Karen Bass can’t fire Casey Wasserman as the head of Los Angeles’ 2028 Olympic Games, but she sure wants the soon-to-be former agency boss out ASAP. “My opinion is, is that he should step down,” LA Mayor Bass said this Presidents’ Day on CNN. “That’s not the opinion of the board,” the reelection seeking incumbent…
Mr. Cooper said in a statement that he was leaving as a correspondent for the show to focus on his CNN program and spend more time with his children.
1 2 3 1. Yoshiki Ideguchi, who traveled from Tokyo, watches at Dodgers spring training at Camelback Ranch in Arizona Monday. (Ronaldo Bolanos/Los Angeles Times) 2. Children lean against a fence and wait to greet players during Dodgers spring training at Camelback Ranch in Arizona on Monday. (Ronaldo Bolanos/Los Angeles Times) 3. A fan holds…
Moving too quickly in medicine can be disastrous. The previous century is littered with examples, from the scandal of thalidomide – a morning sickness drug that had never been tested on pregnant animals – to the embrace of low-fat diets, based on scanty evidence. But there’s also danger in moving too slowly, and the body…
The co-founders of startup Ricursive Intelligence seemed destined to be co-founders. Anna Goldie, CEO, and Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO, are so well-known in the AI community that they were among those AI engineers who “got those weird emails from Zuckerberg making crazy offers to us,” Goldie told TechCrunch, chuckling. (They didn’t take the offers.) The pair…
Photos from the 2026 Independent Spirit Awards, which I didn’t watch (because I forgot about them). Rose Byrne wore Loewe (I dislike this), and I’m also including pics of Wagner Moura, Kirsten Dunst & Jesse Plemons. [Just Jared]Train Dreams won the big prizes at the Spirit Awards, and Rose Byrne picked up the lead actor…
Qwen3 is Alibaba’s latest large language model, which it says combines traditional LLM capabilities with “advanced, dynamic reasoning.” Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Alibaba Group has released its newest AI model series, featuring enhanced capabilities, as it faces intensifying competition in China’s AI space with several models launched in the past week. The…
Feb 16, 2026, 04:12 PM ET CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Elana Meyers Taylor’s two young sons watched her leap into the air, throw her fists skyward, wave the American flag, then fall to her knees and start to cry. In time, they’ll understand what they saw. They saw history. The 41-year-old U.S. bobsledder — a…
The move follows Vietnam’s earlier indication that it would allow Starlink to conduct a trial in the country.
Multi-platinum artist and songwriter Bebe Rexha is BACK! She has announced her new album DIRTY BLONDE with a first-of-its-kind supercut – a high-octane, 4-minute mashup that merges 13 of her upcoming singles and corresponding video elements into one adrenaline-packed release. The album sees Bebe partner with independent label EMPIRE, who are strongly championing the creative freedom behind…
