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Penske Media files antitrust lawsuit over Google's AI summaries
By Drew Gillis September 14, 2025 | 5:59pm
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My Chemical Romance invented a new language, and fans have already made a Wordle
By Emma Keates September 12, 2025 | 5:08pm
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Watch Turnstile stage dive and mosh in the NPR office
By Emma Keates September 10, 2025 | 2:07pm
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Keira Knightley is the next Dolores Umbridge
By Mary Kate Carr September 10, 2025 | 12:26pm
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Billy Porter is bowing out of Cabaret on Broadway due to illness
By Matt Schimkowitz September 7, 2025 | 5:43pm
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Here's a Trailer for the New Universal Theme Parks Docuseries Epic Ride
By Garrett Martin September 3, 2025 | 10:46am
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Onion CEO has a plan for Infowars, "if and when we get it"
By Matt Schimkowitz September 2, 2025 | 10:33pm
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Watch This: YouTuber Elephant Graveyard applies HyperNormalisation to the Joe Rogan universe
By Matt Schimkowitz August 31, 2025 | 6:49pm
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Taco Bell admits its AI drive-thru is kind of bad
By Mary Kate Carr August 29, 2025 | 4:51pm
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Lindsay Ellis examines how Ms. Rachel indoctrinates kids with dangerous concepts like empathy
By Drew Gillis August 29, 2025 | 2:35pm
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Republican quest to meddle with all informational institutions arrives at Wikipedia
By Mary Kate Carr August 28, 2025 | 11:14am
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Andy Samberg breaks silence on death of his nemesis Frisbee, Seth Meyers' dog
By Mary Kate Carr August 27, 2025 | 11:16am
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Darren Criss will return to Broadway's Maybe Happy Ending after casting drama
By Mary Kate Carr August 21, 2025 | 9:49am
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Long-Rumored Cuphead Pinball Machine Reportedly Won't Go into Production
By Garrett Martin August 19, 2025 | 2:12pm
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Hersheypark Is Getting a Shaquille O'Neal Coaster
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Marc Maron thinks things were better in podcasting "before everyone had a voice"
By Mary Kate Carr August 13, 2025 | 2:20pm
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Here's What I'll Be Drinking at Disney World's New Pirates of the Caribbean Bar
By Garrett Martin August 12, 2025 | 5:40pm
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Reddit halts the Wayback Machine because of AI scrapers
By Matt Schimkowitz August 11, 2025 | 7:45pm
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AOL calls time of death on dial-up internet
By Mary Kate Carr August 11, 2025 | 12:35pm
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Rob McElhenney and Noah Hawley Might Be Making a Far Cry TV Show For FX
By Elijah Gonzalez August 11, 2025 | 12:15pm
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Harry Potter audiobook star Michelle Gomez addresses J.K. Rowling-sized elephant in the room
By Mary Kate Carr August 8, 2025 | 12:49pm
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Dean Cain becomes new face of plummeting ICE recruitment standards
By William Hughes August 6, 2025 | 8:32pm
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Amazon lays off 110 people in Wondery reorganization
By Matt Schimkowitz August 5, 2025 | 12:23am
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Maybe Happy Ending addresses whitewashing controversy over Andrew Barth Feldman casting
By Mary Kate Carr August 1, 2025 | 11:35am
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Bill Burr calls out podcasts offering "softball interviews" to racists, antisemites, and nationalists
By Mary Kate Carr August 1, 2025 | 9:28am
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Smithsonian sweeps pesky impeachment history out of impeachment history display
By William Hughes July 31, 2025 | 9:09pm
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Universal Reveals Halloween Horror Nights Houses Based on Five Nights at Freddy's and WWE's The Wyatt Sicks
By Garrett Martin July 29, 2025 | 2:32pm
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Six Flags Opens Up Its Entire Chain to Gold and Prestige Season Pass Holders
By Garrett Martin July 28, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Dead Flip's Jack Danger Is Moving from Game Design to Community Outreach at Stern
By Garrett Martin July 24, 2025 | 5:00pm
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White House proposes "AI action plan" that sounds like letting techbros steal whatever they want
By William Hughes July 23, 2025 | 9:32pm
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The Latest Horrifying Addition to Universal Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights: Guns N' Roses Guitarist Slash
By Garrett Martin July 22, 2025 | 3:28pm
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Trump launches Wall Street Journal lawsuit that will definitely stop all these Epstein headlines
By William Hughes July 18, 2025 | 6:23pm
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Fyre Fest sells for under $250k, which "sucks" for Billy McFarland
By Drew Gillis July 16, 2025 | 11:58am
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Sesame Street wrests control of X account back from vile anti-semitic Elmo impersonator
By Drew Gillis July 14, 2025 | 11:29am
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Pokémon card thief makes off with $113,000 worth of rare cards
By Matt Schimkowitz July 13, 2025 | 5:30pm
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Here's Everything Happening at Disney World for the Holidays This Year
By Garrett Martin July 11, 2025 | 10:42am
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Federal court of appeals unsubscribes Americans from "Click to Cancel"
By Matt Schimkowitz July 8, 2025 | 8:40pm
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Universal Releases Plans for Its UK Theme Park
By Garrett Martin July 7, 2025 | 10:00am
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TikTok is reportedly making a U.S. version of its app
By Matt Schimkowitz July 6, 2025 | 8:08pm
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G/O Media sells Kotaku and says it's "winding down"
By William Hughes July 2, 2025 | 7:21pm
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The Jaws Pinball Machine Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Premium Edition
By Garrett Martin July 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Donald Trump found "very wealthy people" to buy TikTok but won't say who they are
By Matt Schimkowitz June 29, 2025 | 7:23pm
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Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim's personal papers, manuscripts acquired by Library Of Congress
By Mary Kate Carr June 25, 2025 | 9:30am
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JD Vance immediately becomes most-blocked person on Bluesky
By Mary Kate Carr June 20, 2025 | 10:58am
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Elon Musk continues to rage at his chatbot for citing facts
By Mary Kate Carr June 18, 2025 | 2:01pm
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The Trump phone is about what you'd expect
By Matt Schimkowitz June 16, 2025 | 5:37pm
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Wikipedia pauses AI-generated summary experiment after editor backlash
By Drew Gillis June 12, 2025 | 4:47pm
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Khaby Lame, world's most followed TikToker, detained after pro-Trump influencer tells ICE
By Matt Schimkowitz June 10, 2025 | 6:29pm
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The Tony Awards celebrate the strongest Broadway season in recent memory
By Drew Gillis June 9, 2025 | 11:10am
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Court rules Trump can kick the AP back out of the Oval Office
By William Hughes June 7, 2025 | 12:55pm
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Tom Felton to play adult Draco Malfoy in Broadway's Cursed Child
By Mary Kate Carr June 5, 2025 | 12:03pm
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Win a set of Casper Funko Pops! from The A.V. Club
By The A.V. Club June 5, 2025 | 12:00pm
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OG comedy podcast WTF With Marc Maron is coming to an end
By Mary Kate Carr June 2, 2025 | 9:25am
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Adam Conover apologizes for becoming a "crypto shill"
By William Hughes May 24, 2025 | 5:33pm
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Man, Kermit kind of Fozzie Bear'd this college commencement speech
By William Hughes May 23, 2025 | 8:17pm
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Google's got a new tool to help you ID its own AI-generated slop
By William Hughes May 21, 2025 | 6:00pm
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The Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer fall victim to AI slop with error-ridden "summer guide"
By Mary Kate Carr May 20, 2025 | 4:57pm
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Sarah Silverman reassures us Dave Chappelle wanted Kamala Harris to win
By Mary Kate Carr May 19, 2025 | 12:49pm
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A bunch of state humanities councils are now suing DOGE
By William Hughes May 16, 2025 | 5:22pm
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Disney Announces a New Theme Park Resort Coming to Abu Dhabi
By Garrett Martin May 7, 2025 | 4:59pm
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Trump is once again trying to kill the NEA
By William Hughes May 3, 2025 | 4:20pm
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European Union fines TikTok $600 million for sending user data to China
By Drew Gillis May 2, 2025 | 10:07am
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Media biz celebrates May Day by laying off lots of journalists [Updated]
By Mary Kate Carr May 1, 2025 | 4:25pm
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Apple now facing possible criminal contempt charges over App Store shenanigans
By William Hughes April 30, 2025 | 11:22pm
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Today in "Why?": BBC using AI Agatha Christie to teach writing course
By Mary Kate Carr April 30, 2025 | 4:50pm
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Trump Department Of Justice strips away Biden-era journalistic protections
By William Hughes April 25, 2025 | 10:03pm
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Carly Rae Jepsen, Lena Dunham to give 10 Things I Hate About You some song and dance
By Mary Kate Carr April 23, 2025 | 12:40pm
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Instagram's AI to hunt down secret teens
By Mary Kate Carr April 21, 2025 | 11:23am
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MrBeast didn't even show up to his own $1,000 fan experience
By Emma Keates April 16, 2025 | 9:56am
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The wait for Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's Waiting For Godot is almost over
By Emma Keates April 14, 2025 | 2:06pm
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Trump grants tariff exceptions to smartphones, computers, other stuff Silicon Valley likes getting from China
By William Hughes April 12, 2025 | 1:07pm
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Today in cowardice: Amber Ruffin dumped from White House Correspondents Dinner
By William Hughes March 29, 2025 | 3:13pm
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R.I.P. George Foreman, heavyweight champion, media personality, shockingly successful grill salesman
By William Hughes March 21, 2025 | 11:15pm
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FCC chair threatens to block media mergers unless companies drop DEI
By William Hughes March 21, 2025 | 6:30pm
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Ben & Jerry's says its parent company is tampering with its progressive values
By William Hughes March 20, 2025 | 8:12pm
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Harvey Fierstein claims he's "been banned" from the Kennedy Center after Trump takeover
By Mary Kate Carr March 20, 2025 | 11:40am
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Digg is getting rebooted with "superpowers" that sure sound a lot like A.I.
By William Hughes March 5, 2025 | 7:41pm
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Skype to go way of the dodo
By Drew Gillis February 28, 2025 | 12:16pm
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L.A. D.A. says the Menendez brothers aren't getting a new trial
By William Hughes February 21, 2025 | 7:44pm
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Luigi Mangione now has a site detailing the best ways to send him fan mail
By William Hughes February 15, 2025 | 4:17pm
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Skittish Apple and Google both finally put TikTok back in their app stores
By William Hughes February 13, 2025 | 11:53pm
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Ben Folds, Shonda Rhimes resign from Kennedy Center after Trump takeover
By William Hughes February 12, 2025 | 8:28pm
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Walt Disney Animatronic, New "Small World" Verse Coming to Disneyland on July 17
By Garrett Martin February 12, 2025 | 3:39pm
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Thomson Reuters' AI copyright win blows a hole in AI industry’s fair use defense
By Matt Schimkowitz February 11, 2025 | 7:21pm
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BuzzFeed plans to combat AI social media with... AI social media
By Mary Kate Carr February 11, 2025 | 3:49pm
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Elon Musk wants to feed OpenAI to Grok
By Matt Schimkowitz February 10, 2025 | 7:51pm
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Close out those apps: It's Love Week at The A.V. Club
By Danette Chavez February 10, 2025 | 6:00am
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Trump says he's going to fire Kennedy Center board and name himself chairman
By William Hughes February 7, 2025 | 8:47pm
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Super Bowl to end "End Racism"
By Mary Kate Carr February 5, 2025 | 10:51am
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Amber Ruffin is this year's White House Correspondents Dinner headliner
By Mary Kate Carr February 4, 2025 | 12:06pm
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Court is now in session for Saul Goodman V. Jimmy McGill in exclusive book excerpt
By Jen Lennon February 4, 2025 | 9:00am
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Matt Fraction and Mike Allred noir it up in this Minor Threats comics exclusive
By William Hughes February 3, 2025 | 9:00am
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Las Vegas resort announces "MrBeast Experience"
By William Hughes February 1, 2025 | 2:30pm
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New FCC chair investigating PBS and NPR, setting stage for defunding debate
By Mary Kate Carr January 30, 2025 | 4:24pm
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Zuckerberg, Meta throw $25 million at Trump in lawsuit settlement
By William Hughes January 29, 2025 | 9:30pm
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Dark Horse Comics dumps Neil Gaiman, cancels Anansi Boys adaptation
By William Hughes January 25, 2025 | 1:15pm
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TikTok maintains that rules haven’t changed under President Trump
By Drew Gillis January 21, 2025 | 3:36pm
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After a miserable, dopamine-free couple of hours, TikTok returns to U.S.
By Matt Schimkowitz January 19, 2025 | 2:09pm
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Looks like Biden and TikTok are going to keep squabbling right up to the inauguration
By William Hughes January 18, 2025 | 6:48pm
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We really wish Prince Harry had made some of his awful podcast ideas happen
By William Hughes January 17, 2025 | 4:50pm
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Old man yells at cloud computing
By William Hughes January 15, 2025 | 9:17pm
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New Bluesky app could work as an Instagram surrogate, too
By William Hughes January 15, 2025 | 6:39pm
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Australian Open goes Wii Sports mode for YouTube broadcast
By Emma Keates January 15, 2025 | 4:49pm
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MrBeast claims he's ready to buy TikTok
By Emma Keates January 15, 2025 | 2:17pm
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American Dialect Society once again chooses chaos, names "rawdog" 2024 Word Of The Year
By William Hughes January 11, 2025 | 3:55pm
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Will Ferrell wore Elf costume to hockey game just to get a little weird with it
By Emma Keates January 10, 2025 | 4:46pm
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Those bold pioneers at Twitter/X have managed to reinvent account verification
By William Hughes January 10, 2025 | 4:39pm
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TikTok says it plans to shut down in U.S. unless Supreme Court saves it
By William Hughes January 9, 2025 | 5:34pm