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• Sarah J. Maas announced the release dates for the next two “ACOTAR” novels on “Call Her Daddy.”
• The two books will be released on October 27, 2026, and January 12, 2027.
• Maas said the two books will be separate volumes of the sixth “ACOTAR” story.

After five long years of waiting, Sarah J. Maas fans can rejoice — the sixth “A Court of Thorns and Roses” book finally has a release date. Well, it actually has release dates.

On March 4, 2026, the author appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast with Alex Cooper, where she announced the next “ACOTAR” book would be published on October 27, 2026.

The work is eagerly awaited not only by fans but also by Maas’ publisher, Bloomsbury. The company’s sales fell 10% for the 2025-2026 fiscal year because Maas didn’t release a new book, Publishers Weekly reported.

Interestingly, though, Maas said her next novel will be just part one of the sixth “ACOTAR” story, with parts two and three released together in January 2027. Part four will be released separately.

Here’s everything we know about “ACOTAR” book six so far.

Warning: Some spoilers for Maas’ work ahead.

Maas is releasing book six of ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ in multiple volumes

In July 2025, Mass posted a reel on Instagram revealing that she had finished a first draft of the sixth “ACOTAR” book. In the video, Maas closes a notebook labeled with “ACOTAR 6” and an arrow, shuts a laptop, and pops a bottle of bubbly.

“First drafts DONE,” she captioned the post.

Fans quickly flooded her comments with questions about why “draft” was plural and what the arrow next to six meant, but Maas didn’t explain further until Cooper asked her about it during her “Call Her Daddy” appearance.

“I will say that that was ACOTAR six with the arrow pointing forward to indicate things going ahead of that,” she said. “And it is for the next ACOTAR book, which is coming out on October 27 of this year.”

Maas went on to say that she finished the book while writing in Montana over the summer of 2025, but declined to reveal the book’s title or which characters from the world of “ACOTAR” will be telling the story. She also didn’t share the novel’s length, which she said was for a specific reason.

“OK, well, part of why I guess it’s tricky to talk about the length of this book is because this book’s coming out October 27, and then on January 12, like two months later, I can’t do math, whatever that is, the next ACOTAR book will be coming out,” Maas said. “So there will be two books within, like, a very short span.”

As her fans will know, Maas’ books are typically split into parts, separating different sections of the story she is telling. However, when it comes to the sixth “ACOTAR” book, Maas said the individual parts became longer than she anticipated as she started writing, with part one coming in at 400 pages at one point. At first, that seemed like a problem, as the book would be difficult to print if it were too long.

As she continued writing, Maas decided the parts didn’t have to live in one physical book.

“I decided I wasn’t gonna approach this project from a traditional format of a book,” she said. “What if this book was really long? Like, what if it took me more than a thousand pages to tell the story that needed to be told, the arc that I wanted to create from start to finish?”

Maas said the story for “ACOTAR” six was ultimately divided into four parts, though it is still one cohesive story. Part one is the novel that Bloomsbury will publish on October 27, 2026, and parts two and three will be published together as one volume on January 12, 2027. Maas has yet to write or give a publication date for part four, but she said all three volumes would be published “in a very short time.”

Although the works will be published individually, Maas told Cooper she still hopes readers treat them as one story once they are all out in the world.

“It’s meant to be read ideally as one massive, massive story as opposed to in a trilogy,” she said. “It’s not a trilogy. Like, arcs aren’t wrapped up.”

Maas also posted about the new books on her Instagram on Wednesday, sharing a photo of her notebook and two photos of a Montana skyline. She gave more insight into why she decided to publish the parts as separate volumes in her caption.

“I know how long you’ve waited,” she wrote. “I know how much these characters mean to you. And I also know these stories deserve more than speed and deadlines. They deserve my best self. They deserve the right moment.”

“When the moment came, what I thought would be one book… very quickly became something else,” she added. “The story just kept expanding, and I couldn’t wait to share a single part of it any longer!!”

The next ‘ACOTAR’ has been in the works for years

Although Maas hadn’t given detailed information about the sixth “ACOTAR” book before her “Call Her Daddy” appearance, it wasn’t a total shock that her next work would bring readers back to Prythian.

In March 2023, Bloomsbury announced that Maas had signed a deal for three more books with the publisher. At the time, she was already under contract for four titles, including “House of Flame and Shadow,” the third installment in her “Crescent City” series, published in January 2024.

In September 2023, Maas gave readers their first clue as to what would come next in the six books she had left under her contract, telling Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings during a “Live Talks Los Angeles” appearance that she was “drafting” the next “ACOTAR” book — and having a blast doing it.

“I will say that I’ve become so focused and obsessed with writing this book,” she told Hobbs and Billings. “It’s like that feeling of having a crush or when you’re first, like, obsessed with someone, and you’re just thinking about it nonstop.”

Likewise, in a January 2024 interview with Jenna Bush Hager, Maas said her next published work would be the sixth installment of “ACOTAR.”

“I’m very, very excited about that one,” Maas said of the coming book, though she didn’t give any details about it.

The book seems to have transformed since those comments based on Maas’ conversation with Cooper.

Clues about the future of ‘ACOTAR’ in Maas’ other works

Maas has been tight-lipped about the contents of her coming work, but the other books in “ACOTAR” and her “Crescent City” series can offer clues.

The most recent book in the “ACOTAR” series, “A Court of Silver Flames,” was released in 2021 and focused on Nesta Archeron. The first four books were told from the perspective of Feyre Archeron, while Maas seemed to usher in a new era of the series by writing from her sister’s perspective in “ACOSF.”

Nesta also appeared in “House of Flame and Shadow,” which created a multiverse between “ACOTAR,” “Crescent City,” and the “Throne of Glass” series. It also offered insight into what might be happening in Prythian at the start of a new “ACOTAR” novel.

In “House of Flame and Shadow,” Nesta and Azriel discover the magical prison in Prythian, which lies atop what was once a powerful fae court, alongside Bryce Quinlan, the protagonist from “Crescent City.”

They also learn that Rhysand’s lineage traces back to the fae who ruled the prison, which would have been the Dusk Court, creating the potential for Rhys to rule two courts.

Nesta also seems to have connections to those long-forgotten fae, as she bears an eight-pointed star tattoo that matches a chamber in the prison and the design on a sword called Gwydion that had been missing from Prythian for centuries. The sword had been with Bryce’s family on her planet, Midgard, where it is called the Starsword.

In “HOFAS,” Bryce brought the sword to Prythian with her when she sought aid from the fae there, and she ultimately stole Gwydion’s twin, a dagger called Truth-Teller, from Azriel. She used the weapons together to bring peace to her planet, but she returned the dagger to Azriel — alongside a magical mask Nesta let her borrow — at the novel’s end. In the same scene, she gifted Gwydion to Nesta.

“I think that eight-pointed star was tattooed on you for a reason. Take that sword and go figure out why,” Bryce told Nesta.

It’s possible Maas was setting up a continuation of Nesta’s story for her next “ACOTAR” story in the scene, which may see her explore her power and connections to the Starborn fae, as they are called on Midgard.

Elain’s role in future ‘ACOTAR’ books

Maas tied “ACOTAR” and “Crescent City” together primarily through Nesta and Azriel in “House of Flame and Shadow.”

Still, Maas might turn to other characters in Prythian in her next “ACOTAR” novel, or she may balance multiple plots given the length of the coming volumes. For instance, Maas told Eva Chen during an appearance on “Live Talks Los Angeles” in February 2021 that she planned to write a book from the third Archeron sister’s perspective — Elain.

In “A Court of Silver Flames,” Elain had settled into life at the Night Court, refusing to explore her mating bond with Lucien. After breaking ties with Tamlin and the Spring Court, Lucien served as an emissary to the human lands for the Night Court, keeping his distance from Elain because being around her was painful.

Maas also spoke to Cooper about Elain and Lucien’s mating bond, indicating that she was eager to explore how it differs from others we see in her works.

“I think Elain’s got her own trauma and shit that she’s going through right now,” she said, adding that Lucien’s involvement in bringing Elain to the fae world is a barrier to their relationship.

“So exploring a concept of a free will, what does that look like with a mating bond?” Maas said. “What does that mean? And does nature get it wrong sometimes? Does it get it right sometimes?”

Maas said she was “interested” as a writer to explore what it meant for someone not to desire to be mated, which could mean she wrote about that topic in her coming work.

Elain also seems to have an attraction to Azriel in the text, though Maas juxtaposed their bond with how ill-fitting aspects of life at the Night Court are for Elain during a visit to the Court of Nightmares in “ACOSF.” Some fans think Maas set up a storyline for Elain to find a home at a different court, and that Azriel will find love with Nesta’s friend Gywn instead of Elain.

Maas also hasn’t explored the full potential of Elain’s Seer powers in the series, so she will likely write more about her abilities in future “ACOTAR” novels.

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month.
• Google I/O 2026 attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they’d expected.
• Google unveiled other products, including Spark and Gemini 3.5 Flash AI models, at I/O.

Gemini 3.5 Pro isn’t coming out yet, disappointing the crowd at Google’s packed flagship developer conference I/O on Tuesday.

“I know you can’t wait to get your hands on it,” CEO Sundar Pichai said onstage. “Give us until next month to get it to you.”

Many had expected 3.5 Pro to come out at I/O, since it’s the most powerful model in the works from the tech giant.

Pichai didn’t explain why the chatbot will launch later than expected, although he did say that it’s already “showing great improvements” compared to previous versions.

Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The industry is closely watching the release of 3.5 Pro, especially after Google’s last big AI model, Gemini 3, outperformed expectations. Google’s stock has been on a tear lately as its AI models and chips perform strongly.

Google made other announcements at I/O on Tuesday. For example, it launched Spark, an AI agent that can run without keeping your laptop open. Google also released Gemini 3.5 Flash, an AI model optimized for AI agents.

• The Adidas Originals Wide Leg Satin Pants have taken over every mom Facebook group I’m in.
• They’re sold out — and have been selling out on repeat since they dropped.
• With 414 reviews and a 4.7-star rating, the hype is clearly justified.

I’m very easy to influence. So when I started seeing the Adidas Originals Wide Leg Satin Animal Print Pants pop up in almost every one of my mom and fashion groups on Facebook, I knew that they were going to become a thing.

I have been in enough mom group trend cycles to know that when something hits this fever pitch, there’s usually a reason. So I did what any reasonable person would do: I went to find them.

They are sold out everywhere

I ended up buying an XS — the only size available when I went looking for a pair three weeks ago — even though I’m typically a 4 to 6 in pants. Surprisingly, they fit perfectly. The elastic waist is doing a lot of good work here, and the wide leg silhouette is forgiving in the best way. The length runs long on smaller frames, and at 5’6”, the XS runs a tad too long on me (I’m debating whether to hem them or commit to wearing them with platforms).

The pants are currently marked down from $70 to $42 on the Adidas site — but it almost doesn’t matter because they are sold out. They have 414 reviews and a 4.7-star rating on adidas.com, which is practically a standing ovation. At discksportinggoods.com, they’ve earned a 4.8 rating from 154 reviews.

The adidas description says these are “a major pivot from a minimalist aesthetic,” and that sentence alone explains why mom groups are losing their minds over them. I’m so over minimalism, with neutral everything and quiet luxury.

They are so easy to style

At first, I wore them only with neutrals like white tees and sneakers, but these are so cool that I’ve ventured into pairing them with my checkered Vans and loud T-shirts, and those work, too.

I had also purchased the satin shirt as part of the set, but my package was lost in the mail, and I took that as a sign that maybe I only needed the pants.

I recently took a girls’ trip to Las Vegas, and I knew I had to bring my new go-to pants. I got so many compliments from other women while walking through the casinos. My friend also pointed out these Amazon dupes that were everywhere — a potential solution if you can’t find the Adidas one in your size. And they are only $24.99.

If you really want the OGs, your best bet is to check the Adidas site and Dick’s Sporting Goods repeatedly and set up stock alerts if you can. The animal print version has been restocking in waves, selling out almost immediately each time — the same pattern I saw with the platform Crocs I bought two summers ago.

I love my pants so much that I went ahead and placed an order for the Adidas x Farm Rio premium pants. These have a much bolder print, but I think I’m entering my maximalism era thanks to the brand.

My advice is that if you want the popular satin pants, get on the waitlist now. And if a size appears in your cart, do not hesitate. Worst-case scenario: if you don’t like them, you will for sure find someone who wants to buy them off you.

• At Glendale Community College’s commencement ceremony, several students’ names were misread while walking onstage.
• President Tiffany Hernandez said the college was “using a new AI system,” prompting boos from the crowd.
• The college later allowed the graduates to walk again. This time, a human read their names.

Graduation is cause for celebration. At Glendale Community College, an AI-related flub made it cause for apology.

The college’s recent graduation ceremony outside of Phoenix, Arizona ground to a halt after a naming mishap. Several students’ names weren’t called as they crossed the stage. Others were left waiting after failing to hear their name at all. Thus began a 10-minute commencement debacle, with AI to blame.

They later found an old-school solution: human name-callers.

The first sign that something was amiss began when Lorelei Konopka, the college’s vice president of academic affairs, asked the audience to “give us one second.”

The college’s president, Tiffany Hernandez, then approached the lectern to reveal the cause of the error: “We’re using a new AI system as our reader. That’s a lesson learned for us.”

The audience booed at the mention of AI. It’s something that’s been happening at a handful of commencements — though most were because of references during speeches, not because of an AI-related ceremony error.

Hernandez initially said that she would have to “disappoint many of you” by not letting them walk a second time with their names read aloud.

“I’m so sorry,” she said. “There’s plenty of opportunities, I hope, to take some really good pictures, and to celebrate you with your loved ones as well.”

Konopka approached the lectern to continue the ceremony, joking, “I have the part of the ceremony that doesn’t require AI.”

After a series of long pauses, Hernandez announced that the students would be able to walk again — and this time, a human would announce their names.

“Here’s where pivoting works best,” she said.

In an email to Business Insider, a Glendale Community College representative wrote that there was a “technical issue” leading to some graduates not being named.

“While the issue was corrected during the ceremony, we are sorry for the disruption it caused during what should have been a celebratory moment for our graduates and their families,” the representative wrote. “We have also communicated directly with graduates to apologize for the experience.”

Graduate Grace Reimer told AZ Family that she noticed the error when she didn’t hear much cheering during her walk. “My family is a pretty loud family,” she said.

Reimer also posted a screenshot of a letter from the Glendale Community College president on TikTok. Hernandez wrote in the letter that they were “actively reviewing” the issue, though there was no reference to AI.

AI remains a contentious topic this graduation season. During former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s commencement address at the University of Arizona, students booed references to AI and automation.

Real estate executive Gloria Caulfield was booed at one of the University of Central Florida’s commencement ceremonies. So was Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta at Middle Tennessee State University.

Borchetta’s response: “Then do something about it. It’s a tool. Make it work for you.”

• A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill to designate advanced nursing as a professional degree.
• The Education Department’s new student-loan borrowing caps exclude nursing from the higher limits.
• Lawmakers and advocates said the limits could exacerbate the ongoing healthcare shortage.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers agree: nurses deserve to take out more student loans.

On Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley and Republican Sen. Roger Wicker led a bipartisan bill to include nursing degrees in the Department of Education’s professional degree designation.

The legislation addresses President Donald Trump’s new borrowing limits, which take effect July 1 and include a $100,000 lifetime limit for graduate students and a $200,000 limit for professional students. The Department of Education’s list of programs that meet the definition of “professional” includes medicine, law, and dentistry, but excludes advanced nursing degrees.

The exclusion concerned borrowers, advocates, and lawmakers across the aisle, who said nursing tuition can exceed the cap and would leave students unable to attend. The new bill would add advanced nursing programs to the Department of Education’s list.

“Nurses save lives, one bedside at a time. We should be doing everything we can to make it easier to recruit the next generation of these heroes, not make it harder,” Merkley said in a statement. “Republicans and Democrats alike have sounded the alarm over changes that make student loans for nurses more expensive, which threaten the future of the nursing workforce.”

A bipartisan companion bill was also introduced in the House.

In a House hearing last week, Education Sec. Linda McMahon said that nurses “are incredibly respected” and that most would not be affected by the borrowing caps.

“We looked very, very carefully at the entire nursing profession. 95% of the nurses that are in programs do not exceed these caps. 78% of the nurses that are moving for graduate programs do not exceed or come up to these caps,” McMahon said. “We were very carefully looking at the cost of these programs across the country. There are outliers.”

Most students in post-graduate nursing programs borrow within the new caps, according to an analysis of Education Department data from the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. In 115 out of 140 advanced nursing programs, students borrowed less than $100,000, it said.

Still, lawmakers and advocates said the caps could exacerbate an ongoing shortage of healthcare workers. In December, a bipartisan group of more than 140 lawmakers urged the department to revise its professional degree definition. They referred to the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist program, which can cost over $200,000, and said that the proposed $100,000 cap is “restricting the pipeline of CRNAs and further limiting an anesthesia workforce that is suffering from shortages across all provider types.”

Thousands of people pushed to change the definition of a professional degree during the rule’s public comment period in February.

“Policies that make graduate nursing education less affordable will not only discourage nurses from advancing their education but will also reduce the number of nurse educators available to train the next generation of nurses,” one commenter said. “Fewer educators mean fewer nursing school slots and longer delays in bringing new nurses into the workforce, and ultimately compromising care.”

Have a story to share about your student loans? Contact this reporter at asheffey@businessinsider.com.

• Sundar Pichai touted a 7x increase in Google’s AI products at the I/O developer conference today.
• The stunning increase drew audible gasps from the audience.
• Pichai cracked a joke about ‘tokenmaxxing,’ but said the stat still tells an important story.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai isn’t afraid of touting big AI usage numbers, despite the ‘tokenmaxxing‘ controversy.

At Google’s annual developer conference today, Pichai said that monthly usage of its AI products has increased sevenfold to 3.2 quadrillion tokens since last year.

The huge increase drew audible gasps from the packed Shoreline Amphitheater near Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters — and a joke from Pichai.

“Some out there might call it tokenmaxxing, and there’s probably some truth to it,” Pichai said to some laughter from the audience. “I still think it tells an important story about our products and how others are building on it as well, especially our developers.”

Tokens are the basic building block of AI chatbots, with one ‘token’ making up about ¾ of a word. Tokenmaxxing, or flexing about how many tokens you’re using, has become a lightning rod in tech this year, as some argue developers are using up unnecessary tokens just to brag about it.

Despite the controversy, the clear use of Google’s AI products is surging, something Pichai was keen to highlight.

“I never imagined I’d say quadrillion at a keynote, but here we are,” he said.

Google has been seen as a winner on the AI front in recent months, thanks to its Gemini 3 AI model and AI chips known as TPUs. Its stock has more than doubled since last year’s I/O.