Taylor Swift filed trademarks on her voice and likeness on April 24. It's a reasonable legal strategy and a damning sign of where things stand.

The sequel opened May 1 with Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and a plot about the death of print media. That last part wasn't in the trailer much. It should have been.

Developer JRickey shipped a native PC port of Smash Bros. 64 in 25 days by acting as project manager for Claude and GPT-5.5. The AI got the co-author credit. The humans who did the foundational work did not.

Sony raised PS5 prices across the US, Europe, and now Southeast Asia — and quietly jacked up the price of refurbished units too. Six years into a console generation, prices aren't supposed to go up. Sony did it anyway because nobody can stop them.

Roblox cut its 2026 bookings forecast by nearly $1 billion and watched its stock fall 24%. The cause wasn't a bad quarter — it was making the platform safer for children. Wall Street's response was immediate and unambiguous.

On May 16, Netflix airs Rousey vs. Carano — its first-ever live MMA broadcast — free to 300 million subscribers. The fight card is the least interesting thing about it. The ad-tier strategy behind it is the whole story.