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Curiosity is one of the most consequential forces in human history. Every scientific breakthrough, technological leap, and cultural advance begins not with knowledge, but the desire to know. At its core, curiosity drives us to close the gap between what we know and what we want to know, a cognitive itch triggered by uncertainty and resolved through learning and the pursuit of meaning. Curiosity as an evolutionary advantage Early humans who explored their environments, experimented with tools, and learned from novel stimuli were more likely to secure resources, avoid threats, and pass on their genes. As a result, curiosity became embedded in our biology, reinforced …

As 7.4 million Americans sit unemployed, the path to employment has completely changed. Amid fake listings, AI filtering of candidates and widening talent pools, job seekers believe that they’re competing against a hiring ecosystem that penalizes honesty and rewards perception. The result? A hiring environment where the signals employers have traditionally relied on to evaluate candidates have become deeply unreliable. Now, both sides are operating with diminishing trust in each other. What’s Driving the Deception? Hiring today is not facing a character problem, but a structural one. When candidates believe that presenting themselves accurately will cost them …

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV made history by becoming the first pope to personally present an encyclical, a letter of great importance in which a pope explains his views on a major moral or social challenge facing the world, to his followers. The leader of the Catholic Church didn’t do so on his own, however. He had help in unveiling the encyclical, “Magnifica humanitas: On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.” The Anthropic cofounder and self-proclaimed atheist Christopher Olah was also present. An unlikely speaker The Vatican doesn’t normally invite outsiders to speak, let alone those in the tech industry. But Leo…

BTS has turned sold-out stadium tours, albums, and merch drops into global events. Now, the group is taking on another challenge: reinventing the Oreo cookie. Oreo is teaming up with the Korean supergroup on a limited-edition cookie that blends Korean street food inspiration with fan-focused collectible packaging and custom cookie designs. The new Limited Edition Oreo & BTS Cookies feature a creme flavor inspired by the hotteok, the sweet Korean brown sugar pancake sold at street markets. The cookies also introduce Oreo’s first-ever purple wafers, a nod to BTS’s globally devoted fanbase, ARMY. A collaboration rooted in nostalgia According to Matt Foley,…

Gabriel Landeskog wears the small sensors in the insoles of his skates for practices and games. He wears them in his sneakers when he’s training and, maybe most handy of all, while taking his dog for a walk. Those spins around the block and ice record all of his biomechanical measurements. The numbers provided a blueprint in helping the Colorado Avalanche captain resume his career after a three-year gap caused by a complicated knee injury. Now, they keep him at his gritty, goal-scoring best. The collected data ranges from movement patterns to his asymmetry and whether he’s favoring his surgically repaired right knee. It calculates in-game/in-practice workloads, stride c…

Conversations about youth mental health and addiction are often treated as separate issues—different experts, different headlines, different policy conversations. But for today’s young people, these challenges are deeply intertwined. The same forces driving rising levels of anxiety, stress, and social comparison are also shaping their risk for substance use. In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the rapid shift to phone-based childhood fundamentally changed the developmental environment for young people. Attention, reward, identity formation, and peer validation have been rewired by digital platforms engineered to maximize engageme…

The promise of frontier AI has always sounded like a utility: abundant intelligence, available on demand, as easy to access as electricity, water, or cloud computing. The metaphor is powerful, and for good reason. Utilities scale because they abstract complexity away. You don’t need an engineer from the power company sitting in your office every time you turn on the lights. And yet, the most sophisticated AI companies in the world are increasingly doing something very different: They are sending people. OpenAI recently announced the OpenAI Deployment Company, explicitly designed to embed forward deployed engineers (FDE) inside organizations working on complex pr…

Apple’s Tim Cook isn’t the only well-known tech CEO stepping away from the chief executive role this year. Now, the founder and CEO of Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX), Drew Houston, has announced he is making a similar move at the company he is synonymous with. Here’s what you need to know about Houston’s departure from the chief executive role and how investors are reacting to the news. What happened? Today, Houston announced he will be retiring from the chief executive role at the cloud storage provider. Houston has been with Dropbox in the role since he founded the company in 2007. It’s hard to understate how revolutionary a cloud storage solution like Dropbox was 19 …

We are living through a golden age of faking it: the AI stunt that earns a news cycle and dissolves the moment you press on it, the activation that is shared for five minutes and forgotten, and the commercial that’s more about the celebrity starring in it than the brand. Merriam-Webster named slop the word of 2025. It’s the equivalent of an artificial sweetener; surface-level buzz at best, no substance beneath. So, for the sake of timeline cleansing and inspiration, let’s talk about one of my favorite topics, dogs, the things they do, and dog shows. Every year, several million people watch dogs trot around a ring in televised dog shows. Viewers pick favorites, dev…

Each year, June marks Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. This is a time for both celebration and acknowledgment of the progress we have yet to make. In recent years, there has been significant attention on the role that businesses play during Pride Month. As the CEO of one of the largest LGBTQ+ organizations in the U.S., I’ve worked with numerous companies—across all industries, sizes, and locations—looking to support our community in meaningful ways. Here are a few insights to guide how you show up for the community during Pride, and beyond: KNOW THE DATA Nearly 1 in 10 adults in the U.S. identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. For Gen Z adults…

Drivers for ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft in Massachusetts became the first in the nation Tuesday to certify a union, marking a milestone in the growing effort to organize gig-economy workers amid ongoing concerns over pay, expenses, and working conditions. The victory could provide a model for similar campaigns gaining traction in states including California and Illinois, where labor organizers are increasingly targeting app-based industries as drivers also grapple with the rapid expansion of self-driving technology. Fully driverless commercial rides without a human operator are not currently permitted in Massachusetts. The certification became poss…

We’ve written a lot about how AI is coming for your job. Now AI is coming for your music, flooding streaming platforms with “AI music slop.” But instead of curbing it, Spotify’s CEO Alex Norström is doubling down and embracing AI-generated music—claiming it offers artists protection from piracy, and music-lovers more freedom to listen to and create more of the kind of music they want. Last week, Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced landmark licensing agreements, paving the way for Spotify to launch a new tool for premium subscribers. The tool enables them to create AI-generated song covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and…

Jensen Huang has some pointed words for leaders who blame company layoffs on artificial intelligence. “I think the narrative that connects AI to job loss, for many of the CEOs that are doing it, is just too lazy,” the Nvidia cofounder and CEO said in an interview with Channel NewsAsia. “AI has just arrived. How is it possible they’re already losing jobs? How is it possible that AI became productive and useful only six months ago, and they were somehow laying people off two years ago because of AI? “It doesn’t make any sense,” Huang added. “It was just a way for them to sound smart, and I really hate that.” While Huang didn’t name-drop any specific CEOs or comp…

Being critical of AI is far from a fringe position in the United States. Recent polling shows that half of U.S. adults feel more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. And among Gen Z specifically, excitement and hope around artificial intelligence are falling while anger over the tech increases, with 42% of Gen Zers saying AI makes them anxious. But those increasingly common AI-critical sentiments are reportedly raising flags with the federal government. More than a thousand pages of unpublished reports acquired by Wired show a worrying trend across America: Federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are targeting “anti-te…

Ferrari’s first-ever all-electric vehicle, the Luce, was designed to look “entirely new,” the company says, and so far the reaction to the new EV has been polarized. Shares of the Italian luxury automaker fell in premarket trading Tuesday after Ferrari unveiled the car named after the Italian word for “light” on the anniversary of its first Rome Grand Prix victory. The Luce, expected to sell for about $640,000, was designed by former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive and Marc Newson through their design collective LoveFrom. Online, people expressed their disappointment. The Luce doesn’t look like a Ferarri, some complained, suggesting it has the sleek, …

Given its profound implications for the workforce, the environment, and humankind as a whole, it’s no surprise that almost everyone has an opinion on artificial intelligence these days, including the pope. Less than a year after his election, Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical, a pastoral letter aimed to offer guidance. Titled Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, the 42,300-word letter offers a glimpse into the pope’s stance on AI, highlighting various concerns over the dangers of technology as well as a need for safeguards to be put in place. “Calling for prudence, rigorous evaluation and e…

Last weekend, when Puck announced that the sustainable fashion startup Everlane had been acquired by the Chinese ultra fast fashion retailer Shein, it sent shockwaves throughout the fashion world. Michael Preysman, who founded Everlane in 2011, was just as shocked. “I found out the same time as everyone else,” he said in a LinkedIn post a week ago. “I’m not involved with the company anymore, and like many, am still digesting the news.” Well, Preysman is done digesting. And it seems that he’s ready to do something about it. Preysman just announced stillradical.com, a new venture that we know little about other than the bare bones website it launched with. The…

The current AI boom reminds me of the dot-com era, which I watched unfold from venture capital in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Lots of hype. Eye-watering investments. Genuine transformative potential. Most conversations about AI today focus on the obvious value, productivity, and efficiency gains. That’s real, but it’s the shallow end. The deeper potential is something else entirely: ending the linear take-make-waste economy and with it, our reliance on fossil fuels. For half a century, the global economy has run on a simple, destructive model. Extract finite resources from the Earth. Manufacture mostly disposable products. Throw away. Repeat. Petroleum into pa…

At Google, AI is reshaping employees’ titles and how they work. Last month, Google Cloud’s senior director and chief evangelist Richard Seroter told Fast Company that software engineers have turned into product engineers, or architects, as they move away from manual coding to directing teams of AI agents. It seems that AI also changed how Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, works, too. “I just think the CEO job is not that complicated,” Pichai said when asked how close AI is to replacing him as a CEO during a recent interview with The Verge. “There are aspects of it where I think [AI] is going to be very, very helpful in terms of decision-making.” The CEO added that AI …

Energy costs are increasing, and while it may cost a lot more than before to heat or cool a home, they’re basically peanuts compared to operating a hockey arena. That’s why the National Hockey League is bringing in a building automation heavyweight to help. This week, the NHL announced a new partnership with Honeywell aimed at increasing the efficiency of hockey facilities around the country in an attempt to lower operating costs. The multi-year partnership makes Honeywell—a massive company that provides products and services to many different industries—the “Official Building Automation and Energy Management Partner of the NHL.” The primary issue the partnership …

In an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that every job will feel the effects of AI—including bankers. “I think [AI will] reduce some of our jobs down the road,” Dimon told Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin. “I think we’ll be hiring more AI people and probably less bankers in certain categories.” Dimon said that AI will cause reductions and downsizing at the company, but he said, “that’s been happening my whole life.” As AI changes jobs, the billionaire CEO said JPMorgan will retrain and redeploy employees, and in some cases, offer early retirement. Dimon also said that society needs to “get prepared” for how AI will change the workforce.…

There’s no doubt that AI has accelerated product marketing. Your copy is getting drafted faster, your personas are cleaner, and your positioning frameworks are getting shipped before your coffee is even cold. But speed has made many teams less disciplined, not more insightful. Too much AI-assisted product marketing sounds polished but lacks grounding in reality. It borrows the language of strategy without doing the strategic work required. You get neat messaging frameworks, confident claims, and copy that sounds familiar in the worst way: “built for modern teams,” “streamline workflows,” “unlock efficiency at scale.” It reads fine. It just doesn’t mean much. T…

Earnings are in for two of the largest retailers, and they paint two very different pictures. Walmart, which has seen success in an economy where consumers are cutting back on spending and turning to budget retailers, now seems to be in a downturn, having just announced layoffs as it stocks falls. Meanwhile, Target, which was struggling a year ago amid a cost-of-living crisis and rising tariffs, and following consumer boycotts over a DEI rollback, seems to have hit reverse—with sales and stock price in an upswing. What’s happening with these two retailers? Here’s what to know. Walmart looks at impact of soaring gas prices On Thursday, Walmart reported s…