A24 has released a statement defending their AI research partnership with Google. “Our relationship with our audience is something we don’t take for granted. This partnership exists because we want to dictate what tools get built for artists, and so they have a voice in shaping them rather than having tools handed to them. We’d rather have a seat at the table than on the sidelines.” (Source:

Google DeepMind 🤝 @A24 We’re launching a research partnership with A24 to ensure the tools of the future are shaped by the creators who use them. Find out more →

Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour are reuniting as father and daughter in an all-new series! From Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne and A24. A disgraced FBI agent is forced back into the field when his estranged daughter, who followed in his footsteps, vanishes on a mission.

Artist Alley Phase 2 is HERE! 🎨✨ We’re keeping the Animaga Melbourne reveals going with the next group of awesome artists joining us in Block A at MCEC: A18 | Heather Designs | @heatherdesignsg A19 | Keyade & Hashagi | @keyadeart A20 | JQHN | @JQHNHARQLD A21 | Shifty | @shiftillust A22 | Poppyfuwa | @poppyfuwa A23 | The Doubutsuen | @gewwyArt & @Chameleon_Ch A24 | The Fishy Shop | @yu1xaki & @kiyuronnn A25 | blazpu | @blazpu_ A26 | MintBreak | @MintBreakfast A27 | tamago_nashi | @tamago_nashi A28 | Raemiie A29 | tiredstringbean A30 | birdsofpasssage x lindajing_ | @birdsofpasssage AB | Tomosynthesis (NyaoiVT + viyuchii) A31 | 3ochii | @3ochii A32 | Mimpish Studio | @mimpish A33 | KYSEN A34 | Reikadraws Who’s on your must-visit list for this batch? Tag your con buddy and let us know! 👇 #Animaga2026# #AnimagaMelbourne#

I'm a cardiologist. You've been told the golden rule of sleep is eight hours. New data says you've been optimizing the wrong number. It's not how long you sleep. It's how consistently. Researchers strapped accelerometers on 60,977 adults and tracked over 10 million hours of sleep for six years. They scored each person on sleep regularity — how closely their bed and wake times matched from one day to the next. The result should change your entire approach to rest: The most consistent sleepers had a 20 to 48% lower risk of dying from any cause than the most chaotic ones. 16 to 39% lower cancer mortality. 22 to 57% lower cardiometabolic mortality — the heart disease and stroke I treat every day. And here's the part that overturns conventional wisdom: sleep regularity predicted survival better than sleep duration. The clock you keep mattered more than the hours you logged. Dr. Ryan McCormick captured it perfectly: a consistent, good-quality 6.5 hours a night — same bedtime, same wake time — probably carries less risk than a fragmented, anxious 8-hour routine, or a pattern where your sleep swings wildly night to night. Read that again. A steady 6.5 may beat a chaotic 8. Here's why, as a cardiologist. Your entire body runs on a circadian clock. Blood pressure, heart rhythm, hormone release, glucose metabolism, cellular repair — all timed to a 24-hour rhythm anchored by when you sleep and wake. When that timing is consistent, every system synchronizes. When it swings — late Friday, early Monday, 2 AM one night and 10 PM the next — you inflict "social jet lag" on your body. Your heart never gets its stable nightly recovery. Metabolism destabilizes. Inflammation rises. The chaos is the damage. Not the hours. There's also a warning buried in this — one I see more and more in practice. Orthosomnia: anxiety about achieving perfect sleep, usually driven by obsessively tracking a wearable. People lie awake stressed that they didn't hit their eight hours or their deep-sleep target — and the stress itself wrecks the sleep. Chasing the perfect number can be worse than the imperfect sleep you're chasing it away from. So stop white-knuckling the duration. Here's what actually moves the needle: Pick a bedtime and a wake time. Hold them within about an hour — including weekends. Consistency is the lever, and it's the one you can actually control. You can't always dictate how long you sleep. Stress, kids, work, and biology don't negotiate. But you can almost always control when you lie down and when you get up. That's the finding that matters: the most powerful sleep intervention isn't a longer night. It's a regular one. Same bedtime. Same wake time. Every day. Your heart keeps time whether you tell it to or not. Give it a rhythm it can count on.