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Love, Lust and Loose Screws: The Weekender’s 10 Best AI Movies of the Past 20...
The Weekender // April 25, 2026

Few technologies generate as much cocktail-party anxiety — and screenplay fuel — as artificial intelligence. Hollywood, naturally, got there first. For the past two decades, movies about AI have doubled as dispatches from the human condition: loneliness, vanity, convenience, grief and the recurring belief that...

QVC Was TikTok Shop Before TikTok Shop
The Weekender // April 18, 2026

QVC this week announced it is filing for bankruptcy, which makes this a fitting moment to revisit one of the great retail magic tricks of the modern era: selling people things they did not know they wanted, in real time, from the couch, with a...

The Side Hustle Has Entered Its Weird Era
The Weekender // April 11, 2026

There was a time when the side hustle had a uniform: a rideshare decal, a delivery bag, maybe a second phone buzzing with low-margin urgency. Now it looks more like a cultural fever dream. The extra-income economy has spilled out of the car and into...

Easter’s Gone Luxe and the Chocolate Is Driving
Retail // April 04, 2026

Easter used to be a foil-wrapped bunny, a department-store dress and a brunch reservation someone forgot to make until Thursday. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....