AI

Disney battles ByteDance over Seedance AI copyright issues

Disney sent a cease-and-desist to ByteDance after the company’s Seedance 2.0 model produced AI versions of Disney characters, even as it took a different approach when OpenAI’s Sora did something similar. One viral clip—an AI-made Wolverine-versus-Thanos sequence created with Seedance 2.0—garnered over 142,000

Culture

Jessica Sanchez Sings Bob Marley to Her 4-Month-Old Daughter

America's Got Talent Season 20 winner Jessica Sanchez shared a glimpse of life at home with her four-month-old daughter, Eliana, in a February 12 Instagram video. The 30-year-old held Eliana in her arms and sang softly to her. "I love singing to my sleepy baby 🥹❤️," Sanchez

Culture

Cynthia Erivo addresses rumors she and Ariana Grande were 'lovers'

Cynthia Erivo addressed rumors that she and her "Wicked" co-star Ariana Grande were romantically involved, calling it "a strange fascination" in an interview published on Feb. 10. Erivo and Grande co-starred in the two-part film adaptation of the musical, and their closeness during press tours prompted

AI

Glean aims to be the intelligence layer beneath enterprise AI

The battle for enterprise AI is intensifying as Microsoft bundles Copilot into Office, Google pushes Gemini into Workspace, and firms like OpenAI and Anthropic sell directly to companies. With every SaaS vendor shipping an AI assistant, Glean is focusing on a less visible play: building the intelligence layer beneath the

Tech

John Romero adores Ghost Recon and logged 3,000+ hours in World of Warcraft

John Romero, co-creator of Doom and other classic shooters, is working on Hellion, a new Doom 2 WAD that follows Sigil and Sigil 2, and on an unrevealed FPS with Romero Games that was salvaged after the studio lost funding. His current go-to is Arc Raiders, which he plays with

Crypto

CEO sentenced to 20 years for $200M Bitcoin Ponzi scheme

Ramil Ventura Palafox, 61, former CEO and chairman of Praetorian Group International, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a $200 million Bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 90,000 investors worldwide. Prosecutors say Palafox used PGI to lure investors into a purported Bitcoin trading program that

Culture

Italian dub of JoJo's Golden Wind leans into Neapolitan dialect and crude jokes

Netflix’s new Italian dub of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind has gone viral for leaning hard into regional dialect and risqué humor. Under director Mosè Singh, the cast reshaped dialogue with Neapolitan expressions, added entirely new lines, and injected contemporary internet references and profanity to make the show

Culture

Daniel Kaluuya eyes trippy A24 hotel horror from Together director

Daniel Kaluuya, who has made a habit of messing with audiences in Black Mirror and Get Out, is reportedly interested in a trippy new project from Together director Michael Shanks called Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel. Shanks, who also wrote the film, has it in development at A24 as a sci-fi

Tech

Discord concludes Persona age verification test after investor ties draw concern

Last July’s UK Online Safety Act deadline prompted many platforms to tighten age checks, from facial scans to requests for government ID. Discord’s own system has been criticized as easy to game and was hit by a breach that exposed about 70,000 users’ IDs; the company has

Science

Dragon hatches open, Crew-12 joins Expedition 74

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev entered the International Space Station after opening the hatches at 5:14 p.m. EST between the space station and the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Meir, Hathaway, Adenot, and Fedyaev now join Expedition 74, alongside

Business

Exchanges tighten rules as Chinese retail traders drive metals futures rally

Chinese retail traders have driven a sharp surge in futures trading across aluminium, copper, nickel and tin, making industrial metals one of the country's most crowded trades. Combined futures volumes on the Shanghai Futures Exchange jumped month‑over‑month, reaching 78 million lots in January 2026, with nickel

Politics

Inside SAM 26000, the Air Force One that carried eight presidents

SAM 26000 was the first Air Force jet built specifically for US presidents and flew as Air Force One from 1962 to 1998, carrying every leader from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton. Vice President Al Gore summed up its place in history on retirement: "If history itself had

Crypto

Saylor Signals Week 12 of Consecutive Bitcoin Buys

Michael Saylor, co-founder of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, signaled the firm is acquiring more BTC amid the market dip, marking week 12 of consecutive purchases. He posted Strategy’s BTC accumulation chart on X, a visual now associated with the company’s buys and indicating an upcoming 99th transaction. Strategy’

Sports

Myles Garrett Wears Jacket Featuring Chloe Kim at Winter Olympics

Fans across the country cheered Team USA's Chloe Kim as she competed in the Women's Snowboard Halfpipe Finals on February 12, and her boyfriend, Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, stood out on the sidelines in a custom zip-up jacket bearing Kim's face. The

Culture

Fennell’s New Take Recasts Isabella in 'Wuthering Heights'

Isabella Linton typically isn't one of the first to come up in conversation about Emily Brontë's classic 1847 gothic romance novel. In the timeless tale of the obsessive love-hate relationship between headstrong Catherine Earnshaw and her brooding foster brother Heathcliff, Isabella is introduced as the pampered

World

DNA from glove matches suspect in Nancy Guthrie search

The FBI says a glove found during the search for Nancy Guthrie matches the one the suspect wore in surveillance footage and contains DNA distinct from other gloves recovered at the scene. Investigators are awaiting final lab results before uploading the DNA profile to a national database to try to

Culture

Bloober Team Valentine's Day reveal: Layers of Fear 3

A strange Bloober Team website with the bizarre URL remosdneulserorehsoovamceyerd.com appeared near the end of 2025, showing a bloody rose, a countdown to Valentine's Day, and a cryptic quote. Bloober had been busy, fresh off Cronos: The New Dawn and still working on another Silent Hill remake,

Culture

Noah Kahan, James Blake: 9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week

If Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show was anyone’s first exposure to Latin pop, it shouldn’t be the last. A diverse and rewarding hemisphere of music awaits, and language should be no barrier. This week brings new releases from both stalwarts and rising stars of Latin pop, and

Business

Den of Wolves Studio Announces Major Layoffs Ahead of Release

10 Chambers, the studio behind GTFO and the unreleased cyberpunk heist shooter Den of Wolves, has carried out significant layoffs. The cuts surfaced on February 13 after individual developers posted about their departures on LinkedIn, with one affected employee writing, “This wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card, but here

Crypto

Cardano Aims to Launch USDCx Stablecoin by End of February

The Cardano blockchain will integrate USDCx, a variant of Circle’s USDC stablecoin, by the end of February, Philip DiSaro of Anastasia Labs confirmed on February 15. USDCx is dollar-denominated and backed 1:1 by USDC held through Circle’s xReserve. DiSaro said USDCx will function identically to native USDC

Culture

‘Wuthering Heights’ Review: Margot Robbie, Amok on the Moors

Emerald Fennell’s new film drenches the screen in torrential rain and pantomimes of passion, offering a florid, overstuffed take on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, the adaptation embraces literalism, surreal touches and anachronisms as it tries to bridge past and present, announcing its

Culture

Chris Pratt's 124-Minute Sci-Fi Blockbuster Heads to Netflix

Chris Pratt's Jurassic World trilogy is heading to Netflix in March, beginning with the 2015 restart of the franchise that runs 124 minutes. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, Jurassic World rebooted the 1990s Jurassic Park property co-created by Steven Spielberg and was set years after the events of the

Sports

Eberechi Eze stars as Arsenal rout Wigan to reach FA Cup fifth round

Eberechi Eze bounced back from his midweek nightmare at Brentford to set up two early goals as Arsenal thumped Wigan 4-0 and moved into the FA Cup fifth round. His wonderful through ball released Noni Madueke for the opener on 11 minutes and eight minutes later he sent Gabriel Martinelli

Politics

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts

The Department of Homeland Security has been seeking the names, email addresses, phone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas in recent months, and some companies have complied. The

Culture

Why I'm decluttering now so my kids don't have to

At 46 I’m already aware I have too much stuff, and three recent events pushed me to start decluttering so my kids won’t have to. The first came when I helped my mom downsize from a two-story, 2,000-plus–square-foot townhome into a 900-square-foot rental. She spent months