Mickey Vernon

‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit
Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video ...

Darden Restaurants DRI Q4 2025 earnings
Darden Restaurants on Friday beat Wall Street’s earnings and revenue estimates, while the Olive Garden parent predicted solid growth for ...

Accenture shares tank 11% despite beating Q3 revenue estimates. Infosys ADRs fall 3%
Accenture shares fell 11% on Friday, hitting the day’s low of $273.19, notwithstanding a revenue beat for third quarter driven ...

A False Start on the Road to an All-American Bitcoin
Mining firms are also facing heightened competition for limited energy resources in the US, mostly from AI companies flush with ...

Lakers owners Buss family sell majority stake at $10 billion valuation
Owner Jeanie Buss of the Los Angeles Lakers and Jay Mohr prior to game one of a first round NBA ...

Daily spending dips, but China’s 618 shopping fest sets record with all-time high sales
China’s largest mid-year shopping festival, 618, ended on Wednesday with record sales, though daily spending dropped amid an extended sales ...

U.S. Retail Sales Fall As Americans Turn Cautious After Spending Splurge To Beat Tariffs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retail sales fell sharply in May as consumers pulled back from a spending surge early this year ...

How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
In her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, journalist and WIRED alum Megan ...

Streaming surpasses combined broadcast, cable TV viewing for first time
Streaming has outpaced the combined share of broadcast and cable TV viewing for the first time ever, according to a new Nielsen ...

The G-7 was a great idea — until it became one against six
Fifty years ago, it seemed like such a good idea. At the initiative of the West German and French leaders, ...