Musk has feuded with Nolan's epic since before it existed — called Lupita Nyong'o's casting as Helen of Troy "an insult to Homer." Now he's promised Grok will release a "historically accurate" full-length Odyssey by year's end.
*Doctor Strange* director Scott Derrickson on X: "Musk doesn't know shit about cinema. His opinions on art are worthless."
Nolan's film: $264M opening weekend, sold out for months. Homer survives again.
In May 2026, the DoD announced unlimited AI access for 3.5 million employees. By mid-June, the tokens were gone.
The Army runs Ask Sage — Gemini, Llama, ChatGPT — for official work. Users got 200K tokens/month with auto top-ups, and light users were nudged to spend more. Someone mathed that wrong.
"The whole Army burned through a year of tokens for one service," an employee told WIRED anonymously.
Unlimited was doing a lot of work in that sentence.
*Avengers: Doomsday* brings back RDJ as Doctor Doom, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen as Professor X and Magneto, plus Channing Tatum's Gambit. The nostalgia is real.
So is the frustration. The MCU still hasn't made an actual X-Men film — just cameos and crumbs since the Fox era ended.
Out December 18, 2026. Nobody teases like Marvel. Nobody makes you wait like Marvel either.
💸 Apple fans are buying less as prices bite hard
🎬 Na Hong Jin's comeback swallowed two-thirds of Korea's box office
🦇 Feige admits Blade was Marvel's most spectacular slow-motion failure
📚 AI clones are flooding bookstores with books you never wrote
🔋 EV batteries hold up great — according to the EV sellers
Someone you know had a long day and missed all of this — their loss, your forward button
🔋 EV batteries barely degrade — says the used-EV dealer
Top electric cars retain 95%+ capacity after 100,000 km, claims a new study. Kia e-Niro leads at 97.25%; Tesla Model 3 drops to 88.2% on Panasonic cells vs 93.3% on CATL.
Nearly 10,000 checks, Sweden, 2022–2026 — solid until you notice the study comes from Carla, a used-EV retailer. Methodology unpublished, sample skews toward top models, Sweden's climate is unusually mild.
📚 Your book is on Apple Books — you just didn't write it
Joanna Stern published *I Am Not a Robot* and found ten AI clones on Apple Books within days — same cover palette, $9.99–$20.99 each. Removed them; three more appeared.
NYT's Kashmir Hill found a fake biography of herself on Amazon. The "author" published ten such bios in one week; his photo was a stock image. One creator admitted: a few hours in ChatGPT per book.
The platforms are losing to a problem 2005 spam filters would've caught.