On this day, February 16

Logan Paul's PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator card sold at Goldin for US$16,492,000 on 16 February 2026, the most ever paid for a trading card at auction. Paul had paid US$5.275 million for it in a 2021 private trade that set the earlier Pokemon card record.

Alibaba releases Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, an open-weight native multimodal model that activates 17B of 397B parameters, plus the hosted Qwen3.5-Plus with a 1M-token context, on the eve of Lunar New Year.

J.C.Staff's A Certain Scientific Railgun is getting a fourth season, with director Tatsuyuki Nagai and the main voice cast returning to Mikoto Misaka's Academy City five years after Railgun T.

Production I.G's HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the Haikyu!! manga's climactic Spring Nationals showdown between Karasuno High and rival powerhouse Nekoma High.

Alabama's Supreme Court held that frozen IVF embryos count as children under the state's 1872 Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, letting couples sue a Mobile clinic whose embryos were destroyed and pushing clinics to pause IVF.

Ferrero's turnover rose 10.4% to EUR 14 billion in the year to 31 August 2022, with growth led by the USA and Italy and the FULFIL Nutrition bar maker bought in June 2022.

Square Enix released the rhythm game Theatrhythm Final Bar Line on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on 16 February 2023, celebrating Final Fantasy music. It earned a 92% OpenCritic recommendation rate.

Counter-seat pork gukbap restaurant in a former Korean-medicine shop, with a clean bone broth, boiled belly and pork ramen.

A special episode of Heaven Official's Blessing streams, giving Haoliners Animation's adaptation of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel a stand-alone entry following crown prince Xie Lian's return to the mortal world.

Ryan Coogler's Black Panther, starring Chadwick Boseman, opened in US theaters on 16 February 2018 and went on to a Best Picture nomination.

Reik featuring Ozuna & Wisin achieved the #2 music ranking of 2018 on Mexico's Monitor Latino Mexico Top 100 (annual General). Me Niego by Reik featuring Ozuna & Wisin places second on Monitor Latino's 2018 annual General Top 100 for Mexico, ranked by estimated audience impressions.

Battle supernatural enemies in a character-driven action game.

Square Enix released the rhythm game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on 16 February 2012. It sold 112,344 copies in Japan within a month.

Cisco Systems listed on the Nasdaq as CSCO on 16 February 1990 with a market capitalization of US$224 million, six years after its Stanford-born founders started selling routers.