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  • Donald Trump Says There Already Are Enough Guardrails Around AI

    Donald Trump Says There Already Are Enough Guardrails Around AI

    Amid the increasing alarm over AI‘s supercharged capabilities, Donald Trump rejected calls for new regulation, saying that there already are guardrails in place.

    In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump wrote, “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI ‘people’ from doing bad, or potentially bad, ‘things,’ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’ – and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!”

    Later, he posted, “The claim that ‘AI is going to take over the World’ is a Hoax, just like Global ‘Warming,’ where everyone was going to be dead by now, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, or Impeachment Hoax #1, or Impeachment Hoax #2. These are all Radical Left Dumocrats, who never give up, but seldom win. Hopefully, the Voters have seen the light!”

    On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted an essay in which he called for slowing down AI development, warning that a “swarm” of AI agents could be capable of taking over the internet in 6-12 months.

    He wrote, “Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage), and that the scale of damage would continue to increase from there if AI becomes more powerful without the necessary guardrails.”

    Amodei called on AI companies to commit to third-party evaluators “to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes.”

    Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, and Elon Musk, founder of SpaceXAI, signalled agreement with Amodei.

    Amodei also called on governments to coordinate on safety standards.

    Trump, though, has warned of a slowdown in AI development ceding the technological arms race to China. He also has chided communities that have tried to block the construction of data centers, even though the backlash against the sprawling developments has come from both parties.

  • UK weighs tokenized gold reforms – Here’s why the timing matters for crypto

    UK weighs tokenized gold reforms – Here’s why the timing matters for crypto

    Looks like the Q4 cycle is being set up as one driven by a strong regulatory theme.

    At the macro level, the pending vote on the CLARITY Act has kept markets on edge for months and, if passed, would provide one of the most powerful bridges between TradFi and DeFi in crypto’s history. As such, the news that the UK’s FCA will outline potential reforms for tokenized gold on Monday comes as no surprise, and adds to the growing list of things to watch in the regulatory space for digital assets.

    That said, the impact could still be significant. AMBCrypto recently reported that XAUT’s market share of the RWA market has reached a record 11%.

    But the bigger story may be the overall growth of tokenized gold assets, which shows the speed at which traditional financial markets are moving on-chain, and why regulatory clarity could become a major catalyst for crypto adoption.

    Source: Token Terminal

    As the chart above shows, tokenized gold issuers such as Kinesis have seen the value of their KAU rise more than 4,600% in less than 180 days and outperformed even XAUT. This reflects the growing interest in tokenized instruments representing traditional assets (such as gold) beyond just cryptocurrencies.

    Against this setup, the U.K.’ potential deregulation of tokenized gold could further accelerate these flows. The potential size of this opportunity is not to be underestimated. As one analyst noted, the U.K. facilitates more than 70% of global gold transactions by volume. Thus, even if a small amount of this activity moves on-chain, the impact on the tokenization sector could be significant.

    More importantly, the impact on crypto’s “safe-haven” narrative could be even greater.

    Tokenized gold is becoming more than an RWA narrative

    The key point is that this regulatory move could “boost”, rather “trigger” crypto’s safe-haven narrative.

    The reasoning is that the perception of crypto as a safe haven is already in motion. Therefore, the potential de-regulation in the UK would be an element that could fuel and prolong the narrative, rather than initiate it. And when viewed through the technical lens, this divergence becomes even more interesting.

    As the chart below shows, the XAU/$BTC ratio is set to post its lowest quarterly performance since the 2024 election, down over 19%. It also marks the second consecutive quarter of negative returns for the ratio, which means that $BTC has beaten gold in two Qs in a row. The main point, however, is that the narrative is even better considering the context.

    Source: TradingView (XAU/$BTC)

    From the macro perspective, $BTC’s outperformance comes as macro FUD continues to mount, which means that $BTC is pushing higher despite a risk-off environment. In other words, it beats gold as a safe haven.

    In this context, the U.K.’s potential deregulation of tokenized gold sounds less like a policy move and more like a strategic bet. As traditional gold demand declines and tokenized gold takes off, the U.K. would benefit from capturing more of this activity by bringing a bigger share of the global gold market on-chain.

    In turn, it could help stretch Bitcoin’s digital-gold narrative at a time when macro FUD is building.

    Final Summary

    • $BTC is beating gold despite rising macro risks.
    • U.K. gold reforms could boost tokenized gold and $BTC’s digital-gold narrative.
  • Kennedy Center Warns Of Bankruptcy, Ties Donald Trump’s Leadership Of “Financial Rescue” To Restoration Of His Name To Arts Institution

    Kennedy Center Warns Of Bankruptcy, Ties Donald Trump’s Leadership Of “Financial Rescue” To Restoration Of His Name To Arts Institution

    UPDATED: There is a new wrinkle in the ongoing saga over the Kennedy Center: Officials with the institution are warning of “certain financial collapse within weeks” and say that restoring Donald Trump‘s name to the complex may be the only way to get him to “lead the financial rescue of the center.”

    A draft board resolution, outlined in court documents on Monday, states that the center “is in such a precarious fiscal position that it will not be able to support its payroll obligations, nor routine maintenance contracts within a matter of weeks.”

    The resolution also states that Trump, who serves as the center’s chairman, has offered to “step in and raise the necessary funds to keep the Center from bankruptcy during its much needed renovation.” The resolution adds that the board “is seeking to appropriately recognize and acknowledge President Trump for his well timed proffer of fiscal rescue. The Board understands that without such appropriate recognition it is unlikely that President Trump will provide the fundamental oversight of the renovation of the main building and lead the fiscal rescue of the Center.”

    The draft resolutions were submitted in court documents by attorneys for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), an ex officio member of the board who fought an earlier effort to add Trump’s name to the institution and plans to close the complex for two years for renovations.

    The Washington Post first reported on the proposed resolution as well as another calling for the immediate shutdown of the main complex. That resolution follows a recent incident in which a leak after heavy rains caused a portion of the ceiling plaster to detach.

    The resolutions are expected to come before the center’s board meeting on Tuesday.

    A federal judge ruled in May that the board lacked authority to add Trump’s name to the center late last year, and he ordered it removed from Kennedy Center materials and the front facade.

    More recently, the board voted on a new resolution to add Trump’s name as many as three times to the center’s grounds. On the facade, below its official name, “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” there would be an additional line reading “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.”

    Once a $100 million threshold is met for an endowment the board set up for the center, per the resolution, a line would be added to read, “Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.”

    The board also voted to designate “the physical site and grounds upon which the center sits” as the “President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”

    The newest resolution presents 10 different options for installing Trump’s name on the front.

    The judge in Beatty’s lawsuit, Christopher Cooper, is currently considering whether the new naming proposal complies with his earlier ruling.

    The board also voted last month to close most of the complex for renovations. The latest resolution cites the recent partial ceiling collapse and states that the board “believes that the risk associated with exposing patrons and employees to a hazardous building greatly outweighs any reputational risk
    associated with closing the main building.” The resolution notes that programming would still continue at The Reach, the extension to the center that opened in 2019, while the National Symphony Orchestra would continue at alternate venues. The Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize also would continue at alternate venues.

    Congress included more than $250 million in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year for Kennedy Center renovations. But since Trump’s takeover of the center just weeks into his second term, the center saw a drop in ticket sales and, after the president’s name was added to the complex in December, another wave of artist cancellations.

    Cooper is holding a scheduling conference on Tuesday on the latest closure plan. Cooper’s injunction also prohibited the institution from closing unless the board more fully considered the impact of a shutdown.

    A Kennedy Center spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Beatty’s attorneys, Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky, said in a statement, “This constant effort to add Donald Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center facade is the definition of insanity. This is now the third attempt to deface this sacred memorial and turn it into a vanity project for one man’s ego. Worse still, now Trump is taking the Center hostage and threatening to in effect kill it unless he gets his way. This has to stop.”

  • Better Call Odenkirk: Watch L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman’s FYC Ad Voiced By Emmy Winner; Spot To Run During TV’s Big Night

    Better Call Odenkirk: Watch L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman’s FYC Ad Voiced By Emmy Winner; Spot To Run During TV’s Big Night

    EXCLUSIVE: When it’s time to get serious, it never hurts to have Saul Goodman in your corner — especially on Emmy night, especially if you’re aiming to be the next Mayor of L.A.

    That’s exactly what Nithya Raman is doing tonight with Bob Odenkirk-voiced campaign ad set to drop right before the local NBC affiliate’s broadcast of TV’s biggest night. The ad will actually play two times before the Emmys, once afterwards on KNBC’s post-Emmys news broadcast, and one more time on Tuesday morning on The Today Show.

    Promising that the current Councilmember will “fight to keep Hollywood in Hollywood,” the slick 30-second spot leans right into the ceremony itself with a For Your Consideration vibe and theme. It’s right there in the first words spoken by two-time Emmy winner Odenkirk: “For your consideration: A mayor who loves L.A. as much as we do.”

    Take at Raman’s Emmy-ish ad here:

    “Los Angeles has so many eager, skilled people who want to work in our industry– we deserve a city and leaders who fight to achieve the conditions to make that work happen,” longtime Raman supporter Odenkirk told Deadline today of putting his mouth literally where his donor dollars have been going.

    Having survived a something bruising primary against incumbent Karen Bass and Hills alum Spencer Pratt, Raman in July scored the second run-off spot for the November election. A vocal opponent of Paramount’s $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery, Raman has made the exodus of jobs and production from Hollywood in recent years a core issue in what was once a long longshot bid for the big City Hall chair. First elected in 2020 in an upset race, Raman is running close to Bass in the Mayoral polls, and has seen an uptick as the campaign has kicked into post-summer high-gear.

    With a national film and TV tax credit now being backed by both Donald Trump and Democrats like Sen Adam Schiff (D-CA) to help the industry, which has lost over 50,000 jobs over the past six years, Raman’s Tinseltown focus (and a plan she released in the spring) has taken centerstage.

    Coming with its four airings in about 12 hours, the release of today’s big swing ad, the spouse of 30 Rock producer Vali Chandrasekaran wants to put the topic of Tinseltown’s crisis, as well as issues of affordability and potholes, right in front of Angelenos watching TV tonight.

    “The entertainment industry isn’t just the creative engine of Los Angeles, it’s an economic engine for the entire city. Film and television production supports restaurants, dry cleaners, hardware stores, hotels, prop houses, rental yards, post-production shops and thousands of small businesses,” Raman said to Deadline this morning..

    “City Hall should be fighting every day to keep those jobs here, instead of watching passively as Hollywood is hollowed out,” she added. “As mayor, I will make Los Angeles a place where productions can stay, workers can build stable careers and the next generation of storytellers can afford to live.”

    Hosted by Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay, the78th Primetime Emmy Awards airs live Monday from DTLA on NBC and and Peacock at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.

  • Does video show Mamdani and AOC smiling, laughing at 9/11 ceremony? Claim omits key context

    Does video show Mamdani and AOC smiling, laughing at 9/11 ceremony? Claim omits key context

    Claim:

    A video clip authentically showed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sharing a smile and a laugh as victims’ names were being read during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

    Rating:

    True

    Context

    While the brief clip of Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez is authentic, it omits crucial context. Additional footage shared by CNN shows Mamdani was listening to the names of 9/11 victims before Ocasio-Cortez approached him. According to the footage and several eyewitness reports, the two briefly greeted each other before refocusing on the ceremony.

    In September 2026, a rumor spread that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both progressive Democrats, exchanged a smile and a laugh as victims’ names were read during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

    The claim circulated across social media platforms, including on Facebook, Reddit and X:

    Several news outlets also relayed the claim, including right-leaning tabloid The New York Post, conservative news channel Fox News and Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post.

    Meanwhile, numerous Snopes readers searched our website and emailed us seeking to confirm the veracity of the rumor.

    The brief clip is authentic. As such, we’ve rated this claim true — with the caveat that it omits crucial context.

    A review of the 9/11 ceremony livestream on the The Associated Press YouTube channel showed the moment where Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani briefly interactied and smiled. Ocasio-Cortez also appeared to laugh. 

    However, additional footage shared by CNN shows Mamdani was listening to the names of 9/11 victims before Ocasio-Cortez approached him. According to the footage and several eyewitness reports, the two briefly greeted each other before refocusing on the ceremony.

    We reached out to Mamdani’s and Ocasio-Cortez’s offices seeking comment and will update this story if we receive responses. We also reached out to eyewitnesses who described the exchange as a greeting.

    The AP livestream lasted a total of four hours and 16 minutes. Halfway through the video, the cameras showed a man seemingly sobbing by the parapet of one of the memorial waterfall pools. The names of the 9/11 victims are inscribed on the pools’ parapets, where mourners customarily place flowers in remembrance. 

    As the man cried, the cameras faded away from the shot focusing on him and focused on Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez interacting and smiling (at the 02:08:00 mark):

    The exchange occurred as speakers read some of the 9/11 victims’ names in alphabetical order. 

    Eyewitnesses and footage confirm brief greeting

    In response to the social media outrage over Ocasio-Cortez’s and Mamdani’s interaction, people at the ceremony said the two were only greeting each other. One of those eyewitnesses was Michael Ragusa, head of security for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican and supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump. (Giuliani was mayor at the time of the 9/11 attacks.) 

    Ragusa said in an X post that he was “standing next to them the whole time” and Ocasio-Cortez was greeting Mamdani before they quickly turned their attention back to the ceremony (archived): 

    Ragusa added in his post that other politicians from both parties were also laughing and joking behind him, though he declined to identify them in an email exchange with Snopes.

    In addition, former New York Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou, a Democrat, characterized the interaction as a greeting in an X post, adding that both Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez stayed for the entire ceremony and focused on it (archived):

    Lastly, CNN reviewed and shared isolated and unaltered footage of the pair, before and after the exchange. It appeared to confirm reports that the two greeted each other before refocusing on the reading of the names. We contacted the CNN reporter whose byline appeared on the story to ask for the video’s source and will update this story if we hear back.

    For further reading, Snopes has covered several claims regarding 9/11, Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez, including the claim that some families of 9/11 victims wanted Mamdani not to attend the 25th anniversary ceremony.

  • Matthew Rhys Makes Emmy History With Best Actor Win for ‘Widow’s Bay’

    Matthew Rhys Makes Emmy History With Best Actor Win for ‘Widow’s Bay’

    When Matthew Rhys accepted his second Emmy of the night for best actor in a comedy series for Widow’s Bay, he made history.

    The Welsh actor is now the first performer in history to have won the lead-acting Emmy across all three genres, since he won on the drama side back in 2018 for The Americans, and the first man to win two lead-acting trophies in a single night.

    Unlike in the limited series category, Rhys was considered the heavy frontrunner here, given Widow’s Bay’s dominance in the nominations. He beat out four fellow former nominees in Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Wonder Man), Steve Carell (Rooster), Jason Segel (Shrinking) and Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building).

    Widow’s Bay was the word-of-mouth sensation that no one saw coming this past spring, as Apple TV’s inventive horror-comedy first took critics by storm and then built in buzz with viewers week over week. Rhys’s performance as the hapless Tom Loftis, mayor of a New England island town that he really hopes is not haunted as tourists start arriving in droves, drew raves for its combination of slapstick physicality and emotional range. It’s the underdog in the best-comedy race opposite returning winner Hacks (competing for its final season) and already cleaned up at least week’s Creative Arts awards, including a first-ever Emmy win for guest star Betty Gilpin.

    “When I first read it, I was like, ‘What the fuck is this? I’ve never read anything like this, and I’ve certainly never played anything remotely like this,’” Rhys told The Hollywood Reporter of Widow’s Bay earlier this year. “When I got on my first Zoom with [executive producer and director] Hiro [Murai], he just said, ‘Look, we’re not making a comedy. We’re not making horror. We’re just going to create a real world with real people that have real backstories — and we’ll play it for real.’”

    This led into a finale that featured some of the most intensely dramatic material of the actor’s career: “I’m coming off the back of Beast in Me, and I was like, ‘This feels heavier than that!’” Rhys recalled. “But the drama becomes magnified and far richer as a result of it.”

    Widow’s Bay has been renewed for a second season. Rhys is also nominated tonight for best comedy series, as an executive producer on the show.

    The 2026 Emmys aired live on Monday from the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. Mariska Hargitay hosted. See the red carpet looks here.

  • Apple’s New OSes Hide an Easter Egg That Old-School Mac Users Should Appreciate

    Apple’s New OSes Hide an Easter Egg That Old-School Mac Users Should Appreciate

    Apple’s newest operating systems, out today, hide a throwback reference to one of the more whimsical bits of one of the company’s oldest OS releases: Clarus the dogcow.

    Mac users with enough gray hair (or no hair left at all) should remember Clarus as a bitmapped animal with the spots of a cow and approximately the head and the tail of a dog, which would visualize how your choice of print settings affected how your text appeared on a page.

    More than four decades after the dogcow’s debut in a page-setup dialog for Apple’s LaserWriter printer—with a moniker nodding to the firm’s Claris productivity-software subsidiary—you can now catch this critter in settings dialogs for Apple’s less-than-universally-beloved Liquid Glass interface-transparency option. 

    To see this Easter egg in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, open Settings > Appearance > Liquid Glass, and keep scrolling down repeatedly until the word “Moof!” starts to appear in the sample image’s search box.

    As longtime Mac types can attest, “Moof!” is the sound a dogcow makes instead of “woof” or “moo,” since it’s part dog and part cow. Here, the word appears, at first in rainbow colors, below a picture of a non-bitmapped dogcow next to a pool. 

    While you’re in this dialog, you can also adjust the slider to control how transparent menus and other interface elements appear, a source of considerable grumbling among users of macOS 26 Tahoe. 

    The definitive description of Clarus appears in a mock technical note written by Apple developer-support staffer Mark Harlan in 1989 that has long since vanished from the web. “Dogcows, by their nature, are not all dog, nor are they all cow, but they are a special genetic hybrid,” Harlan wrote. “They are rarely seen in the wild. Since dogcows are two-dimensional, they will stand facing a viewer ‘on edge’ to avoid being seen.”

    The note also alludes to the dogcow’s role in illustrating which way your text would appear on the page if you adjusted various dialogs. “Like any talented dog, it can do flips,” he praised the dogcow. “Like any talented cow, it can do precision bitmap alignment.” 

    In a 2019 interview recorded for the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, graphic designer Annette Wagner explained how she created the dogcow by adopting a dog icon created by Susan Kare for the original Mac’s Cairo symbols-only font. “We needed some kind of graphic that would show flipping horizontal, flipping vertical, 2% reduction,” she said.

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    With significant alterations to make it clear to the user when this icon was reversed, flipped, or shrunk by a specific percentage, her work survived an unnamed marketing type’s initial thumbs-down: “Everyone’s going to think this is doggy software!”

    For years, a Clarus sculpture held a prominent spot in the icon garden outside the Apple headquarters buildings, predating Apple Park’s spaceship structure. But this icon fell out of favor over Apple’s long series of reinventions.

    The "smooth" rendering of Clarus the Dogcow introduced in 2022

    Dogcow from macOS Ventura Page Setup dialog (Credit: Apple)

    The dogcow, however, made a reappearance in page-setup dialogs in 2022’s macOS Ventura as a smoothly drawn figurine and continues to adorn those dialogs in Golden Gate. To see one, choose “Page Setup” from the File menu in a writing app like Apple’s built-in TextEdit. A year ago, Clarus also resurfaced in an optional face for the Apple Watch Series 11’s Hermès edition.

    We don’t know when this Mac mascot began showing up in beta versions of Apple’s newest operating systems, but MacRumors analyst Aaron Perris shared a video of it on X on Sept. 9, after which Macworld’s Roman Loyola wrote up that finding and offered this conclusion: “It’s fun to see Apple add a little whimsy to its software.” True.

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  • Taylor Swift Makes Surprise Cameo During Pre-Taped Emmys Segment With Mariska Hargitay

    Taylor Swift Makes Surprise Cameo During Pre-Taped Emmys Segment With Mariska Hargitay

    It seems Taylor Swift was conducting her own investigation, alongside Mariska Hargitay, about whether she’ll be making an appearance at the 2026 Emmy Awards Monday night.

    While Swift wasn’t at the live telecast at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, she did make a surprise cameo during a pre-taped segment that starred Hargitay as Olivia Benson and her other Law & Order: Special Victims Unit co-stars.

    “The mayor’s office is breathing down my neck, demanding an answer to the big question: Will Taylor Swift be at the Emmys?” Hargitay says at the beginning of the skit. Now, in order to crack a Swifty case, you’ve got to think like a Swifty because the Swifties think that everything is a clue to what she’ll do next.”

    The SVU team starts examining how everything connects on the evidence board, such as how Abbott Elementary was nominated for seven Emmys and that season six premieres this year, and that six and seven add up to 13, which is Swift’s lucky number.

    After the team determines that “we got a case here,” that’s when Swift pops in as their new rookie.

    “Hey guys. This isn’t adding up,” she says. “Our perp has a clear MO. A lot of this doesn’t fit the pattern, and I don’t think everything is a clue. … I think what we’re going to be looking for is hiding in plain sight. Saccharide, Aries, from the vineyard, north or south.”

    Swift adds, “Captain, if I may. Yes, these are all Emmy-nominated shows. Yes, the Eras Tour got five nominations. Good for her! Those categories were last week. Why would she be showing up to the ceremony tonight? She’s probably gonna be sitting at home playing with those cats she’s named after TV show characters.”

    “Exactly! And her cat is named Olivia Benson,” Hargitay replies, as Swift holds her real cat in the scene. “Wait, I’m Olivia Benson, and I’m gonna be at the Emmys.”

    The host continues, as she gets close to solving the case, “Last week, the mayor’s office asked me to do security tonight. Hold on, guys. Last Week Tonight, John Oliver, he’s British like those damn Slow Horses … fast Broncos … Denver Broncos … Broncos are playing the Chiefs. Guys, the answer has been TV this whole time because they have a game.”

    The team concludes that Swift’s husband, Travis Kelce, has a Kansas City Chiefs game Monday night, which means: “Taylor Swift will not be at the Emmys,” Hargitay says.

    “Maybe she’s gonna do one of those cool, pre-taped sketch things to support the host,” Swift quips at the end.

    The pop superstar was spotted sitting with Tom Cruise at the Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium on Monday.

    The 78th Emmy Awards, hosted by Hargitay, will air live from the Peacock Theater on Monday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock. Check out all the winners here and the red carpet arrivals here.

  • Stephen Colbert Wins Emmy After ‘Late Show’ Canceled by CBS and Tells Industry to Hire His Crew: ‘They Will Make Your Show Better!’

    “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is the sole Emmy winner of this year’s outstanding variety series category, via the canceled CBS late-night series’ final season, which ended in May.

    “I want to thank so many people in this room,” he said. “Over the last 21 years, I’ve interviewed at least a thousand of you. Thank you for coming on to talk to this idiot, I want you to know that you were the perfect guest. The segment went great, and I’m sorry I forgot to play your clip. But of course, there can only be one favorite guest, and that is my wife, Evie McGee. Thank you, darling.

    “I want to say to the audience thank you so much for watching. watching. We hope you enjoyed the show. We had a great time doing it for you. That’s it. Thank you. We’ll catch you all on the flip.”

    Colbert noted that his writing team (which won the show’s first Emmy for variety series writing last weekend) were tasked with writing Monday night’s Emmy jokes.

    “The thing about these late shows is that, besides bringing a really good, steady job, is that they require so many people that they’re a fantastic incubator for young people to come in to learn to work professionally on a deadline in cooperation in collaboration, and that is the future of our business that we have to look after. I want you to know I got some great news: They are all tech avail. Hire them; they will make your show better, and they will make your day easier.”

    “The Late Show” beat out “The Daily Show” (Comedy Central), “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC), “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO Max), “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS) and “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) in the newly remerged variety series competition, which brought together the previously separated outstanding talk series and outstanding scripted variety categories.

    As part of this rule change, the Academy decreed that the outstanding variety series category would now be an “area” award. Nominees in “area” award categories aren’t actually competing against each other — they’re all independently trying to get at least 90% of Emmy voters to say “yes” when asked, “Does this nominee merit an Emmy?” Any nominated show will win an Emmy if 90% of voters agree.

    That means the category could have had as many as five winners. And the Emmy producers were ready for that possibility. What if multiple, or all, of the variety series nominees had won? “Local news is going to be late,” exec producer Jesse Collins said during Thursday’s Emmys press day. “That’s what’s going to happen. If multiple people win, each would get up to give their speech and it’ll be a TV moment.”

    But 90% is a high threshold, which is why the TV Academy decided that if no series surpassed a 90% “yes” vote, the show with the highest “yes” vote would be the sole winner. And ultimately, that may have been the case, as “The Late Show” was the only winner.

    During the first weekend of the Emmys, “The Late Show” already won four prizes: Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series, Outstanding Directing For A Variety Series, Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork For A Series, Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction For A Series and Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming (Segment).

    “The Late Show” has won nine Emmys over the course of its run; last year it landed the kudos for outstanding talk series and directing for a variety series. Those were the show’s first two wins — which now means that all of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Emmy victories came after CBS announced that it had canceled the show (despite its status at the time as the No. 1 talker in late night).

  • Emmy Awards: Winners List (Updating Live)

    Emmy Awards: Winners List (Updating Live)

    Abbott Elementary • ABC • Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions and Fifth Chance in association with Warner Bros. Television and 20th Television
    Quinta Brunson, Executive Producer
    Justin Halpern, Executive Producer
    Patrick Schumacker, Executive Producer
    Randall Einhorn, Executive Producer
    Brian Rubenstein, Executive Producer
    Brittani Nichols, Executive Producer
    Ava Coleman, Supervising Producer
    Josh Greene, Supervising Producer
    Justin Tan, Producer
    Kate Peterman, Producer
    Joya McCrory, Producer
    Richie Edelson, Producer
    Scott Sites, Produced by

    The Bear • FX/Hulu • FX Productions
    Josh Senior, Executive Producer
    Joanna Calo, Executive Producer
    Christopher Storer, Executive Producer
    Tyson Bidner, Executive Producer
    Matty Matheson, Executive Producer
    Cooper Wehde, Executive Producer
    Rene Gube, Executive Producer
    Courtney Storer, Co-Executive Producer
    Carrie Holt de Lama, Producer
    David Woods, Producer

    Hacks • HBO Max • Universal Television in association with Paulilu, First Thought Productions, Fremulon Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment
    Jen Statsky, Executive Producer
    Paul W. Downs, Executive Producer
    Lucia Aniello, Executive Producer
    Michael Schur, Executive Producer
    David Miner, Executive Producer
    Morgan Sackett, Executive Producer
    Joe Mande, Executive Producer
    Aisha Muharrar, Executive Producer
    Nate Young, Executive Producer
    Ashley Glazier, Executive Producer
    Guy Branum, Co-Executive Producer
    Andrew Law, Co-Executive Producer
    Pat Regan, Co-Executive Producer
    Samantha Riley, Co-Executive Producer
    Ariel Karlin, Producer
    Adam Bricker, Producer
    Jeff Rosenberg, Producer
    Nicholas Perez, Producer

    Margo’s Got Money Troubles • Apple TV • A24 in association with Apple
    Sam French, Executive Producer
    Phoebe Zimmer, Executive Producer
    Alli Reich, Executive Producer
    Boo Killebrew, Executive Producer
    Rufi Thorpe, Executive Producer
    Brittany Kahan-Ward, Executive Producer
    Matthew Tinker, Executive Producer
    Nicole Kidman, Executive Producer
    Per Saari, Executive Producer
    Elle Fanning, Executive Producer
    Dakota Fanning, Executive Producer
    Michelle Pfeiffer, Executive Producer
    Dearbhla Walsh, Executive Producer
    Eva Anderson, Executive Producer
    David E. Kelley, Executive Producer
    Briar McQuilkin, Co-Executive Producer
    Jes Anderson, Producer
    Caroline James, Produced by

    Nobody Wants This • Netflix • 20th Television in association with Steven Levitan Productions for Netflix
    Erin Foster, Executive Producer
    Jenni Konner, Executive Producer
    Bruce Eric Kaplan, Executive Producer
    Kristen Bell, Executive Producer
    Nora Silver, Executive Producer
    Jeff Morton, Executive Producer
    Oly Obst, Executive Producer
    Sara Foster, Executive Producer
    Danielle Stokdyk, Executive Producer
    Steven Levitan, Executive Producer
    Sarah Heyward, Co-Executive Producer
    Lindsay Golder, Co-Executive Producer
    Michael C. Bolton, Producer
    Andrew Brooks, Producer

    Only Murders In The Building • Hulu • 20th Television
    Dan Fogelman, Executive Producer
    Jess Rosenthal, Executive Producer
    Ben Smith, Executive Producer
    J.J. Philbin, Executive Producer
    Steve Martin, Executive Producer
    Martin Short, Executive Producer
    Selena Gomez, Executive Producer
    John Hoffman, Executive Producer
    Kristin Bernstein, Co-Executive Producer
    Kristin Newman, Co-Executive Producer
    Taylor Cox, Co-Executive Producer
    John Enbom, Co-Executive Producer
    Max Searle, Co-Executive Producer
    Jill Risk Wolfe, Producer

    Shrinking • Apple TV • Warner Bros. Television in association with Apple
    Bill Lawrence, Executive Producer
    Jason Segel, Executive Producer
    Brett Goldstein, Executive Producer
    Neil Goldman, Executive Producer
    Jeff Ingold, Executive Producer
    Liza Katzer, Executive Producer
    Randall Keenan Winston, Executive Producer
    James Ponsoldt, Executive Producer
    Rachna Fruchbom, Executive Producer
    Brian Gallivan, Executive Producer
    Bill Posley, Executive Producer
    Ashley Nicole Black, Executive Producer
    Kip Kroeger, Co-Executive Producer
    Emily Wilson, Co-Executive Producer

    Widow’s Bay • Apple TV • Apple Studios / Chum Films
    Katie Dippold, Executive Producer
    Hiro Murai, Executive Producer
    Carver Karaszewski, Executive Producer
    Claudia Shin, Executive Producer
    Matthew Rhys, Executive Producer
    Joanne Toll, Co-Executive Producer
    Kelly Galuska, Co-Executive Producer
    Mackenzie Dohr, Co-Executive Producer
    Neil Casey, Supervising Producer
    Colton Dunn, Supervising Producer
    Kaitlin Waldron, Producer
    Christian Sprenger, Producer