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MusicDrake Announces ICEMAN for May 15 With a 25-Foot Ice Sculpture in Downtown Toronto
Drake's ICEMAN drops May 15. The 25-foot ice sculpture in downtown Toronto, the magazine clue, the fans hacking it open with pickaxes, and the police seal-off all happened first — and built a marketing campaign that other brands are now copying.
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CultureThe 2026 Met Gala Is Tonight, Beyoncé Co-Chairs After a Decade Away
Beyoncé returns to the Met Gala tonight after a 10-year absence, co-chairing under the "Fashion Is Art" theme. The Saint Laurent breadcrumbs on her Instagram are not subtle.
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SportsCaitlin Clark Looked Like Herself Again
Caitlin Clark closed the Fever's preseason with 21 points in 16 minutes against Dallas and a clean 12-point line against Nigeria. The Fever open May 9 vs. Dallas — and the WNBA finally gets its 2026 storyline back.
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Daily RoundupThe Daily Roundup: Nike Ja 3 "Uncle Phil," Knicks-76ers Round 2 Tip-Off, the Met's "Fashion Is Art," and the Pentagon's Frontier-AI Pact — May 4, 2026
Ja Morant honors his uncle on the Ja 3, the Knicks open Round 2 against a Sixers team that just buried Boston, the Met turns "Fashion Is Art" into Beyoncé's first carpet in a decade, and the Pentagon hands seven AI labs the keys to its classified networks.
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TechnologyNovo Nordisk deploys OpenAI across its entire business
Novo Nordisk — the company behind Ozempic and Wegovy — is integrating OpenAI across drug discovery, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial operations, with full integration targeted by end of 2026. It's the most ambitious enterprise AI deployment in pharma history.
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CultureThe Ankler: "Scale Is Losing Leverage" in the 2026 creator economy
The Ankler surveyed a dozen creator-economy power brokers — agency execs, platform leads, talent managers — and the consensus is that 2026 is the year follower count stops mattering. What replaces it is messier and more valuable.
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SportsNBA Playoff scoring drops 9 points per game in Round 1
Teams averaged 115.6 points per game in the highest-scoring regular season since 1969-70. In Round 1 of the 2026 playoffs, that number collapsed to 106.8. The last time the league saw a drop this big, it rewrote the rulebook within months.
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SneakersTravis Scott's "Pink Pack" Air Jordan 1 Low drops May 22
After more than a year of leaks, Travis Scott's Air Jordan 1 Low "Pink Pack" — Tropical Pink and Shy Pink — drops May 22, 2026 for $155. The colorways are a sharp pivot from his usual mocha-and-mute palette.
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Daily RoundupThe Daily Roundup: Air Jordan 11 Low "Mother's Day," Two NBA Game 7s, "The Devil Wears Prada 2" $233M Open, and Anthropic at $30B - May 3, 2026
The Air Jordan 11 Low Mother's Day ($195) drops May 9 — a gold patent mudguard timed one day before the holiday. Two NBA Game 7s today, Devil Wears Prada 2 opens to $233M globally, and Anthropic's run rate hits $30B.
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TechnologySoftBank's Next $100 Billion Bet: A Robotics Company That Builds Data Centers
Masa Son is preparing to IPO a new venture called Roze at a $100 billion valuation. Roze's product? Robots that build the data centers that train the AI that runs the robots. The recursion is the point.
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CultureBjörk premieres Echolalia at the National Gallery of Iceland
Björk's first new album in four years won't drop on Spotify on a Friday. It will premiere as an exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland — a 30-speaker requiem, a film shot at an erupting volcano, and a thesis statement about what music releases can be.
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SportsCeltics-76ers Game 7 in Boston tonight
Boston blew a 3-1 lead. Tatum's leg is stiff. Embiid is back from appendix surgery and won't stop scoring. Tonight at 7:30 ET, the Celtics' season — and maybe their core — comes down to one game.