Nothing says Valentine’s Day like chocolate and roses, and I am not sure which one would be Cupid’s clincher to someone’s heart, but I can tell you that chocolate melts mine. One of the most alluring and easy desserts to make is chocolate pot de crème, a fancy French name for chocolate pudding and even…
Valentine’s Day is about expressing love for special people in your life. One way to do so is to pamper that person as much as possible. That can mean starting the day off with delicious breakfast in bed. Muffins can be prepared in advance and are easy to enjoy in hand for a breakfast that…
The chefs at America’s Test Kitchen came up with these S’Mores Brownies. A hefty graham-cracker crust at the bottom supports the brownie layer above. And to capture that campfire component, a top layer of miniature marshmallows toast in the oven under the broiler. Two things. Be sure to use a metal baking pan and not…
Money is a recurring motif in the content of Jimmy Donaldson, known on YouTube as MrBeast. Videos from the 27-year-old influencer frequently feature elaborate challenges where winners receive cash prizes or philanthropic efforts where funds are given away. The YouTube star, who runs the platform’s most popular channel with more than 460 million subscribers, is…
For decades, the global financial system has enabled businesses to trade across borders by prioritizing stability and regulatory oversight. Yet despite transactions becoming increasingly digital and global, the pace of settlement has remained largely unchanged. The way value moves across borders today reflects deep structural constraints. International wires operate within narrow windows, and payments often…
February is the month for love — and beer — if not necessarily in that order. This month brings the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, then Valentine’s Day and, finally, San Francisco Beer Week, which has been shifted to later this month to accommodate the Super Bowl. It’ll run Feb. 20 to March 1. Related…
Bad Bunny performs in the Apple Music Halftime Show during Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, California. | Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images You don’t have to speak Spanish to understand that Bad Bunny’s blockbuster Super Bowl halftime show was a powerful one: rooted in place, history, politics, and most…
Last February, OpenAI co-founder and Tesla Autopilot’s founding engineer, Andrej Karpathy, accidentally coined a now-ubiquitous term when he tweeted about “vibe coding.” The phrase described a form of A.I.-aided coding that lowered the barrier to entry for software engineering and soon took both hobbyists and Silicon Valley by storm. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of that…
For years, Adobe has been the gold standard for image and video software in the enterprise market. But today, it’s facing a very different kind of competition. A wave of A.I.-powered startups can now generate and edit content in seconds, often for a fraction of the cost. Tools like Higgsfield promise instant, click-to-video workflows for…
The Seattle Seahawks may have dominated the Super Bowl. But when it comes to the event’s famed advertisements, A.I. was the real winner. A.I. appeared across nearly one-quarter of this year’s Super Bowl ads, including spots in which Anthropic pledged an ad-free version of Claude, Meta showed off its smart glasses, and Salesforce tapped MrBeast…
