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TikTok (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA week that began with TikTok licensing Indian microdramas and ended with AI-made vertical films circulating around Cannes showed how far the format has moved in a year. Vertical drama is no longer only app-store entertainment. It is becoming part of global distribution.TikTok Tests Indian Microdrama IPThe shift is not just that short dramas are popular. It is that major platforms are starting to license them. Pratilipi-owned Double Tap Films has announced a one-year, non-exclusive TikTok licensing deal for 21 Hindi microdrama titles across the United States, Canada, Brazil and…

Many people, Gen Zers in particular, have embraced the practice of “manifesting”: essentially, believing that positive thoughts lead to positive things happening in life. Now, it seems some job seekers are applying the same principle to their CVs—listing skills that they may not have right now but they plan to “manifest” later. A Resume Genius survey of 1,000 U.S. job seekers found that 53% have either considered listing skills they lack on their résumé before learning them, or have actually done so, while 44% of Gen Z admit the same—an approach known as “skills manifesting,” according to the company’s 2026…

The new Archer 8 is a futuristic-looking wireless router which supports the latest Wi-Fi 8 wireless networking standard.TP-LINKIt hardly seems any time at all since the Wi-Fi 7 standard was launched with the promise of faster wireless networking and stronger signals all around. However, in the world of tech, nothing stands still for long; innovation is a constant and so the next generation of wireless networking technology has arrived in the shape of Wi-Fi 8. TP-Link Systems Inc has announced one of the first consumer networking products to support the latest Wi-Fi 8 standard. The Archer 8 is the brand’s…

In 2004, the designer Tory Burch launched her first store specializing in women’s apparel in Manhattan. She and her ex-husband, the retailer and investor Christopher Burch, funded it by pooling $2 million of their own money. Later, Christopher helped her raise another $10 million. Today, her Reva ballet flats and handbags are so popular, they’ve become closet staples. The eponymous brand has over 370 stores across the globe and generates about $1.8 billion in revenue, and Burch is a billionaire. However, Burch is well aware that for many other women, raising capital to build their own businesses can be an…

Meta is reportedly launching a new Enterprise Solutions unit that will embed engineers and product managers inside corporate customers to push them toward its AI tools, according to The Information. The unit, led by head of product Naomi Gleit, is the latest sign that the most expensive job in enterprise AI is no longer the researcher building frontier models but the engineer flying to a customer site to make those models work.The move makes Meta the latest major AI company in a 13-week run of deployment-heavy enterprise announcements. OpenAI announced its Frontier Alliances on February 23, pairing its Forward Deployed…

National Foster Care Month is a reminder that more than 330,000 children in the U.S. foster care system depend on an overburdened child welfare infrastructure and on the social workers working tirelessly to support them. At the same time, government leaders across the country are facing growing pressure to modernize public systems and deliver services more efficiently. The rapid momentum of AI and modern technology is creating a rare opportunity to do both. From Washington D.C. to local agencies, government leaders are increasingly recognizing that modern technology and AI can help public systems operate more effectively and better serve communities.…

Developers and agentsgettyGenerative and agentic AI are taking up the lower-level tasks of software development, such as code generation, testing, and documentation, enabling the rapid delivery of software as needed. But can it perform on a massive scale, for a large enterprise? One major insurance company is finding out in an extensive pilot that employs autonomous software development tools.GNP Seguros, Mexico’s largest insurer, is seeing tangible results from its AI-assisted development work, with a five to ten-fold productivity boosts for its development teams.That’s the word from Enrique Ibarra, CIO and head of business transformation for GNP, who has moved into…

Box CEO Aaron Levie believes that leaders who don’t see the trial and error that goes into deploying AI into a business are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.” In response to a post on X that claimed “CEOs are the most delusional about AI,” Levie wrote: “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.” AI psychosis, often interchangeably called chatbot psychosis, is an informal term to describe the development of paranoia or delusions as a result of chatbot usage. The…

How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesIt’s Thor’s Day which means that yesterday you got an extra riddle for Wordle Wednesday. Today, I’ll share the answer. This was the riddle:First think of the person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.Next, tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,the middle of middle and end of the end?And finally give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard-to-find word.Now string them together, and answer me this,which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?The first clue in this riddle gives…

It’s been just over a week since Google announced a controversial overhaul of its search engine. Rather than answering queries with a list of links, Google Search’s AI Mode now drops users into an interactive AI-powered search box, an expansion to the AI overview features that have been part of Google Search since 2024. From there, users are able to ask follow-up questions within that AI search box, negating the need to access any websites beyond Google Search itself. The news broke the internet as social media lamented that Google was, well, breaking the internet. Users pointed out that Google’s…