Tech Media Propaganda Operation Makes It Official, Goes In-House At OpenAI - Defector

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it had acquired the Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN) show. The Financial Times reports that the recently de-Sorafied AI giant paid somewhere in the “low hundreds of millions of dollars” for the purchase. The de…

Olivia Munn Found Her Confidence After Booking (and Losing) a Job on ’30 Rock’ - The Hollywood Reporter

The ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ star discusses what she learned from the ‘Newsroom’ director who tried to mess with her career — and briefly getting what would ultimately be a major recurring role for another actress on the classic NBC sitcom.

Thursday Box Office: ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Scores $24.6M for Huge $59M Early U.S. Total - The Hollywood Reporter

The sequel blasted off to $34.5 million on Wednesday, the biggest opening day of the year so far after passing up ‘Project Hail Mary.’ And it is pacing on par with the first film, which transformed into a box office juggernaut.

Goop Kitchen, Gwyneth Paltrow’s Restaurant Concept, Is Coming to the Upper East Side - East Side Feed

Welcome To The Defector ‘Survivor 50’ Midseason Questionnaire - Defector

You can count on the things that mark the passage of time on Survivor. Early on, there’s the very first tribal council, the first tribal swap, the first double elimination. Nothing looms larger over the early game, though, than the possibility of making the m…

NFL denies Bears’ appeal for compensatory draft picks - nbcsports.com

League reiterates conclusion that Ian Cunningham isn’t the Falcons' primary football exec.