The Jonas Brothers are launching a podcast, and by the sound of it, no topic is off limits.

Hey Jonas! premieres on Wednesday, 20 May under an exclusive deal with iHeartMedia, and will be available on the iHeartRadio app, YouTube and major audio platforms. 

The weekly show is executive produced by Kevin, Joe and Nick themselves, and promises an unfiltered look at their lives both on and off the stage.

The trailer gives a pretty good sense of the tone. Kevin deadpans that the whole thing came about because “everyone in the world had a podcast, so we just felt left out.” 

Nick, ever the more earnest of the three, offers a rather different take, suggesting it was about finding quality time together between soundcheck and showtime. 

Kevin’s response: “Where we have to be together in a closed environment even more.” The dynamic, in other words, is exactly what fans would hope for.

Topics teased in the trailer include whether any of the brothers shower in a particularly unconventional way, tattoo ideas, and the eternal debate of flowers versus an Edible Arrangements fruit basket as a romantic gesture. 

It’s that kind of show.

Beyond the banter, Hey Jonas! will feature guests who know the brothers well, family members, close friends and long-term confidantes, as well as bonus episodes and exclusive interviews. 

In a nostalgic touch, listeners can also call a dedicated hotline at 1-84-HEY-JONAS to leave questions, which the brothers may address on air. It’s a nod to the old-school fan phone lines that feel very on-brand for a group that has always kept a close relationship with their fanbase.

The podcast is the first title in a broader slate of original programming from the brothers’ production company, Powered by Jonas, in partnership with iHeart.

It arrives at a milestone moment for the trio. 

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Jonas Brothers, and recent months have brought a string of celebrations, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, and their starring roles in the 2025 Disney+ holiday film A Very Jonas Christmas Movie. 

The group has sold more than 20 million albums and earned two Grammy nominations over the course of their career.

A podcast, then, feels like the natural next move. They’ve done pretty much everything else.

Harry Styles’ tour representatives have broken their silence following a wave of complaints from fans who claimed their expensive VIP tickets left them unable to see the singer properly. 

Concertgoers on the first two nights of the Together Together tour took to social media to complain that their views were completely blocked by 10-foot-tall walkways circling the stadium floor. 

In response to the backlash, an official spokesperson for the tour issued a statement explaining that the open, free-flowing floor concept was explicitly designed to give fans freedom of movement and allow them to experience the show from different positions, rather than being stuck in one fixed viewing angle.

The tour’s management acknowledged the issues but insisted the problems only affected a small area of the massive staging. 

Their statement confirmed that specific floor positions appeared to have had a restricted sightline, promising that those exact areas are being reviewed carefully and adjusted where possible in compliance with all safety restrictions. 

Sources close to the production have since confirmed that these layout tweaks are expected to take place in the coming days to ensure paying fans get a better view of the global pop star.

The unusual and ambitious concert setup features a main stage where the band is located, alongside three walkways spanning the length of the floor and another crossing right through the middle, totalling around 350 yards of staging. 

Styles spent about half of the opening show at the Johan Cruijff Stadium in Amsterdam away from the main stage, constantly running and dancing down the platforms. 

While the layout was designed to bring the singer closer to the crowd, with his band even joining him on the central walkway for a three-song set, it left fans at the back of the stadium floor at a distinct disadvantage.

Industry insiders noted that the tour is not the first major production to face this issue, as Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour recently dealt with similar stage-view complaints, prompting some venues to physically elevate sections of the floor. 

For now, Styles’ tour representatives are actively encouraging fans to take full advantage of the ample space on the floor by moving into better positions if their view is obscured, rather than staying glued to one spot or crowding the barricades. 

With production teams working hard behind the scenes to fix the sightlines, the tour hopes to smooth over the cracks before the next set of fans walk through the stadium gates.

Andrej Karpathy, cofounder and member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, announced that he joined rival artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic.

This marks a major AI talent shakeup among Silicon Valley’s leaders.

Writing on X (formerly known as Twitter), Karpathy wrote: “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here (Anthropic) and get back to R&D.”

Anthropic also confirmed Karpathy’s joining, stating that he will start working this week and build a team focused on using Claude, Anthropic’s flagship AI model, to accelerate pertinent research.

This development comes at a time when Anthropic is expected to hit a valuation of $1 trillion and keep gaining on its main competitor, OpenAI. Just last month, Anthropic recruited Ross Nordeen, one of the co-founders of Elon Musk’s xAI.

Karpathy has a phenomenal academic and professional history. Karpathy was one of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015. 

Two years later, Elon Musk hired him to head the Autopilot vision team at Tesla. 

According to emails uncovered in a recent court case, Musk considered Karpathy “arguably the #2 guy in the world in computer vision” after Ilya Sutskever.

At Tesla, Karpathy stayed for five years as director of AI and contributed to building the computer vision systems that power the company’s self-driving technologies.

In 2022, he left Tesla and briefly returned to OpenAI in 2023, and then departed again in 2024 to dedicatedly work on his own AI education company, Eureka Labs.

Aside from his employment background, Karpathy is known for influencing the way the world teaches AI. 

He developed and taught CS231n, the first deep learning class with a focus on computer vision, at Stanford. The course went from having 150 to 750 students within two years.

He came up with the term “vibe coding” in February 2025, which refers to using AI tools to develop programs through prompts without knowing how to code. It became the Word of the Year according to Collins Dictionary.

Karpathy earned a PhD from Stanford, mentored by Fei-Fei Li, a master’s degree from the University of British Columbia, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto. Before any of those achievements, he got recognised for publishing Rubik’s Cube tutorials on YouTube under the name “badmephisto.”