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Look, I’ll happily admit that Ryan Murphy did his big one with Love Story, FX’s biographical romance anthology series starring Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr. and the great Sarah Pidgeon as the one and only Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.Armchair-psychologically speaking, I find it interesting that Murphy’s American Story projects (which tend to be less fantastical, messy, and/or baroque than his other shows) are the ones that tend to pop off, critically speaking; in a 2018 interview with The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum, Murphy called his hit show American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson “an experiment in constraint, and…

In the last year, AI agents have become all the rage. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic all launched public-facing agents designed to take on multi-step tasks handed to them by humans. In the last month, an open-source AI agent called OpenClaw took the web by storm thanks to its impressive autonomous capabilities (and major security concerns). But we don’t really have a sense of the scale of AI agent operations, and whether all the talk is matched by actual deployment. The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) set out to fix that with its recently published 2025 AI Agent…

Feb 19, 2026, 05:50 PM ETCORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — After a rocky two weeks of Olympic curling that included accusations of cheating and a profanity-laced rant, the Canadian men will play for the gold medal at the Milan Cortina Games.Canada beat Norway 5-4 in Thursday night’s semifinals after losing to the Norwegians earlier in the day.The Canadians were the subject of a controversy that got attention far beyond the ice when several players were accused of double-touching the rock, a rules violation.Canada’s opponent in Saturday’s gold medal game will be Britain, which stunned Switzerland 8-5. The Swiss were undefeated entering…

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta’s VP of Content, Reality Labs. While the decision runs counter to Meta’s original plan to own an immersive virtual world that could serve as the future home for all online interaction, it fits with the recent cuts it made to its costly Reality Labs division, and Mark Zuckerberg’s public commitment to focus the company on AI hardware like smart glasses going forward.”We’re explicitly separating our Quest VR platform from our…

Aerial view of Mt. Fuji, Tokyo Tower and modern skyscrapers in Tokyo on a sunny day.Yongyuan | E+ | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets were mixed on Friday, after all three major Wall Street indexes declined overnight pressured by a drop in private credit stocks and Iran-U.S. tensions. Prospects of a strike on Iran have risen with U.S. President Donald Trump saying that he would take a call to decide on military action against Tehran in the next 10 days. Oil prices jumped in reaction to that news, with U.S. crude rising $1.24, or 1.9%, to close at $66.57 per barrel in U.S.…

Formula 1 has been receiving star treatment from Apple for awhile, and now the racing series will literally be getting even bigger. Apple is partnering with IMAX to show five races from the 2026 season. The Miami Grand Prix on May 3, the Monaco Grand Prix on June 7, the British Grand Prix on July 5, the Italian Grand Prix on September 6 and the United States Grand Prix on October 25 will be aired live at select IMAX theaters in the US.Apple landed a five-year deal for the US broadcast rights to Formula 1 last fall and there’s already…

MILAN — As she skated around the Assago Ice Skating Arena rink, moments before the most important routine of her life, Alysa Liu caught sight of her teammate Amber Glenn near the kiss-and-cry couch. Glenn, devastated after Tuesday night’s program, had skated a spectacular routine of her own nearly two hours before. As Liu drew close, she gave Glenn a congratulatory thumbs-up.“What are you doing?” an exasperated Glenn replied. “Go skate!”AdvertisementSo Alysa Liu did. And she won herself a gold medal, smiling all the way.There are no record books to measure such things, but it’s entirely possible that no Olympian…

Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens, onto Facebook and Instagram — despite the risks.Boland’s testimony came a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a case over whether Meta and YouTube are liable for allegedly harming a young woman’s mental health. Zuckerberg framed Meta’s mission as balancing safety with free expression, not revenue. Boland’s role was to counter this by explaining how Meta makes money, and how that…

Here comes the Harris Reed brides. In the made-over Claridges Hotel ballroom, a quartet of them walked the aisles swathed in magenta, cerulean, and seafoam veils. It was the debut of the London designer’s ‘Fluid Bridal’ range, with four silhouettes. Among them are the Camille, inspired by the sheer, slinky, first bespoke wedding dress Reed made for Camille Charriere; a chantilly lace, cowl-necked shirt dappled with crystals and flared pants that referenced what the designer wore to his own wedding; and the Debutante, which features the house-codified, bubbly fishtail bottom. Reed’s clients revel in showmanship and fantasy, more mermaid than…

When the Executive Branch soft-launched in Washington, DC, last spring, the private club’s initial buzz centered on its starry roster of backers and founding members. The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is one of the club’s several co-owners, according to previous reporting. Founding members reportedly include Trump administration AI czar David Sacks and his All-In podcast cohost Chamath Palihapitiya, as well as crypto bigwigs Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.“We wanted to create something new, hipper, and Trump-aligned,” Sacks said at the time. Proximity to Trumpworld didn’t come cheap; though the club headquarters is located in a basement space behind a…