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Fashion’s biggest night out returns to New York City this evening as the Metropolitan Museum of Art prepares to welcome couture-wearing celebrities back to its steps.But as tech billionaires buy their way into the mainstream, the event is making headlines even before the kickoff—not for who might be the best dressed, but who is underwriting the festivities.Held the first Monday of every May, the Met Gala is an invitation-only benefit fundraiser in support of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.The gathering has become an iconic event, synonymous with status and fashion, with its organizer, Anna Wintour, filling the tables…

Forget AI replacing human artists—The Devil Wears Prada 2 just proved that human artists can replace AI.The new movie, a long-awaited sequel to 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada, sees the return of star Meryl Streep as iconic fashion editor Miranda Priestly. It begins with Priestly in a PR crisis, sparking a slew of online hate. That includes memes like an image of Priestly dressed as a fast-food worker captioned, “Would you like lies with that?”The image is only briefly on screen, and at first glance, many moviegoers assumed it was AI-generated. After all, on the internet of 2026, it most…

Nike ACG’s all-terrain Pegasus Trail handles anything a path can dish outNike ACG’s new Pegasus Trail (Photo: Nike)Published May 4, 2026 10:34AMHere’s a shoe test you don’t see everyday. Nike ACG’s new Pegasus Trail earned my trust when it delivered enough stopping power to keep more than 320 pounds from careening off a steep, mud-slicked bluff into the ocean. Those pounds weren’t all mine: The weight included two sled dogs—rescues I’d just taken charge of—with a lot of excess energy. The best way to burn it off? Turning my body into the sled they instinctively crave by tethering them to…

On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona’s Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn’t a cloud or dust, then alerted the state’s forest service and largest electric utility.One of dozens of AI cameras installed for the utility Arizona Public Service had spotted early signs of what came to be known as the Diamond Fire. Firefighters raced to the scene and contained the blaze before it grew past 7 acres (2.8 hectares).As record-breaking heat and an abysmal snowpack raise concerns about severe wildfires, states across the fire-prone West are adding AI to their wildfire detection toolbox, banking…

Citizen’s timepieces are powered by any light—day or night—and never need a battery (Photo: Citizen)Published May 4, 2026 10:48AMFor some occasions, there’s no gift like a really good watch. That’s because a high-quality timepiece is both elegant and practical, and that’s a rare combination. So whether you’re celebrating a new graduate embarking on the next stage of life or a dad crushing the parent stage of life, a great watch is the way to go. Just make it something special, like a Citizen watch powered by any light with Eco-Drive. Citizen pioneered this environmentally-friendly technology in 1976, and has been…

In December 2025, the biggest battery maker in the world, CATL, started what it calls the world’s first large-scale deployment of robots in its Luoyang, China factory. Last week, the State Grid Corporation of China began its $1 billion 2026 plan to deploy a humanoid army to maintain its grid autonomously. And just a few days ago, at the other side of the East China Sea, Japan Airlines announced the beginning of a test program of humanoids to carry luggage at airports.While we listen to Elon Musk tell us how magical and civilization-changing Tesla’s Optimus robots are, Asian countries are…

A landmark federal court decision has opened the doors to COVID-era tax refunds for millions of U.S. taxpayers. In Kwong v. United States, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims determined that the COVID-19 pandemic effectively paused federal tax deadlines from January 2020 through July 2023, giving taxpayers more time to file and pay their taxes than the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had previously recognized. The court ruled that the disaster-relief provision in Internal Revenue Code Section 7508A requires the IRS to pause all penalties and interest throughout the entire disaster period, plus an additional 60 days.That means that while the COVID-19 federal…

Your boss can make or break your job experience: a good boss, smooth sailing ahead. A bad boss? Misery. According to a new workplace study, most employees are dealing with the latter. The research comes from Harris Poll’s Thought Leadership Practice who just conducted its Toxic Boss survey, which included online responses from 1,334 employed U.S. adults. It defined a toxic boss as someone who “exhibits harmful workplace behaviors, including unfair preferential treatment, lack of recognition, blame-shifting, unnecessary micromanagement, unreasonable expectations, being unapproachable, taking credit for others’ ideas, acting unprofessionally, or discriminating against employees based on personal characteristics.” A staggering…

From beyond the museum walls Monday, works of art will move and take shape as the glitterati of guests from Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman to Venus Williams will fashionably ascend the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s steps and exhibit their creative interpretations of this year’s dress code, “Fashion is art.”The question of whether fashion is art has long been topic of conversation for fashion insiders, and this first Monday in May the dress code is leaving nothing up for debate.The dress code for the starry fundraising event calls for guests to “express their relationship to fashion as an embodied art form.”Fashion has…

To rebrand the Allen Institute, designers thought horizontally instead of vertically.The nonprofit bioscience research institute, founded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to map the human brain, had a perfectly sufficient logo that designer Neville Brody says was “at the heart of everything.” But Brody, a legend in the industry who has designed for Coca-Cola, Nike, and Channel 4, reimagined the Allen Institute’s new identity so “the brand is a platform” for a company’s activities.Of the elements that comprise a brand, the logo traditionally comes first then the other components spin off of it. But for this project, Brody collapsed the…