teaching.

A Harvard spinoff just pulled in $80 million from hardware builders, betting optics fix the next AI bottleneck.

Alibaba’s chairman frames “all in” AI as an industry-wide value-chain bet, not a single winner wager.