Adam RittenbergDec 18, 2025, 07:17 PM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Ohio University cited football coach Brian Smith’s romantic relationships, including one he admitted to with a student, as well as an allegation of public intoxication in a letter stating its intent to fire him for cause….
China, the world’s top soybean consumer, faces a complex balancing act when securing supplies. With 90 per cent of market demand met by imports, Brazil and the United States remain its top suppliers, but intensifying efforts to promote self-sufficiency are seeking to reduce reliance on imports. From price swings and quality traits to strategic roles…
With the conclusion of the NFL regular season fast approaching, players have only a few weeks left to show off their most fashionable pregame fits. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Weather, of course, can be something of a detriment to stylish fits this time of year, at least in some parts of the country. But players…
T.A.T.u’s 2002 anthem “All The Things She Said” served as one of the best needle drops on television this year, soundtracking a pivotal moment in last week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, and now its streams are skyrocketing. According to data Spotify shared with The Hollywood Reporter, the song’s streams on the platform have more than…
The TikTok sale is officially happening, with a consortium of American investors set to take over U.S. operations of the video platform next month on Jan. 22, 2026. The deal means that TikTok, the fast-growing social video platform that upended the strategies of competitors like YouTube and Meta Platforms Inc., will have a new joint…
Walt Disney Pictures is weaving a Tangled web as it searches for the actors to inhabit the live-action adaptation of its 2010 animated movie. The studio quietly conducted screen tests and chemistry readings in London last week for the parts of Rapunzel, the curious and plucky would-be princess with magical hair, and Flynn Rider, the…
Paul King is going from cuddly jam-eating bears to cute-ugly monsters. A month after nabbing the film rights to Labubu, Sony has tapped Paddington and Wonka filmmaker King to bring to life a big-screen take on one of the world’s biggest collectible sensations. King is set to direct the feature project and will producewith Department…
A prominent population expert from the University of Hong Kong has stepped down as an associate faculty dean and agreed with the retraction of a paper after the institution ruled it contained references to non-existent publications generated by AI. Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai of the department of social work and social administration had stepped down…
App developers looking to launch their programs in ChatGPT can now submit them for review and potential publication, OpenAI said Wednesday.The company also introduced a new app directory within Chat’s tools menu that has swiftly been dubbed an “app store.” In October, the company announced the arrival of apps in its chatbot, explaining that the…
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. By all measures, Meta’s Threads app had a very good year. The app was Apple’s second-most-downloaded iOS app of the year, trailing only ChatGPT. Threads now has 400 million…
