At the University of Central Florida graduation ceremony for the College of Arts and Humanities, as well as communications and media, commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield didn’t get the response she was apparently expecting after calling AI “the new industrial revolution.”
As a VP of strategic alliances at a real estate firm, celebrating AI and Jeff Bezos probably goes over differently in her meetings.
Over the last few days, a flood of reports used those words to describe a phenomenon of musicians suddenly canceling big tours, with people speculating that it’s because they couldn’t sell enough tickets, leaving the blue icons visible at venue after venue in Ticketmaster’s seating charts.
Is it really a new trend, is it because concert tickets cost too much, or is it because Post Malone, Meghan Trainor, and the Pussycat Dolls aren’t as big a draw as promoters expected in 2026? Who knows.
What happened in the second week of Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman? The Verge senior AI reporter, Hayden Field, can help you catch up.
For more than an hour on Friday, many people were having trouble connecting to Discord, with the platform showing a message saying that there were “increased API errors.” Discord confirmed it was investigating issues at 3:08PM ET, and by 6:38PM ET, it reported that all “critical functionalities have recovered for all users.”
Updates: Discord says the issues are resolved.
The Trump Administration has made another website, this time a dedicated Pentagon page with “new, never-before-seen files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
There’s definitely plenty of darkness, shadow effects, and PDFs with all kinds of stamps — let us know if you find anything interesting this time.
Months after reporting on men who approach women in public while wearing Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses or other similar devices, then post their covert recordings to get paid, the BBC has this update highlighted by Gizmodo. “Alice” was in a video viewed over 40,000 times on social media, and when she contacted the operator, they said they would remove it as a “paid service,” bringing back an old strategy with a new, and worse, wearable twist.
Everything is gambling, but not everything in gambling is going great, as CNBC reports that on Wednesday, FanDuel CEO Amy Howe was “ousted from that post after five years at the company.” FanDuel’s stock is down 60 percent over the last year, and DraftKings shares are down 30 percent.
Meanwhile, prediction market Kalshi just announced it’s raised a $1 billion investment round at a $22 billion valuation, twice as much as it was worth in December, and claimed to project “annualized” trading volume of $178 billion.
A report by The Information says that for the US-licensed arm of the prediction market, chief executive Justin Hertzberg “appears to be CEO in name only,” despite his protestations to the contrary.
It also runs down Polymarket’s issues in losing BMO Bank as a banking partner and Hertzberg’s history of launching “more than 300 prop trading firms,” including one, Surge Trader, where victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme sued him to get their money back.
[The Information]
Fubo TV’s earnings seem to show the impact of the NFL, as the Q2 subscriber count dropped from 6.2 million at the end of 2025 to 5.7 million three months later, which is fewer than the 5.9 million subscribers it had at the same time last year. Still, revenue was up one percent.
And in AI news, an assistant is in the works for Roku, Apple TV, and mobile this fall:
The Company is developing an AI Assistant that will enable customers to search their DVR’d content for sports on the Fubo platform through casual conversation (rather than voice commands).
Data center sales are now “the primary driver of our revenue and earnings growth,” according to CEO Lisa Su. AI agents are increasing demands for CPUs, and AMD and Intel’s x86 industry group recently announced a new instruction set, AI Compute Extensions (ACE), to help close the performance gap with GPUs.
Its client and gaming revenue grew 23 percent to $3.6 billion despite lower “semi-custom revenue” for devices like game consoles.
[Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.]