The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s $40 billion crypto empire shocked the world with its speed and scale. In mere days, the company he founded, FTX, fell from its perch as a top cryptocurrency exchange and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Customers who deposited funds on FTX — sometimes their life …

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has become 2023’s cultural boogeyman — the vengeful ghost in the machine that now seems closer than ever to possibly “replacing” humanity. (Or, at the very least, replicating our worst instincts and darker desires in a way that’s too dangerous to laugh off.) Musicians, …

PinkPantheress‘ priorities couldn’t be more in order. Her commitment to the early 2000s aesthetic led her to channel the romantic comedies of that time in the music video for her latest single “Mosquito.” But instead of yearning for the affection of men with deeply hit-or-miss haircuts, she went with the …

Gypsy Rose Blanchard — whopleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 for her connection to the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard —will be released early on parole in December. On Thursday, the Missouri Department of Corrections confirmed that Blanchard will be released on Dec. 28 after serving …

Jung Kook knows exactly how he wants to see you, or so he claims on “3D,” his second solo single, which features Jack Harlow. The BTS member presented the song, whose hook finds him singing “I wanna see it in motion, in 3D,” on Friday with a video that presents …

Sometimes, good things come with a sacrifice. For pop fans, in the case of ‘NSync reuniting in the studio for the first time in more than two decades, it means that the song they made, “Better Place,” was created for the forthcoming animated sequel Trolls Band Together. But at this …

Randy Houser has never made explicitly political country music, instead choosing to sing about one-night stands, the cowboy way, and, to quote his biggest hit, how country feels. Despite the charged title of his new single —“Cancel” — Houser maintains that’s still the case. He says the song, released today, …

Lil Yachty, who dropped his psychedelic relaunch Let’s Start Here in January, rolled out his new single “The Secret Recipe” featuring J. Cole on Thursday. The offering pairs a jazz-infused beat against hard-hitting bars that see Yachty deliver the verse: “I don’t smoke weed, already blunt, all of my cars, …

Wynonna Judd received the Country Champion Award at the 2023 People’s Choice Country Awards. Brothers Osborne presented Wynonna with the award, which recognized her “commitment to philanthropy and social advocacy.” And then she performed “I Saw the Light” and “No One Else on Earth” while standing in the circle of …

Toby Keith performed “Don’t Let the Old Man In” at the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards, marking his first live TV performance since being diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2021. Keith, looking thin but strong, sang the ballad, which he wrote for the 2018 Clint Eastwood film The Mule, in …