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ABC World News Tonight with David Muir and CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil closed out the week of February 16 with no viewership declines in total viewers or the Adults 25-54 demo.However, World News Tonight was the only evening newscast to record week-to-week gains in both measured categories. Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas saw across-the-board declines for the just concluded week, but it continued to be the most-watched broadcast in the advertiser-coveted demo, benefiting from NBC’s coverage of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics.Note: The weekly averages of ABC World News Tonight and CBS Evening News are based…
Could Meta be preparing to launch a Prada version of its Meta AI glasses? That’s the speculation after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, were spotted sitting in the front row of Prada’s Fall/Winter 2026 Fashion Week show in Milan Thursday. The social media exec was seen chatting with his seatmate, Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada’s Chief Merchandising Officer and son of head designer Miuccia Prada. While Zuckerberg has been working to polish his image in recent years, including with upgraded threads, it’s likely that the social media exec wasn’t at Prada for the fashion, but rather because of an upcoming collaboration…
Other Wireless Headphones We’ve TestedWireless headphones are the default these days, and there are roughly 1 gazillion of them (and counting). We do our best to test them all, but not everything we test can make the big list. Here are some other good options worth trying.Sony Linkbuds Clip for $230: Sony’s new clip-on open earbuds are solid performers at a premium price. While I found their call quality subpar, they provide clear and accessible audio playback, good controls, and features like a 10-band EQ and audio presets to tailor your experience. Their full price is a tall ask for…
This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of Feb. 16, 2026.Week-to-week declines were registered by all three cable networks in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo during primetime and total day. The primetime demo had all three cable networks posting double-digit declines, but MS NOW in the other dayparts only saw single-digit drops.NETWORKS:According to Nielsen big data + panel for the week of February 16, Fox News averaged 2.483 million total viewers and 235,000 A25-54 viewers during primetime. The network was down -10% in total viewers and -18% in the demo compared…
Threads is testing a shortcut to make it easier to DM someone, the Meta-owned company announced on Thursday. Users who are part of the test can type “DM me” or “Message me” in a post or reply to automatically generate a hyperlink that invites others to start a private conversation with them. Tapping on the shortcut will take you to a one-on-one direct messaging chat with the person. If you both follow each other, the message will go directly to their primary inbox. If you don’t follow each other, the message is filtered through the “Message Requests” folder to prevent…
It’s the classic awkward icebreaker: If you could invite anyone, dead or alive, to a dinner party, who would it be? Aristotle? Ailias is a company based in Surrey, UK, which promises to make that hypothetical a reality. It can reanimate historical and current legends with 3D hologram avatars that are fully conversational, knowledgeable, and can be delivered to you in a box.The technology isn’t bespoke. Many companies provide life-size hologram displays for events and parties, everything from floating 3D displays of Santa’s sleigh or 3D Holo-Trucks. The physicist Dennis Gabor even won a Nobel Prize in 1971 for his…
Today continues to be America’s No. 1 morning show for the week of February 16. However, the good news ends there for NBC News’ morning show, as it was the only morning show to lose viewers in both total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. Coverage of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics helped Today maintain its lead in both measured categories, but the big winner of the week was CBS Mornings, which recorded double-digit growth in the advertiser-prized demo.NOTE: GMA and CBS Mornings were coded as specials, and Today was retitled to Today-TS on Monday (02/16/26) due to the Presidents Day…
Meeting notetaker Read AI on Thursday launched an AI-powered email-based assistant called Ada, saying it helps users manage their schedules, answer questions based on a company’s knowledge base, and reply to out-of-office emails. The company is calling Ada a “digital twin” that handles tasks for you around the clock. Read AI said that the assistant will be available to all users, and they can start configuring it by sending an email to “ada@read.ai” and writing “Get me started.” When you ask Ada to find a time to meet with someone, it replies to the other person in the thread with…
A former candidate in the 2026 race for governor of California and a popular YouTuber have been kicked off Kalshi’s platform for alleged violations related to insider trading, the popular prediction market revealed Wednesday.In a blog post detailing the cases, Kalshi’s head of enforcement, Robert DeNault, noted that the company’s surveillance system had flagged suspicious behavior in both instances.In the case of the political candidate, Kalshi cited a video posted online “that appeared to show him trading on his own candidacy.” Kalshi froze the candidate’s accounts and reported the activity to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the government agency that…
The numbers$9.5 billion—Warner Bros. Discovery’s total revenues in Q4. Total revenue for fiscal 2025 was $37.3 billion, a 5% decrese.-9%—Ad revenues decline, as ad-lite streaming subscriber growth was more than offset by domestic linear audience declines. The loss of the NBA negatively impacted the growth rate by 4%.-10%—Content revenues decrease, driven by lower content sales due to the timing of renewals at the studios and global linear networks segments.131.6 million—WBD’s total streaming subscribers across HBO Max and Discovery+, an increase of 3.5 million from Q3. However, WBD said Q4 2025 was also the final quarter it would consistently report subs.The…
Bumble announced on Thursday that it’s adding a series of AI-driven features intended to help turn matches into lasting connections, including those that offer feedback and guidance on users’ bios, photos, and prompts. The dating app’s new AI-suggested profile guidance tool will roll out globally and give “personalized, actionable feedback” on users’ bios and prompts. For users in the U.S., the profile guidance feature can be augmented with an AI photo feedback tool, which can “help you choose the best photos and show up as your most authentic self.” According to Bumble’s blog post explaining these features, it doesn’t seem…
OpenAI has announced plans to turn its London office into its largest research hub outside of the United States.The company—which established a UK office in 2023—says it will expand its London-based research team, scooping up talent emerging from leading British universities. It has not indicated how many researchers it will hire.“The UK brings together world-class talent and leading scientific institutions and universities, making it an ideal place to deliver the important research which will ensure our AI is safe, useful, and benefits everyone,” said Mark Chen, chief research officer at OpenAI, in a statement.The plans bring OpenAI into direct competition…
After just under six months as chief executive (CEO) of WPP, Cindy Rose has unveiled a two-year turnaround plan designed to revive the ailing business. When Rose joined in September 2025, WPP’s share price had just hit a 16-year low. On Thurs (Feb. 26), it posted an 8.1% year-on-year revenue decline, sending shares tumbling a further 10% as trading opened. Before she unveiled the reset to investors at WPP’s annual strategy update in London, Rose told journalists: “What has made us successful in the past will not make us successful in the future. You can see from our numbers this morning that…
A Greek court on Thursday sentenced the founder of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers, to eight years in prison for illegal wiretapping and privacy violations, according to several reports. Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed “Greek Watergate,” which dates back to 2022. The Greek government was accused of wiretapping the phones of politicians, journalists, businesspeople, and military officials with spyware developed by Intellexa. The other people sentenced today include Dilian’s business partner Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou; his former deputy administrator and shareholder of Intellexa, Felix Bitzios; and Yiannis Lavranos,…
Supercomputers can be measured in several ways, but the vital statistic is their ability to perform floating-point operations per second, or flops. Flopping as fast as possible is what makes you successful. At her peak, Sierra could hit 94.64 petaflops—94.64 quadrillion floating-point operations—per second. El Capitan, at 1.809 exaflops, is about 19 times faster. In late 2025, he was officially declared the world’s fastest supercomputer. Sierra’s juice, Neely says, was no longer worth the squeeze.There was no big red button, no giant lever, that turned Sierra off. Someone could’ve just cut the cords, sure, but that’s not the recommended procedure.…
MS NOW announced that Scott Foster will be joining the network’s Washington, D.C. bureau as its new White House Director.Sudeep Reddy, MS NOW’s Washington Bureau chief, made the announcement on Thursday morning, saying Foster will be responsible for all aspects of the network’s White House coverage. He will lead the team of reporters and producers and guide the day-to-day editorial agenda.In addition, Foster, who starts his new assignment on Monday, March 2, will oversee original White House reporting across all platforms and lead the production elements of covering the president in Washington and across the globe. “[Foster’s] decades of newsroom experience…