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Entertainment
Fifth Season Launches Non-Fiction Banner With Mary Lisio
Fifth Season is launching a standalone non-fiction production banner with Mary Lisio, who has exec produced documentaries including History’s Gettysburg and Netflix’s Worst Roommate Ever. Lisio, who was previously...
GOP Senator Yells at Kristi Noem Over Handling of DHS and Dog Murder
An irate Senator Thom Tillis offered a sharp rebuke of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a Senate Judiciary hearing on Tuesday afternoon, attacking her for her aggressive immigration...
7 Crucial Types of Software to Invest in as a New Small Business Owner
When you officially become a business owner, you’ll quickly realize how much there is to do and how much you’ll need to do yourself. Initial startup budgets don’t always...
Versant Posts First Standalone Earnings As CEO Mark Lazarus Hones Strategic Focus, Stock Pops
Newly minted Versant Media saw profit and revenue dip in first set of financials reported as if it had separated from Comcast for the full year. CEO Mark Lazarus...
Entrepreneurship
8 Remote Hiring Mistakes That Inflate Costs
Entrepreneurship
7 reasons saying less in investor meetings gets you more
Fashion
Block to cut more than 4,000 jobs amid AI disruption of the workplace
Fintech company Block said Thursday that it’s cutting more than 4,000 workers or nearly half of its workforce as artificial intelligence disrupts the way people work.The Oakland parent company...
Instagram to alert parents if their teens search for suicide or self harm terms
Instagram, a social media platform popular among young people, said Thursday it will alert parents if their teens repeatedly search for suicide or self harm-related terms.“Our goal is to...
Battle of the AI brands: What’s behind the bad blood between OpenAI and Anthropic
As more than 100 million people watched the Super Bowl, the battle for the future of artificial intelligence spilled out into a massive public arena.In a series of viral...
Uber unveils new services as it prepares to bring robotaxis to L.A. soon
Uber announced a new set of services to support ride-hailing for autonomous vehicles ahead of its planned launch of robotaxis in Los Angeles in the coming months. Uber’s new...
Billionaires Spielberg, Zuckerberg eyeing East Coast, stirring concerns about California’s wealth-tax proposal
California may be losing two of the state’s most famed residents and generous political donors. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg recently moved to New York and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is...
Gossip
Block, A.I. and the Front-Running of the Curve
The rise of the temporal agentic operating system could redefine how companies structure human labor. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images When Jack Dorsey announced last week that Block—the parent...
The Gospel of More, According to the Late Iris Apfel
No one wore a more iconic set of spectacles—those oversized black circles, thick as porthole frames, perched on a face that refused to fade into the background for 102...
This Is What You Missed at SCHWET’s Steamy, Under-the-Radar Debut
Guests gathered inside SCHWET’s still-unfinished Tribeca space for a tightly curated, deliciously phone-free evening. Sam Waxman You could be forgiven for missing one of last week’s hottest parties, which...
Ruoming Pang, Meta’s $200M Superintelligence Hire, Jumps to OpenAI After Just 7 Months
Sam Altman reportedly courted Pang for months. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Ruoming Pang, a prominent A.I. researcher recruited by Meta last year with a pay package reportedly worth more than...
Health
Fans React as Megyn Kelly Revives Book Excerpt Amid Nancy Guthrie Disappearance
Fans are speaking out after Megyn Kelly revisited a childhood story from Savannah Guthrie's book while Savannah's mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing.In a February 17 Instagram clip from "The...
Bayer Expands Litigation Liability With New $7.25B Roundup Proposal
Bayer said Tuesday that its Monsanto unit has proposed a new $7.25 billion settlement to resolve US lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma, expanding the company's total...
The $8.8 Trillion Problem AI Can’t Solve: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Corporate AI spending topped $252 billion in 2024. Yet 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable return on investment. The technology works. The people don't.What's missing? It's emotional...
GOP Rep. Warns Cuban Regime Not To ‘Continue Defying’ Trump: ‘Will Annihilate You In a Matter Of Seconds’
Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez warned the Cuban regime not to "continue defying" the Trump administration because it "won't last long" if they get on its "bad side.""The Cuban regime...
Innovation
Hilary Duff Admits She Worries Husband Matthew Koma Will Leave Her for an “Indie Songwriter”
Indeed, those inner thoughts are what Hilary—who shares daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 21 months, with Matthew, as well as son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie—sings...
Hailey Bieber Details How Past Stroke and Heart Surgery Forever Changed Her
“I have a whole new breath of life with it,” she explained on the Therapuss podcast. “I feel even more motivated and more passionate. And now that we have...
Ronda Rousey Announces Return to MMA 10 Years After Retirement
Ronda Rousey is getting back in the ring. Nearly a decade after her last MMA fight, the mixed martial artist announced she would be coming out of retirement to...
Which Princess Are You? Discover Yourself With Bath & Body Works’ Disney Princess Collection
Have you shopped the new Bath & Body Works and Disney Princess collection yet? ICYMI, the brands have teamed up once more for a magical collaboration, filled with everything...
News
AI actor Tilly Norwood’s world is expanding with the ‘Tillyverse’
The digital world of the first AI actor, Tilly Norwood, is expanding.AI talent studio Xicoia, which created Norwood, has announced plans for a “rapid expansion” for the digitized actor....
Surveillance company Flock generates controversy — and a roster of L.A. clients
Santa Cruz tried out the surveillance company Flock Safety for a little over a year before deciding it was time to move on.Cambridge, Mass., also had enough and tore...
Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI after clash with Pentagon
President Trump on Friday directed federal agencies to stop using technology from San Francisco artificial intelligence company Anthropic, escalating a high-profile clash between the AI startup and the Pentagon...
Outside group spends $4.8 million on TV ads backing San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan for governor
An independent expenditure committee backed by Silicon Valley executives spent $4.8 million on television ads supporting San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s gubernatorial bid that will begin airing Thursday.The two...
Politics
Nolan Traore’s growth as Nets point guard has the NBA taking notice
In December, none of the Nets’ five rookies had played less than Nolan Traoré. Or worse. But over the past month, none of them have played more than the...
Super wealthy paying $350k to flee Middle East on private jets as missiles pummel region
The super wealthy are paying as much as $350,000 to flee the Middle East on private jets as missiles continue pummel the region. Rich elites living in Dubai and...
Columbia University anti-Israel group posts ‘Death to America’ after US and Israel kill Khamenei
Columbia University’s biggest anti-Israel student group — which notoriously organized last year’s on-campus encampment in protest of the war in Gaza — posted “death to America” in Persian after...
French President Emmanuel Macron calls Trump’s attack on Iran ‘dangerous’
French President Emmanuel Macron called President Trump’s attack on Iran “dangerous” and urged both sides to go back to the negotiation table. “The ongoing escalation is dangerous for all,”...
Special Edition
Fifth Season Launches Non-Fiction Banner With Mary Lisio
Fifth Season is launching a standalone non-fiction production banner with Mary Lisio, who has exec produced documentaries including History’s Gettysburg and Netflix’s Worst Roommate Ever. Lisio, who was previously...
Versant Posts First Standalone Earnings As CEO Mark Lazarus Hones Strategic Focus, Stock Pops
Newly minted Versant Media saw profit and revenue dip in first set of financials reported as if it had separated from Comcast for the full year. CEO Mark Lazarus...
Jon Stewart Decries “Arrogant” U.S.-Israeli Missile Attack On Iran: “Our Bombs Are Now Smarter Than Our President”
Jon Stewart has begrudgingly brought back The Daily Show‘s over “20-year recurring segment” titled “Mess O’Potamia,” also known as “America’s Next Top Muddle,” to comment on the over-the-weekend U.S.-Israeli-coordinated...
‘Deadliest Catch’ Deckhand Todd Meadows Dies During Filming; Production Subsequently Concluded
Todd Meadows, a deckhand on Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch, has died at the age of 25. Meadows was working on the Aleutian Lady, one of the vessels filmed for...
Trending Today
GOP Senator Yells at Kristi Noem Over Handling of DHS and Dog Murder
An irate Senator Thom Tillis offered a sharp rebuke of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a Senate Judiciary hearing on Tuesday afternoon, attacking her for her aggressive immigration...
Transcript: As Trump Goes Off Rails on Economy, Fox Bursts His Bubble
Gertz: It’s definitely a heavy lift, which isn’t to say that there aren’t people at Fox willing to try to do the work. Sean Hannity, for instance, after the...
Why Trump Decided to Attack Iran Right Now—and What His Endgame Is
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.The United States and Israel started a military offensive...
Trump’s Effort to Steal the Midterms Is Getting Serious
Anti-voting activists are circulating an unconstitutional executive order draft that they argue could allow Donald Trump to take control over the country’s electoral systems ahead of the 2026 midterms.The...
Commentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that’s ‘dangerous’