No matter how well your favorite streaming service's algorithm knows you, come February, sometimes even the smartest technology can be swayed by the power of Valentine's Day. But love--romantic or otherwise--can be found in the oddest of places, including the radioactive wasteland of postapocalyptic Los Angeles, Westeros in the rare midst of relative peace, or behind the scenes of the latest MCU blockbuster. Whether you're in the mood for a reliable sci-fi gem or an enlightening new docuseries courtesy of director Josh Safdie, February's streaming lineup offers plenty of options to swoon over. Here are the 10 shows we're falling for right now. Picking up from roughly where Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman's left off when it ended in 2024, might be best described as for the TikTok age or simply the franchise's horniest iteration.

Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year. Acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky is the executive producer of a new web series that matches human voice actors with video images generated in part by Google DeepMind. An insurrectionist robot unleashed by a mad inventor in Fritz Lang's . HAL 9000 sabotaging a manned mission to Jupiter in . Skynet, the self-aware global defense network that seeks to exterminate humanity throughout the franchise.

The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don't Need to Make the Movies Anymore See the new movie if you'd like. But if you really want to experience the big blue world of Pandora, the video game is where it's at. The Avatar video game is better than the movies. I say this as someone who has dumbly adored James Cameron's Avatar movies for a long time. The original 2009 film was my first ever midnight premiere, which I attended along with a friend who sat in the theater shirtless with his entire body painted blue.

"I didn't expect this book to be analyzed like," hockey smut author Rachel Reid tells WIRED. Rachel Reid didn't intend for anyone to write a dissertation about her horny little gay hockey series. Then again, the Nova Scotia author behind the series could never have anticipated the level of fanfare that's accompanied the television adaptation of her books: . The show, commissioned by Canada's Crave and distributed by HBO Max in the US, debuted in late November and quickly became a massive hit. It's the number one Crave original series of all time, and it also climbed to number 1 on HBO Max.

Polling shows that nearly half of Americans now believe aliens have visited this planet--and that the number who aren't sure has dropped by two-thirds. The reasons why, experts say, are complicated. Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Almost half--47 percent--of Americans say they think aliens have definitely or probably visited Earth at some point in time, according to a new poll from YouGov conducted in November 2025 that involved 1,114 adult participants. That percentage is up from roughly a third (36 percent) of Americans polled in 2012 by Kelton Research, with the exact same sample size.

Anthropic's Daniela Amodei Believes the Market Will Reward Safe AI The Trump administration might think regulation is killing the AI industry, but Anthropic president Daniela Amodei disagrees. The Trump administration may think regulation is crippling the AI industry, but one of the industry's biggest players doesn't agree. At WIRED's Big Interview event on Thursday, Anthropic president and cofounder Daniela Amodei told WIRED editor at large Steven Levy that even though Trump's AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, may have tweeted that her company is "running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering," she's convinced her company's commitment to calling out the potential dangers of AI is making the industry stronger. WIRED's iconic series returned to San Francisco with a series of unforgettable, in-depth live conversations. Check out more highlights here .

The latest film in the franchise seems to have not learned any lessons from sci-fi movies past--or from current reality. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Ares, named after the Greek god of war, was built to be an AI super-soldier. Then he found out about, started listening to Depeche Mode, and realized the tech bro who made him might be a hack.

From to: TIFF's Films on Power, Creation, and Survival Are a Warning These are WIRED's picks for some of the most urgent and unsettling films from the 50th annual Toronto International Film Festival. Some of the most urgent films at this year's Toronto International Film Festival aren't here to soothe. Together,,, and play like sizzle reels of caution, and at their best, they're award-worthy symbols of alarm. These films, the first two of which are documentaries, don't just entertain--they confront fractured humanity, closeness and distance under Israel's siege of Gaza, and a creation we've set loose, growing beyond our control. That's the one muscle of film--to interrogate rather than facilitate.

Nintendo made a slew of announcements during its latest Direct event, including details on a new Resident Evil game, a Ditto-centric Pokémon title, and more details on . Nintendo's Switch and Switch 2 release calendars are bulking up. During a packed Nintendo Direct livestream on Friday, the company announced on-sale dates for several games as well as the return of the Virtual Boy, the proto VR headset Nintendo originally launched in the mid-1990s. One of the biggest of Friday's announcements was that of the release date for the sequel to Supergiant's wildly popular . The long-awaited new game,, will also finally launch December 4 for Switch and Switch 2. The news comes ahead of the upcoming holiday season, which will be the Switch 2's first since its launch this summer.

Mario is returning to the big screen. Following the massive success of, which made more than $1.3 billion worldwide in 2023, animation studio Illumination and Nintendo are releasing a sequel,, in April 2026. Nintendo dropped a teaser trailer during its Direct presentation on Friday. The teaser doesn't offer much about the movie, which takes its name from the 2007 platformer.Mario dozes in a field before title credits appear, that's about it. But the trailer still signifies that Nintendo will continue to churn out films aimed at turning Mario into a megafranchise .