For the past two years, Silicon Valley executives have been saying some version of the same thing: AI will make companies smaller. Teams will become leaner. Managers will disappear. AI agents will do more of the routine work. And a small number of highly productive employees will suddenly be able to accomplish what once required entire departments. Meta appears to have tried to turn that theory into an actual operating model. The result was much messier than the vision. According to an extensive Reuters investigation, Meta spent much of 2026 working on an internal initiative called Project OT — short for Organization Transformation . The idea was ambitious. Rebuild parts of Meta around AI. Replace chunks of daily human work with autonomous AI agents. Shrink traditional teams. Move toward smaller groups of highly productive employees supported by AI. Internal scenario planning even explored reducing the size of some teams by as much as 60% . Then the plan began run...

  Hollywood keeps telling us audiences only show up for franchises. Superheroes. Sequels. Shared universes. Familiar brands. Then Christopher Nolan released a three-hour epic based on a poem written nearly 3,000 years ago. And it became the biggest movie of his career. The Odyssey has now passed well beyond the $1 billion mark at the global box office and, by late August 2026, had climbed to roughly $1.5 billion worldwide . That puts it ahead of every other Nolan film. Ahead of Oppenheimer . Ahead of Inception . Ahead of Interstellar . Ahead of The Dark Knight Rises . And that raises a much bigger question than box-office bragging rights: How did a movie based on Homer become one of the biggest theatrical events of the decade? First, The Scale of This Is Bigger Than It Sounds The Odyssey passed $1 billion globally within its first few weeks in theaters and soon became Nolan’s highest-grossing film ever. That alone would be impressive. But context makes it stranger. This is not: A...

  Toy Story 5 just did something most movies can only dream about. It crossed $1 billion worldwide . And now, barely a few months after hitting theaters, Disney is sending it to Disney+ on September 23, 2026 . That raises an obvious question. If a movie is still one of the biggest box-office hits of the year... why move it to streaming so soon? At first, that sounds like Disney undercutting its own theatrical success. But the answer is more interesting. This is not really about ending Toy Story 5’s theatrical run. It is about turning one movie into several different revenue events. And Disney may be getting much better at doing that. First, Toy Story 5 Was Already a Massive Hit Toy Story 5 opened in theaters on June 19, 2026 . The launch was huge. Disney reported an estimated $312 million worldwide opening weekend , including about $160 million domestically and $152 million internationally. It became the biggest global opening of 2026 at the time and the biggest opening weekend in ...