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Airbnb is becoming Airb-n-bigger. In an attempt to become what is something of an all-encompassing trip platform, Airbnb announced several new features and offerings on Wednesday, including a redesigned homepage, new service categories (such as airport pickups, grocery-delivery options, luggage-storage, and car rentals, along with new experiences), and even the ability to book rooms at boutique or independent hotels. That’s right: the company that built a name for itself offering alternatives to hotels is now folding some of them into its platform. Airbnb inflates The new features are wide-ranging, and users can even take advantage of social elements, like…

First there was nutrient timing, then proteinmaxxing—now, fibermaxxing is the latest viral wellness trend everyone is talking about. On TikTok, social media influencers can be seen extolling the virtues of fiber (hashtag #fibermaxxing). One such influencer is @shanny_do, a self-proclaimed “fiber-obsessed gastroenterologist,” who posted with gusto about what she packs each day for work at the hospital. (For the curious, that’s a bowl that includes: Ethiopian spicy lentils, some plain black beans straight from the can, baba ganoush and carrots; a second small bowl of berries—black, blue and raspberries; a Z bar—a kid’s protein snack bar made of oats—and an apple.) A…

Meta officially announced a sweeping round of layoffs today that will impact thousands of employees across the business, or about 10% of the company’s 78,000-person workforce. In a memo to employees today—obtained by Business Insider—Meta remained coy about the rationale for the layoffs, using the same language as in prior internal communications. “As previously shared, we have decided to reduce headcount as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making,” the company wrote in the memo, which was signed by “Meta Leadership” and offered no further explanation for the job cuts. It se…

Elite education has spent decades competing on curriculum, faculty, and brand. Those signals still carry weight. But for founders, executives, and investors, the real question is no longer “Where did you study?” but “Who now takes your call—and why?” When high‑quality content is everywhere, the premium is shifting from information to access. What matters is the environment around the learning: who is in the room, how quickly trust forms, and what happens when people close their laptops and start talking about real decisions. That has become clear in my work advising GIOYA HEI, an institution that deliberately combines higher education with a curated leadership and…

The NAACP is calling on Black student-athletes and fans to boycott public universities in Southern states following a Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act. On Tuesday, the NAACP launched the “Out of Bounds” campaign, a nationwide call urging Black athletes, alumni, and fans to withhold all athletic and financial support from Southern public universities. The campaign prioritizes boycotting flagship universities in eight states that it says have “moved to limit, weaken, or erase” Black voting representation in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. …

Not driving your car directly into a body of water may sound like common sense—but hey, if Elon Musk says it’s safe, who are we to disagree? A Tesla Cybertruck driver learned the hard way that Musk’s words aren’t gospel when he intentionally drove his car into Grapevine Lake in North Texas on Monday evening, employing the vehicle’s “Wade Mode,” which is intended for use in water up to 32 inches deep. Videos shared on social media show the vehicle moving through the shallow section of the lake, only for his Cybertruck to shut down when he got to deeper waters, leaving the vehicle stranded. In the aftermath, social media users are pointing to posts by Elon Musk that…

Bumble has a new AI assistant: a matchmaker named Bee. The dating app company recently revealed the new dating guru during its fourth quarter earnings call, which was first reported by on TechCrunch. Essentially, Bee’s job is to learn about what users want in a partner through initial private conversations with the user and help them find matches through Bumble’s new “Dates” tool. Her job will eventually get bigger, too. Bee will help plan dates and even ask for (anonymous) feedback about those dates in the same way a close friend with the inside information might offer. In addition to adding the new AI tool, Bumble will be moving away from swiping right (yes) or left…

The Ordinary, a cosmetics company known for its lower-priced, often single-ingredient products, just announced that it was furthering its mission to “remove unnecessary barriers to provide accessible, high-quality solutions.” To do so, it is offering people a free shuttle bus that runs between Williamsburg’s Domino Park and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. The company claims that The Ordinary Bus, which will run from May 26 through June 6, solves for a transit gap that can often involve a 50-minute subway detour through Manhattan. The tenuous parallel with the company’s skincare line is that it also provides a no-frills solution to a common problem (bad skin). …

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Based on our analysis of the Zillow Home Value Index, U.S. home prices are up 0.7% year over year between April 2025 and April 2026. That year-over-year pace is the same as it was a year ago—back in April 2025, when the national year-over-year home price growth rate was 0.7%. And it’s up slightly from the recent year-over-year low of -0.01% in August 2025. In the first half of 2025, the number of major metro-area housing markets seeing year-over-year declines climbed. That count has since stopped ticking up. 31 of the nation’s 300 largest housin…

Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) on Wednesday reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $58.32 billion. The Santa Clara, California-based company said it had a profit of $2.39 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $1.87 per share. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.77 per share. The maker of graphics chips for gaming and artificial intelligence posted revenue of $81.61 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $78.75 billion. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http:…

Earlier this year, fintech company Bolt laid off 30% of its workforce. In an internal Slack message, CEO Ryan Breslow told employees: “Going forward, Bolt will be operating as a much leaner organization and leveraging AI at our core.” On Tuesday during Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit, Breslow shared the reason behind the layoffs—and why he decided to cut Bolt’s HR team entirely. “We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn’t exist,” Breslow said. “Those problems disappeared when I let them go.” In 2022, Breslow stepped down as CEO of Bolt after the company he founded from his Stanford dorm room started to see a decline in its ric…

Jeff Bezos is opening up about wealth inequality in America. Given the Amazon founder has often been accused of unfair treatment of employees, with accounts of mandatory overtime, and workplace safety problems, his latest comments are surprising. In a new CNBC Squawk Box interview with interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin, one of the richest men in the world, says we’re living in a “tale of two economies.” There’s the ultra-rich who are financially thriving, and then, there’s everyone else, who are, well, not. When pressed about how to solve the problem, Bezos said that part of the reason no one is addressing such a huge divide is that politicians are busy blaming one anot…

A few weeks ago, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak managed to mention AI in his commencement speech to the Grand Valley State University class of 2026—without receiving a wave of boos from the crowd. “You all have AI—actual intelligence,” Wozniak said, eliciting applause from the audience. “My entire life in the technical world, I’ve been following people that were trying to figure out how to make a brain.” “I was at a company where the engineers figured out how to make a brain,” he continued, saying it “takes nine months.” For new college grads who are entering an unsteady job market with fewer openings for entry-level positions, Wozniak’s words probably felt lik…

For the past two years, I’ve had a front-row seat to one of the largest and most rigorous datasets in global design. Each year, the iF DESIGN AWARD receives over 10,000 submissions spanning 93 categories of design. Participants include industry giants like Apple and Coca-Cola, to startups and independent design studios that are actively shaping the field’s future. Taken together, these entries offer more than a snapshot of excellence. They reveal where design is actually headed. What emerges from recent winners is a growing shift: In many categories, sustainability is no longer a differentiator, it’s the baseline for great design. The most compelling work today goes e…

The sale of a marquee digital media company on Succession, the HBO series that ran from 2018-2023 , was always going to end badly. When Kendall Roy, heir-apparent to a fictional media conglomerate, bursts into the offices of his newly acquired hot media startup Vaulter, dripping with billionaire confidence, it doesn’t take a degree in dramaturgy to guess where this is going. The moment the Roy family finds out Vaulter may not turn a profit quite as quickly as expected, they shut it down and strip it for parts. Considering the Roy family is primarily, almost explicitly based on the Murdoch family of News Corporation infamy, it’s hard not to see the glint of the gri…

In boardrooms right now, speed is winning. Product cycles are compressing. Strategy decks are assembled in hours, not weeks. Cross-functional alignment—once the bottleneck of execution—is increasingly frictionless. This looks like progress. But a less visible shift is underway—one with direct consequences for innovation and competitive position. As AI removes coordination friction, it is also eroding cognitive friction: the productive tension through which original ideas emerge. Organizations that optimize too aggressively for speed and alignment risk becoming fast followers of yesterday’s logic rather than creators of what comes next. Why this Matters Now …

I’ve never been good at asking people for help. Then I lost my job, decided to start a solo business the next day, and needed clients . . . fast. I turned to my network to ask for both referrals and recommendations to jump-start my business. Asking for referrals is uncomfortable. Most solopreneurs would rather wait for business to come to them than put someone on the spot. But referrals are one of the most effective ways to grow a solo business. A warm introduction from someone who knows your work carries more weight than any cold pitch or LinkedIn message. Now, a few years later, most of my business comes from referrals. The trick is knowing who to ask, when to…

I’ve always loved the anthropology of everyday objects, the ways a mundane thing, when you look closely enough, turns out to be a repository of invisible intelligence. So when I was listening to a recent episode of The Wirecutter podcast and learned that plain dish soap mixed with water is often more effective than a cabinet full of specialized cleaners, I went down a rabbit hole that ended somewhere unexpected: a 1959 chemistry concept that reframes everything I believe about human collaboration. The concept is called Sinner’s Circle, developed by German chemist Herbert Sinner. It holds that effective cleaning depends on four interdependent factors: chemistry, temper…

Barnes & Noble has an incredible comeback story. In 2019, the American bookstore chain was facing bankruptcy, but it’s since returned to a position of growth: In 2025, the franchise opened 67 new stores across the United States, and 60 more are slated to open throughout 2026. But recent comments from the brand’s CEO have some social media users convinced Barnes & Noble is wasting all its goodwill. James Daunt, who took over the company in 2019, shared how he plans for Barnes & Noble to adapt to the AI era—and those plans have some book lovers rethinking their relationship to the brand. “We will stock them”: Barnes & Noble opens its arms to AI …

Yesterday, a jury in Oakland, California threw out Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI. Musk had sued the company for over $150 billion in damages, claiming that its leadership had “stolen a charity” when they converted OpenAI from a nonprofit AI lab to a for-profit company. It’s a huge win for OpenAI, to be sure. But although many people will doubtless see this as a vindication of OpenAI’s bizarre corporate structure and breakneck growth, the way the case was resolved actually says almost nothing about the company’s underlying issues. Juicy revelations Throughout the long trial of Musk’s case–which took over three weeks and saw both Musk and OpenAI…

I work in front of a screen. And I’ve been thinking about how AI will change my work. What does it even mean for my future? It’s completely normal to wonder about this. Most people are convinced artificial intelligence is a threat to their careers. But what they are forgetting is the human value they bring to their work. Aaron Levie, CEO of the enterprise cloud company Box, recently pointed out that when people watch AI at work, they are most likely seeing it take over the first 80% of a task—the heavy lifting of repetitive processing. The last 20% is where you come in. Your domain expertise, judgment, and relationships. That is what makes you irreplaceable. AI can fi…

The release of Google’s latest AI models this week at Google I/O was yet another example of the direction of travel for the generative AI revolution. Facing a user base that is increasingly burning more tokens under basic subscriptions or API access, AI companies are starting to hike prices and throttle usage. In response to those cost pressures, consumers are beginning to cut their cloth accordingly. And while frontier AI providers are releasing ever more powerful models into the world, smaller companies are advancing, too. Often based in China, these are frequently accused of copying the innovations of U.S. models through techniques like distillation, or reverse eng…

Jeff Bezos is betting that the future of fashion won’t be made from cotton or polyester but, instead, from lab-grown fibers. Through the Bezos Earth Fund, Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos have committed $34 million to researchers developing next-generation textiles, including biodegradable fibers and plastic-free synthetic silk. Their aim is to replace some of the most resource-intensive materials in the global clothing industry with alternatives that could dramatically reduce the industry’s environmental footprint. The investment marks a notable shift for the fund, which has largely focused on conservation since Bezos pledged $10 billion to climate initiatives in 2…

It’s alive. The Terrarium Phone Case by U.K.-based designer Daniel Idle is a clear iPhone 16 Pro Max case with a vertical terrarium designed to show off small plants growing inside. “The idea came from noticing how personal phone cases have become,” Idle tells Fast Company. “People use them to carry objects, express themselves, and customize something they interact with all the time. That got me thinking about how much time we spend on our phones and how disconnected they make us feel from nature.” To bring nature to this most unexpected of places, Idle wanted to see if a phone case could include living elements by building an ecosystem directly into it. …