ESPN, ABC, National Geographic and more than a dozen other Disney-owned channels have been reinstated on YouTube TV after the two companies finally struck a distribution agreement.
Why it matters: The blackout, which started October 30, cut off major sports and news programming — including NFL games, college football, and 2025 election night coverage — for more than 8 million subscribers of YouTube TV.
A new once-a-day eye drop that can combat blurry vision is now commercially available in the United States.
Why it matters: These drops, previously approved by the Food and Drug Administration, could be a nonsurgical option for people who don't want to seek out LASIK or other procedures.
Forget retaliation: To cut tariffs President Trump imposed on their country, the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery.
Why it matters: Trump loves such pampering, and the word's out among nations and companies seeking his favor. Tributes fit for a king — especially gold — catch his eyes and his heart.
Boeing will purchase up to 100,000 metric tons of carbon removal from Charm Industrial, a startup transforming forest wastes into "bio-oil" stored permanently underground.
Why it matters: It's Charm's first aviation deal amid growing emissions from flight — and an aerospace industry seeking climate solutions that can eventually reach a large scale.
Why it matters: This is twilight-zone stuff, folks. For the No. 1 and No. 3 paid downloads, the artists, the music, the lyrics — the songs — aren't by real people. But real people love them.
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the playbook for crime, from cheap deepfake scams and AI-written ransomware to mass identity hijacks and critical-infrastructure hacks.
Why it matters: This new class of AI-supercharged crime is putting lives and financial systems at risk. But police training, laws and cross-border tools aren't keeping up, futurists tell Axios.
Social media companies are heading to court over kids' mental health — and a New Mexico judge has just demanded Meta produce chatbot records in one key lawsuit, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Lawsuits targeting addictive algorithms and the mental health impacts on children are just the start of a new legal era where AI could be the wild card.
LISBON —Mozilla wants to do for AI what it did for the web — promote decentralized, open-source systems cautiously, president Mark Surman told Axios during an interview at Web Summit in Portugal.
Why it matters: Mozilla's effort underscores the broader global debate over who controls the data and sets the rules in the AI era.
LISBON — AI amplifies human creativity, but what makes brands and people successful will never be replicated by AI, Hootsuite CEO Irina Novoselsky and Bluesky COO Rose Wang said in an interview with Axios this week at Web Summit in Portugal.
Why it matters: Leaders of social media companies are embracing AI, but aiming to preserve what made their platforms successful: people's authentic voices and creativity.
