Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie in HBO Max’s ‘Heated Rivalry.’ Courtesy: Sabrina Lantos | HBO Max When the holiday season rolled around last year, Margaret Hecox knew exactly what her grandmother would love. The 23-year-old wrote in a card about “Heated Rivalry,” the breakout Canadian TV series following a clandestine love story between two male…
Zhipu‘s GLM 5.2 artificial intelligence model landed last week with the kind of Silicon Valley buzz that followed DeepSeek‘s launch last year. The Chinese AI startup‘s new open source model has blown past every other open release and now sits within a percentage point of Anthropic‘s Opus 4.8 on one closely watched agentic benchmark, at…
Rita Ferro at Disney Upfront 2026. Courtesy: Disney Co. As Rita Ferro, Disney president of global advertising, prepared to take the stage at the company’s recent upfront presentation, she had actor Paul Anthony Kelly on her mind. Kelly recently portrayed John F. Kennedy Jr. in the limited FX TV series “Love Story,” and met Ferro…
Artificial intelligence is turning out to be far more expensive than anyone expected, and CFOs at major U.S. companies are now facing a brutal new trade-off: tokens or humans. That was the picture two enterprise AI CEOs at the center of the buildout described to CNBC this week. Their accounts of what’s happening inside the…
Nick Bilton speaks EPIX “Berlin Station” LA premiere at Milk Studios on Sept. 29, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Joshua Blanchard | Getty Images Paramount Skydance’s CBS News has hired Nick Bilton as the new executive producer of “60 Minutes,” ushering in a new era for the No. 1 rated news broadcast for the past…
First, welcome to all who have joined us for the first time. Your participation in the CNBC Investing Club means a great deal to us. We aspire to get it right for you, in the same way a wonderful Club member explained this weekend as we gardened together. He couldn’t believe how much he had…
SpaceX is on the verge of going where no initial public offering has ever gone before. The company, created and led by Elon Musk, is targeting a stratospheric valuation of $1.75 trillion on the Nasdaq Stock Market. SpaceX may be fast-tracked into broadly held indexes like the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 at light speed….
Moviegoers watch the film Ne Zha 2 at an IMAX GT Cinema on February 23, 2025 in Guiyang, Guizhou Province of China. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Wall Street is buzzing following reports that IMAX is exploring a sale. Shares of the movie theater technology company were up roughly 14%…
Dwyane Wade, left, and Jesse Riedel speak onstage during the YouTube Brandcast event at Lincoln Center in New York, May 13, 2026. Mike Coppola | Getty Images Among the live sports and entertainment shows that carried media companies’ presentations to advertisers this week, another pitch kept popping up: creator content. The category of videos, which…
When wildlife TV personality Forrest Galante sat down for his monthly call with YouTube consultant Paddy Galloway, he received some bad news. No more turtles. Galante has 2.5 million YouTube subscribers. He’s been producing wildlife programming for more than a decade, including a docuseries on Animal Planet and a show on the History Channel. He…
