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AI has made it easy to generate software code, but some open source projects have stopped taking code submissions from the public, citing a deluge of low quality code or code that doesn’t match project needs. Warp, maker of tools for AI coding, is moving in the opposite direction. It’s making its desktop agentic development environment (ADE) software open source and even encouraging users to contribute new features with the help of AI. The ADE lets humans and AI agents work together to write code. Founder and CEO Zach Lloyd says software developers typically have their own preferences on tools and working styles, and he anticipates the program will let some of …

We are living through the most rapid and sweeping digitalization in history. The average adult touches their phone hundreds if not thousands of times a day. And yet, at this moment of peak digital saturation, a countermovement is taking shape in schools, governments, and research institutions. More and more people have reached the conclusion that for human beings to think well, learn deeply, and stay mentally healthy, we may need significantly less technology. Consider what’s happening in education. Australia passed legislation banning children under 16 from social media entirely. Sweden, having spent a decade rolling tablets into every classroom and replacing textboo…

Executive leaders today face mounting pressure to boost productivity and innovation with AI. Employees—on the other hand—report low trust in organizational change and limited information about how AI will impact their work (or whether it’s going to replace the jobs that the company hired them to do). According to a December 2025 Gartner survey of 110 CHROs, 95% reported undertaking AI-related initiatives in their organizations. But while many companies are experimenting widely with AI, most organizations are struggling to translate AI investment into something that actually improves their businesses. Why AI adoption isn’t that simple AI adoption is uniquely dif…

Since the massive success of Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021, fans have been eagerly awaiting the next Peter Parker-centered film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Five years later, the fourth MCU Spider-Man film, subtitled Brand New Day, is finally coming to theaters—but a reveal in the screenplay’s first page has some fans abandoning the hype train. Director Destin Daniel Cretton shared the first three pages of Brand New Day with Entertainment Weekly, complete with annotations from himself, stars Zendaya and Tom Holland, and other department heads. The pages reveal that the story picks up nine months after the events of No Way Home. Spoiler alert: Peter Parker, for…

Most founders believe their job is to stay deeply involved as their company grows. But that instinct often becomes the very thing that holds the business back. As companies scale, what once made them successful—founder-led decision-making, strong creative direction, tight control—can start to create bottlenecks. Teams can’t become truly autonomous, leadership layers struggle to emerge and the organization remains tied to the founder’s perspective instead of evolving beyond it. I saw this firsthand after a decade of building Kurppa Hosk with business partner Thomas Kurppa. Nothing was broken; we had become a globally renowned creative agency. But growth was becomi…

Consolidation is all the rage in the video game world these days. In the past year, Ubisoft created a new gaming subsidiary with Chinese tech giant Tencent, while Electronic Arts announced a $55 billion deal led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund that will take the company private. An industry that, just a decade ago, included more than a dozen publicly traded game makers now has only a handful left. Take-Two Interactive Software has managed to remain independent while rivals, including Activision-Blizzard and EA, have been absorbed. And as it continues digesting its 2022 acquisition of Zynga, CEO Strauss Zelnick says the company is already eyeing its next acqui…

Motivation can come in the form of a little treat to help you get through a long work day. Today (Tuesday, May 5, 2026) is Cinco de Mayo, meaning tacos, tequila, and guacamole are happy to help. This Mexican holiday has found a strong foothold in American culture despite it being not as popular in its homeland. It’s a good excuse for a margarita at the company happy hour. Before you indulge, let’s take a look at the history of this day so you can regale your coworkers. Impress them even more by knowing which deals will get you the most bang for your buck. The history of Cinco de Mayo Cinco de Mayo literally translates to “the fifth of May” and marks the da…

Alysa Liu surveyed the glittery crowd arrayed in front of her, sipping cocktails and chatting. It was her first Met Gala, and she hesitated for a second, searching for a word to describe it. “It’s … BIG,” the Olympic skater finally said with a grin. But what Liu, dressed in a blood-red custom Louis Vuitton gown with a full skirt and huge ruffles, couldn’t quite get was how big SHE had become. Even at a party full of very, very famous people, everyone wanted to greet her. Some Met Gala guests have been famous for many years. Others have achieved fame with dizzying speed. For Liu, all it took was a gold-medal performance that charmed the whole world. “Everybody recogniz…

When you’re building sets for a musical that’s populated by flying vampires, you have to challenge yourself to think three-dimensionally. But Dane Laffrey is used to challenging himself. Over the course of his decades-long career in theater, the Tony-winning scenic designer has been tasked with bringing to life some of the most memorable sets in recent Broadway history—from a sandy, 360-degree Caribbean archipelago for the 2017 revival of Once on This Island to the futuristic South Korea setting of 2024’s Maybe Happy Ending. Now Laffrey’s set designs are literally soaring to new heights—while also sinking to new depths—in The Lost Boys, a dynamic and a…

When Anna Jarvis set out to establish a national Mother’s Day in the early 20th century, her goal was to honor her own mother’s legacy of activism, sacrifice, and maternal devotion. She envisioned a national day of gratitude where all Americans expressed their thanks and admiration for their own mothers. But just a few short years after successfully getting official recognition for the holiday, Jarvis was horrified to see Mother’s Day commercialized to benefit florists and greeting card companies. Jarvis petitioned to recall the holiday she had championed. One imagines Jarvis banging her head against the wall if she could see us now, since Mother’s Day spending co…

The literature world is up in arms after a prominent author, who also serves as the national ambassador for young people’s literature, denigrated the quality of the majority of children’s literature. Mac Barnett recently published an essay collection for adults, titled Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children. In his book, he wrote, “So I now offer Barnett’s Addendum to Sturgeon’s Law: Maybe more like 94.7 percent of kids’ books are crud.” The sentence references science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon’s famous 1957 defense of the science fiction genre. Sturgeon wrote that “ninety percent of everything is crud,” and investigated why science fiction among al…