Why Your Favorite Film Franchises Are Letting You Down This Year The franchise blockbuster will never die, so the least Hollywood can do is learn how to prop them up. By Brandon Katz
Booting Up: Yahoo and Foursquare Might Hook Up and Swap Data Yahoo is reportedly in talks with Foursquare for a “data partnership.” Sorry it’s not an acquisition rumor, you guys. [BuzzFeed] By Jordan Valinsky
SeatGeek Partners With Yahoo, Eclipses Better Funded Competition According to the most recent report from Comscore, ticketing is now the most popular category of website in the United By Ben Popper
Sam Altman Clarifies on OpenAI’s ‘Tension’ With Microsoft (and Elon Musk) By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Billionaire Trader Alex Gerko Is Betting on A.I.’s Promise in Mathematics By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly