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AI is moving fast. Should you ditch the job you love?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has...
Live-service games are a mess
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the slow-motion disaster of live-service games, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback...
What would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?
We need to change how we think about addiction. | Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images Imagine you’re alone in a room. No phone. No windows. No way out. There’s only one thing in there with you: a giant...
The man behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison speaks during the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on October 9, 2025. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Hollywood has been reeling from the...
The $100,000 fee for H-1Bs is causing all sorts of problems
Last fall, President Donald Trump's executive order raising the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 - like many of his immigration policies - led to near-immediate chaos. Thousands of workers who had...
Trump administration is allegedly collecting $10 billion on the TikTok deal
In September, Donald Trump claimed that "the United States is getting a tremendous fee" for brokering the TikTok deal. Now sources tell the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that fee is...
ByteDance has reportedly suspended the global rollout of its new AI video generator
A month after Seedance 2.0's launch in China sparked cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount Skydance over its use of copyrighted materials, its developer ByteDance has reportedly hit...
Spotify’s new Taste Profile feature lets users fine-tune their algorithm’s recommendations
You're responsible for your own Spotify algorithm now. On stage at SXSW, Spotify's co-CEO, Gustav Söderström, announced the Taste Profile feature, which allows users to personally customize exactly...
Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff
According to Reuters, Meta is looking to offset spending on AI and data centers with a massive round of layoffs. Sources familiar with the matter say the company could lay off as much as 20 percent...
Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal
There may have been some extra incentive for the Trump administration to get the TikTok US deal done. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is set to receive a...