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Mickey Drexler doesn’t like to wait for things to happen. His storied retail career, with executive roles at companies like Ann Taylor, Gap Inc., and J.Crew, was defined by a bullish leadership style and a move-fast, get-results attitude that helped catapult those businesses into American retail mammoths. Old Navy, which he launched during his time at Gap Inc. in 1994 in about 18 months, became the fastest retailer to reach $1 billion in sales in four years.But when he joined Alex Mill as chairman in 2019 — the New York brand founded by his son, Alex, in 2012 — Mickey…

In late February, Puck reported on a strange case: An influencer with more than a million followers was inadvertently promoting products on Instagram. On some of Julia Berolzheimer’s posts, a “Shop the look” button hovered in the corner. When followers clicked it, they were fed similar items to what Berolzheimer was wearing.Her job is to promote clothing, accessories, and other products to her followers, so having links to specific items isn’t strange. What was odd was that she hadn’t placed the links there herself — Instagram added them without her consent. The product links led followers not to the actual…

Getty Images What did you expect Trae Young’s first recorded statistic to be as a member of the Washington Wizards? Probably a point, right? Maybe an assist since he was brought in to help set up his younger teammates. If you were going with a sleeper, you’d probably pick a stray rebound or steal. Alas, it was none of the above. Before his first point, assist or even game as a member of the Wizards, Trae Young has picked up his first ejection in the nation’s capital. The unusual sequence of events came in the third quarter of Washington’s home loss…

Apple has asked Google to look into “setting up servers” for a new version of Siri that’s Gemini-powered and meets Apple’s privacy requirements, The Information reports. Apple had already announced in January that Google’s Gemini AI models would help power the upgraded version of Siri it delayed last year, but The Information’s report indicates Apple might lean even more on Google so it can catch up in AI.The original partnership announcement said that “the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology,” and that the models would “help power future Apple Intelligence…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses the gathering at the AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi, India, February 19, 2026. Bhawika Chhabra | ReutersOpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company “shouldn’t have rushed” its recent deal with the U.S. Department of Defense and outlined revisions to the agreement.Altman shared what he described as a repost of an internal memo on X, saying the company would amend the contract to include some new language, adding that “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals.” It comes after the ChatGPT maker announced it had…

Bengaluru-based Pronto is helping to bring India’s largely informal domestic help market online. As daily bookings climb and its city footprint expands, investors are opening their wallets. The startup said Tuesday that it raised a $25 million Series B round led by Epiq Capital, valuing the nine-month-old company at $100 million. That’s more than double its $45 million valuation in August 2025 and over eight times the $12.5 million level when it emerged from stealth in May. Existing investors Glade Brook Capital, General Catalyst, and Bain Capital Ventures also participated, bringing total funding to around $40 million. Pronto offers quick,…

Alexa PhilippouMar 2, 2026, 12:23 PM ETCloseCovers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati EnquirerMultiple AuthorsNEW YORK — Kelsey Plum said that while the players’ union should continue to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement, she believes the offer the WNBPA has received from the WNBA so far reflects a “significant win” and that “a strike would be the worst thing for both sides.””I want to play, and players want to play,”…

Deutsche Telekom, the German mobile provider that is also the majority stakeholder of T-Mobile in the US, is introducing an AI assistant into its phone line. The result of a partnership with the AI-audio company ElevenLabs, the feature is called Magenta AI Call Assistant. It will be available in Germany only, for now, and doesn’t require an app or a specific smartphone. The audible AI assistant will be baked into the phone call, offering services like live language translation to anyone who chooses to opt in.Magenta AI Call Assistant was announced at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona by ElevenLabs…

Establishing RG Designs in 1960, Gernreich named American visionaries Claire McCardell and Martha Graham as major influences, explaining that they taught him the ‘common denominator of all forms of design…rhythmic simplicity.’ ” He achieved this syncopation through proportion, color mixes, and sometimes, Op-like patterns and prints, and all with soft fabrics. But Gernreich didn’t think of himself as a conductor, rather he believed that the wearer brought the clothes, or music, to life.At first the casual, active, and outdoorsy aspects of his designs were associated with California, which had a booming fashion industry in those days. They also anticipated the…

According to Amazon, drone strikes in the Middle East have targeted web infrastructure “directly,” resulting in multiple data centers being taken offline.  Yesterday there was a report of “sparks and a fire” at an Amazon cloud facility in the United Arab Emirates, and a temporary, deliberate shutdown. Reuters asked Amazon yesterday for confirmation that Iranian strikes had caused the problem, but Amazon “did not confirm or deny.”  Amazon’s Health Dashboard now has an update, and the issue is more serious than had been previously reported, spanning three facilities in two countries. In addition to two direct impacts in the UAE,…