attention economy

Sensor Tower’s new State of Mobile 2026 makes one fact uncomfortably clear for game studios and comfortingly clear for creators and productivity vendors: TikTok dominated app downloads and attention in 2025 while AI assistants exploded, and for the first time consumers spent more on non‑game...

Satya Nadella’s remark that “gaming’s competition is not other gaming — it’s short‑form video” landed like a surprise salvo: accurate in a narrow economic sense, tone‑deaf in a cultural one, and — as Windows Central’s Jez Corden argues — revealing more about Microsoft’s own identity problem than...

Perplexity’s latest play changes the calculus of how AI services can — and might — compensate the news ecosystem: the company’s Comet Plus subscription promises to funnel a substantial share of revenue back to publishers whose work is surfaced by its AI assistant and browser, while also arriving...

The generative AI arms race has entered a new phase—one less focused on pure productivity and more on a radical reimagining of how we spend, and monetize, our free time. Mark Zuckerberg’s unveiling of Meta’s “personal superintelligence” strategy signals a bold and controversial departure from...

The British artist Tacita Dean is primarily celebrated for her films, yet the first major U.S. exhibition of her work—currently on display at the Menil Collection in Houston—takes a markedly different approach. Titled "Blind Folly," the retrospective spans over three decades and features an...