Sam Altman, a major figure in Silicon Valley‘s burgeoning AI industry who earlier this year testified before Congress on the dangers of the technology, has been removed as CEO of OpenAI, according to a company […]
H31R: HeadSpace
The moment JWords and maassai crossed paths, collaboration was inevitable. After meeting at a showcase in 2017, the New Jersey producer and Brooklyn rapper each felt they’d found a kindred spirit, deciding to unite the […]
Twitter CEO Says Platform Is Fighting Antisemitism a Day After Owner Elon Musk Endorsed It
Not even 24 hours transpired between Elon Musk endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, formerly Twitter, and his appointed CEO of the company, Linda Yaccarino, declaring that the site has made “efforts to combat […]
She Went Missing on a Yoga Retreat. Now TikTok Is Searching for Answers
On Oct. 19, Asian-American SoCal resident Nancy Ng, 29, went kayaking on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. The excursion was part of a yoga retreat Ng was on, and included at least nine other participants, who […]
Why Are People So Obsessed With Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? Rolling Stone Staff Has Theories
it’s a lovestory Rolling Stone staffers offer their thoughts and insights on the couple’s magnetic pull Taylor Swift built her illustrious career writing intimate songs about her life — which often centered around romantic love […]
The Making of That Pepsi Ad You *Think* You Watched on TV
A funny thing happened on the way to the Colosseum. That unbelievably epic three-minute Pepsi commercial you surely remember from the early 2000’s where Britney, Pink, and Beyoncé at their full-on fiercest joined forces to […]
William Eggleston: 512
William Eggleston’s music, like his photography, lives in vivid color. The 84-year-old artist helped establish color photography as a medium worthy of institutional attention, elevating what was once considered purely commercial to the level of […]
Musk on Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory: ‘The Actual Truth’
Elon Musk, who has steered X (formerly Twitter) into a tsunami of antisemitic discourse since taking over the site in 2022, has now endorsed a post attacking Jewish communities and accusing them of promoting “dialectical […]
Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ Goes Viral 21 Years Later — on TikTok
As a famous @dril tweet noted of the terrorist group ISIS, “You do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them.’” Yet amid the continuing horrors of the war between Israel and Hamas militants, […]
How Department Made a Sampledelic Symphony
“I remember my brother and I used to fill up a CD-R with songs and drive into the city. We could only pick one song each till the disc was full,” says Adam Kyriakou, who […]
Beirut: Hadsel
The note of surprise on Hadsel, Beirut’s sixth studio LP, is not so much that Zach Condon has recorded an album on a remote Norwegian island with free access to a church organ, it’s that […]
Spiritual Cramp: Spiritual Cramp
Spiritual Cramp have their very own Bez. Jose-Luna Gonzalez is the Bay Area band’s tambourine-playing mascot, popping up at their shows to provide auxiliary percussion and an extra sense of chaos to a group, usually […]