Spider-Man: Brand New Day Opens to $355M, Second-Biggest Weekend Ever: Genuine Movie-Going Comeback or Superhero Fatigue Papered Over by Nostalgia?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland and Zendaya, opened to roughly 355 million dollars domestically in early August 2026, the second-biggest opening weekend in box office history behind only Avengers: Endgame, and went on to break records for the fastest movie to reach 700 million and 800 million dollars domestically. The film helped push the 2026 summer box office past 4 billion dollars, only the second time that has happened since the pandemic, alongside hits like The Odyssey. Critics and early reactions praised Holland's performance and the film's tone, but some commentators argue the result says more about Marvel's built-in fanbase and years of anticipation than about a genuine rebound in moviegoing or superhero storytelling.
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Title: Reddit - The heart of the internet # People are overestimating Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Spider-Man: Brand New Day comes out on July 31, 2026, and a lot of people are acting like it’s a 100% lock to hit a billion dollars. Some are even claiming it has a better chance o...
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AI was cited in 112,713 U.S. layoffs this year (24% of all cuts) — Oracle alone cut 21,000 jobs and blamed AI directly in an SEC filing. Real workforce replacement, or a convenient excuse?
Challenger, Gray & Christmas (the standard U.S. outplacement firm that tracks layoffs monthly) says AI has now been the leading cited reason for job cuts for five straight months. In July 2026 alone it accounted for 33% of all announced cuts, and year-to-date AI has been cited in 112,713 job cut announcements — about 24% of everything. Oracle is the clearest single case: its own SEC filing says a 21,000-person reduction (13% of its workforce, dropping from 162,000 to 141,000 employees over 12 months) came from "adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations," and warned more cuts "may" follow. But it's not that simple everywhere. Visa cited a 7% cut as an "efficiency push in which AI would reshape work," while at a Bronx hospital system, leaders disputed that 12 nursing cuts were really about AI replacement despite headlines saying so. Challenger's own chief analyst put it bluntly: "Naming AI in a layoff announcement can win over investors while pushing current and prospective employees away" — meaning some of these announcements may be using AI as a flattering label for cuts that would have happened anyway.
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Tech giant Oracle revealed that it has cut tens of thousands of jobs because of artificial intelligence. cut 21,000 workers over the past year.