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Podcast consumption in the US has reached record highs with a diverse, host-led ecosystem measured across publishers and platforms. In France, the official ranking published by Médiamétrie only counts institutional media groups; independent creators don't appear there. Thus, the single most-listened individual podcast in march 2026, Les Grosses Têtes, appears to be a comedy panel RTL show launched in 1977.

The direct-to-consumer model that peaked with the 2021 IPO wave has structurally converged back toward traditional retail, as rising acquisition costs, inefficient fulfilment, and the loss of cheap digital reach eroded every advantage the model was built on.

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent eighteen months investigating Sam Altman. The piece is being read as a portrait of one man's character. The more important question it raises is who is actually responsible for governing the most consequential technology of our time, and what happens when the answer turns out to be: nobody in particular.

The New York Times profiled Medvi — a two-person telehealth startup selling compounded GLP-1 weight-loss drugs — as evidence that AI can now power billion-dollar companies with minimal staff. Within 48 hours, regulators, researchers and journalists had documented an FDA warning letter, AI-generated fake patient photos, fabricated doctor profiles, a data breach at its medical infrastructure partner, and a class action lawsuit.

In personal care, the sensory dimension — scent, texture, ritual, the pleasure of daily use — remains one of the most underexploited levers in brand strategy. A handful of brands have built their entire proposition around it. The market has been trying to copy them ever since.

OpenAI shut down Sora six months after launch of Sora 2. The video generation app was losing an estimated $1 million per day while users dropped by more than half, and the company chose to reallocate compute to enterprise products where it was losing ground to competitors.