In 2025, millions of workers experienced instability not because companies were failing, but because corporations were reorganizing around scale, automation, shareholder demands, and mergers. Layoffs were not isolated accidents or cyclical miscalculations. They were part of a larger economic realignment driven by consolidation, monopoly power, and financial engineering.
This article examines how AI is actually being used in animation today, where it is likely heading, and why the growing reliance on AI in animation may pose serious long-term risks to animators, studios, and the creative integrity of the medium itself.
For years, the video game industry was treated as one of the few “unstoppable” sectors of the global economy. Even when other industries slowed, gaming continued to grow. More players, more revenue, more studios, more investment. By the early 2020s, video games were bigger than film and music combined. So why does the industry now…
In today’s hyper-connected world, busy has become a badge of honor. Long hours and overflowing inboxes are worn like medals, often at the expense of our well-being. But beneath the accolades and hustle lies a far deeper issue: the normalization of overwork—not just as an individual challenge, but as a cultural, legal, and media-driven phenomenon…
Lobbying is often discussed as a background feature of American politics—something abstract, technical, or inevitable. But in practice, lobbying is one of the clearest ways to see whose interests have the most consistent access to lawmakers, regulators, and the policy-writing process itself. Money does not guarantee outcomes, but it determines proximity: who gets meetings, who…
Even with October’s missing jobs report, November’s numbers are strange — and they still don’t show the full picture, the November jobs report is bad. Yes, the data is weak. Yes, the outlook is deteriorating. But thanks to the government shutdown, delayed data collection, structural labor shifts, and long-building demographic pressures, this report captures only part of what is actually happening in the economy.
In 2025 the conversation around AI music is no longer about whether it’s coming — it’s already here, so what does that really mean?
Artificial intelligence has become the new engine of the global economy — transforming how we work, communicate, and innovate. But as the race to build smarter, faster, more capable AI systems accelerates, a pressing question emerges: how much energy does it take to power intelligence itself? And as the world builds new data centers at record speed, who will ultimately pay the price?
Tilly Norwood was introduced not as a human performer, but as a digital persona: a British-accented young woman with an Instagram account, a debut “role” in a short AI-generated piece titled AI Commissioner, and public talk that she might be “represented” by a talent agency.
