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Grammy boss says he is saddened by BTS’s Grammy withdrawal
Grammy chief executive Harvey Mason Jr said he was saddened but respected BTS’s decision not to submit music for the 2027 Grammy Awards. He said the Recording Academy’s new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category was intended to broaden recognition for artists from Asian markets, not to separate or sideline K-pop, and stressed that genre…
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Gives Optimistic Outlook Despite Grim Fiscal Earnings Report
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has issued an optimistic public response after Microsoft’s latest fiscal filing revealed a sharp decline in the division’s revenue. The Form 10-K SEC filing, covering the fourth quarter of Xbox’s 2026 fiscal year, showed overall revenue down $1.7 billion, or 7%, with both content/services and hardware sales falling. The news comes…
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Trump family profits from blockbuster deal in Central Asia despite backlash due to ‘proof problem’: expert
Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, through the Trump Organization, made an investment in a construction company that is now positioned to profit from a rare earth minerals and tungsten deal in Kazakhstan backed by US government funding. The arrangement has drawn criticism over potential conflicts of interest given the sons’ ties to their father,…
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AMC Theatres Chief Adam Aron Pushes for Paramount Warner Bros. Merger, Says ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’ to State AG’s Blocking Deal
AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron has written an op-ed championing a proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., framing 2026 as a “comeback year” for cinema following the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 industry strikes. He argues that a stronger, consolidated studio landscape would help sustain the theatrical recovery, and he pushes back against a…
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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
Microsoft’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings revealed a striking contrast between its two major AI investments, with a $3.2 billion gain on its Anthropic stake far outpacing the annual return from its much larger OpenAI holding. The disclosure, tucked into an otherwise strong earnings report, highlights how quickly Anthropic’s valuation has risen since Microsoft’s investment and offers…
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Battlefield 6’s Record-Breaking Success Earns EA CEO $38 Million Payday, But Laid-Off Devs Aren’t Around to Celebrate
EA CEO Andrew Wilson received a total compensation of $38.6 million for the 2026 fiscal year, an $8 million rise driven largely by the record-breaking commercial success of Battlefield 6. The pay rise comes despite EA laying off staff across its Battlefield teams just months after the game’s launch, prompting criticism that the developers behind…
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Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that its enterprise AI ambitions extend well beyond the customer-service AI agent it launched for businesses in June. He outlined plans to also sell APIs, business agents and potentially compute capacity directly to large customers, positioning enterprise services as a possible new revenue…
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Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year
Microsoft has confirmed it is building an AI “super app” that will unify Copilot’s chat, coding and agentic capabilities into a single product, with a launch planned for later this year. CEO Satya Nadella made the announcement during a Wednesday earnings call, saying the app would cover “both consumer and commercial experiences” as Copilot evolves…
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Xbox says game discs should have worked during its outage
Xbox suffered a significant outage this week that took its online services down for nearly a full day, and unusually, also blocked some players from launching games via physical discs. The company’s technology chief, Scott Van Vliet, confirmed the disc issue should never have happened, since disc-based games are designed to work offline through locally…
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Anonymous Persona 5 fans send Sony’s CEO a calling card with a clear message: we’re stealing back power for the players
An anonymous Persona 5 fan sent Sony Interactive Entertainment’s president and CEO, Hideaki Nishino, a handmade “calling card” styled after those used by the game’s Phantom Thieves characters, protesting the company’s decision to end production of physical game discs. The card, shared on X/Twitter, accuses Nishino of stealing “the freedom of choice from players” by…