Los Angeles, sweltering thanks to an unusual August humidity, got even hotter on Wednesday as Variety toasted the best and brightest young talent in show business.

Variety Power of Young Hollywood, presented by Disney+, welcomed scores of actors, musicians, influencers, agents and execs to the Four Seasons Beverly Hills — including this year’s franchise cover stars Tate McRae, Sombr, Tyriq Withers and Malachi Barton.

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Fresh off the release of his third mini-album TR.EE, Jay B, leader of the global group Got7, announced his U.S. leg of his 2026 tape: roots Tour, heading to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tacoma, New York City, Dallas, and Chicago in September.

Key Takeaways

• SaaS SEO requires a strategy built for long sales cycles and global competition.
• Map your content to every stage of the buyer journey, from awareness-stage blog posts to decision-stage case studies and comparison pages. 
• AI search has reshaped how buyers research software, with 51 percent of B2B software buyers now starting with an AI chatbot more often than Google. That means optimizing as much for AI citations as search rankings. 
• Build authority through technical SEO, high-quality content, digital PR, and a strong presence on third-party review sites like G2 and Capterra. 

There are few better traffic sources for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies than organic search. 

Managing heat efficiently inside solid materials is essential for developing faster, more reliable electronics. Until now, a wave-based form of heat transport called phonon focusing had only been observed at extremely low cryogenic temperatures, which made it difficult to study and limited its potential applications.

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Earlier this week, Clément Delangue, the CEO of startup Hugging Face — which was recently on the receiving end of a rogue cyber attack by OpenAI's models — made the somewhat controversial claim that China was winning the AI race.

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The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival kicks off on Friday — and organizers expect their biggest turnout ever, despite a changing consumer and lingering economic challenges.

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are faced with the prospect of imminent risk of arrest and deportation – to a home country racked with crime, violence and political unrest – after the Trump administration officially stripped them of humanitarian protections that had allowed them to live and work legally in the United States for years.

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Boxed games still account for 38.5% of Nintendo's software sales, the Mario maker has said, suggesting that it has no desire to kill physical media anytime soon.