We're ending the year on a positive note, with a celebration of the best cultural moments of 2025 – from film, to music, to books and live events.

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

Floating notes and flying chaos—SkyBlock has never sounded better. Donald Trump gives update on "Arc de Trump" “Survivor 48” star Eva Erickson reveals she narrowly avoided Brown University shooting: ...

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have cofounded a new open source organization—the Agentic AI Foundation—to promote standards for artificial intelligence agents. The three companies are also transferring ...

What should an elementary reading block look like? For such a common part of the school day, it’s surprising to find that there’s no one right answer. More than 40 states have passed legislation ...

Billy Macklowe has snapped up the troubled loan on a Tribeca office building. The William Macklowe Company bought the $46 million note tied to 291 Broadway as the loan barreled toward foreclosure, The ...

LONDON—Jamie Dimon, barely done with one mammoth building project on New York’s Park Avenue, is embarking on another this side of the pond. The bank he leads, JPMorgan Chase, said Thursday it would ...

You probably haven't heard of Read AI. The company has quietly been making a name for itself in the crowded AI space, signing up 50,000 customers daily in recent months. At first glance, Read AI ...

Dhanji Prasanna is the Chief Technical Officer of fintech company Block, which runs Cash App and Afterpay. On a podcast, Prasanna said that engineers should focus on purpose over perfect code. Block ...

Brittany Mahomes received a handwritten letter from pal Taylor Swift after speculation that the pop star wrote the “The Life of a Showgirl” track “CANCELLED!” about her. The former soccer pro took to ...

The celebrity memoir is a form of which I’m reflexively skeptical. Some books lean solely on name recognition, without much concern for the content inside. Others promise salacious details of a life ...

Maddie Block, like lots of other people, has a complicated relationship with her dad. Also like a lot of other people, she’s going viral on TikTok about it — though maybe for a less usual reason. In a ...