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The 2026 FIFA World Cup may be doing more than entertaining soccer fans — it could also be giving remote work a summer lift.Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford professor who studies hybrid work, says a combination of late-night matches, rising commuting costs, and a summer heat wave could make 2026 “the…
Fox One’s World Cup marketing playbook is all about letting the creators do the scoring.The World Cup is a high-stakes moment for Fox One, which has described the tournament as like a “second launch” for the subscription-streaming service that debuted last August. Fox One had to ensure its creative punched…
Here’s a riddle the airlines are hoping you won’t solve. Jet fuel, one of their single biggest costs, just fell about 40% from its spring peak. So your next plane ticket should be cheaper, right? Wrong. It’s gotten more expensive. Airfares in May ran nearly 27% higher than a year…
Two of YouTube’s biggest sports brands are entering their collaboration era.Good Good and Dude Perfect are expanding their relationship with a partnership spanning consumer products and content.This week, the two companies will start selling co-branded kids and adult hats, with Good Good licensing Dude Perfect’s brand in exchange for royalty…
Elon Musk is locked in an online feud with Tom Holland over Christopher Nolan’s upcoming blockbuster “The Odyssey.”Only, it’s not Tom Holland, the British actor who stars in the film, but an eminent British historian of the ancient world who shares the same name.After months of Musk and other detractors…
As anyone who went to Cannes Lions last month knows, the appetite for in-person gatherings is going strong. Vendelux, a live events information platform, has raised $50 million to help marketers capitalize on that.Tribeca Venture Partners led the company’s Series B raise, with S3, Pelion Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, FirstMark, and…
Remember pivot to video?For those of you who weren’t paying attention to the media industry a decade ago: That was when publishers spent an enormous amount of time and money trying to turn themselves into video-makers, in the hopes of cashing in on a Facebook-fueled traffic and revenue bonanza.That one…
Amazon’s next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks. Getting there is expensive, though.Internal planning documents reviewed by Business Insider show Amazon is working on a previously unreported Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks for users.Moonraker pushes Alexa into the AI agent…
In the tech world, AI distillation began as a benign research idea. It’s now morphed into a shadow economy that threatens the business model underpinning trillions of dollars in AI investment.The technique involves training one AI model using the outputs of another. What’s allowed and what’s not is either unclear…
An elite Ukrainian drone unit said on Tuesday that it had used a new anti-howitzer munition to destroy over 170 pieces of Russian artillery within two days.The Lasar Group, part of the National Guard of Ukraine, said in a statement that the special operation in early June involved over 800…
