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For years, leaders advanced by outperforming others, knowing more, producing more, delivering more. Performance earned authority. That equation has changed. Artificial intelligence now generates ideas, analyses, and strategies in seconds. What once set strong performers apart, speed, output, and insight, is no longer a differentiator. As AI expands what leaders can produce, something else is becoming clear. The leaders who stand out are not the ones with the most information. They are the ones who project confidence, clarity, and credibility when it matters most. Leaders are no longer evaluated primarily on what they know. They are evaluated on how they lead w…

Designers love to experiment, but there’s one particular object where they tend to get especially creative and even weird: lighting. Picture a ceramic lamp sculpted into a car, a fixture and shade cast in metal swirls, and something that looks like a cork UFO. These out-of-the-box designs are part of a new exhibition during New York’s Design Week showing the unusual territory where designers are taking lighting. Mazhariyya LampSolid Lacebeacons (scale-less-ness) Now in its sixth edition, the Head Hi Lamp Show brings together 36 eccentric lamps from designers located around the world. It is organized by Alexandra Hodkowski and Alvaro Alcocer, the founders of He…

Naomi Osaka once believed that winning meant saying yes to everything. Over the years of her successful tennis career, though, the four-time Grand Slam champion says that doesn’t ring true anymore. As the new ambassador for vitamin and supplement company Olly’s Mental Health Awareness Month campaign, Osaka got candid about setting boundaries, pushing through fatigue and the success myth she used to believe. “I used to think success meant saying yes to everything that came with it,” Osaka wrote in a personal essay for Fortune. “Now I see it differently. I’ve been able to achieve what I have by holding boundaries.” In the piece, Osaka reflected on her decision t…

Jensen Huang left Carnegie Mellon University’s class of 2026 with a message that pushed back against graduation-season anxiety: there’s no better time than now to be starting a career. During a commencement speech on Sunday, the Nvidia CEO told the new grads that “the timing could not be more perfect” to launch a career than right now. “Your career starts at the beginning of the AI revolution,” Huang told the crowd of 5,800 undergraduate and graduate students. This sentiment landed better with Carnegie Mellon grads—the university which is widely recognized as the birthplace of artificial intelligence and robotics—than it did with others. At the University of …

I mowed a lot of lawns and cleaned a lot of gutters as a kid, but my first consistent job was delivering newspapers. Today that sounds quaint, but it was a rite of passage back in the day. I grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., raised primarily by my mom and in the most modest house of anyone I knew. She used to say we were never poor– we just didn’t have a lot of money. So at age 15 when I heard that a Washington Post delivery route paid $100/month, I jumped at the chance. This was the Post in its prime, not long after its reporting on the Watergate scandal made the paper famous. Every home in the area had a subscription. Politicians, …

Oops, it happened again. A celebrity was asked what they think about artificial intelligence and, after sharing their reflections, received intense blowback on social media. The latest such case is Demi Moore, who is currently serving on the jury for the Cannes Film Festival. At a May 12 press conference meant to introduce the broader film event, Moore was asked by a journalist about AI, its impact on Hollywood, and potential regulation. “I always feel ‘againstness’ breeds ‘againstness.’ AI is here,” Moore responded, clearly thinking on the spot. Rather than fight a “losing” battle, Moore suggested that artists figure out how to “work with” the technology. This, s…

Does the high price of gas have you considering a hybrid for your next vehicle? We don’t blame you, especially if you drive a lot. Fortunately, there are lots of hybrids to choose from, and many don’t cost much more than their non-hybrid counterparts. But to recoup the extra cost of a hybrid the quickest and start saving money, we don’t recommend purchasing just any hybrid. The car experts at Edmunds outline four tips that will give you the tools you need to find a hybrid that will maximize your savings. Aim for hybrids with the shortest payback periods New hybrids typically cost more than similar gas-only vehicles, so aim for a hybrid that doesn’t cost much more t…

In Seattle, the average price of a gallon of gas is now $5.96, a 30-cent increase from only a month ago and a $1.50 increase from a year ago. The United States and Israel’s conflict in Iran, and the constricted flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, has caused gas prices across the country to soar. That’s made workplace commutes more costly for Americans already facing an affordability crisis. For students, staff, and faculty at the University of Washington, though, they have a new way to get to work if they want to ditch their cars. The university recently set up a partnership with Ridepanda, which allows companies to offer e-bike and scooter subscriptio…

In 2011, Palantir created a combined role for their solutions engineers and integration engineers. The company called this new role “forward-deployed engineers,” or FDEs, for short. An Andreessen Horowitz blog post dubbed the recasting “title arbitrage,” arguing that Palantir had created this new title to signify the important, new capabilities and powers evolving at the company. Put simply: FDEs are people who can sell AI products to businesses while also teaching AI models how to work for said businesses. More than a decade after Palantir popularized the title, tech CEOs are betting that FDEs are the next big thing in the industry. “Forward deployed engineers, o…

LinkedIn on Wednesday joined what’s become a near-daily drumbeat of layoff announcements among tech companies. The Microsoft-owned company will reportedly eliminate about 5% of its headcount, which might total roughly 875 employees based on the latest headcount estimate. The cuts are part of a broader reorganization, as LinkedIn CEO Daniel Shapero detailed in an internal memo to staff. As has been true among several other tech companies recently, Shapero didn’t specifically mention AI as a reason for the layoffs in his missive sent at 7 a.m. Pacific. Rather, he emphasized a shifting landscape, according to the text of his memo obtained by Business Insider. “…

Below, David Epstein shares five key insights from his new book, Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better. David is the author of The New York Times bestsellers Range and The Sports Gene. He has worked as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and an investigative reporter for ProPublica. What’s the big idea? Using deliberate constraints and simplification strategies helps you focus better, be more productive, and make more creative decisions. Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by David himself—in the Next Big Idea App, or buy the book. 1. Make all your current commitments visible. At one genomics lab, the staff took the tim…

During a commencement address at Emory University in Atlanta on Monday, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian admitted that he used artificial intelligence to write his speech. “Out of curiosity, I asked AI to prepare the address. I was amazed at how quick and easy it was generated,” Bastian told the graduating class of more than 5,000 students. “But I also noticed the lack of soul nor warmth it conveyed,” he said. “It was not my personal voice, and it did not express my genuine appreciation for the opportunity to impart my insights to thousands of you. You want to hear from me, not some algorithm of me. “So, don’t worry,” he told the crowd. “I threw it away, and too…

In order for a chatbot to become more intelligent, and thus more useful to the end-user, it needs to assimilate data continuously. This process is known as “training.” The problem is that many AI companies never explicitly ask for consent from data owners before scraping their webpages and adding the data to the corpora of the large language models (LLMs) that power AI chatbots. But some of those data owners, also known as content creators or IP holders, are now fighting back. They are doing this by using tools known as “tarpits.” Their aim? To poison the chatbot’s underlying LLM and thus degrade the quality of its outputs, potentially causing end-user flight. Here’s …

RETN started with a bold ambition to build a nine-figure business. After doubling our revenue to nearly $80 million in the last five years, that goal is now within close reach. But it’s taken more than a daring founding team to get us to this point. This is all due to our engineers, sales, and support staff, who share a desire to grow and achieve exceptional results. As a team, we believe a business is only as strong as its weakest link. Poor components can cause bottlenecks and compromise performance. To maintain our strong network, we’re meticulous about hiring, no matter the role. And these three questions help us identify exceptional talent to maintain our gr…

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. During the pandemic housing boom, housing demand surged rapidly amid ultralow interest rates, stimulus, and the remote work boom. Federal Reserve researchers estimate “new construction would have had to increase by roughly 300% to absorb the pandemic-era surge in demand.” Unlike housing demand, housing stock isn’t as elastic and can’t quickly ramp up. As a result, the heightened demand drained the market of active inventory and caused home prices to overheat, with U.S. home prices in June 2022 sitting at a staggering 43.2% above March 2020 levels. …