In the middle of July, with Fourth of July decorations barely put away, Hershey’s own consumer content site was publishing party guides for something called “Summerween” — a portmanteau holiday, celebrated in July or August, that borrows Halloween’s spooky aesthetic and drops it into the height of summer. Retail workers have documented shelves stocked with […]
On July 21, 2026, Kraft Heinz and The Walt Disney Company announced what both companies called a “landmark, long-term multi-year strategic alliance” — and the stock market barely blinked. Shares of Disney and Kraft Heinz each edged only slightly lower the next morning, a muted reaction to a deal that will place ten Kraft Heinz […]
Seventy-five percent of enterprise IT leaders say their organization is piloting, deploying, or has already deployed some form of AI agent — yet only 15% are working with agents that operate with full autonomy, according to a 2025 Gartner survey of 360 application leaders. That gap between “using AI agents” and “trusting AI agents” is […]
A Number Worth Sitting With Before Talking About AI Before getting into what generative AI is about to do to social media, it’s worth sitting with a specific, uncomfortable data point: the share of Americans who say they don’t have a single close friend has risen from roughly 3% thirty years ago to about 12% […]