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CultureToy Story 5 passed $879 million. Two Pixar originals barely returned their budgets. That is the ledger.
Elio finished at $154 million on a reported $150 million production budget. Hoppers reached $389 million on the same. Toy Story 5 opened to a franchise-record $312 million.
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CultureBrand New Day's trailer crossed a billion views in four days. That is a signal worth reading.
Brand New Day's first trailer set a record for the format in March 2026. Read against Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four's 2025 numbers, it points at a specific thing that still works.
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TechCommerce disabled a frontier model for nineteen days, then let it back on
Anthropic released Fable 5 on June 9. Commerce ordered it disabled on June 12. It returns July 1 under a new agreement. The mechanism the government used has no regulatory framework.
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GamesSony is ending PlayStation disc production. It is also closing the PS3 and Vita stores in the same post.
Sony announced on July 1 that new PlayStation games ship digital-only from January 2028, and separately confirmed a phased PS3 and Vita store shutdown. Read together, they redraw what owning a game means.
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GamesThe EU acknowledged Stop Killing Games and declined to legislate. Against its own record, that is a choice.
On June 16 the Commission agreed game shutdowns are a real problem, then deferred to a voluntary industry code. The reasoning it invoked has been rejected in adjacent consumer-protection cases.
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CultureRick and Morty marketed Season 9 as 'No AI slop.' That is a position.
The Season 9 tagline names AI-generated animation as the thing the show is not. That is rarer than it looks in 2026, and the implications are interesting whether you read it as principle or as positioning.
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GTA 6 lands November 19. The drip-feed continues to work.
Rockstar dropped a 32-second clip on June 18 with cover art, a pre-order date, and a release date. That was the gaming news of the week.
GamesWhat is actually going on with War Thunder
There is an active argument between War Thunder players, content creators, and Gaijin Entertainment. The argument has multiple threads and a long history. Here is what is actually in it.
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TechSpaceX bought Cursor. The coding stack has a new owner.
A $60 billion all-stock deal puts half the professional developer market under one man's empire. The structural question is what teams should do when a tool they depend on becomes political.
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TechAI's bottleneck has stopped being the model
Between 30 and 50 percent of US data centers planned for 2026 are now delayed or cancelled. The constraint is no longer silicon. It is the power grid, the water table, and the people who live next to the sites.
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