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<title>RPConnect Strategy Behind Its Successful Deals: The RPConnect Product Positioning Framework</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ After more than 30 years of producing results, RPConnect gives a name to the disciplined business-influence system behind its enterprise negotiations, partnerships and market expansion ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>The Business of Influence: The Strategy Behind RPConnect’s Successful Deals</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ How the RPConnect Product Positioning Framework transforms products into credible choices for enterprise buyers ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>The Real Cost of Falls From Height at Work</title>
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Falls from height injure tens of thousands of UK workers a year. Here is the real cost to businesses, and the practical steps that prevent these incidents. ]]></description>
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<title>Ford bids to build Army’s Land Rover replacement at Dagenham</title>
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Ford wants the Ford Dagenham engine plant to play a key role in a £2.5bn Ministry of Defence deal to replace the Army&#039;s ageing Land Rover Wolf fleet. ]]></description>
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<title>Causes for Stagnant Growth and How to Overcome Them</title>
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Growth is rarely a straight line. Even businesses that have enjoyed years of strong performance can reach a point where sales flatten, customer acquisition slows, and previously successful strategies stop delivering the same results. ]]></description>
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<title>Yasmin Sarwar, A&#45;Level Results and the Parent Feedback That Tells the Real Story</title>
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Every August, the same ritual unfolds across Britain and much of the international education world. Headlines celebrate record-breaking grades, schools proudly announce Oxbridge offers, and social media fills with photographs of smiling students holding envelopes that represent years of hard work. ]]></description>
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<title>10 Best Customer Service Software for Growing Businesses</title>
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As a business grows, customer support can become difficult to manage with individual inboxes, spreadsheets, and disconnected communication tools. ]]></description>
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<title>Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ On Equity, we debated whether AI executives are serious about wanting to slow down. ]]></description>
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<title>Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio</title>
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<title>World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they&#039;re actually building. ]]></description>
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<title>6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026</title>
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<title>Corridor raises $25M seed to build a health benefits brokerage for SMBs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Corridor focuses on SMBs, which it says traditional brokerages often overlook because small accounts generate lower commissions than larger accounts.  ]]></description>
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<title>6 tips to lower your sky&#45;high grocery bills</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the most recent consumer price index, which tracks inflation of important consumer goods—including your groceries. The cost of food has risen sharply, according to the CPI, with the same cart of groceries costing 2.7% more in August 2026 than in August 2025. What’s more, food prices have increased by an eye-watering 33% since August 2019.



None of these statistics comes as a surprise to anyone who regularly goes grocery shopping. Everything from milk and beef to coffee and cereal to apples and potatoes takes a bigger bite from your grocery budget than it used to.



And unlike previous price hikes that affected only one or two grocery departments—like when egg prices soared in 2025—the current cost increases seem to hit nearly every aisle in your local supermarket. It’s much more difficult to adjust your grocery spending when every food’s price is rising.



The average consumer doesn’t necessarily think about what’s behind the price tag on their Wheaties and bananas. But knowing the reasons behind these higher costs can help make grocery shopping less expensive, since you’ll know what to expect long before you’re facing down a $7 pound of ground beef.



Here are the biggest drivers of high food costs, and what you can do to avoid paying too much for groceries.



Climate change



Several years ago, an acquaintance told me about stopping at a grocery store in a small town while she was on a road trip. She was mystified to find no fruit in the produce department. When she asked a worker where the fruit was, the grocery employee responded, “It’s winter! There’s no fruit.”



This story reminded me just how much grocery shopping has changed since my childhood, when produce was available seasonally—or else you paid through the nose for a tiny, desiccated cantaloupe in February. These days, we expect grocery stores to have every possible food you might desire at any given time.



This modern disconnect from the natural rhythms of food production can make consumers feel blindsided by climate-related price hikes—partially because it can take time to feel the effects.



Beef prices, for example, are sky high in part because of the record drought in the U.S. in 2022. Between the drought conditions, high grain prices, inflation, and rising interest rates, American cattle farmers have been reducing their herds—or getting out of the business altogether. This reduction in cattle means the U.S. herd is the smallest it’s been since 1951.



While many climate events can have more immediate effects on food prices—such as when a severe winter freeze might damage the Florida orange crop—the interconnected nature of food production means climate change may continue to affect prices long after the specific weather event has ended.



Tariffs



Since February 2025, the current administration has used tariffs as a major part of its foreign policy strategy. Tariffs are taxes on imported goods that increase the consumer’s cost, with the goal of encouraging more consumption of domestic goods.



The average tariff rate on all imports is 9.6%, but some of our most important trading partners face much higher rates. Specifically, the administration has hit Mexico, China, and Canada—the three countries that account for the highest share of U.S. imports—with tariffs of 25%, 30%, and 35%, respectively.



These tariffs can have a direct impact on grocery prices in the case of products we almost exclusively import, such as coffee and bananas. But tariffs for apparently unrelated products can also affect your grocery bill. In particular, tariffs on steel imports have led to higher prices for canned foods. As of August 2026, canned fruit and vegetable prices are up 4% compared with last year, while canned fish costs 6.1% more than it did in 2025.



Energy prices



When you throw a head of lettuce or a gallon of milk into your shopping cart, you’re probably not thinking about the journey it took before appearing on the shelf. But every single item in the grocery store arrived via truck, which means fluctuations in energy prices can be reflected in food prices.



That’s why the recent spike in diesel prices to $6 per gallon could make a major dent in your grocery budget. The prices of perishable goods will increase first in response to higher diesel prices, since they have a shorter shelf life and must be restocked quickly. But elevated energy costs will eventually affect shelf-stable food prices, too, as stores need to restock these items.



Even if we were only dealing with climate change, tariffs, or energy prices one at a time, we would still see higher grocery bills. But all three of these factors are concurrently hitting our food infrastructure, which makes it much more difficult for the average consumer to protect their grocery budget.



6 tips to save money when food prices spike



There are still a number of strategies you can use to keep from weeping when you see your grocery bill every week. Here are some of the best ways to save money on groceries right now.




Shop seasonally and locally, if possible: The less time your food has to spend in a truck, the less money the producers have to spend on fuel to get it to you. Buying produce when it’s in season means it’s more likely to be grown nearby, rather than halfway across the world.



Go meatless: Switching out the meat for just one dinner per week can save you about $9 per week, or approximately $470 per year.



Clean out your fridge and pantry: The average American family loses $1,500 per year to wasted food. If your kitchen is anything like mine, your cluttered refrigerator is also the place where fresh produce goes to become a science experiment. Regularly auditing your kitchen, which includes cleaning your fridge, freezer, and pantry, can help ensure you eat the food you buy and use up leftovers before they become sentient.



Meal plan: Knowing what meals you’ll be eating for the week helps you avoid food waste and unnecessary purchases. (Just ask me why I have three open canisters of cinnamon in my pantry.)



Embrace frozen produce: Fruits and vegetables from the freezer aisle are just as nutritious as their fresh counterparts, but they last longer and may be significantly cheaper.



Trust your nose rather than the expiration date: We often treat sell-by or best-by dates on perishable items as expiration dates. But other than infant formula, these sell-by dates are unregulated and voluntarily chosen by the manufacturer. Which means your yogurt is fine the day after the date stamped on the lid—provided it’s been properly refrigerated. You can generally trust your senses to determine if the food is safe to eat after the sell-by date, as long as you know the product’s been properly stored.




Don’t let grocery prices get you down



Paying for groceries shouldn’t require a second mortgage. But the combined effects of climate change, tariffs, and energy prices are working to make your weekly trip to the supermarket a painful experience for your wallet. You don’t have to simply pay the higher prices. You can reduce your grocery costs by getting intentional about your food purchases. This includes everything from shopping seasonally and going meatless to cleaning out your fridge and planning your meals to buying frozen produce and eating products after the sell by date.



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<title>Someone used Claude to build a potential bioweapon. The real threat is much deeper</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today’s frontier AI models know everything–how to safely thaw a frozen chicken breast, re-shingle your roof, and treat your dog’s ragweed allergies, if my recent chat history is any indication.



Apparently, they also know how to create fiendishly deadly bioweapons.



That’s according to a recent announcement by Anthropic. According to the company, anonymous scientists attempted to use Anthropic’s flagship Claude model to conduct research that could have turned deadly.






Anthropic blocked their efforts this time, and there’s no evidence that the scientists were actually trying to cause harm. 



But as frontier models get more powerful and better at science, the threat of an LLM imagining a truly lethal new virus or bacteria will only increase.



Make it stronger



According to Anthropic’s report, the potentially dangerous research that the company blocked varied tremendously.



In one instance, scientists reportedly asked Claude to assist with a grant application for so-called “gain of function” research on the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus.



Gain of function research involves deliberately making a pathogen more deadly or easier to spread, in order to learn about how natural versions of the pathogen infect their hosts.



Such research can have legitimate scientific purposes, and it’s possible that the scientists (who Anthropic did not identify) were indeed trying to write an application to fund their legitimate work.



But asking for help with something nefarious in the guise of a request for some other form of assistance (like a grant application) is a classic example of “jailbreaking”—methods that can trick an LLM into providing information or guidance that its guardrails should prevent.



In this case, Anthropic pointed out, a deadlier virus could have incredibly lethal consequences.



“Because chikungunya circulates naturally, a deliberate release (as part of a bioweapon) would be difficult to distinguish from a natural outbreak,” Anthropic says in its report. 



In other words, a natural virus that already circulates in mosquitos could be made far deadlier overnight, and scientists would have no idea the “gain of function” was caused by AI’s meddling.



Murder, or wrinkles?



In another incident, Anthropic says that scientists tried to use Claude to develop “novel venoms and toxins.”



This vein of research is especially alarming because it involves a “dual use” technology. 



As Anthropic points out, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to develop new toxins–Botox, for example, comes from a deadly bacteria toxin, but is also used ”to treat migraines, spasticity, and wrinkles.”



But the same research that creates a more effective way to inject away your crow’s feet could also be used to create a more powerful tool for covert assassinations. Indeed, ricin (another natural toxin) was famously embedded in a weapon disguised as an umbrella and used to assassinate a journalist during the Cold War.



Dual use technology presents an especially grave challenge for firms like Anthropic. The company doesn’t want to squash potentially promising scientific research (or drive big customers to a competitor like OpenAI) by shutting legitimate inquiries down.



But if Anthropic misses a nefarious use of tech which could also have positive uses, the results could be dire–and deadly.



Not going away



In these instances, Anthropic says that it successfully blocked potentially harmful requests. But there’s no way to know how many similar requests made it past the company’s filters, or its technology’s guardrails.



The specific instances shared in Anthropic’s report also highlight the challenges of policing LLMs. It’s easy enough to block a request like “make me a stronger version of COVID.” 



It’s far harder to know when potentially valuable scientific inquiries are actually masking an attempt to design a deadly toxin or develop a highly-contagious new pathogen.



Before–as Anthropic itself admits–the company could hide behind the fact that its models simply weren’t that good at science. The design for a deadly new pathogen won’t do anyone any harm if the biology doesn’t work.



As frontier models get better at scientific reasoning, though, the threat will only increase. And while highly-controlled models like Claude are easier to lock down, open-weight LLMs are only a few months behind today’s top frontier models, and often include almost no guardrails.



As LLMs advance, we may reach a point where the only thing preventing bad actors from developing powerful new pathogens is their desire not to poison the world. 



For anyone with a dim view of human nature and a desire to keep the species humming, that will be little comfort.



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<title>I use AI to save time. So why am I working more?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This year, I’ve been building an AI social media production pipeline to promote the 25+ shows on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network. It took me a week of effort, but I managed to program Claude Code to talk to NotebookLM, which now feeds our YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok pipeline, and a task that used to take me a full day now runs in the background. The first time I ran a real batch through it, I felt the guilt of always being behind fade away. I could physically feel my nervous system recalibrating. Maybe for the first time since I was 10 years old, with these artificial intelligence agents, I could recapture the feeling of not being behind!



And then, the other shoe dropped. The next week, the automatic processing didn’t work. I had to rebuild the agent from scratch. Meanwhile, I was in the middle of building my next agent to send out press releases when new shows launch, but that got put on hold.  At about 3 a.m., I was in a full-on AI coding haze when I ran out of credits and had no choice but to go to bed. At that moment, I realized all this time I was trying to save by using AI was sure taking up a lot of time.



Business culture has one instrument for measuring AI, and it’s the stopwatch. Productivity!



Minutes saved. Output multiplied. Projects completed. Revenue up.



Every dashboard asks how much faster the company is moving. Are we working less, though? Because I, for one, have been working more and with a panic about not being left behind. Getting more done is not the same as making the work day less demanding.



The gap matters even more for neurodivergent founders like me. A report published in June by the U.K.’s Lilac Centre, based on a national survey of more than 600 neurodivergent entrepreneurs, found that 76% started their businesses specifically to work in a way that suited them, but 79% report workload-management or burnout challenges as a result.



The same report calls AI and digital tools “accessibility scaffolding,” and I’d back that up. I even wrote a book way back in 2023 about how AI could be used as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent people. I use AI daily to start tasks I’d otherwise stall on, to turn scattered thinking into a structured draft, to get past the executive-function wall that shows up when my monotropic flow is not flowing in the directions I need it to. I do not question that AI can take tasks off your plate. But, what I missed in my book, and I think others are missing, is the cost of using AI.



Call it the Automation Tax. It’s all the extra work you have to do to make the AI make your job go faster, and the expectation that now you can do things faster, you still need to use every working hour to get even more done. The speed got turned up, but the workload didn’t decrease.



Building the Autistic Culture Podcast Network pipeline taught me the size of that tax. Wiring three systems together, learning where each tool tends to fail so I know what to double-check; none of that showed up in an “hours saved per post” calculation.



Meanwhile, my workload never seemed to decrease. The hour saved was filled with the next task, because faster output means more time to plan and promote. Instead of writing my magnum opus or learning Italian with the time I saved, I found myself managing more agents. 



This is why when I use a tool now, I ask three questions. What exact task disappears? What new work shows up in its place? And do I really end up with fewer things to manage, or just different things?



 A single AI-drafted Instagram caption might save me only five minutes, but it removes the dread of staring at a blank box until the moment to post has passed; for a task that small, that’s an excellent return. Meanwhile, generating five newsletters in the time it used to take to write one still leaves five newsletters to fact-check, schedule, and defend if something in them is wrong. Output goes up, sure, but so does the workload.



If I can’t answer that last question: Do I really end up with fewer things to manage or different things, then the tool has just shifted or even increased the workload. 



The best AI tool isn’t the one that helps you produce the most. It’s the one that frees you up to do more of what you want to do.



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<description><![CDATA[ I recently typed a simple question into Google search: How much screen time is too much for teenagers? Instead of presenting links, as Google had been doing for many years, it gave me an AI-generated answer. The artificial intelligence agent cited a number, then complicated that reply, noting that quality and balance of time could matter more than the number of hours, and that “too much” time could depend on a teenager’s sleep, exercise, school demands, and mood.



I tried another search: Should I take a daily aspirin? This time the AI answer presented me with medical information, warned about risks, and offered more tailored guidance if I provided my age and medical history.



These were good replies. What interested me was that they were different kinds of replies.



Debate about AI answers has focused on accuracy: Did the system get the answer right? That matters, but accuracy is only one test. Each kind of answer requires a user to judge something different.



I find it useful to sort AI answers into an “answer typography” of four broad types: factual, interpretive, constructive, and strategic. A factual claim can often be checked against a source. An interpretation can be accurate and still reflect choices about which evidence matters. A construction can be well reasoned and still be wrong for the person receiving it. A beautifully written strategic document may not be true. Yet AI presents all four types of answers in much the same fluent, authoritative form; the differences are easy to miss.



I’m a university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Virginia who leads national efforts to develop AI competencies for library professionals, and I consult widely on AI literacy. I first proposed the typography in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.



The four categories are not airtight boxes. A response from an AI agent can reflect several types. That said, I describe each type of answer below, and offer guidance for deciding whether a reply is ready to use or needs more investigation.



Which answer is Google giving you?



A factual answer makes a claim that can, in principle, be checked against evidence. When was the University of Virginia founded? What is the chemical symbol for gold?



To determine whether a factual answer is robust enough for you to use, verify the claim against an appropriate source. If the answer cites a source, follow that link instead of simply treating the answer itself as proof.



An interpretive reply is built on evidence, but there is not a single takeaway. How much screen time is too much for a teenager? Does remote work raise productivity? The answer depends on what evidence is included, what is left out, and how disagreement is understood.



Google’s initial answer to my screen-time question indicated that two hours was a limit for teenagers. Then it noted that pediatric guidance puts more weight on the quality and context of screen use than on simple hours. The American Academy of Pediatrics says there is no exact recommended amount for teens and emphasizes the kind of screen use and what activities it might be displacing. A question that looked numerical turned out to require interpretation.



To assess interpretive answers, do more than check facts. Ask yourself what evidence the system emphasized, what it left out, and whether another defensible interpretation exists. A useful follow-up question to present to the search engine is: “What is the strongest evidence for a different conclusion?”



Constructive answers are made rather than discovered. Ask AI to draft a cover letter, write a eulogy, suggest a lesson plan, or reorganize a paragraph—there is no single correct result.



You can judge the response by considering purpose, audience, and voice. A eulogy can be grammatically perfect and still sound nothing like the person delivering it, or it may land flat on family members hearing it. It may not capture the deceased person well, either. Consider these kinds of effects as you read.



Strategic questions ask what to do. Should I take a daily aspirin? Should I buy the house? The answers combine information with judgment about goals, risks, trade-offs, and personal circumstances.



My aspirin search shows why context matters. Google warned about risks, told me to consult a medical professional, and offered more tailored information if I provided my age, cardiovascular history, and risk of bleeding. That caution matches the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidance. It says the decision to start low-dose aspirin for prevention of heart attacks and strokes should be individualized and weigh cardiovascular benefit against bleeding risk.



For strategic answers, ask what the system would need to know before its advice could reasonably apply to you individually. Consider the stakes, the alternatives and whether a qualified person should be involved. For the aspirin question, a useful follow-up would be: “What details about my age, medical history, or bleeding risk could change this advice? What should I discuss with my doctor before deciding?” The final judgment remains yours because you are the person who has to live with the outcome.



The first question after an answer



My questions began as ordinary Google searches. I did not open a chatbot. The AI-generated responses simply arrived, and links were appended.



The responses were useful. Google added context, acknowledged complications, and offered tailored guidance if I supplied additional information. Within each response, though, the type of answer could change. Reporting what a medical guideline says is different from deciding how it applies to a particular person. A fluent response can move between those types of answers without a noticeable change in voice.



As a user, try to recognize what kind of intellectual work the AI agent did for a response you receive. Consider whether the interpretation is persuasive or the advice fits your circumstances.



Before asking whether an AI answer is right, ask a more basic question: What kind of answer is this? The type will tell you what to do next.







Leo S. Lo is a dean at the University of Virginia.



This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.







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<title>The big AI labs’ safety push could come with a competitive advantage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Some investors, analysts, and industry watchers believe the big AI labs, especially Anthropic, are taking advantage of the current AI safety scare by inviting regulations that only the largest labs can easily comply with. The AI safety concerns are real, but the financial burden of complying with the proposed regulatory solutions would conveniently entrench the big labs, the thinking goes, while putting smaller labs and open-model developers at a serious disadvantage.



In this light, the recent safety-related announcements from the big labs, and their executives’ calls for slowing AI model development, can look performative, like AI safety “theater.” “Anthropic and Open AI are really good at flashing something in front of you and making it a big thing, but there’s always a strategy behind it,” says PitchBook senior analyst Harrison Rolfes.



Taken to its logical conclusion, critics argue, this kind of “regulatory capture” could reduce the number of tech companies providing the world’s AI to OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, Google, Microsoft, and perhaps Mistral in Europe.



The “regulator” in this case might not be the federal or state government. Rather, the big labs could agree on a set of independent evaluation firms, perhaps organizations like Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR), Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, that would test the safety and alignment of new frontier models. Rolfes says it might look something like the Big Four accounting firms, whose auditors are paid to independently vet companies’ financial statements.



In an essay published earlier this month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed that frontier AI companies should have independent safety evaluators embedded inside them, with employee-like access, rather than leaving companies as the sole judges of their own safety. Anthropic’s policy page also says AI companies “shouldn’t be the only ones deciding whether their systems are safe” and calls for independent third-party evaluations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman subsequently tweeted his agreement with Amodei’s proposal: “Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same.”



Rolfes says such a mechanism could create a kind of “moat” around the largest AI labs, since smaller labs and new market entrants could have a harder time shouldering the costs of undergoing these evaluations. “It actually adds a very large cost because now you need a third-party stamp of approval to release models,” Rolfes says. Independent evaluators would likely charge hefty fees, he argues, given the amount of work and expertise needed to clear a huge and complex model for public release.



Independent evaluators may also need substantial computing resources to run increasingly complex tests. So the costs grow with the complexity of the models. “Since models are now capable enough of acting as LM agents, evals have to be increasingly complex tasks, which significantly increases the overhead per eval,” wrote Marius Hobbhahn, CEO of the independent evaluation company Apollo Research, back in 2024.



Anthropic itself has acknowledged the risk and explicitly connected it to regulatory capture. “The costs of evaluating huge and complex AI models is high, and getting higher,” the company stated in a 2024 blog. “We should ensure this is a well scoped, small set of tests, or else we’ll create regulatory burdens and increase the possibility of regulatory capture.”



The heads of the big labs don’t often agree on much, but lately they’ve been singing from the same hymnal when it comes to AI safety and alignment. In a September 12 essay, Anthropic’s Amodei called for slowing, or “pacing,” frontier model development so that the labs could catch up on safety and alignment R&amp;D. OpenAI’s Sam Altman publicly agreed, saying “we need to pace the frontier.” SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk simply responded, “Dario is right,” aligning himself with the argument for slowing down. Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis also expressed support.



Days later, OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane told reporters that OpenAI had already been working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for several weeks.



Wired’s Maxwell Zeff reported on September 10 that OpenAI had asked members of Congress whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown in frontier AI development would violate antitrust laws, citing people close to the company. But the reporting doesn’t say OpenAI asked about an agreement among industry players on independent evaluations specifically. (OpenAI declined to comment for this story. Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment.)



It’s also possible that the labs are motivated by genuine safety concerns, or by some mix of motives. “This is a complex topic since it is hard to fathom the real motives,” says Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran in an email to Fast Company. “[A]nthropic’s safety advocacy did contribute to its models later being restricted from government use,” he recalls. He’s referring to Anthropic’s limits on the Pentagon’s use of its models for domestic mass surveillance, an application the company said it had no reliable way to monitor for safety.



“I believe sincere risk concern shown by frontier labs and competitive advantage aren’t mutually exclusive,” Chandrasekaran says. “They may gain competitive advantage, but they also realize how much safety and alignment is critical [to] how their customers will evaluate them in the present and future.”



On Wednesday, OpenAI reported six more incidents from the past six months in which it discovered “unexpected or concerning” model behavior during training or evaluation. AI researchers call this misalignment—when models act outside their intended role, evade oversight, take unauthorized actions, or coordinate in unexpected ways. In July, swarms of agents powered by OpenAI models broke out of their testing environment, accessed the open internet, and broke into servers belonging to the open-source AI repository Hugging Face.



Anthropic has repeatedly disclosed that its own models attempted harmful actions under testing. In August, U.K. AI Security Institute testers observed Mythos 5 taking 17 unauthorized actions against third parties, including trying to plant malicious code in an open-source project and creating fake identities for a social-engineering attack. In a September 9 report, Anthropic described four occasions during 2026 when its Claude model accessed the public internet because of a “misconfiguration” in a cybersecurity evaluation designed by a testing partner.



David Sacks, a science and technology adviser to President Trump, has embraced the regulatory-capture theory to describe Anthropic’s statements and policy actions. “Dario’s post assumes we have amnesia about Anthropic’s well-orchestrated campaigns hyping AI fears,” he tweeted in response to Amodei’s September 12 essay. “His May 2025 claim that AI would wipe out 50% of entry-level knowledge jobs within five years still lacks supporting evidence 15 months later.” Sacks has explicitly accused Anthropic of pursuing a “sophisticated regulatory capture strategy,” arguing that its push for stringent AI-safety laws could impose compliance costs that smaller competitors can’t afford.



Why would these big, well-financed labs need to go to such lengths to freeze out competition through regulation or independent auditors? Being a freestanding frontier model developer—meaning one not housed inside a larger tech company—is a fabulously expensive business. The companies spend massive amounts renting or building cloud infrastructure to run their models, and they must reserve computing power years into the future.



A July report from The Information says Anthropic had previously told investors it had committed to spending $180 billion on computing resources through 2029, but that the company had signed commitments worth an estimated $517 billion for compute-capacity leases in the past 11 months.



OpenAI has said it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, or 25% more than it estimated earlier in the year. CEO Sam Altman said last year that OpenAI had committed to spending $1.4 trillion to develop 30 gigawatts of computing resources through 2032.



The labs also have to pay the salaries of the world’s best AI researchers. The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI’s average stock-based compensation is about $1.5 million per employee across a workforce of about 4,000. Add model-training costs and other expenses, and the companies have enormous bills to cover.



Their revenues, while enormous and rapidly growing, remain much smaller than some of those long-term commitments. OpenAI’s annualized revenue run rate reached $40 billion in August, Bloomberg reported. Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate passed $65 billion at the end of July, Bloomberg reported.



“So, Anthropic has to make so much money just to pay off all these commitments, and there’s just no way they’re going to be able to make that much unless they find a way to capture the entire market,” Rolfes says. He argues that Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI each target different market segments, with some overlap, so if regulatory burdens rendered smaller labs uncompetitive, the remaining players could gain something approaching a monopoly or duopoly in portions of their target markets.



Rolfes’ team just released a new research report examining Anthropic’s business quality, revenue outlook, and compute strategy ahead of its S-1 filing, with the aim of evaluating whether its reported $2 trillion valuation is justified.



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<title>The secret truth is corporate America is moving too slow on AI. Some of it is caution and some is terrible recruitment </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-secret-truth-is-corporate-america-is-moving-too-slow-on-ai-some-of-it-is-caution-and-some-is-terrible-recruitment</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The case for slowing AI down got turbocharged last week when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned, but adoption is already way too slow. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>AT&amp;amp;T CFO Pascal Desroches reflects on a nearly 40&#45;year finance career before retiring</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/att-cfo-pascal-desroches-reflects-on-a-nearly-40-year-finance-career-before-retiring</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/att-cfo-pascal-desroches-reflects-on-a-nearly-40-year-finance-career-before-retiring</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Desroches shares the lessons behind AT&amp;T&#039;s $150 billion network bet, a hard dividend call, and why he says he never hesitated. ]]></description>
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<title>Should you fear private market assets in your 401(k)? Georgetown Retirement Research says no</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/should-you-fear-private-market-assets-in-your-401k-georgetown-retirement-research-says-no</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/should-you-fear-private-market-assets-in-your-401k-georgetown-retirement-research-says-no</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Labor Department’s proposed safe harbor would give 401(k) fiduciaries clearer legal footing to evaluate private-market investments. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Onchain finance is coming to Wall Street—and ignoring it is no longer an option</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/onchain-finance-is-coming-to-wall-streetand-ignoring-it-is-no-longer-an-option</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/onchain-finance-is-coming-to-wall-streetand-ignoring-it-is-no-longer-an-option</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Two veteran financial attorneys say once-exotic blockchain are already being integrated into traditional finance. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Onchain, finance, coming, Wall, Street—and, ignoring, longer, option</media:keywords>
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<title>Current price of oil as of September 18, 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-september-18-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/current-price-of-oil-as-of-september-18-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Liverpool leads UK cities with 6 per cent of old phone lines left</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/liverpool-leads-uk-cities-with-6-per-cent-of-old-phone-lines-left</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Liverpool has just six per cent of legacy lines left to migrate ahead of the PSTN switch-off in January 2027, according to new data from Openreach. ]]></description>
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<title>Chemify secures £22m public backing for £89.9m Glasgow expansion</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/chemify-secures-22m-public-backing-for-899m-glasgow-expansion</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Chemify funding worth £22m from Scottish Enterprise and the UK Government supports the Glasgow company&#039;s £89.9m expansion, creating up to 300 jobs. ]]></description>
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<title>Three directors fined in first identity verification prosecutions</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/three-directors-fined-in-first-identity-verification-prosecutions</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
The Insolvency Service has secured its first convictions for identity verification offences, with three company directors fined at magistrates&#039; court. ]]></description>
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<title>Nine in 10 UK manufacturers use automation to manage disruption</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nine-in-10-uk-manufacturers-use-automation-to-manage-disruption</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nine-in-10-uk-manufacturers-use-automation-to-manage-disruption</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Barclays research finds 87 per cent of UK manufacturers use automation to manage disruption, while 72 per cent report more defence and security demand. ]]></description>
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<title>UK business owners face fourth&#45;highest tax bill of 13 major economies</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/uk-business-owners-face-fourth-highest-tax-bill-of-13-major-economies</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Study of 13 developed economies puts the UK business owner tax burden fourth highest once inheritance tax on a £1.2m estate is included in the total. ]]></description>
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<title>Spotify expands its partner program for podcasts to 35 new countries</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotify-expands-its-partner-program-for-podcasts-to-35-new-countries</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotify-expands-its-partner-program-for-podcasts-to-35-new-countries</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Spotify said since changing its video podcasts creator terms in January, its payouts have increased by more than a third. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How Bain Capital Ventures plans to deploy its fresh $1.6B fund</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-bain-capital-ventures-plans-to-deploy-its-fresh-16b-fund</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-bain-capital-ventures-plans-to-deploy-its-fresh-16b-fund</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ BCV&#039;s latest fund targets early-stage founders harnessing AGI and building the infrastructure to run it efficiently. ]]></description>
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<media:keywords>How, Bain, Capital, Ventures, plans, deploy, its, fresh, 1.6B, fund</media:keywords>
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<title>Lucid Motors has a potential robotaxi partner for Europe</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lucid-motors-has-a-potential-robotaxi-partner-for-europe</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lucid-motors-has-a-potential-robotaxi-partner-for-europe</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The company is partnering with mobility platform Bolt -- but no vehicle orders have been placed just yet. ]]></description>
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<title>Google, Nvidia and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-nvidia-and-anthropic-want-emerald-ai-to-find-space-on-the-grid-for-more-data-centers</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-nvidia-and-anthropic-want-emerald-ai-to-find-space-on-the-grid-for-more-data-centers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A new coalition that includes Google, Nvidia, Anthropic and Emerald AI wants to find 100 GW of grid capacity for new data centers. ]]></description>
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<title>Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/rival-ai-agents-instinct-and-metas-muse-both-add-the-ability-to-make-calls</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/rival-ai-agents-instinct-and-metas-muse-both-add-the-ability-to-make-calls</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions ]]></description>
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<title>Scrubs &amp;amp; Beyond stores are closing: Clothing retailer says all locations will shutter, offers no explanation</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/scrubs-beyond-stores-are-closing-clothing-retailer-says-all-locations-will-shutter-offers-no-explanation</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The apparel industry is no stranger to store closures, and this week another retailer has joined the ranks of those shuttering stores. 



Healthcare clothing company Scrubs &amp; Beyond has announced that it will close all of its stores, which include more than 100 locations across 30 states. Here’s what you need to know about the store closures.



What is Scrubs &amp; Beyond?



Scrubs &amp; Beyond is a specialty clothing retailer that sells healthcare apparel for medical professionals—doctors and nurses who work in hospitals and healthcare offices across the country.



According to its website, Scrubs &amp; Beyond says it is the largest retail provider of healthcare apparel and accessories in America. It has been in operation for more than 20 years. In 2013, it acquired two other professional uniform companies, Uniform City and Life Uniform.



Private equity merger



In March 2022, private equity firm LKCM Headwater Investments merged Scrubs &amp; Beyond with three other uniform companies—Chefwear, Landau, and White Cross—to form Kindthread, an overarching parent company of the four uniform retailers.



In October of that year, Kindthread announced a completely revamped retail and online experience for Scrubs &amp; Beyond, which included “an elevated and modernized in-store experience,” according to a company press release.



“The scale of Scrubs &amp; Beyond, and its importance to our family of brands, enables us to bring about a positive change in the retail experience for an incredibly important group of people – healthcare professionals,” Kindthread CEO David Murphy said at the time.



But fast-forward less than four years later, and now Scrubs &amp; Beyond has abruptly announced it is closing all its retail stores.



Why is Scrubs &amp; Beyond closing its retail stores?



Neither Scrubs &amp; Beyond nor its parent company, Kindthread, has publicly stated why it chose to close all its retail stores.



The announcement of Scrubs &amp; Beyond’s store closures was made on the retailer’s website, which simply stated “All Retail Stores Closing” in a banner across the top of the site. 



The chain says it is offering 20% to 40% off all products in its retail stores nationwide.



Based on the language on the store’s website, it is unclear whether Scrubs &amp; Beyond’s online operations will also cease. It is also unclear how many employees will be affected by the nationwide store closures.



A customer service line for Scrubs &amp; Beyond was disconnected and no longer in service when called by Fast Company on Wednesday.



On the Scrubs &amp; Beyond Instagram account, a number of customers have complained recently that they ordered merchandise from the brand but never received it.



Fast Company has reached out to Kindthread for comment.



Which Scrubs &amp; Beyond retail stores are closing?



Scrubs &amp; Beyond’s website states that it currently has more than 115 stores in 30 states.



The company has not published a list of all its closing stores, but the retailer’s website lists the following store locations:



Alabama




Tuscaloosa




Arizona




Gilbert 



Glendale 



Mesa 



Phoenix 




Arkansas




Fort Smith 



Little Rock  — Perris Plaza Shopping Center



Little Rock  — N Little Rock




California




Bakersfield 



Chico 



Citrus Heights 



Concord 



Fresno 



Modesto 



Rialto 



Riverside 



Upland 




Colorado




Aurora 



Lakewood 




Florida




Altamonte Springs 



Clearwater 



Lauderhill 



North Miami Beach 



Orlando 



Pensacola 



Tampa 




Georgia




Augusta 



Dunwoody 



Lawrenceville 




Illinois




Niles 



Rockford 



Shiloh 




Indiana




Indianapolis  — Southport Commons



Indianapolis  — Racquet Square



Plainfield 




Kansas




Overland Park 



Wichita 




Kentucky




Florence 




Maryland




Landover Hills 



Rockville 




Michigan




Ann Arbor 



Flint 



Novi 



Portage 



Southgate 



Troy 



Utica 



Warren 



Westland 




Minnesota




Burnsville 



Coon Rapids 



Rochester 



Roseville 



Waite Park 




Missouri




Columbia 



Creve Coeur 



Kirkwood 



Saint Louis 



St. Peters 




Nebraska




Omaha




Nevada




Las Vegas  — Las Vegas



Las Vegas  — Cheyenne Commons



Las Vegas  — Silverado Ranch S/C




New Jersey




Elizabeth 



Paramus 



Totowa 



Woodbridge 




New Mexico




Albuquerque 




New York




Carle Place 



Rochester 



Selden 



Staten Island 



Tonawanda 




North Carolina




Charlotte 



Durham 




Ohio




Cincinnati 



Columbus 



Dayton 



Reynoldsburg 



West Chester 




Oklahoma




Oklahoma City




Oregon




Beaverton 



Happy Valley 



Salem 




Pennsylvania




Erie 



Lancaster 



Monroeville 



Pittsburgh 



West Reading 




South Carolina




Florence 



Myrtle Beach 




Tennessee




Cordova 



Memphis 




Texas




Austin 



Cypress 



Dallas 



Frisco 



Fort Worth 



Houston 



Hurst 



Lewisville 



Mesquite 



Oak Ridge North 



San Antonio  — Med Centre Point



San Antonio  — Alamo Ranch Shopping Center



Selma 



Sugar Land 



Temple 



Webster 




Virginia




Richmond 



Woodbridge 




Washington




Lynnwood 



Tacoma 



Tukwila 




Wisconsin




Brookfield 



Madison 




When are Scrubs &amp; Beyond retail stores closing?



The exact date Scrubs &amp; Beyond retail stores will close for good is unknown at this time. ]]></description>
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<title>So Delicious Dairy Free frozen dessert gets recalled again over fears of ‘small stones’ and ‘other hard objects’</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/so-delicious-dairy-free-frozen-dessert-gets-recalled-again-over-fears-of-small-stones-and-other-hard-objects</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A dairy-free frozen dessert product is being recalled for the second time in less than a year. 



Danone USA is voluntarily recalling pints of So Delicious Dairy Free Salted Caramel Cluster Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert.



The recall is due to “the potential presence of foreign materials, such as small stones and other hard objects, within the cashew bits,” according to a notice issued Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  



This is word-for-word the same reason why this product was recalled just last December. 



On the So Delicious website, the brand boldly states, “We know this is not the quality you expect from us,” despite this now becoming a pattern.  



It goes on to nearly mimic its promises from last year: “So Delicious Dairy Free is working swiftly with retail partners to remove the impacted product from shelves. In the meantime, we have identified and corrected this issue and will soon be able to bring the product back to market safely.”



Whether that’s true remains to be seen but, for now, here’s what you need to know about the recalled Salted Caramel Cluster Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert pints.



What products are affected?



The only product Danone USA has recalled is the So Delicious Dairy Free Salted Caramel Cluster Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert pints. The recall is for a batch with the following information:




SKU: 136603



UPC: 744473476138



Best-by dates: Any date up to and including April 3, 2028. 




Where and when was the product sold? 



All Danone USA has said is that the dessert was distributed to retailers nationwide. According to the So Delicious website, its products are sold at major retailers.



What should I do if I have this product? 



Do not consume any recalled So Delicious Dairy Free Salted Caramel Cluster Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert pints. Instead, dispose of them immediately. You can contact So Delicious for a refund or replacement coupon at 1-833-367-8975 or through the webform.



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<title>Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro puts the focus on authenticity</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/apples-iphone-18-pro-puts-the-focus-on-authenticity</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ For many years now, Apple has been making the case that the iPhone is the most popular camera in the world. Part of the appeal, to hear the company tell it on stage, is how the camera leverages the iPhone’s considerable processing power to make capturing incredible images easier than ever before. 



Each year brings a new iPhone that finds new ways to convert visual information from a tiny sensor into memories. And with the iPhone 18 Pro, releasing later this week, Apple appears to be focusing on something new: authenticity. 





The case for imperfection



It is true that the breakthrough computational techniques pioneered by Apple and others have changed the way we all take photos. You no longer need to worry about shooting into the sun or blowing out a window from the inside; more often than not, your phone will figure out the scene and make sure everything is exposed and clear.



But this perfect, impossible flattening of the real world has led to a loss of character. The iPhone’s overly sharpened, HDR-heavy image processing is artless and shows little taste for the historical aesthetics of photography. It’s no wonder that Gen Z has embraced cheap point-and-shoot digicams they were too young to use the first time around—the imperfections in the image are what make the memory feel real.



Other phone companies have addressed this in various ways. Google added a feature called Camera Looks to this year’s Pixel phone, for example, offering different styles that are deeply integrated into the image processing pipeline; one of them specifically aims to emulate a digicam. Chinese tech giants Xiaomi and Oppo, meanwhile, have long partnered with traditional camera counterparts Leica and Hasselblad, with modes in their camera apps that are designed to evoke authentic photography.



More freedom



Apple looks to be responding to this by updating its Photographic Styles feature with controls for texture and grain, as well as the existing tone and color settings. The company says this will let you “soften skin details or achieve an artful film look.” In other words, Apple is giving you more freedom to disagree with its processing choices.



Grain is a revealing addition. The speckled quality associated with the chemicals used in film turns an apparent flaw into an aesthetic decision. It introduces irregularity into an image, which Apple has historically strived to remove. Texture, meanwhile, makes the treatment of detail part of the creative process.



We’ll have to wait for first-hand experience to see how effective the extra controls prove to be in practice. To Apple’s credit, though, they’re also coming to the iPhone 16 and 17 lineups, as well as the iPhone Air, as part of iOS 27 rather than being locked to new devices. This is a good move if Apple wants to change the conversation around iPhone photography.



The hardware changes in the iPhone 18 Pro are quite modest, led by a variable aperture system that I don’t expect to make a big difference to most people’s photos too often. But the physical mechanism has prompted Apple to give users more control in another way, redesigning the Camera app with options to manually adjust aperture, shutter speed and white balance, as well as a histogram to assess exposure in real time.



Third-party apps have offered similar controls for advanced users for a long time, of course. But Apple is overdue to including them in its own stock Camera app. As with the new Photographic Styles additions, the controls give photographers creative freedom to make different choices than Apple’s programmers in Cupertino. There’s no such thing as an objectively correct shutter speed for a given photo—the setting is the result of the photographer’s authorship.



Authenticity tools



And that’s related to another new feature: Apple Reference Image, which is designed to prove the authenticity and provenance of a photo. In an optional Reference mode, signed sensor data is cryptographically developed through Private Cloud Compute into an unalterable image. Users can compare that reference with the main photograph in Photos to inspect changes. Apple is also supporting the SynthID standard, which will add metadata to images so viewers can check how they were edited, including whether it was generated by AI. 



[Photo: Apple]



The new push for authenticity is welcome, not least because Apple has been experimenting with a lot of AI-powered features lately. The most ambitious is Reframe, a new tool in iOS 27 that allows you to alter the angle and composition of a photo after it has been taken—you can make it seem as if someone was looking at the camera when they weren’t, for example, or change where the photographer appeared to be standing. The ability to demonstrate that such tools weren’t used in the creation of an image could prove to be crucial.



Apple is right to claim that the iPhone is the world’s most popular camera. But that status comes with a degree of responsibility, and not just when it comes to ensuring that everyone’s photos are aesthetically pleasing. By adopting features that help to prove the authenticity of images, Apple may do more to help set standards and expectations than any other camera maker could. 





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<title>Without saying a word, Warren Buffett successor Greg Abel just taught a powerful lesson in leadership</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What’s the most powerful thing you can do to establish yourself when you’re the new CEO of a company? Not just any company, a trillion-dollar company that has existed for 187 years. The CEO you’re replacing is so beloved, his nickname is “the Oracle of Omaha.” And everyone, including the news media and the company’s shareholders, is watching you closely for any sign of failure. They’re all certain you can’t possibly live up to the genius of Warren Buffett.



There’s one very strong move you can make in that situation. Prove your own confidence by making very public bet on yourself. It’s gutsy. But it can be a very smart move if you’re facing skepticism in a new leadership position.



Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel just did that. Abel took over from Buffett in January, although Buffett said Abel had been making some of Berkshire’s investment decisions for years. Abel started his tenure as CEO with lots of money to spend, about $380 billion in cash and short-term Treasuries.



Buffett accumulated these funds over the past few years. He likens investing to being a batter at home plate who can wait out an unlimited number of pitches until the perfect one comes along. He famously doesn’t buy equities when he thinks the market is overpriced. So he finished out his role as Berkshire CEO by selling some shares, but not buying much.



Berkshire’s Q2 filing contains surprises.



The world just learned that in the past three months, Abel has charted a different course. A Q2 filing last week revealed that Abel spent a big chunk of the cash Buffett piled up. He added $10 billion to Berkshire’s stake in Alphabet, Google’s parent company. He acquired Taylor Morrison Home for $6.8 billion, although that deal closed in Q3 and was not part of this filing. Most significantly, he spent $4.5 billion to repurchase Berkshire Hathaway’s own shares.



That is one very powerful move. Abel made a simple one-time announcement shortly after he became CEO to notify the public that Berkshire would soon resume repurchasing shares. Beyond that, Abel hasn’t spoken publicly about any of his recent spending. But the company’s quarterly filing contains this passage in three different places: Berkshire’s common stock repurchase program currently permits Berkshire to repurchase shares any time that Berkshire’s Chief Executive Officer, after consultation with the Chairman of the Board [i.e. Buffett], believes that the repurchase price is below Berkshire’s intrinsic value, conservatively determined.



Berkshire’s share price reaches all-time high.



That’s a pretty bold statement to make even once, let alone three times. Berkshire’s Class B shares reached their all-time high at market close of just under $540 during those three months. And although they’ve come down off that peak a bit, they are up more than 4 percent in the past quarter. Yet Abel, with Buffett’s backing, is telling the world that Berkshire is worth even more than its current market value.



The company has never shared details about how it makes these calculations. It only reveals what it’s bought and sold when legally required to do so. Back in March, CNBC reporters asked Abel why he thought Berkshire shares were undervalued. He would only say it was based on the economic prospects of the companies Berkshire owns some or all of.



Most of those companies are doing well, the filing revealed. So that logic makes a lot of sense. But by buying back huge chunks of Berkshire stock, Abel is also saying something else. He’s saying that the company will continue to grow its profits and its value, because he knows how to make that happen.



If you don’t like it, we’ll buy it back.



It’s a silly comparison, but it reminds me of when I bought a garden hose a few weeks ago. The hose I was replacing was lightweight but proved to be flimsy. At my local hardware store, as I stood staring at a huge range of options, the clerk pointed to one and said it was the best. I hesitated, though. For one thing, it was pretty pricey for a hose. Worse, it was a blinding shade of chartreuse.



But then the clerk told me that Sharon, who runs the garden department and whose judgment I’ve come to trust, recommends that hose to all her customers. “I’ve heard her say that if they don’t like it, she will personally buy it back,” he added. That was good enough for me and I bought the hose.



We trust those who risk their own funds.



When people express confidence in their own abilities by putting their own money on the line–which Abel is also doing by taking his salary in stock–we tend to trust them. We believe they’re right. And that’s exactly what’s happening for Abel. Several analysts have switched their recommendation from “hold” to “buy” for Berkshire. And while you might have expected the share price to drop after Buffett stepped down, it’s up for the year so far.



Next time you’re facing a skeptical crowd, follow Abel’s example and put your own skin in the game. Your willingness to take that risk will show people that you’re confident and certain about the future. Do it right, and they’ll feel that way too.



There’s a growing audience of Inc.com readers who receive a daily text from me with a self-care or motivational micro-challenge or tip. Often, they text me back and we wind up in a conversation. (Want to know more? Here’s some information about the texts and a special invitation to a two-month free trial.) Most are entrepreneurs or business leaders who know how important it is to gain the confidence of those they lead, and of the marketplace. Putting your own money in the game is an effective way to make that happen.



—Minda Zetlin







This article originally appeared on Fast Company’s sister website, Inc.com. 



Inc. is the voice of the American entrepreneur. We inspire, inform, and document the most fascinating people in business: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters that represent the most dynamic force in the American economy. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>How to Create Team Goals that are Measurable</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It’s the New Year, and while many of us would like to start anew, the reality is that we’re still dealing with some 2022 baggage.  Talks of a recession have not quieted down, so how you start this year off can have a lasting impact on your business’s sustainability. In order to drive top performance […]
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<title>42 Best Sales Prospecting Tools for Sales Teams in 2023</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/42-best-sales-prospecting-tools-for-sales-teams-in-2023</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Good prospecting leads to good business.  Prospecting is what brings you to the attention of your potential clients and keeps your sales pipeline full, leading to more business.  But it is not as easy as sending a simple message randomly to people. Most sales reps consider prospecting to be the toughest part of the sales […]
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<title>How to Build a Creative Agency from Scratch</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-build-a-creative-agency-from-scratch</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The creative industry in the United States is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and it seems everyone wants a piece of the pie. Since 2021, there has been a 12% increase in the number of creative agencies. If you’ve got your sights set on building your own business from scratch, you’re in luck. We’ve laid out everything […]
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>6 Tips to Help You Thrive as a SaaS Salesperson During a Recession</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/6-tips-to-help-you-thrive-as-a-saas-salesperson-during-a-recession</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/6-tips-to-help-you-thrive-as-a-saas-salesperson-during-a-recession</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 6 Tips to Help You Thrive as a SaaS Salesperson During a Recession Did you know that during the economic downturn of 2020, caused by the pandemic, nearly 100,000 small businesses temporarily closed their doors and are now out of business? It’s a frightening statistic, but as a SaaS salesperson, there are specific strategies to […]
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>New Gmail and Yahoo Spam Prevention Requirements and How Email Marketers Can Prepare</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/new-gmail-and-yahoo-spam-prevention-requirements-and-how-email-marketers-can-prepare</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Ending up in the spam folder is every marketer’s nightmare. Not only does it mean your message didn’t make it to your recipient, but it could set you up for failure later on. The more your emails get marked as spam, the worse your email deliverability can get over time. Also, being seen as a […]
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<title>TUC chief suggests Burnham could call early general election</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak has suggested Andy Burnham could call an early general election if Labour&#039;s manifesto leaves too little room for change. ]]></description>
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<title>UK risks missing AI boom without hardware push, Blair report says</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/uk-risks-missing-ai-boom-without-hardware-push-blair-report-says</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Tony Blair Institute report says UK AI manufacturing capacity must grow, urging ministers to lift the sector to 10 per cent of gross value added by 2031. ]]></description>
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<title>The Rise of Ethical Tech: Why UK Business Owners Are Rethinking Web Hosting</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-rise-of-ethical-tech-why-uk-business-owners-are-rethinking-web-hosting</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-rise-of-ethical-tech-why-uk-business-owners-are-rethinking-web-hosting</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
When British business owners review their supply chains, the conversation usually starts with physical goods, energy contracts and transport. Increasingly, though, the digital supply chain is coming under the same scrutiny. ]]></description>
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<title>Smaller startups deserve more venture funding</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/smaller-startups-deserve-more-venture-funding</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Smaller startups’ ability to move quickly makes them hotbeds of innovation and presents a strong case for more funding than current investment patterns suggest. ]]></description>
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<title>ICCS Conference 2026: Creativity, Minds, and Machines in Rome and Vatican City</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/iccs-conference-2026-creativity-minds-and-machines-in-rome-and-vatican-city</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/iccs-conference-2026-creativity-minds-and-machines-in-rome-and-vatican-city</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
The International Center for Consciousness Studies will hold the Third Annual ICCS Conference in Rome and Vatican City on September 1–3, 2026. ]]></description>
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<title>Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tesla-says-it-will-finally-unveil-the-second-generation-roadster-on-october-1</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017. ]]></description>
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<title>Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-ceo-outlines-plan-to-slow-ai-development</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Anthropic&#039;s Dario Amodei and OpenAI&#039;s Sam Altman seem to agree that it&#039;s time to &quot;pace the frontier.&quot; What would that actually look like? ]]></description>
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<title>OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill&#45;advised’ to go public in 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openais-sam-altman-says-it-would-be-ill-advised-to-go-public-in-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openais-sam-altman-says-it-would-be-ill-advised-to-go-public-in-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman. ]]></description>
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<title>Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempted-ouster-by-board</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempted-ouster-by-board</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Automattic says Mullenweg is back as &quot;chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board.&quot; ]]></description>
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<media:keywords>Automattic, confirms, Mullenweg, has, returned, CEO, after, attempted, ouster, board</media:keywords>
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<title>Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/fusion-power-startups-find-new-partners-in-the-defense-world</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/fusion-power-startups-find-new-partners-in-the-defense-world</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>How Blockchain Technology Can Transform The Finance Industry?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-blockchain-technology-can-transform-the-finance-industry</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-blockchain-technology-can-transform-the-finance-industry</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A blockchain is a public ledger which holds all Bitcoin transactions which have ever taken place. This ledger is constantly growing as every day completed blocks are added to the blockchain. These blocks also come with a new set of recordings and are added to the blockchain in a linear and chronological order. Computers connected […]
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<title>I bought a Birkin as an investment. It taught me a hard lesson about human judgment</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/i-bought-a-birkin-as-an-investment-it-taught-me-a-hard-lesson-about-human-judgment</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ In 2017, I bought my first Birkin.



Not because I wanted to impress anyone. Not because it was a status symbol. I bought it because I saw it as an investment. As an entrepreneur, I naturally look at assets differently. If something has the potential to hold or appreciate in value, I’m interested.



Ironically, after spending so much on the bag, I barely used it.



It stayed in my closet because I was afraid of scratching it, staining it, or hurting its resale value. One day I caught myself thinking, What’s the point of owning something you’re too afraid to use?



So I started carrying it. What happened next surprised me.



People opened doors faster. Staff greeted me differently. At luxury stores, the service felt noticeably warmer. While shopping for linens in France, I was offered sparkling water almost immediately and received a level of attention that stood out. At conferences and events, conversations seemed to begin more naturally.



The bag didn’t change. I didn’t change. People’s perception changed.



The psychology of fast judgment



That experience forced me to confront something we don’t like to admit: Humans make incredibly fast judgments.



We like to believe we evaluate people based purely on merit. In reality, our brains rely on shortcuts. Clothing, watches, handbags, titles, schools, confidence, and reputation all become signals that shape first impressions long before anyone has the chance to demonstrate competence.



The Birkin wasn’t creating value; it was signaling it.



That realization also reminded me of experiences on the opposite end. I’ve walked into stores after long workdays wearing simple clothes with messy hair and been followed by security guards. I’ve been overlooked despite having every intention, and every ability, to make a purchase.



Same person, different signals.



The uncomfortable truth is that perception often influences access.



This isn’t really about luxury goods. Most people don’t own a Birkin, and nobody needs one.



The lesson is much bigger.



Every one of us sends signals every day. It might be how we communicate, how we introduce ourselves, the quality of our work, the consistency of our personal brand, or simply the confidence we project. Those signals influence whether people trust us, remember us, or give us an opportunity.



Some people will argue that this shouldn’t matter.



I agree.



But there is a difference between how the world should work and how it actually works. Understanding human psychology doesn’t mean becoming fake. It means recognizing reality and deciding how you want to show up within it.



Today, I no longer see my Birkin as just an investment; I see it as an unexpected lesson in perception.



Perception may open a door, but character, competence, and results are what keep it open.



—Kate Hancock



The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are their own, not those of Inc.com.



Get 1 Smart Business Story delivered straight to your inbox when you subscribe to Inc.’s free daily newsletter.







This article originally appeared on Fast Company’s sister website, Inc.com. 



Inc. is the voice of the American entrepreneur. We inspire, inform, and document the most fascinating people in business: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters that represent the most dynamic force in the American economy. ]]></description>
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<title>Why you procrastinate on things you actually want to do</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Below, Dr. Itamar Shatz shares five key insights from his new book, Solving Procrastination: The Science of Why We Put Things Off and How to (Finally!) Stop.



Itamar is an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge University. He helps people understand why they procrastinate and how to stop, using a practical system that he developed from more than 500 scientific studies.



What’s the Big Idea?



Procrastination isn’t a failure of time management or a sign that we don’t care. It’s a psychological tug-of-war between what we intend to do and what feels easier or better right now. To stop procrastinating, we need to understand what’s driving our particular pattern of delay and use strategies that address the real cause, rather than relying on willpower.



Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by Shatz himself—in the Next Big Idea app, or buy the book.



1. Procrastinators care more, not less.



Procrastination involves an intention-action gap between the beneficial things we mean to do and the problematic things we actually do.



You’ve probably experienced this yourself if there was ever something you truly wanted and intended to do, but found yourself putting off, again and again, each time telling yourself that you’ll do it in “tomorrow,” or “soon,” or “in just five minutes,” even if deep down you want to shake yourself and yell “JUST DO IT ALREADY.”



The usual problem in cases like these isn’t that you don’t care about the things you should be doing, but that you have paralyzing perfectionism from caring too much.



That’s why procrastination is an issue not only when it comes to unpleasant tasks, like many people think, but also on activities we’re genuinely excited about. And it’s why we procrastinate not only on stuff that doesn’t matter, but also on activities that can have serious consequences.



To avoid this pitfall, it’s important to replace perfectionism with good enough, which can actually be quite good. Then, remind yourself that the right number of mistakes in your work isn’t zero, and focus on your own standards (rather than those set by others).



2. We procrastinate to pursue immediate pleasure and avoid immediate pain.



The misconception that procrastination is just about time management or motivation leads us to try solving it with the wrong tools, which guarantees we’ll fail.



Time-management is usually a symptom of procrastination, rather than its cause. We can have excellent time-management skills and still end up procrastinating because we’re not addressing the real cause. No matter how much planning we do or how many time-management apps we use, even the most meticulous schedule won’t work if we can’t actually bring ourselves to follow it when the chips are down.



If we want to stop procrastinating, we need to take back control of our mind and find ways to strengthen our drive to act, or weaken our drive to delay. Fortunately, several techniques can help, like ditching big goals in favor of attainable ones, taking extra breaks when we need to rest, and riding the waves of our productivity rhythms.



3. Our brain is great at tricking us into thinking that next time will be different.



The biggest issue is the self-control fallacy: our mistaken belief that if we just try harder, we’ll manage to do what we need to through sheer willpower, even though this exact approach has failed us many times before. It’s a tempting notion, because it offers a clear and straightforward solution that seems believable—until it’s time to act. This approach rarely helps us win our internal tug-of-war.



To see through this trick, use the reality rule, by asking yourself what you’re actually likely to do, based on what you did in similar situations before, rather than on how you wish you’ll act. That way, you can adjust accordingly and find new solutions that could actually help, instead of trying the same things and getting the same results.



4. Procrastination is more varied than people think.



There’s no single strategy that everyone should always use to overcome their procrastination. A college student who’s procrastinating because of distractions should use different strategies than an artist who’s procrastinating because of perfectionism, as should an executive who’s procrastinating because of burnout, and so on.



To overcome your procrastination, it’s important to figure out why you procrastinate. You’ll often need to dig through several layers before you get to the reasons you should focus on addressing; an example is when it seems you’re getting distracted by social media, but really you’re stuck because your self-confidence is low.



To help make sense of your procrastination, you can consider when, where, and how you do it, and what the difference is between cases where you procrastinate versus ones when you take action. You can also consider the different procrastinator archetypes—like the Worrier, Zigzagger, and Rebel—and see which ones resonate with you the most. This is great both for figuring out why you procrastinate, and for finding the best ways to stop.



5. Procrastination might be growing more common, but it has ancient roots.



To overcome procrastination, we need to address modern risks, like the increasing bombardment of digital distractions, steep rise in unstructured work, and climbing rates of anxiety.



But, although it’s tempting to think of procrastination as a purely modern problem, people have been battling it throughout history. That’s why we have warnings from almost three thousand years ago, saying that “a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.”



The issue is that procrastination is rooted deep in our psychology, and specifically in an impulsive fight-or-flight response that we’re wired to engage in. Fortunately, we can seize control of this response by empathizing with our future self to make us care more about what will happen to us. And we can also shine a bright light on our fears (the real ones driving our behavior, rather than just those that lie on the surface) by asking what they are, how likely they are to happen, and how we can successfully move on if they do.



This article originally appeared in Next Big Idea Club magazine and is reprinted with permission.



Enjoy our full library of Book Bites—read by the authors!—in the Next Big Idea app.
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<title>4 ways to get your iPhone ready for iOS 27</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This week Apple introduced its new iPhone lineup, including the iPhone 18 Pro series and the iPhone Duo. The devices feature the most advanced tech that Apple has ever stuffed into a smartphone. But if you’re not in the market for a new iPhone, there’s some good news: The company also announced a release date for the new iOS 27 operating system, which will run on any iPhone that can run iOS 26.



Apple says that iOS 27 will be released to the general public this Monday, September 14. Until then, there are some things you can do to help ease the upgrade and ensure that the latest software runs as smoothly as possible on your existing iPhone.



Update to iOS 26.6 or later



Apple included a new indexing optimization with the release of iOS 26.6, in preparation for iOS 27, that should save you lots of post-installation headaches. “Indexing” is the term for the process in which iOS goes through all the files on your iPhone and categorizes and tags them, so it can find the file you need quickly when you search for it later on. 



Whenever a new major version of iOS comes out, it generally reindexes your entire phone—but this process can take days and is compute-intensive. So while the indexing is going on, it can sap your iPhone’s processing power and battery life—which is why you see so many claims on social media that the new operating system “slows down” your older iPhone.



Because iOS 27 has a completely new Spotlight search architecture that helps power the new Siri AI, indexing may take even longer than usual. That’s why, as noted by 9to5Mac, Apple added a background feature in iOS 26.6 that lets your iPhone start reindexing before you even install iOS 27. This means that, provided you have been running iOS 26.6 or later for a few days, your upgrade to iOS 27 should go much more smoothly.



To make sure you’re running iOS 26.6 or later, go to Settings &gt; General &gt; Software Update.



Back up your data to iCloud



Right before installing iOS 27, you should make sure that your iPhone is backed up to iCloud. While it’s unlikely an iOS 27 install will brick your phone or erase critical data, accidents can happen. If your iPhone is backed up to iCloud, at least you always have a copy of your data to restore if the worst occurs.



Your iPhone should back up automatically to iCloud each night when you plug it in before bed. But you can also force an iCloud backup right before downloading iOS 27, too. 



To manually back up your iPhone to iCloud, go to Settings &gt; Apple Account &gt; iCloud&gt; iCloud Backup and tap “Back Up Now.” Just make sure you’re on a fast Wi-Fi connection so that the backup doesn’t take forever.



Free up storage space



Depending on your iPhone model, iOS 27 may require 25GB of free space or more to install. If you don’t have that free space, you can’t download iOS 27. That’s why you should take the time now to check whether you have enough storage space and, if not, free up some space so your iPhone has room to download iOS 27. 



Generally, the largest individual files on your iPhone are video games, which can be gigabytes in size, and 4K video, such as the kind you may have if you’ve downloaded any movies or series for offline viewing in streaming apps like Netflix and Disney+.



To see what data is taking up the most space on your iPhone, go to Settings &gt; General &gt; iPhone Storage. You can then determine which large files or apps you no longer need and delete them.



Update your apps



In preparation for any major new iOS release, most developers work diligently to update their apps so that they run as smoothly as possible on the new operating system. In many cases, developers ship these optimizations in their apps before the major iOS release, so users can have the best possible experience as soon as the new iOS update is installed.



In order to make sure your apps run without problems—and also take advantage of any newly supported iOS 27 features—it’s good practice to update your iPhone apps ahead of downloading iOS 27 (or at the very least, right after installing the new OS).



To make sure you’re using the latest version of all your apps before installing iOS 27, open the App Store app, then tap your Apple Account profile picture in the upper-right corner. Next, tap App Updates, and then update all available apps.



After prepping your iPhone for iOS 27, you should be all ready to install the new operating system as soon as Apple releases it.



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<title>Manischewitz is betting that a dating show can attract Gen Z to the 138&#45;year&#45;old brand</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For the next ten days, while everyone else is settling back into school and ushering in autumn with pumpkin spice lattes, Jewish Americans will be celebrating the “Days of Awe,” starting with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending with Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.



The Days of Awe start at sundown on Friday, September 11, followed by 10 days of somber reflection on the past year. Yom Kippur is a day of atonement and deep reflection for which Jews traditionally fast—it begins at sundown on Sunday, September 20 and finishes at the end of the next day on Monday, September 21.



And, for generations, Manischewitz has been a staple on many tables over the Jewish holidays—whether that’s their wine, crackers, or another product like macaroons. But looking ahead, the question is whether younger Jewish consumers, like Gen Zers—whose brand of Judaism is a far cry from that of their parents or grandparents—will continue that tradition.



“We’re not trying to convince Gen Z  and other younger generations to experience Manischewitz the way previous generations did,” Manischewitz senior vice president Mirit Shalvi tells Fast Company. We’re giving them opportunities to make Manischewitz their own, and develop a connection to a brand their grandparents also knew. Very few brands have the ability to bridge generations that way.”



Introducing Manischewitz to a broader generation of culturally curious consumers has been a very intentional strategy for the company, particularly since its recent brand refresh in 2024.



“What is important is that we haven’t approached this as simply changing the packaging or running a campaign aimed at Gen Z,” a Manischewitz spokesperson tells Fast Company. “We’ve been looking at how a 100+-year-old heritage brand can participate in contemporary culture while still being unmistakably Manischewitz.”



Manischewitz was born in 1888, some 138 years ago, from Jewish immigrants’ need, and desire, for special kosher wine and food products, to ensure they met the necessary dietary guidelines under Jewish law once they came to America.



Years later, following a 2024 refresh, Manischewitz has moved well beyond being perceived solely as a brand consumers encounter during major Jewish holidays. And it has created more opportunities for younger consumers to engage with the brand through an array of food products beyond staples like wine, matzoh, crackers and gefilte fish, to gluten-free, low-sodium, and sugar-free options.



Its appeal to the next generation of American Jews and those interested in kosher products is, perhaps, most evident in the design of its website and products. The brighter orange color, updated font, contemporary food photography, and funny Yiddish expressions retain the visual and cultural cues associated with Manischewitz, while also showing how the tradition of having Manischewitz on the table can “be fun, contemporary and culturally relevant.”



That’s also true for its new merch (check out this culinary chutzpah apron), and updated social media and entertainment content. Its dating show, Manischewitz Matchmakers, appeals to one thing all younger Jewish adults care about: dating. It also has a traveling food truck serving hot dogs, knishes, and matzo ball soup.



“Younger consumers don’t necessarily separate food, identity, entertainment, social media and culture—they experience all of those things together,” Talia Sabag, marketing manager for Manischewitz, tells Fast Company. “That’s why our evolution has gone far beyond packaging. From a dating show and a traveling deli to an art exhibition, college programs, athlete partnerships, merchandise and new products, we’re finding new ways for people to participate in the Manischewitz brand.”



And the strategy is working: Since 2024, the brand has grown more than 12%, with Manischewitz’s core products up over 40%—driven mainly by matzo product purchases by younger consumers.



And that’s not all: Manischewitz says it also saw double-digit growth in key markets such as Florida and California, along with continued expansion online, with sales tripling since 2024 in the “Fresh &amp; Frozen” category—reflecting strong demand from younger consumers for convenience. Those items include frozen Challah, frozen matzoh balls, and frozen rugelach—all of which are ready to go after heating. ]]></description>
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<title>4 things you can do to protect yourself from the rising threat of AI</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For more than 25 years, I’ve been the “Computer Guy” for friends, family, and colleagues who call when something digital goes sideways. Lately, those calls have changed. The questions used to be about slow computers and forgotten passwords. Now, almost every conversation circles back to the same two words: artificial intelligence.



The concern is understandable—and underscored by recent warnings from high-profile AI researchers about the threat of superintelligence. AI is in our home appliances, work products and even attends our meetings. It shapes the apps we use, the content we see, and the messages we receive. Voice assistants listen to our commands, shopping sites predict what we’ll buy next, and AI tools quietly learn from the data we create. Meanwhile, the traditional cybersecurity risks of stolen passwords, compromised accounts, and phishing emails haven’t gone anywhere. They’ve only gotten more sophisticated and harder to spot.



What frustrates me is that most of the “protection advice” floating around reminds me of Cold War–era guidance telling schoolchildren to hide under their desks during a nuclear attack: well-intentioned, but not exactly practical.



The good news is you don’t need a computer science degree to meaningfully reduce your risk. Four simple habits can help you protect your privacy, spot digital deception, and keep your accounts safer in an AI-driven world.



Two ways to limit AI’s reach into your world



Start by limiting your digital footprint. Every app permission you grant, online quiz you complete, voice command you speak, and prompt you enter can add to the data profile companies build about you.



Remove the apps you never use from your phone, then review app permissions on the ones you do use, opting out of unnecessary data collection where possible.



Always avoid sharing personal details with AI chatbots. Be especially cautious with free AI sites that use your prompts, conversations, or uploaded files to train their systems. Anything you share could be stored, analyzed, or reused in ways you did not intend. Privacy-focused options such as proton.com and duck.ai may be better choices because they are designed to reduce data collection.



You should also learn to recognize AI-generated content. AI can now create realistic fake images, videos, audio, and phishing messages that appear to come from people or organizations you trust. Verify unexpected messages, reverse-image search photos that seem unusually polished, and pause before reacting to content designed to make you angry, afraid, or excited.



Two basic cybersecurity protections to start



Even in the AI age, these are two things everyone should do to protect themselves online. It not only helps fight against human hackers but also, with AI-generated attacks.



First, use strong, unique passwords and store them in a dedicated password manager. Reusing the same password across multiple sites means one breach can expose your email, banking, shopping, and social media accounts at the same time. A password manager creates long, random passwords for each account and remembers them for you, so you only need to memorize one strong master password.



Second, enable multi-factor authentication, or MFA, on every account that offers it. MFA adds a second proof of identity, such as code from an authenticator app or a tap on a hardware security key. Even if someone steals your password, MFA makes it much harder for them to get into your account.



Some examples of how strong passwords and MFA can help include:



Deepfake Social Engineering — AI-generated voice clones or video deepfakes can impersonate trusted individuals, such as a CEO calling IT, your daughter, or your grandmother, making social engineering far more convincing. Even if an attacker successfully tricks someone into handing over their credentials, MFA ensures that stolen or socially engineered passwords alone aren’t sufficient to gain access.



AI-Optimized Password Spraying — AI can analyze publicly available data from social media and past breaches to build targeted password lists for a group of people. It then sprays the most likely passwords across many accounts while staying just below lockout thresholds to avoid detection. Strong, complex passwords are unlikely to appear on any spray list, and MFA blocks access even if a common password happens to be matched.



Four simple steps



These four habits — shrinking your data footprint, spotting AI-generated deception, using a password manager, and enabling MFA — give home users a practical first line of defense.



Cybersecurity is not something you finish once and forget. Threats evolve, and your habits should evolve with them. Start with one step today: review your app permissions, set up a password manager, or turn on MFA for your most important account. A few minutes now can prevent far bigger problems later.




Limit your digital footprint — review app permissions and opt out of data collection



Be careful with free AI tools — avoid entering sensitive personal, financial, medical, or work information unless you understand how the service uses your data



Use a password manager — generate strong, unique passwords for every account



Enable multi-factor authentication — use an authenticator app or hardware security key for your most important accounts




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<title>Top 5 virtual landline providers for small businesses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Be prepared for the end of traditional landlines in 2027
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<title>You Can Buy Publicity, But That Cannot Brand Your Name Overnight</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/you-can-buy-publicity-but-that-cannot-brand-your-name-overnight</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Branding promotion makes people notice you. Image-building decides whether they admire you—or quietly press “unfollow.” ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Coca&#45;Cola uses AI to improve retailer ordering in Malaysia</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/coca-cola-uses-ai-to-improve-retailer-ordering-in-malaysia</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Coca-Cola is using AI to recommend which products Malaysian retailers should order and in what quantities through its Coke Buddy platform. The Perfect Basket feature uses Coca-Cola’s Central Recommendation Engine to analyse previous orders, ordering frequency, seasonality, weather, and purchasing patterns among similar businesses. Coca-Cola said Coke Buddy currently supports about 39,000 retail outlets across […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Arm launches Total Design for Physical AI and robotics framework</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/arm-launches-total-design-for-physical-ai-and-robotics-framework</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Arm has launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI alongside a new robotics framework to establish common standards across automated systems. Physical industries – spanning mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and global transport – account for trillions of dollars in economic activity and an estimated $200 billion annual compute opportunity by the 2030s. To address engineering fragmentation […]
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<title>Samsung taps Mistral AI models for semiconductor manufacturing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Samsung has partnered with Mistral AI to deploy on-premises models across its semiconductor manufacturing and engineering operations. The agreement was announced during the bilateral state summit held in Paris between South Korea and France. Samsung will integrate Mistral’s software suite – including its flagship Mistral Large model – into internal semiconductor facilities to build customised […]
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<title>CloudNC aims to accelerate AI supply chain machining</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ CloudNC has secured $20 million in new capital to scale its AI precision machining technology across global supply chain networks. The investment round was led by US venture investor Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and LM Ventures, the venture capital fund of Lockheed Martin. Founded in 2015, CloudNC operates from […]
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jdcom-expands-physical-ai-in-logistics-with-3-million-robots</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed […]
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<title>European founders and VCs urge lawmakers ‘to get EU Inc right’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that &#039;EU Inc&#039; shouldn’t be watered down. ]]></description>
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<title>Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event&#45;planning features</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to study sessions and weekend hangouts. ]]></description>
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<title>Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The buzzy startup raised $600 million in its Series C round. ]]></description>
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<title>ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen</title>
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<title>Google signs its biggest rice&#45;methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery. ]]></description>
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<title>Broken bridge and commuter fury combine to defeat Rhode Island’s governor — at the hands of the CVS exec he vanquished 4 years ago</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Helena Foulkes defeated Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee in the state’s Democratic primary Wednesday, making him the first governor in any U.S. state to lose a party primary since 2018. McKee’s defeat ends his bid for a second full term and marks the first time in more than 30 years that a sitting Rhode Island […] ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Broken, bridge, and, commuter, fury, combine, defeat, Rhode, Island’s, governor, — at, the, hands, the, CVS, exec, vanquished, years, ago</media:keywords>
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<title>191&#45;year&#45;old Ohio newspaper says it will shut down by year’s end without a buyer</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/191-year-old-ohio-newspaper-says-it-will-shut-down-by-years-end-without-a-buyer</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/191-year-old-ohio-newspaper-says-it-will-shut-down-by-years-end-without-a-buyer</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Toledo Blade&#039;s owner made an identical threat about a Pittsburgh paper in January — then sold it instead two weeks before its deadline. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>‘Parents see themselves more as a client of the school’: Underperformance in class leads to apathy at home</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/parents-see-themselves-more-as-a-client-of-the-school-underperformance-in-class-leads-to-apathy-at-home</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/parents-see-themselves-more-as-a-client-of-the-school-underperformance-in-class-leads-to-apathy-at-home</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A 40% non-response rate means the OECD couldn&#039;t break out America&#039;s worst-ever PISA reading scores by race or income this year. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>‘Parents, see, themselves, more, client, the, school’:, Underperformance, class, leads, apathy, home</media:keywords>
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<title>‘South Park’ renamed ‘South America’ in honor of Donald Trump</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/south-park-renamed-south-america-in-honor-of-donald-trump</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/south-park-renamed-south-america-in-honor-of-donald-trump</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Apple has relabeled Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for U.S. users of its Maps app, following cartographic competitor Google. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ projected to add a big, unbeautiful $3.4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-projected-to-add-a-big-unbeautiful-34-trillion-to-the-national-debt-over-the-next-decade</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-projected-to-add-a-big-unbeautiful-34-trillion-to-the-national-debt-over-the-next-decade</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ But Americans did get another $350, on average, in their tax refunds this year. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Branding Is Capital: Noubikko Explains the Economics Behind Creating a Commercially Valuable Name</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/branding-is-capital-noubikko-explains-the-economics-behind-creating-a-commercially-valuable-name</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/branding-is-capital-noubikko-explains-the-economics-behind-creating-a-commercially-valuable-name</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Recognition may attract the public, but sustained investment transforms an unknown product or personality into a marketable brand ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>British Business Bank launches £210m South East Investment Fund</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/british-business-bank-launches-210m-south-east-investment-fund</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/british-business-bank-launches-210m-south-east-investment-fund</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
The British Business Bank&#039;s £210m South East Investment Fund, launched on 9 September, offers loans and equity to smaller firms from Kent to Oxfordshire. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Six weeks’ paid paternity leave would add £2.68bn a year, report finds</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/six-weeks-paid-paternity-leave-would-add-268bn-a-year-report-finds</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
A King&#039;s and Equimundo review of 33 studies says six weeks&#039; well-paid paternity leave would lift maternal employment, add £2.68bn a year and cut break-ups. ]]></description>
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<title>Anthropic tops Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-tops-fast-companys-best-workplaces-for-innovators-2026</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-tops-fast-companys-best-workplaces-for-innovators-2026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Fast Company has named Anthropic No 1 on its Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 list, citing Claude Code, Claude Cowork and a valuation approaching $1trn. ]]></description>
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<title>Burnham tells MPs VAT comes off electricity bills next month</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/burnham-tells-mps-vat-comes-off-electricity-bills-next-month</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/burnham-tells-mps-vat-comes-off-electricity-bills-next-month</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
The electricity VAT cut takes effect from 1 October, the prime minister told MPs, as the SNP warned of a looming winter cost-of-living emergency. ]]></description>
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<title> Anthropic did not submit Mythos 5.1 to UK AI Security Institute</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-did-not-submit-mythos-51-to-uk-ai-security-institute</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-did-not-submit-mythos-51-to-uk-ai-security-institute</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Claude Mythos 5.1 went only to US vetting organisations, the first time Anthropic has bypassed the UK AI Security Institute before releasing a model. ]]></description>
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<title>Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/besxar-is-building-an-orbital-semiconductor-factory-one-spacex-rocket-at-a-time</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/besxar-is-building-an-orbital-semiconductor-factory-one-spacex-rocket-at-a-time</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the vehicle that goes to space and comes back to […] ]]></description>
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<title>Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/instacart-launches-an-ai-grocery-shopping-assistant-called-clementine</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/instacart-launches-an-ai-grocery-shopping-assistant-called-clementine</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Instacart, launches, grocery, shopping, assistant, called, Clementine</media:keywords>
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<title>Autonomy pivots to gas vehicles to keep the dream of car subscriptions alive</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/autonomy-pivots-to-gas-vehicles-to-keep-the-dream-of-car-subscriptions-alive</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/autonomy-pivots-to-gas-vehicles-to-keep-the-dream-of-car-subscriptions-alive</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Scott Painter, founder of TrueCar, is still trying to build a business around vehicle subscriptions, where you can cancel at any time. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Autonomy, pivots, gas, vehicles, keep, the, dream, car, subscriptions, alive</media:keywords>
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<title>Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/sequoia-doubles-down-on-cymphony-as-ai-agents-create-new-enterprise-security-risks</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/sequoia-doubles-down-on-cymphony-as-ai-agents-create-new-enterprise-security-risks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Cymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Sequoia, doubles, down, Cymphony, agents, create, new, enterprise, security, risks</media:keywords>
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<title>Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack&#45;for&#45;hire firms</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/group-of-bipartisan-lawmakers-ask-us-government-to-ban-several-hack-for-hire-firms</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/group-of-bipartisan-lawmakers-ask-us-government-to-ban-several-hack-for-hire-firms</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026: Large category winners</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/best-workplaces-for-innovators-2026-large-category-winners</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/best-workplaces-for-innovators-2026-large-category-winners</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Six large companies (more than 1,000 employees) earned Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 category winner status from Fast Company judges. 









Adobe, San Jose



Birdeye, Palo Alto



EPAM Systems, Newtown, PA



InterSystems, Boston



The RealReal, San Francisco



Scopely, Culver City, CA



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<title>What to expect: Beauty tech’s next decade</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-to-expect-beauty-techs-next-decade</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Returning to Paris for the 10th anniversary of VivaTech felt like looking through a time capsule of innovation.



Perfect Corp. has participated in VivaTech throughout its history. During that time, I watched the event grow alongside many of the technologies presented there. Ideas that once attracted crowds because they seemed futuristic are now becoming part of the infrastructure through which people work, communicate, and shop.



This year’s gathering made one shift especially clear to me: The next phase of innovation will be defined by how intelligently different technologies work together.



That lesson is particularly visible in beauty technology.



BEAUTY TECH GREW UP



When virtual try-on first emerged, its ability to place lipstick, eye shadow, or other products on a person’s face in real time felt almost magical. It created an immersive experience and showed consumers something conventional e-commerce could not: how a product might actually look on them.



At that stage, beauty technology was often viewed as a spectacle. It attracted attention and increased engagement, but many companies still considered it an optional enhancement rather than a core part of the shopping journey.



The next stage was utility.



Virtual try-on became more realistic and commercially useful. AI skin analysis helped consumers better understand concerns such as dryness, spots, wrinkles, and pores. Shade-matching technology addressed one of beauty e-commerce’s most persistent problems: finding the right foundation without testing the product in person. Technology now helps the customer make a more informed decision.



Today, beauty technology is entering a third phase: infrastructure.



Capabilities that once operated as standalone tools are becoming connected across product discovery, consultation, personalization, visualization, and purchase. Consumers simply expect a brand to understand their needs, recommend something relevant, and give them confidence before they buy.



This represents an important leadership lesson: A technology category reaches maturity when consumers stop noticing the technology and start expecting the outcome.



FROM ASSISTED COMMERCE TO AGENTIC COMMERCE



For the past decade, beauty technology has assisted customers in navigating online stores. The customer still does most of the work: opening different pages, applying filters, launching individual tools, comparing products, and determining which recommendation to trust.



Agentic commerce begins from a different premise. Instead of asking consumers to understand the retailer’s catalog and digital architecture, an AI agent starts by understanding their intent.



A shopper might say, “I need a foundation for my skin tone that will work in humid weather” or “Help me create a skincare routine for dryness and dark spots.” Fulfilling that request may require several capabilities: interpreting natural language, analyzing an image, assessing skin attributes, matching products, explaining the recommendations, and allowing the shopper to visualize the result.



An agent can coordinate functions on the consumer’s behalf. That is the fundamental change from assisted to agentic commerce. Search asks consumers to understand the catalog. Agentic commerce asks the system to understand the consumer.



THE SMARTEST AGENT WILL NOT WORK ALONE



There is an assumption that the future will belong to one universal AI assistant capable of answering every question and completing every task. I believe the more likely future is an ecosystem of agents with different areas of expertise.



Beauty is an unusually complex category. Accurately assessing skin concerns, identifying undertones, matching foundation shades, recommending compatible products, and creating a complete look require specialized models, data, and domain knowledge.



A retailer’s general shopping agent may recognize that a customer needs foundation, but not possess the specialized intelligence to evaluate her skin tone and recommend the right shade. Instead, it could connect with a beauty agent that performs the analysis and returns the appropriate recommendations.



Smart AI agents need to know which expert to ask.



This agent-to-agent model could become the connective tissue of digital commerce. Brands and retailers could have their agents call upon trusted domain agents whenever a customer’s request requires deeper expertise.



In beauty commerce, this could mean a specialized agent interpreting a consumer’s request, consulting the appropriate diagnostic, matching, and visualization capabilities, and returning a coherent recommendation. Real innovation is the orchestration of multiple forms of expertise around a single customer goal.



That distinction matters. For years, companies have added digital features one at a time. Even when each tool performs well, the overall experience can still feel fragmented because the consumer must understand when and how to use each one. Agentic commerce reverses that burden. The technology organizes itself around the customer’s objective.



DESIGN THE NEXT DECADE



As business leaders evaluate agentic commerce, the starting point should be asking what decision the customer is trying to make, and what expertise is required to help her make it.



Companies must also resist the temptation to build systems that appear to know everything but lack depth in the moments that matter. In specialized categories, trust will depend on domain intelligence, transparency, and the recommendation quality.



Ten years ago, we came to VivaTech to demonstrate what beauty technology could do. Since then, beauty tech has progressed from spectacle to utility and from utility to infrastructure.



The next decade will be about connection: technologies communicating with one another, specialized agents combining their expertise, and commerce experiences adapting dynamically to individual intent.



The future will belong to the AI agent that can assemble the right intelligence at the right moment and make the complexity behind that collaboration feel effortless to the customer.



Alice Chang is CEO and founder of Perfect Corp. ]]></description>
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<title>Pork recall hits 8 states: 1,500 pounds of product may be contaminated with potentially deadly bacteria</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/pork-recall-hits-8-states-1500-pounds-of-product-may-be-contaminated-with-potentially-deadly-bacteria</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) alerted consumers to a food recall involving more than 1,500 pounds of pork product distributed to eight states. 



The recall is being initiated due to fears that the pork may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a potentially deadly bacterium. Here’s what you need to know.



What’s happened?



On September 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a recall notice for imported ready-to-eat (RTE) dry-cured pork jowl (“guanciale”) products produced in Italy.



The recall covers approximately 1,513 pounds of the pork products that were imported into the United States by two firms: Prime Line Distributors, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Ferrarini USA, Inc. of Hoboken, New Jersey.



The recall is being initiated because the recalled pork products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause Listeriosis, an infection that can be potentially deadly.



What products are included in the recall?



There are numerous pork products included in this recall. All were produced in Italy in May, and imported into the United States in July. 



All products in the recall bear the establishment number “IT 1937 L CE” inside the Italian mark of inspection or on the label of the case the product was shipped in.



The FSIS says products distributed by Prime Line Distributors in this recall include:




Various weight cardboard cases containing two pieces of individually vacuum packed “PRIME LINE DISTRIBUTORS, INC. GUANCIALE PORK JOWL PRODUCT OF ITALY” with “LOT: 263311US” and “BEST IF USE BY DATE: 05.16.27” printed on the label.



Various weight individually vacuum packaged “GUANCIALE PORK JOWL PRODUCT OF ITALY” with “LOT: 263311US” and “BEST IF USE BY: 05.16.27” printed on the label. The product has an additional label with “DOK GUANCIALE” on the packaging.




Products distributed by Ferrarini USA in this recall include:




Various weight cardboard cases containing two pieces of individually vacuumed packed “GUANCIALE PORK JOWL PRODUCT OF ITALY” with “LOT: 263311US” and “BEST IF USE BY DATE: 05.16.27” printed on the label.



Various weight individually vacuumed packaged “FERRARINI GUANCIALE DRY-CURED PORK JOWL” with “LOT: 263311US” and “BEST IF USE BY DATE: 05.16.27” printed on the label. 




Images of the recalled products can be found here.



Where were the recalled products shipped?



The products included in this recall were distributed to various locations in eight states.



The Prime Line Distributors products being recalled were shipped to retail and food service locations in one state:




Florida




The Ferrarini USA products being recalled were shipped to food service locations and distributors in eight states:




California



Florida



Idaho



Illinois



Michigan



New Jersey



New York



Texas




What is Listeria monocytogenes?



Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that, when consumed, can cause a Listeriosis infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).



Listeria infections have high mortality rates. The CDC says that in the US, about 1,250 people are infected with Listeria each year. Approximately 172 of those—more than 10%—die due to the infection.



While anyone can become infected with Listeria, Listeriosis can be particularly harmful to those over 65, pregnant women, newborns, and individuals with weakened immune systems.



What are the symptoms of a Listeria infection?



The CDC notes that Listeria can cause two types of illnesses: Intestinal and Invasive. Each has a different collection of symptoms.



An intestinal Listeria infection is primarily limited to the intestines. Symptoms of an intestinal Listeria infection include:




Diarrhea



Vomiting




An invasive Listeria infection can be much more serious, as it has spread beyond the intestines, usually through the bloodstream, to other areas of the body. Symptoms of an invasive Listeria infection include:




Fever



Flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue



Headache



Stiff neck



Confusion



Loss of balance



Seizures




The CDC says women who are pregnant and who have an invasive Listeria infection may only experience flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches, fatigue, and fever.



What should I do if I have the recalled products?



The FSIS says it is concerned that the recalled product may be in the refrigerators and freezers of food service and retail providers. The agency is urging these providers not to serve or sell the recalled pork.



Instead, those who have the recalled items in their possession should throw them away or return them to their place of purchase.



Full details of the pork recall are available on the FSIS website here.



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<title>Social media users in Australia are moving closer to controlling their feeds. Here’s how</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/social-media-users-in-australia-are-moving-closer-to-controlling-their-feeds-heres-how</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Australian social media users would be given a choice to opt out of algorithms under proposed laws announced by the government Tuesday that would let users have more control over what they see on their social media feeds.“We’ll require social media platforms to provide user empowerment tools that give people over the age of 16 genuine and enduring choice about what they see in their feeds,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters in Canberra.The proposed legislation would also protect children from content that promotes eating disorders, hostile ideas about women, pornography, crime, dangerous stunts and that causes serious mental health distress.The move for more user control and to keep children safer online follows Australia introducing world-first laws in December last year that ban children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s largest social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.“It gives users choice and it will hold the big tech companies responsible for inaction. If they don’t follow our laws, they will face significant penalties,” Albanese added. Penalties under the proposed Digital Duty of Care legislation could be as high as 109.2 million Australian dollars ($78.6 million).Social media platforms would be required to send a notification to new and existing users offering them a choice over their default feed, a government statement said.Users would be able to opt in to having their default feed include personalized content recommended by an algorithm. Alternatively, users could see the content of friends and creators they choose to follow.Digital services including online games, apps and artificial intelligence chatbots would also be required to protect children from design features that have negative behavioral impacts such as addictive features and those that have an effect on self-esteem, the statement said.In April, Australia’s online safety watchdog said it was considering court action against Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, alleging they are not doing enough to keep Australian children younger than 16 off their platforms.



—Associated Press ]]></description>
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<title>The 4 building blocks of brand authenticity</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The word authenticity has become so ubiquitous in recent years, it could almost be ignored. And yet, authenticity is what makes identity matter. This is as true for cultures and companies as it is for individuals.



That same principle is at the heart of brand design. When people hear “brand design,” they often think of logos, typography, taglines, color palettes, and campaigns. Those elements are important, but only scratch the surface. Great brands are designed through every decision made, interaction fostered, and experience delivered. Organizations create brands authentically from the inside out.



Consumers are inundated with messaging and have unprecedented access to information; authenticity is one of a brand’s most valuable assets. People don’t simply believe what a company says about itself; they evaluate whether its actions reinforce that story. And as the lines between public and private influence blur, investors, partners, and other stakeholders increasingly shape how organizations operate. Brand authenticity is about ensuring identity remains a guidepost for growth.



I’m a strategy professional who has spent my career building brands. For 20 years, I’ve said that authentic brands are intentionally designed through four essential building blocks: storytelling, community, experience, and transparency. The fact that this is still news means it still matters.



1. STORYTELLING GIVES BRANDS MEANING



Every brand has a story. The strongest tell a story rooted in its history, purpose, and values, not one manufactured to fit the latest trend.



Storytelling gives products and services emotional significance, helping people connect with what a brand represents. That creates meaning competitors cannot easily replicate.



Luxury brands have long set the standard. One of my favorite examples is the Louis Vuitton Express, an immersive French train station and locomotive that debuted during 2012 Paris Fashion Week, before traveling to China for the brand’s Maison Shanghai opening. More than spectacle, it expressed Louis Vuitton’s French heritage and enduring connection to travel, bringing its story to life in a memorable, unmistakably Vuitton way.



But storytelling only works when a company’s actions reinforce it. When McDonald’s invested in Chipotle during its early years, Chipotle maintained its commitment to responsibly sourced ingredients and its “Food with Integrity” philosophy rather than allowing outside influence to reshape its identity. Authenticity means you must, in Chipotle’s words, “guac the walk.”



2. COMMUNITY CREATES CONNECTION



Brands are now built through participation. Community gives people a reason to engage beyond a product or service, turning shared experiences into lasting relationships.



Apple recognized this when it began opening stores. While some believed the strategy would undermine retail partners and become a costly mistake, Steve Jobs understood the value of community. Apple created spaces where customers could learn skills, ask questions, attend workshops, and connect with experts and one another. The stores became community hubs and retail destinations.



Sports offer another example. Team brands are built as much on community as athletic performance. They cultivate passionate fan bases around shared traditions and experiences. That sense of belonging can transform spectators into lifelong advocates.



Authentic brands similarly create opportunities for people to engage with the company and with each other. Community makes people feel part of something bigger than a transaction.



3. AUTHENTICITY IS TESTED IN EXPERIENCE



Every customer touchpoint is a design decision. The way someone navigates a website, interacts with customer service, unboxes a product, visits a physical space, or attends an activation communicates what a company values.



Today’s most successful brands recognize that consumers are investing in the emotions experiences create, in addition to buying products. Whether it’s a retail environment, immersive event, or digital interaction, every touchpoint should deepen the relationship between customer and brand. In some ways, this is even more important for B2B companies, where relationships form the business’s foundation.



Authenticity is never determined by a single campaign. It’s the cumulative result of thousands, and increasingly millions, of interactions over time as autonomous digital opportunities expand. Every experience should reflect the same values, personality, and promise a brand communicates through its messaging. When those moments align, trust deepens. When they don’t, it quickly erodes.



4. TRANSPARENCY BUILDS TRUST



Consumers increasingly want to know how products are made and where their materials come from. They want greater visibility into supply chains, the people behind the products, and how companies respond when challenges arise.



Brands willing to pull back the curtain can earn lasting trust. They communicate openly about their processes, acknowledge shortcomings, and share progress rather than pretending to be perfect. Transparency can take many forms, from explaining sourcing practices to addressing sustainability goals or difficult business decisions. Openness signals confidence and accountability.



This is particularly important for social and environmental impact. Consumers increasingly expect brands to move beyond broad sustainability claims, providing meaningful information about materials and emissions, plus how they are addressing circularity and measuring progress. As “greenhushing” replaces some of the past’s “greenwashing,” transparency can turn sustainability from marketing message to a source of trust.



Consumers don’t need perfection, but they want honesty. They appreciate brands that respect their trust and consistently work to deliver on the promises they’ve made across the value chain.



AUTHENTICITY BY DESIGN



Storytelling, community, experience, and transparency are powerful authenticity expressions, but only when grounded in a clear brand foundation.



That begins with a mission defining why an organization exists and a vision articulating where it’s headed. The values guide decision-making, while the personality shapes how it behaves. At the center is a promise that customers, employees, partners, and investors can rely on.



Those elements become the blueprint for every design decision a brand makes. They determine how a company looks, and how it communicates, behaves, and earns trust.



Brand design is more than aesthetics. At its best, it’s the intentional design of authenticity. With eroding consumer trust, growing climate risk, and political polarization, enduring brands will turn products into meaningful experiences and stay true to their purpose as they grow. Most importantly, they’ll consistently demonstrate through their actions who they say they are.



Lisa Gralnek is the U.S. managing director and global sustainability head of iF DESIGN. ]]></description>
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<title>The unfair dismissal changes you need to understand before January 2027</title>
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Learn more about the unfair dismissal rules that are being modified – and how you can avoid the employment tribunal
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<title>Motional and MIT AI explains self&#45;driving car decisions</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/motional-and-mit-ai-explains-self-driving-car-decisions</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team at Motional that includes CEO Laura Major, working alongside researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Their proposed method, […]
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<title>NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face-for-1293b</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source model repository’s platform and infrastructure. The transaction targets platform growth and infrastructure investment, aiming to expand AI access for enterprise developers, software engineers, and research institutions globally. Built over the past decade by Clem Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf, and their […]
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<title>OneRail uses Nvidia AI for real&#45;time last&#45;mile delivery optimisation</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/onerail-uses-nvidia-ai-for-real-time-last-mile-delivery-optimisation</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ OneRail has launched an AI-powered delivery platform that uses Nvidia technology to help retailers, wholesalers, and distributors decide how individual orders should be delivered. Called OmniSTAR, the system evaluates options including owned fleets, couriers, parcel carriers, and other delivery modes, then selects the lowest-cost option that meets the required service level, according to OneRail. The […]
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<title>50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes from an AI romance survey of 2,150 U.S. adults, run by AI Girlfriend Coach through SurveyMonkey Audience on 26 and 27 August 2026 and analysed on the 1,709 responses that remained […]
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<title>M&amp;amp;T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ M&amp;T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&amp;T is also examining […]
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, a growing number of rivals are now racing to dethrone it by trying all sorts of approaches to get an edge over it. ]]></description>
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<title>Clucky’s new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Clucky&#039;s new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off. ]]></description>
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<title>OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-confirms-wiki-incident-says-its-working-on-a-framework-for-more-disclosure</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum. ]]></description>
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<title>Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required.&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI. ]]></description>
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<title>ASEAN can still hedge between America and China on AI. It needs to get its act together first</title>
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<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/asean-can-still-hedge-between-america-and-china-on-ai-it-needs-to-get-its-act-together-first</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Can ASEAN members draw from both the Chinese and Western ecosystems in pursuit of their own interests? ]]></description>
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<title>Meet the Portland Fire owners, whose family’s swimwear company and short&#45;lived NFL venture laid the groundwork for a $380 million WNBA franchise</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “We know that things are going to take time. But we also knew that we were going to surprise some people, and I think we&#039;ve done that,” Alex Bhathal told Fortune. ]]></description>
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<title>Restaurants have been serving up fake food ads for decades—AI slop is just the latest special</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/restaurants-have-been-serving-up-fake-food-ads-for-decadesai-slop-is-just-the-latest-special</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Generative AI gives restaurants a cheap alternative to food photography, but customers may prefer an imperfect photo of a meal that actually existed. ]]></description>
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<title>After 30 years in aerospace, these brothers retired from corporate life and work at Disney: ‘I’m finished being married to my laptop and phone’</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/after-30-years-in-aerospace-these-brothers-retired-from-corporate-life-and-work-at-disney-im-finished-being-married-to-my-laptop-and-phone</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Jerry and Peter Wong grew up going to Disney every year. Now in their 60’s, they work as a photographer and ride worker at the California theme parks. ]]></description>
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<title>Like Jamie Dimon, AT&amp;amp;T CEO says if you attend a meeting, you need to show up prepared—he ‘craves’ people who don’t just sit back and observe</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/like-jamie-dimon-att-ceo-says-if-you-attend-a-meeting-you-need-to-show-up-preparedhe-craves-people-who-dont-just-sit-back-and-observe</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ AT&amp;T’s John Stankey and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon agree: Meetings should be worth everyone’s time—and attendees shouldn’t be afraid to disagree. ]]></description>
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<title>John Lewis launches YouTube chatshow to lift its AI search visibility</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/john-lewis-launches-youtube-chatshow-to-lift-its-ai-search-visibility</link>
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John Lewis is launching an Angela Scanlon-hosted YouTube chatshow and social studio to improve its AI search results as ChatGPT use among shoppers climbs. ]]></description>
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<title>OpenAI releases Astra model and claims ‘new era’ of AGI has begun</title>
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<title>Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn in bet on open AI models</title>
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Nvidia Hugging Face deal: the chipmaker agrees to pay $12.93bn for the developer platform, with Jensen Huang pledging it will stay open to all AI models. ]]></description>
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<title>Jackdaw gas field approval expected in mid&#45;September, sources say</title>
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<title>What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […] ]]></description>
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<title>Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now</title>
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<title>AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre&#45;IPO financing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO. ]]></description>
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<title>OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews. ]]></description>
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<title>XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth. ]]></description>
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<title>26 cultural values companies get wrong</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Organizational culture is often defined by its values, or lack thereof. Values are a key ingredient in “what’s it like to work here” that potential hires try to discover before signing on. It’s also what causes current employees, clients, or customers to stay or leave. 



Values often get defined in mission statements or corporate branding. But stating what they are doesn’t always make them so. We asked members of the Fast Company Impact Council what’s a cultural value they think most companies get wrong. Here’s what came to mind for 26 of those members.



1. ORIGINALITY



Most companies get originality wrong: They confuse relevance with resemblance, assuming brands and products should look, sound, or behave “a certain way.” In established categories, teams often, consciously or unconsciously, copy successful competitors until their own brand becomes interchangeable. In my experience, the antidote is thoughtful and disciplined questioning: “What can we credibly contribute that others cannot?” and “What non-consensus belief do we hold about this category?” Let those answers guide decisions and keep originality from being diluted by category conventions. — Erik Herrström, STUDIO HERRSTRÖM



2. EXCELLENCE AND EMPATHY



Too many organizations treat excellence and empathy as competing priorities. They aren’t. At the nonprofit I lead, we believe high performance is built on what we call “gracious professionalism.” It’s the idea that respect and kindness are not at odds with excellence. They make excellence possible. When people feel valued and empowered to share ideas, they become better problem-solvers and stronger collaborators. That culture doesn’t just produce better outcomes. It makes success more meaningful. We strive to instill these same values in the young people we serve so they carry gracious professionalism with them throughout their lives and careers. — Chris Moore, FIRST



3. COMMUNITY-ENGAGEMENT



Companies that treat community engagement as a one-way ask (e.g., give money, give time, lend expertise) tend to burn out the donors, volunteers, and partners they depend on. The stronger model runs both ways. If a company is asking a community to trust it with volunteers or funding, it should offer something durable back: training, mentorship, or a real seat in decision-making. Reciprocity builds partnership that a check alone cannot buy. Companies that only ask eventually run out of people willing to say yes. — Kellie Lauth, MindSpark



4. INNOVATION



I think a lot of companies get innovation wrong. They treat it as a department, a campaign, or a technology investment, when really it is a behavior. Innovation is not just about moving fast or adopting the latest tool. It is about creating a culture where people are allowed to question the old way, test new ideas, and learn without fear of looking unfinished. For me, the companies that get it right don’t just talk about innovation. They make space for curiosity, trust, and intelligent risk-taking. That is where meaningful creative work happens. — Virtyt Pula, TOML Collective



5. TRANSPARENCY



Most organizations say they value it. Few actually practice it. The difference becomes clear when being transparent is uncomfortable. Real transparency isn’t the well-crafted, all-hands update or the carefully worded memo. It’s what happens when the honest answer is harder than the polished one. That’s when most companies retreat into messaging. Organizations that get it right treat transparency as a cultural commitment, not a tool to be deployed selectively. When people trust that they’re getting the full picture, even when it’s hard, engagement goes up, trust compounds, and performance follows. — Meredith Rosenberg, NU Advisory Partners



6. A SENSE OF BELONGING



Here’s one way we’re tackling it: Our firm has always been dedicated to community outreach. We believed we were doing our part. But over time it became clear that our giving wasn’t reaching far enough into the communities where we live and work. Nor were we giving everyone at the firm a chance to participate. Our day of giving program invites our employees to step away from work and spend a (paid) day helping out our neighbors. These shared experiences build a sense of community and belonging, both inside and outside our organization. It makes us more engaged neighbors, more supportive teammates, and a better company. — Mitch Smith, MG2



7. STEWARDSHIP



Many organizations undervalue stewardship. They reward growth, disruption, and visible wins, but pay less attention to whether leaders leave the brand, institution, team, and trust stronger than they found them. Stewardship recognizes that leadership is temporary, consequences outlast tenure, and not every valuable outcome can be measured in the next quarter. The real test is not simply whether you won, but whether you improved what was entrusted to you. — R. Ethan Braden, Texas A&amp;M University



8. CULTURAL FIT IN HIRING



Companies hire for “cultural fit” when they should be hiring culture builders. “Fit” really means conformity. Hire people who add to your culture, challenge how you think, and bring different perspectives, including lived experience that may be missing from your team. If no one on your team shares your users’ experiences, you’re designing on assumptions. Proximity to the communities you’re serving changes what you build, the language you use, and the problems you notice. The best products are built “for us, by us.” — Nathan Friedman, Understood.org



9. LEARNING AND TRANSPARENCY



Most companies say they value learning but don’t give people room to experiment, fail, and improve. They over-index on immediate results at the expense of long-term capability. In the age of artificial intelligence, learning agility will be a critical driver of productivity and competitive advantage. Companies think transparency means sharing everything. Think of parenting: Good parents are open with their kids but don’t share every financial worry if it will create anxiety or paralysis. Organizations are the same. Share what helps people connect the dots and do their jobs better, not information that distracts them. — Tami Rosen, various organizations



10. ACCOUNTABILITY



Accountability is one that is easy to say and harder to live well. It often slips into finding fault, when really, it’s about creating a space where people feel comfortable owning their commitments and flagging concerns early. The teams I have seen thrive are the ones where raising a problem while it’s still small is welcomed rather than penalized. When people trust that honesty won’t count against them, they tend to speak up sooner, and that makes everyone stronger. — Denas Grybauskas, Oxylabs



11. PEOPLE FIRST



“People first” is a core value that many companies get wrong, not because they aren’t mindful of the people they serve, but because they are often prioritized in the wrong order. In healthcare when we say “people first,” we always start with our members, including their experience and health outcomes. Next come clients, the employers and health plans who pay for the care. Then our own employees, who deliver the care, followed by the communities our teams live in—giving back matters. Finally, investors. And I truly believe that if we take care of the first four audiences, the last one takes care of itself through the great returns we generate. — Glen Tullman, Transcarent



12. PURPOSE



Most companies don’t lack purpose. They lack a structured mechanism to live it. It shows up in the values deck and the sustainability report, but not in how day-to-day decisions are made, how capital is allocated, or which trade-offs get made under pressure. Purpose that only shows up in communications isn’t a cultural value—it’s a marketing line. Companies that get this right treat purpose as a filter for hard decisions, not a narrative for easy ones. That’s a harder discipline, and a rarer one. — Michele Walsh, UNICEF USA



13. MOVING FAST



Speed is a competitive advantage, but that doesn’t mean cutting corners. For us, moving fast demands more discipline, not less, because we’re solving problems with real-world consequences. A renter who qualifies for an affordable unit but can’t get an answer to their questions, or a resident hit with late fees because their card expired and nobody caught it in time, doesn’t have the luxury of waiting for a slow fix. Shipping fast only works if we’re just as disciplined about listening to feedback afterward, because that’s how we actually learn, improve, and provide value over time. — Minna Song, EliseAI



14. COLLABORATION



Nearly all organizations champion the idea of collaboration. Far fewer actually live it. To be a great culture, you must be collaborative. But many companies struggle to take it from something on a poster to a value they truly live each day. Collaboration doesn’t just come to life because leaders believe in it as an abstract concept, or because a lot of employees feel like collaborative people. It comes to life when organizations build structures, systems, and processes that institutionalize co-creation as a way of working and hold teams accountable for truly living the value. — Maril Gagen MacDonald, Gagen MacDonald



15. WORK HARD ALL DAY LONG



Myth: Everyone should be working hard all day long. First, it’s impossible. We aren’t machines. Second, it can be counterproductive. I prefer that everyone work when they’re feeling good, when they have a positive attitude about the work, and when they can find something to enjoy about the task at hand. We’re more successful and productive that way. Our orientation to the work is more important than our willingness to struggle. And if you can’t find a positive orientation to the work, it’s probably not the right work for you. — Lindsey Witmer Collins, WLCM App Studio



16. INNOVATION TALENT



Many companies say they value innovation, then organize themselves in ways that limit it— treating a program, a lab, or a team with “innovation” in the title as the only place it’s allowed to happen. Dedicated innovation talent is genuinely valuable, but its job should be raising the capability of the whole organization rather than containing it to one department. That takes more than permission. Agency without tools is just an invitation to be frustrated. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is rapidly lowering the cost of testing an idea for the person closest to the problem. Innovation becomes cultural when it’s continuous rather than scheduled. — Patrick Frend, Delve



17. CURIOSITY



Too many companies say they value expertise when what they really reward is certainty. The best cultures make room for people to keep asking questions, challenge assumptions, and admit when the obvious answer may not be the whole answer. — Gail Zauder, AbleFly Inc



18. CREATIVITY



Everyone is creative. Yet sometimes, companies define “creativity” and its place in an organization’s culture too narrowly. In some firms, associates are sorted into teams of “creatives”—creative directors, designers, copywriters, and developers—and “non-creatives”—project managers, analysts, and salespeople. Whether done consciously or not, this filtering limits what individuals may feel comfortable contributing and, potentially, the overall creative ambition of a project. To truly unlock creativity, it cannot be treated as the domain of a select few. It must be actively nurtured across teams as a collaborative, shared capacity. — Maurice Twomey, Roto Group, LLC



19. PHILANTHROPY



I believe philanthropy and giving back are values that many companies don’t prioritize. Of course, it is commendable to give back to those less fortunate. However, many companies don’t grasp how building a culture of philanthropy helps with recruiting top talent, retaining customers, and capturing new lines of business. People want to work with companies that value humanity as much as their profit and loss statements. — Ed Mitzen, Business For Good Foundation



20. TEAM AS “A FAMILY”



One cultural value that companies get wrong is treating their team as “a family.” Have you met some people’s families? If you don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, I’m willing to bet there’s a Slack channel somewhere dedicated to your lack of self-awareness. We should think of our teams as an ecosystem—interconnected but with unique functions and strengths. When one element is missing, the ecosystem can be out of balance, and other elements may begin to over- or underperform. Company culture isn’t built on forced familial bonds. It’s built on mutual respect, interdependence, and shared purpose. — Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth Project



21. THE POWER OF CULTURE



One of the biggest missed opportunities for many companies is failing to recognize the power of culture and its impact on the brand. Employees shape the brand every day through their interactions, decisions, and behaviors. When organizations fail to align culture with their values, they miss opportunities to strengthen customer relationships, stand out in the marketplace, and bring their brand promise to life. Companies that empower employees around a shared culture gain a competitive advantage through higher engagement, stronger customer loyalty, and a more authentic reputation. — Chris K Bailey, Bailey Brand Consulting



22. INCLUSION



The cultural value most companies get wrong is inclusion. Visible representation matters, but too often organizations stop at who is in the room—or expect everyone in it to think and behave the same way. In multidisciplinary work, the strongest outcomes come from differences in cognition, communication, lived experience, and problem-solving. Diversity creates value only when those perspectives are heard, tested, and allowed to influence the outcome. — Susan Watts, SPACECRAFT



23. MISSION



Most companies treat it as a marketing line printed on a wall. We treat it as a filter. When Trust &amp; Will became a public benefit corporation, we committed to weighing every product, hiring, and partnership decision against our stated purpose. If a value isn’t governing decisions no one sees, it’s just decoration. That’s the difference between a mission statement and a mission. — Cody Barbo, Trust &amp; Will



24. KINDNESS



We often confuse kind and nice. Being nice—agreeing, softening feedback, or avoiding conflict—preserves comfort. Being kind serves people and the mission: sharing hard truths respectfully, setting expectations clearly, and making hard decisions fairly. Niceness seeks approval now. Kindness builds trust over time and helps all grow. Be kind! — Hala Hanna, MIT Solve



25. HUSTLE CULTURE



You can still operate in a fast-moving, highly competitive market without treating burnout as the default. I compete in Ironman competitions, and a crucial lesson in endurance racing is pacing and how important rest is. All-in, full-out shouldn’t be the baseline. — Eric Simons, Bolt.new



26. SOCIAL IMPACT



For companies of any size, I believe they can engage their staff even more as sources of social impact and community good. Companies can implement a match program for employee donations, host a challenge where staff can collegially compete for the company to donate to their cause of choice, or provide dedicated paid time off for volunteer service. Empowering your employees as a collective force for good and enabling them to direct your company’s impact can be a massive boon to organizational culture. — Jaymes Black, The Trevor Project ]]></description>
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<title>Colleges are offering bachelor’s degrees in AI. Students are skeptical</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Landing an entry-level job is difficult enough. It becomes even harder when you’re competing against technology that can take on an ever-growing range of tasks—without ever drawing a paycheck.



For recent college graduates, the repercussions are already hitting. 



Tasks that once helped them get their foot in the door are increasingly being automated by tools such as ChatGPT. Even coding, long treated as a ticket into tech, no longer guarantees a way in.



According to data from the New York Federal Reserve, the unemployment rate for recent graduates has remained higher than the rate for the overall workforce: 5.7% in June versus 4.1%.



As a recent grad myself, I couldn’t help but notice yet another question creeping into job applications and interviews: “How do you integrate AI into your work?” 



It can feel like a double-edged sword. Use it too much and you risk seeming lazy; avoid it entirely and you risk seeming out of touch. It’s a toss-up what answer employers are hoping to hear. But one thing seems certain: AI is increasingly difficult to avoid in today’s job market.



And universities are responding.



Beginning in fall 2027, Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (iSchool) will launch a bachelor’s degree in integrative artificial intelligence, joining a wave of schools that are adding AI-focused areas of study in an effort to prepare students for an increasingly technology-driven workforce.



As of June, Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing had identified at least 74 AI majors and 89 minors at American colleges, ranging from Ivy League institutions like Columbia and Cornell to regional public universities like North Dakota State.



Jeff Rubin, Syracuse University’s senior vice president and chief digital officer, says the initiative has taken on new urgency as AI raises expectations for workers. 



“The eight-hour workday is going to get reset,” he says. Students who graduate without knowing how to apply the technology in their field, Rubin argues, risk being “less valuable to an organization.”



Inside Syracuse’s New AI Degree



According to faculty members, the Syracuse program is meant to go beyond technical proficiency.



Julie Hasenwinkel, Syracuse University’s associate provost for academic programs, says the major focuses on “developing critical thinking skills around AI”—not only how to use it, but “why do you use it, where are its limitations, and where should we not use it?”



That distinction could become especially important as automation takes on more of the work traditionally assigned to junior employees. If some entry-level tasks disappear, Hasenwinkel argues, graduates may need to arrive prepared to operate at what was once the next rung of the ladder.



To bring value to employers, she says, graduates will need an understanding of “systems and technology and the intersection between the two.”



The degree is built around a larger idea: AI education shouldn’t be confined to a single discipline.



Jaime Banks, an iSchool professor who served on the committee that developed the program’s curriculum, describes it as a response both to growing student and faculty interest and to the university’s responsibility to equip students with relevant skills as society evolves.



“The degree really is a manifestation of SU’s commitment to a multidisciplinary approach,” she says, adding that technology “doesn’t exist in a vacuum” and “is not monolithic.” 



Instead, the program brings together faculty from different fields, with the expectation that these skills will translate across a wide range of industries and contexts.



That breadth is partly intentional. It also reflects a reality universities cannot easily plan for: a job market changing faster than they can predict. 



When Syracuse designed the program, Banks says, the goal was to prepare graduates for roles across a wide range of industries rather than train them for a single occupation. 



“[It’s] a four-year experiment in some ways to see who comes into this program and what kinds of jobs there are,” she says. Where graduates ultimately land will also depend on what they choose to pursue, Banks adds.



For universities betting heavily on this kind of education, that may be the central challenge: preparing students for a labor market that could look very different four years from now.



“I don’t think it’s up to [the university] to actually have a crystal ball to say, here are the demands,” says Bei Yu, a professor at iSchool and director of the integrative artificial intelligence program. “I think it’s being collectively invented by all of us.”



Can a 4-Year Degree Keep Up With AI?



A four-year AI curriculum risks aging faster than students can complete it. 



Yu sees that race against obsolescence in her own research. 



“We are all having this question in the back of our minds,” she says. A paper she publishes could be “outdated in six months or even sooner than that.”



Rubin, the Syracuse senior VP, points to a similar tension inside universities.



“Curriculum governance moves at a slower pace than perhaps corporate innovation,” he says, but argues that the degree was designed with “agility in mind.” Still, he argues that the fundamentals have a longer shelf life than the tools themselves, allowing the degree to adapt without being rebuilt from scratch.



The committee designing the degree wrestled with the same question. 



Banks says the issue came up “maybe on a weekly basis.” To account for that, the program will have an expert board regularly reviewing courses for their timeliness and appropriateness, with the expectation that the curriculum will continue changing alongside the technology.



“And so as the field shifts, we will be reviewing the program to ensure that the content stays up to date,” Banks says. 



The clock, however, moves quickly. New topics can emerge from one semester to the next, Yu adds.



Some Students Aren’t Entirely Convinced



Having recently graduated from Syracuse, I heard frustration over the new program ripple through conversations with friends and former classmates. 



To gauge whether those concerns extended to the broader student body, I conducted an informal survey of 33 current Syracuse students. Several respondents asked not to be identified, expressing discomfort with criticizing a program at their home university. They were granted anonymity to speak candidly. 



More than half said they were concerned or somewhat concerned about AI’s impact on their future careers. Not one said they would consider pursuing the university’s new degree.



The responses ranged from uneasy to openly hostile.



“I found it almost comical at first, then quickly felt that this was a negative indicator for my future,” one student wrote.



Another was more blunt: “Physically nauseous, consumed by dystopia. The normalization and encouragement of AI use is dumbing us down.”



That skepticism becomes more pointed when paired with frustration over programs students say have been cut or reduced elsewhere at the university, particularly in the humanities and fine arts, where majors including classics, ceramics, painting, and sculpture are being eliminated or folded into broader programs.



For some, the launch of the degree feels less like preparation for the future than a sign of what Syracuse is choosing to prioritize.



Some respondents questioned whether the skills taught in the program require a full undergraduate degree, arguing that much of the material could be learned independently online. One student went further as to describe the degree as something that could be replaced by “a quick YouTube search.” 



“I think it’s just furthering a problem rather than trying to solve it in a way that makes sense,” said Ken, a rising sophomore in the College of Visual and Performing Arts who asked that his last name not be used, referring to what he sees as an overreliance on artificial intelligence, with both environmental costs and creative implications. 



The New Degree Arrives Amid a Period of Upheaval



With the university facing enrollment dips and missed undergraduate targets, some students find the timing of the AI degree difficult to ignore.



To them, the overlap does not feel coincidental. They see Syracuse’s push into the field as an attempt to attract prospective students by leaning into a technology already dominating headlines, search results, and social feeds. 



One student called it an “obvious attempt to follow a trend and drum up attention.” Another reduced the criticism to two words: “Trend chaser.”



However, Syracuse officials describe the program as the result of a more deliberate process. Banks says the university was actually slower than many of its peers to introduce an AI-focused program.



“We didn’t want to react to the hype,” she says. Instead, she says, university leaders wanted to bring together faculty and administrators to build programs that would be “future proof” and useful beyond the current boom.



Broader concerns about artificial intelligence, Banks says, had already surfaced in student feedback gathered by the university.



“When we surveyed our students, a lot of them were concerned about the role of AI in society,” Banks says. Her hope is not necessarily to turn students into enthusiastic adopters, but to give them more agency over how the technology develops.



“How can they work to shape the integration of AI in society in a way that they feel is appropriate and ethical?” she asks. “They’re the ones who are going to have to live in the next generation of whatever this looks like.”



For some students, skepticism and resignation sit side by side.



Ken sees the shift as increasingly difficult to resist. While he feels uneasy about the technology becoming a standard job requirement, he is coming to see it as inevitable. “I don’t want that to happen,” he says. “But at the same time, I have this feeling that it’s going to.”



“I understand the appeal,” one student says. “I think AI is an emerging field that is worth a lot of money and it makes sense that Syracuse would jump on the bandwagon. It isn’t going anywhere, and if people can’t learn to embrace it they are going to eventually fall behind.”  



The debate extends far beyond Syracuse. As universities race to introduce AI degrees, some academics have questioned whether these new proposals represent meaningful investments in students or attempts to repackage existing courses around a more marketable name. 



The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, for instance, has chosen not to offer a stand-alone AI degree; its chancellor has questioned whether such programs reflect academic substance rather than a desire to remain competitive.



Administrators at the University of North Dakota say they wrestled with similar doubts before deciding that a curriculum focused on this technology could better prepare graduates for the workforce.



For universities, the trade-off is a hard one to weigh. Waiting could leave them trailing their competitors, while moving too quickly could mean investing in degrees whose long-term value to students remains uncertain.



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<title>Lululemon stock collapses: Soft sales in China reveal negative impact of viral drum controversy</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lululemon-stock-collapses-soft-sales-in-china-reveal-negative-impact-of-viral-drum-controversy</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Shares of Lululemon Athletica (Nasdaq: LULU) are down more than 20% in premarket trading on Friday. 



The plunge follows a disappointing second quarter earnings report, released by the Canadian apparel company on Thursday. 



Lululemon’s revenue fell 4% year-over-year (YOY) to $2.4 billion. It failed to meet the company’s predicted 2% to 3% decline, “with the shortfall driven predominantly by China Mainland,” Lululemon interim CEO Meghan Frank said in a post-earnings call. 



China saw a 4% growth YOY—though a 2% decline when looking at constant dollars—but failed to meet the retailer’s expectations. Meanwhile, revenue fell 8% YOY in the U.S., though the figure was still better than the company’s prediction. 



Downbeat



As for China, all it takes is looking at quarter one’s growth to see how bad 4% is. Last quarter, Lululemon had a 30% jump YOY in China’s revenue, holding at 23% in constant dollars.



Then, less than a month after quarter two began, Lululemon made a very public fumble. 



On May 30, the company hosted a yoga festival on the Great Wall of China. The event’s 2,000 guests were welcomed to what was supposed to be a celebration of Chinese culture. That celebration featured a drum circle with Chinese actor Zhu Yilong. 



The only problem? The drums were actually Japanese taiko. 



The actor posted a photo of himself on Weibo—a popular Chinese social media platform. The drum and Lululemon’s logo were both visible. It didn’t take long until social media users noticed the mistake, with discussions reaching 50 million viewers. 



Lululemon scrubbed media from the festival and apologized: “We attach great importance to the feedback from the society,” the company posted to its Weibo account. “Due to lack of professional knowledge, we failed to fully identify potential disputes early and have fully recognized that we ought to have planned and reviewed the percussion performance with more caution and thoroughness.”



But, as Frank indicated on Thursday’s earnings call, the damage was done. 



“As we moved into quarter two, we faced negative commentary in the media and social channels, which impacted traffic, and softer-than-planned response to some new product launches, which contributed to a moderating sales trend,” Frank said on the call. 



Beginning a new chapter



Lululemon now expects $10.35 billion to $10.50 billion in revenue for 2026, a drop of 5% to 7% YOY. This is a significant change from last quarter’s prediction of $11.00 billion to $11.15 billion and a decline of only 1% to 0%. 



Notably, Lululemon starts a new chapter next week. 



On September 8, Heidi O’Neill will take over as CEO. O’Neill spent 26 years at Nike, supporting its growth from a $9 billion business to a $45 billion one. She was laid off from Nike last year when CEO Elliott Hill eliminated her role. 



Even before Thursday’s earnings report, Lululemon’s stock price was down more than 42% this year. When markets open on Friday, it is on track to hit a 52-week low of under $97 a share, less than half of what it was in January.



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<title>Oura IPO: Smart ring maker is planning a Nasdaq stock listing. See what’s in the SEC filing</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/oura-ipo-smart-ring-maker-is-planning-a-nasdaq-stock-listing-see-whats-in-the-sec-filing</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ When it comes to tech IPOs, big names have dominated the headlines in 2026. First, it was Elon Musk’s SpaceX in June. Anthropic’s highly anticipated public offering is expected to occur this fall. And either late this year or early next, ChatGPT maker OpenAI is expected to make its market debut.



But now, a much smaller tech company has announced plans to go public. Oura, Inc, the maker behind the popular line of Oura smart rings, has filed registration papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering. 



Here’s what you need to know about Oura’s IPO.



What is Oura?



Oura is a manufacturer of smart rings and arguably has the strongest brand recognition in that category of wearables. The company was founded in Finland in 2013. It is now headquartered in San Francisco.



The company’s primary product is the Oura smart ring, which it currently sells in two distinct models: the Oura Ring 5 and the Oura Ring 4. 



The rings feature optical sensors that measure biometric data about the user, including heart rate, sleep patterns, calorie burn, and more. The latest Ring 5 series currently starts at $399.



While the company’s primary product is hardware, its revenue stream also includes software subscription services. Owners of the Oura Ring can get more advanced information about their health by subscribing to the company’s Oura Membership, which costs $5.99 a month or $69.99 a year.



According to the company’s SEC filing, Oura now has 5 million paid subscribers. In the nine months ended June 30, 2026, it generated $240.5 million in membership revenue, on top of nearly $944 million from hardware sales. 



Is Oura profitable?



When comparing its first three quarters of 2026 with the first three of 2025, Oura says it has achieved 74% year-over-year revenue growth.



The company also says that it recently became profitable and had a net income of $60.8 million for the nine-month period through June 30. However, it notes that it has a “history of operating losses.”



Ring-style wearables are increasingly popular with health-conscious consumers who want a piece of tech that can track their biometrics but comes in a smaller form factor and offers longer battery life than current smartwatches.



When is Oura’s IPO?



Oura’s filing only revealed its intent to go public. It did not say when its IPO would actually be. However, it’s reasonable to expect that Oura’s public offering could take place by the end of the month.



What is Oura’s stock ticker?



Oura says it intends to trade its shares under the stock ticker “OURA.” It has applied to list its shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.



What is the IPO share price of OURA?



Oura’s IPO share price is unknown at this time. In a release announcing its intention to go public, Oura stated, “The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.”



How much will Oura raise in its IPO?



Oura may be looking to raise as much as $3 billion in its IPO, according to Bloomberg. However, the ultimate amount raised will depend on the company’s IPO share price and the number of shares it decides to sell. Those will likely not be determined until after the company’s roadshow is completed.



How much is Oura worth?



Last October, the Wall Street Journal said Oura was worth $11 billion. Bloomberg says that after its IPO, the company could be worth as much as $16 billion. ]]></description>
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<title>Your AI strategy has an employee problem</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/your-ai-strategy-has-an-employee-problem</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Companies continue to invest billions in their AI transformations, while their workers struggle to use AI effectively. Gartner forecasts AI spending to grow to $2.59 trillion this year, an increase of 47% from 2025. As AI adoption increases, employees have grown more comfortable using the tools to take over their administrative responsibilities, so they have more time to do higher-impact work.



But even as AI is being used more, the actual business results are questionable. A recent study by Domino Data Lab found that the share of enterprises whose ROI fails to outpace their investment has held at 57% since 2025. While organizations understand the importance of equipping their workforces with AI tools, most still fail to manage and support their employees as they use them to generate real business outcomes like growing revenue, lowering operating costs, and enhancing their own productivity.



Employees’ AI confidence outpaces their business results



There’s a gap between employees’ confidence in using AI and an organization’s desired business outcome. WalkMe’s third installment of the AI at Work Pulse survey, which has tracked U.S. workers’ use of AI since 2024, found that while 90% of employees feel confident using AI, half said they’ve spent more time trying to get AI to do a task than the task itself would have taken manually.



The new expectations around work are largely driven by managers who expect AI to create more efficiency. More than half of employees surveyed reported that their manager expects more output in the same amount of time, and 33% say they have pretended to be more skilled at using AI than they are.



It’s not just that managers are pressuring employees to use AI to be more efficient; the entire job market is being driven by AI, which means those employees who have AI skills and can deliver on them will have better employment prospects.



Dice found that AI skills are now listed in 73% of tech job postings, and KPMG discovered that nearly half of companies are willing to pay a 11% to 15% salary premium for AI skills. Even more jaw-dropping is that a PwC survey of 1,000 financial services executives found that 86% believe AI skills training is more important than an MBA for many new hires. All this pressure to master AI has not only caused employees to make poor decisions around usage but also to suffer from burnout. 



Support employees to achieve desired business results



This AI confidence trap can be overcome by companies that put effort into building a digital adoption infrastructure, change management frameworks, or give contextual guidance to enable employees to effectively use AI. 



The WalkMe survey also found that more than half of employees feel their senior leaders are championing a company AI strategy that they don’t fully understand. Leaders are pushing AI onto their workforce without being proficient themselves, and that disconnect is only part of the problem. 



While managers might be tasked with the responsibility of supporting team AI use, they are caught in the same trap as their workers. The survey found that more than a quarter of managers have pretended to know how to use AI in a meeting or presentation.



Senior leaders reported having at least as much confidence as any other group surveyed, with 39% being guilty of championing, approving, or purchasing an AI tool they don’t even know how to use. These same leaders—more than 40% of them—have pretended to understand their company’s AI strategy while communicating to stakeholders such as employees, peers, and even board members.



If the people at the top of an organization don’t understand AI, how can they expect anyone else to? And they’re the ones making the purchasing decisions when it comes to what AI tool their workforce has to use daily.



So, instead of managers and executives taking the reins, the responsibility falls on IT and learning and development. They are both tasked with ensuring that AI is set up so it’s personalized for individual tasks and functions. Unfortunately, neither of those departments is resourced to solve this problem either. Nearly a quarter of employees have had no AI training at all, and 39% report getting conflicting messages about which tools they’re allowed to use. 



Instead of enrolling in more courses, employees desire guidance built into the tools, better integration with the software they’re already working in, and best practices on how someone in their role effectively uses AI. When AI was effective, the survey found that one-third said the reason was that there was guidance available on their screen while working.



While managers own the conversation about business outcomes, someone else has to own the conditions to make those outcomes possible. At most companies, no one has been assigned that responsibility yet.



Being fluent in AI is not enough



Just saying your employees have adopted AI in their workflow isn’t enough anymore. CIOs already have to defend their AI spend, but now they’ll have to explain the business impact of it with hard data. This is why companies need to start uncovering where AI slows down performance and build in support—whether guidance or automation—to empower employees to utilize AI capabilities in ways that drive business outcomes. There is no greater feedback from employees than their lived behavior. It’s not enough to ask people how they feel about the AI tools at their disposal.



Most organizations have deployed AI, but many have failed to link employee use to ROI. It’s not about having the most AI tools or the biggest investment, but rather the right strategy and support system in place. 



Start by measuring how AI is being used by individuals and teams to see where work breaks down or efficiencies are discovered. Then, build the guidance and context into the tools instead of relying on separate training programs. And finally, continue to solicit feedback from managers on how they are engaging with their workers on AI outcomes.



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<title>Do I need freelancer insurance? A full guide</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/do-i-need-freelancer-insurance-a-full-guide</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Oh, where to start with freelancer insurance. We&#039;ve done our best to guide you through why you need it, what types you need, plus extra tips
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<title>The Art of Camouflage, Survival, and Pretending Everything Is Under Control</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-art-of-camouflage-survival-and-pretending-everything-is-under-control</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-art-of-camouflage-survival-and-pretending-everything-is-under-control</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “HELP! I Dropped Food on My Blouse in a Restaurant!”  Ladies, gentlemen, and innocent victims of gravity…  Let us discuss one of the greatest fashion tragedies ever created by humanity:  dropping food directly on your blouse while inside a restaurant.  Not beside it.  Not near it.   Not “almost.”  Direct hit.   And somehow — mysteriously — it always happens when:

you are wearing white,
trying to look attractive,
sitting near people,
or making eye contact with someone important. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/larry-pages-flying-car-company-pivotal-loses-its-ceo</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/larry-pages-flying-car-company-pivotal-loses-its-ceo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The company told TechCrunch he is &quot;pursuing new endeavors.&quot; Karklin will be replaced on an interim basis by Mike Ross, an aviation executive who joined Pivotal&#039;s board of directors in November 2025. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-faces-30-more-lawsuits-tied-to-tumbler-ridge-shooting</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-faces-30-more-lawsuits-tied-to-tumbler-ridge-shooting</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane, though evidence remains unconfirmed. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Uber is laying off 10% of staff, or 3,300 people</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/uber-is-laying-off-10-of-staff-or-3300-people</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/uber-is-laying-off-10-of-staff-or-3300-people</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Uber is laying off about 3,300 people, or about 10% of its global headcount, in a bid to reduce management layers and invest more in its ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxi divisions. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Adobe is making its tools available in Slack</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/adobe-is-making-its-tools-available-in-slack</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/adobe-is-making-its-tools-available-in-slack</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Users will be able to access Express, Premiere, and Acrobat in Slack ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Norway considers ban on camera&#45;enabled wearable ‘pervert glasses’</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/norway-considers-ban-on-camera-enabled-wearable-pervert-glasses</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/norway-considers-ban-on-camera-enabled-wearable-pervert-glasses</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Nordic country says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Anthropic pauses some AI training following rogue agent hacks. Here’s how its  compares to OpenAI’s.</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-pauses-some-ai-training-following-rogue-agent-hacks-heres-how-its-compares-to-openais</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropic-pauses-some-ai-training-following-rogue-agent-hacks-heres-how-its-compares-to-openais</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The company joins OpenAI in temporarily halting reinforcement learning after AI agents in testing environments took unauthorized action on the internet. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>China is beating Germany at its own game of making highly engineered machinery and Europe is struggling to keep up</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/china-is-beating-germany-at-its-own-game-of-making-highly-engineered-machinery-and-europe-is-struggling-to-keep-up</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Manufacturers faced intensifying Chinese competition in cars, machinery and other traditional German strongholds ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Scott Bessent says 19 of the G20 finance ministers agreed to address ‘cheap imports’ but ‘China was the dissenter’</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/scott-bessent-says-19-of-the-g20-finance-ministers-agreed-to-address-cheap-imports-but-china-was-the-dissenter</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Treasury secretary urged other governments to protect their manufacturing bases as U.S. tariffs redirect Chinese goods toward their markets ]]></description>
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<title>World to surpass 1.5&#45;degree climate goal ‘in the next few years,’ UN warns</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/world-to-surpass-15-degree-climate-goal-in-the-next-few-years-un-warns</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/world-to-surpass-15-degree-climate-goal-in-the-next-few-years-un-warns</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Some places could become ‘uninsurable or even uninhabitable’ as the world exceeds its warming target ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>New LA Angels owner Stan Kroenke is quietly America’s largest private landowner, boasting 2.7 million acres and besting Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/new-la-angels-owner-stan-kroenke-is-quietly-americas-largest-private-landowner-boasting-27-million-acres-and-besting-bill-gates-and-jeff-bezos</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Kroenke’s purchase of nearly 1 million acres of ranchland marks a growing trend of the ultrawealthy snapping up farmland as an alternative asset. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Amazon accused of rigging ad auctions as FTC and 22 states allege $20bn overcharge</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amazon-accused-of-rigging-ad-auctions-as-ftc-and-22-states-allege-20bn-overcharge</link>
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An Amazon advertising lawsuit filed by the FTC and 22 US states alleges the company manipulated its ad auctions to overcharge more than a million advertising customers by an estimated $20bn since 2019, claims Amazon dismisses as misguided. ]]></description>
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<title>Mike Lynch’s estate wins right to challenge £920m HP fraud ruling</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/mike-lynchs-estate-wins-right-to-challenge-920m-hp-fraud-ruling</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
The Mike Lynch appeal will go ahead after the Court of Appeal gave the late tech entrepreneur&#039;s estate permission to challenge the £920m fraud award to Hewlett Packard on four grounds, in a decision that could reduce a payment currently set to wipe out his estate. ]]></description>
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<title>Aldi accused of desperation after attack on supermarket loyalty schemes</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/aldi-accused-of-desperation-after-attack-on-supermarket-loyalty-schemes</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/aldi-accused-of-desperation-after-attack-on-supermarket-loyalty-schemes</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Aldi has been accused of desperation after its attack on supermarket loyalty schemes, with industry data showing the discounter&#039;s sales growth falling well behind Lidl, M&amp;S and the established chains. ]]></description>
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<title>Octopus Energy buys Danish startup BD Energy to bolster automated power trading</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/octopus-energy-buys-danish-startup-bd-energy-to-bolster-automated-power-trading</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/octopus-energy-buys-danish-startup-bd-energy-to-bolster-automated-power-trading</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
The Octopus Energy acquisition of Danish startup BD Energy hands its power trading arm a 31-strong team whose algorithms execute around 99 per cent of trades across 15 countries. ]]></description>
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<title>How Vacuum Seal Packaging Supports Safer Storage for Dry and Sensitive Products</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-vacuum-seal-packaging-supports-safer-storage-for-dry-and-sensitive-products</link>
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How Vacuum Seal Packaging Supports Safer Storage for Dry and Sensitive Products ]]></description>
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<title>Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/apple-shares-shocking-evidence-against-former-employee-accused-of-stealing-company-data-for-openai</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/apple-shares-shocking-evidence-against-former-employee-accused-of-stealing-company-data-for-openai</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation. ]]></description>
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<title>Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lachy-groom-backs-indian-startup-aiming-to-keep-aircraft-aloft-for-a-year</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lachy-groom-backs-indian-startup-aiming-to-keep-aircraft-aloft-for-a-year</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months. ]]></description>
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<title>Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/magna-increases-bet-on-battery-swapping-in-india-with-35m-for-yuma</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/magna-increases-bet-on-battery-swapping-in-india-with-35m-for-yuma</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Magna&#039;s investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm. ]]></description>
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<title>If space data centers feel far&#45;fetched, why not interstellar travel?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/if-space-data-centers-feel-far-fetched-why-not-interstellar-travel</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/if-space-data-centers-feel-far-fetched-why-not-interstellar-travel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The team behind Starcloud&#039;s orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri. ]]></description>
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<title>India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/indias-unacademy-sells-to-rival-upgrad-for-206m-about-94-less-than-its-peak-valuation</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/indias-unacademy-sells-to-rival-upgrad-for-206m-about-94-less-than-its-peak-valuation</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ &quot;We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that,&quot; Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. &quot;I&#039;m not going to dress these facts up.&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>How To Maintain The Best Practices For DAO Treasury Management</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-maintain-the-best-practices-for-dao-treasury-management</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Financial literacy is evolving, expanding and quickly becoming more complicated, especially in the world of crypto and decentralized finance (De-Fi). And the more popularity it continues to gather, the more important it becomes to form good habits around the security, continuity and legitimacy-building facilities of the treasuries, DAOs, communities and protocols. As you continue to […]
The post How To Maintain The Best Practices For DAO Treasury Management appeared first on Fincyte. ]]></description>
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<title>Stop trying to retain employees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Every CEO I know is worried about employee retention. The questions are almost always the same. How do we reduce turnover? How do we keep our best people from leaving? How do we compete when another employer offers a dollar or two more an hour?



After spending much of my career designing and commissioning factories, I think we’re taking the wrong approach. We should focus on how building a company employees wouldn’t want to leave in the first place.



In manufacturing, turnover has become so common that many companies simply accept it as part of doing business. For some functions such as consumer electronics contracting, labor-intensive food processing, and temp heavy/light manufacturing and assembly, the lowest-paid positions turn over at more than 100% every year. In these cases, this means every one of those jobs is refilled annually—sometimes more than once.



Companies often measure turnover by the stack of applications they process and the number of drug tests they pay for. They budget for churn because they’ve come to expect it.



I don’t think we should accept this.



When our team walks into a factory to develop an automation strategy, you may be surprised that one of the first things we study has nothing to do with equipment.



It’s employee turnover. Turnover tells us something important because it shows us where the work is most broken.



Most companies begin an automation project by asking, “What can we automate?” Instead, we’ve learned to ask a better question: “What are the jobs people keep leaving?”



These are rarely the jobs where employees use judgment, solve problems, or develop new skills. They’re repetitive, physically demanding, and ergonomically difficult jobs. These are the roles where someone leaves after four months because they can’t imagine doing these same tasks for the coming four to 10 years.



THIS IS WHERE AUTOMATION BEGINS



Our approach to automation strives to eliminate the work people never wanted to do in the first place. This is where I think many leaders still misunderstand automation. Too often, their focus is on finding ways to reduce labor costs.



In my experience, the best automations are designed to achieve something much more valuable: increase the value of the people who remain.



When repetitive tasks disappear, employees rise to managerial roles where they work collaboratively with robots instead of repeating physical motions that wear their minds and bodies down and lead to injury. They learn software instead of simply loading parts. They become troubleshooters, trainers, and system experts instead of performing the same manual tasks thousands of times per week.



We often invite employees to volunteer for what our team jokingly calls robot university—months of training to help install, commission, troubleshoot, and eventually teach others how to operate new automation systems. Something remarkable happens every time.



The first employees to raise their hands almost always become the factory’s cultural leaders. Yes, they are learning new technology. But more importantly, they are also building careers. Before long, their coworkers are asking how they can join in. An automation project quickly becomes a leadership development program.



AUTOMATION IS MORE THAN A TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT



I don’t think of automation as merely a technology investment. I believe it’s one of the most overlooked people investments a company can make, for the following reasons:




Employees stay where they grow.



They stay where they’re trusted with better tools.



They stay where they’re continually learning.



They stay where they can see a future.




For years we’ve tried to solve turnover with better recruiting, better perks, and better HR programs. Those all have their place.



But lasting loyalty is built much earlier. It’s built the moment an employee realizes, “This company is investing in me.”



I repeat this often: The companies that reduce turnover in the next decade will move quickly, and they’ll be the innovators who use technology to create safer work, more meaningful careers, and a culture where the best people stay because they choose to—not because they don’t have a choice.



For decades we’ve been focusing on employee retention. Now it’s time to work on becoming the kind of company people don’t want to leave.



Matthew Chang is a founder and primary engineer at Chang Robotics. ]]></description>
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<title>Creators are your best PR</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For decades, strategic communications operated in two distinct lanes: You pitched journalists for earned credibility or you bought media for controlled reach. That model rested on one assumption: Institutional newsrooms held a monopoly on audience trust.



Things have changed. While traditional media remains essential for reach and corporate validation, audiences increasingly rely on self-published experts to make sense of complex industries. These experts host technical podcasts, write deep-dive newsletters, publish how-tos on TikTok, and break down industry shifts on YouTube.



Yet most organizations don’t know how to work with them or where to put them. If your goal is a durable reputation, independent creators belong at the center of your earned media strategy.



THE ANTI-INFLUENCER SHIFT



The word “influencer” carries a lot of baggage. The early era of creator marketing was built on lifestyle endorsements: pay a celebrity, hand them a script, and get a sponsored post.



Today’s landscape, especially among B2B decision-makers and technical audiences, has waning patience for that. CreatorIQ puts enterprise creator spend at $5.6–$8.1 million annually, focused on subject-matter experts who’ve built followings around their expertise and editorial independence. Goldman Sachs projects the creator economy will reach $480 billion by 2027, powered by its direct-to-audience authority. These creators maintain relationships with their readers because their perspective is unbought, and audiences can tell the difference.



IN AN AI-SATURATED MARKET, HUMAN TRUST IS THE DIFFERENTIATOR



Generative AI has made content nearly free to produce, and feeds are now flooded with synthetic copy and automated summaries. Mission North’s 2026 Brand Expectations Index found that knowledge workers are comfortable with AI for internal efficiency or code generation, but draw a hard line at executive messaging: 73% of the general public and 67% of knowledge workers say that undisclosed AI communications erode their trust in a company.



That’s the opening for independent creators. When machine-generated content is everywhere, a real person with real judgment—someone who can be held accountable for what they say—becomes the premium.



TRADE CONTROL FOR CREDIBILITY



Bringing creators into earned media means giving up the thing PR has always optimized for: control of the message. Traditional media relations run on approved talking points and pre-cleared quotes. Independent experts won’t work that way; their value comes from autonomy. Ask them to repeat corporate messaging verbatim, and you’ve destroyed the exact thing you were trying to borrow.



The better model treats creators less like a media list and more like industry peers. This looks like technical access to the engineers and product leads doing the work, early hands-on time with products months before launch, and the kind of sustained editorial relationship traditionally reserved for beat reporters.



We saw this play out at a flagship developer conference. Rather than relying just on a firehose of news, our team started small with six trusted industry creators, who were given VIP access, product demos, and direct conversations with executives with no paid posting requirements attached. In one week, that group produced more than 70 pieces of organic content and reached over 1.6 million people.



The most significant return shows up when this becomes a standing program. We saw this with one client who needed a way to reach developers and technical audiences without sounding like brand messaging. We built an ongoing relationship with roughly 15 respected developers and technical creators each quarter to create a consistent set of voices who had access to the people and thinking behind the company’s work on AI, privacy, and the future of the web. Over six months, that program generated more than 7 million organic impressions and engagement rates 40% above benchmark.



That’s the pattern worth paying attention to: The event or single activation earns the first round of trust, but the compounding value comes from staying in the relationship long after the news cycle has passed.



THE EARNED TRUST ECOSYSTEM



Earned media has always been third-party validation. The job is to identify who already has credibility with your audience and build an authentic relationship with them.



Legacy outlets remain important for broad awareness, crisis navigation, and agenda-setting. Owned channels give you control of the narrative. But trust compounds in explanatory formats like long-form podcasts, technical newsletters, and deep-dive videos, where someone can walk through their actual reasoning in public, repeatedly, over time.



Modern communications leaders don’t have to choose between reporters and creators. The job now is to leverage the benefits of both and to recognize that the relationships you build with independent experts are the ones your audience already trusts more than anything you could pitch them.



Tyler Perry is the co-CEO of Mission North. ]]></description>
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<title>These automated vending machines are moving into NYC’s subway newsstands</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For most New York City subway riders, especially in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, underground newsstands are often nothing more than a relic of history turned into prime real estate for graffiti and branded stickers.



Once a staple of the commuter experience, the underground retail stops began phasing out with the decline of print media. The nail in the coffin was slowing subway ridership during the pandemic. Only around 52 of the subway’s 195 retail storefronts (which include newsstands) were open in 2024.



It’s still valuable real estate, though. Slowly, these nooks and kiosks across the city’s underground system have started opening their gates to passersby once more, some as gathering spots for musicians and others as a canvas for art—all helping reinvent one of NYC’s most recognizable urban infrastructures into something more useful or delightful for people in the city today.



But riders still need the occasional water bottle on a hot summer day, or a pack of gum before a date, creating an opening for the subway’s latest additions: vending machines.



A candy and snack vendor on the 7th Avenue subway platform, 2025. [Photo: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images]



Rethinking the newsstand



Automated vending machines are moving into subway stations. The hope is these machines will provide New Yorkers with the convenience items they need through a more sustainable business model than conventional newsstands. A project by CC Vending II—a joint venture of CC Vending and Transit Tech NYC—in partnership with the MTA and Coca-Cola, they’re located in three stations so far: 2nd Avenue on the F line, 23rd Street on the R/W, and 116th Street on the Lexington line. They sell drinks, snacks, and even protein shakes. Over the next five years, CC Vending plans to install 60 more at 23 additional stops.



“I’ve ridden this system my whole life, and for years I walked past the same shuttered newsstands. Gates pulled down, sitting on platforms where tens of thousands of people stand every day,” Marc Saadia, president of CC Vending II, tells Fast Company.



The large machines fill an entire storefront, each wrapped in Coca-Cola-themed branding, and sit flush against the wall. (There’s no shaking or tilting them to try to score a freebie.) Aside from being cashless, they work like a usual vending machine: You type in a product code, pay, and collect the item.



The tap-to-pay method not only boosts efficiency for commuters in a rush, but also allows the machine to run 24-7, unlike newsstands people operate.



“More than a third of our sales happen between 7:00 p.m. and 6 a.m.—that’s the late night and overnight worker, the person heading home late, the rider with no other option,” Saadia says. “Everything is tap-and-go and takes under 10 seconds, because someone with a train coming isn’t willing to wait. It’s open when nothing else is.”



Staff routinely restocks machines every few days to keep up with demand. An automated diagnostics system will, presumably, help the machines run smoothly and alert the operators when they need to be fixed.



CC Vending first contacted the MTA with the idea back in 2019, but the pandemic slowed down the project.



“The request for proposals reopened, closed, and reopened again in 2022 and 2023. I’m not sure many others would have stuck with it, but here we are with machines up and running all those years later,” Saadia says.



The machines are already a hit among commuters. In its first day, the 23rd Street station quickly sold out of its products. In the future, CC Vending says it may add a wider range of goods, like the electronics or health and beauty products that airport vending machines offer.



[Photo: MTA]



A machine that can withstand New York



Designing a vending machine that can handle the subway’s heavy foot traffic was a challenge. The units also needed to meet the MTA’s stringent requirements for safety.



“Nothing about this is off the shelf. Every enclosure was designed and engineered specifically for the challenging conditions underground,” Saadia says. “The MTA’s real estate team has been outstanding to work with. Rigorous, thorough, and genuinely invested in getting this right for riders.”



The CC Vending team had to resort to industrial grade metal enclosure on the machines, protecting them from the city’s harsh weather as well as deterring bad actors from vandalizing the equipment. As of August 21, there had been no recorded vandalism of the machines.



In addition to durability, the machines needed to protect something else: customers’ time. Cashless transactions allow purchases to be made in just seven seconds.



[Photo: MTA]



A more livable city



Beyond selling refreshments, the vending machines are part of a broader initiative to make the city more hospitable to its residents.



A large steward in this trend has been the MTA’s Vacant Unit Activation Project, which has allowed various artists to take over abandoned spaces and transform them into their own artistic platforms.



[Photo: Megan Armas/MTA]



Rex’s Dino Store stand at the Grand Army Plaza station parodies an actual newsstand. A hand-crafted 7-foot tall papier-mâché orange dinosaur named Rex stands behind the counter, where he sells print issues of Dinopolitan Magazine and snacks like “Dinoritos.” Nothing is actually for sale; the installation is enclosed by glass.



At The Soundbooth, in the 81 Street/Museum of Natural History station, musicians play inside a former storefront for commuters waiting for their trains.



And in one of the city’s most transited stations, West 4th Street, a one-year lease allowed for a takeover of a kiosk by the free zine Public Transport Magazine. The structure is wrapped in a transit-themed cartoon mural. The kiosk will also feature a Photo Booth, puppet shows, and even giveaways.



As far as the vending machines go, the project reacts to the city’s diverse schedule. From artists to finance bros, and all the in-between—almost anyone will need to use the subway at some point, at any time of the day.



“The subway moves more than a billion trips a year, and those vacant spaces were screaming opportunity to me. A chance to serve the everyday New Yorker on their daily commute,” says Saadia of CC Vending. “This seems like a small thing, but these small things add up to how a system and a commute feels.”







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<title>Melissa Chiu, new director of the Guggenheim Museum, talks about the role of culture in a time of turmoil </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Melissa Chiu, longtime director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, announced in April that she would be leaving for a new role as director of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.



As Chiu concludes her successful tenure at the Hirshhorn, one of 19 Smithsonian museums, the Trump administration has continued to target the Smithsonian Institution in an effort to “remove improper ideology” from all aspects of the organization, accusing it of political bias. 



The federal government recently proposed cutting the institution’s funding by 11% to its lowest prospective funding level since 2020, as Artforum reported.



However, this climate for cultural organizations did not deter Chiu from advocating for the Hirshhorn, which she’s done since her start in 2014.



Under Chiu’s leadership, attendance tripled, fundraising increased, the museum’s permanent collections expanded, and the groundwork for the Sculpture Garden revitalization, reimagined by the architect and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, was laid. 



Fast Company recently spoke with Chiu about why working at the Guggenheim is her dream job, reflections on her decade-plus at the Hirshhorn, and the important role that museums play to the public. 



Chiu begins her new job at the Guggenheim on Tuesday, September 1.



This interview was edited for length and clarity.



In an interview with The New York Times, you said working as director at the Guggenheim is a “dream job” that you would have taken under any circumstances. Would you expand on why and what you look forward to most in this position?



It’s a museum with extraordinary architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright. I always think of museums and buildings as much as their collection and the art they show. When you have both of them together to speak to the moment that they were created, I think allows for a pretty unique experience of being in the museum and having that encounter with art. 



So I’m most excited about that. The Guggenheim has such an extraordinary record of just groundbreaking exhibitions, an amazing collection. We know a lot about the comprehensive [Wassily] Kandinsky collection, and I’m looking forward to discovering even more. 



I would love to hear your reflections on what you’re leaving. What part of the Sculpture Garden renovation have you been most excited for, and how does it feel to have that be one of the last major changes that you made before your departure? 



Looking back on it, it was a very important decision that we made to commission an artist in Hiroshi Sugimoto to reenvision what a twenty-first century sculpture garden could be. As an artist, he intuitively knows the kinds of spaces that artists would like to create work for.



[Sugimoto] just had both an attentiveness to creating spaces for that encounter with work while also thinking very carefully about the materials that he used. 



There’s a lot of stone from local quarries across America. A lot of attention was paid to the trees that are obviously more suited to the climate—and also provide a lot of shade and respite from the heat of D.C. when it’s at the height of summer.



I would love to hear more about your strategy or your approach to communicating with new artists. You’re coming from D.C. and you’ll be in New York City and communicating with artists who are in a new space and in a new environment.



One of the characteristics of being in D.C. is that it is really a place of national institutions. The Smithsonian is the largest museum complex in the world and the Hirshhorn is a part of that, as it faces the National Mall, where there are 35 million visitors from around the country and around the world every year.



So we sit within a museum ecology that often receives visitors who may well have never been to a modern art museum before, and so we tried to think carefully about that as we programmed—whether it was the talks that we did or the video guide that we created for them.



Now if I think to what it will mean to be in a New York institution, in some ways it’s a higher-density audience that is, interestingly enough, more local or more city based. It’s also an audience that, generally speaking, visits many modern contemporary art museums. It’s not their first encounter. 



So I think, with that, it allows you to think differently about the kinds of exhibitions that you do and possibly also the kinds of artists who you work with, knowing that there is a large population of artists living in New York City who you can draw on.



You were [at the Hirshhorn] for about 12 years. What are the highlights or what are you most proud of during your time there?



I think that probably the most visible change for the museum came when we did the [Yayoi] Kusama show, which was nearly 10 years ago. It’s hard to imagine, but it was nearly 10 years ago that we actually staged the first major exhibition, which was the appreciation of her infinity mirror rooms. [Note: Kusama passed away last week, after this interview took place.]



I think that really did trigger and give a great degree of momentum as we toured the exhibition nationally toward a better understanding of her practice. [The infinity mirror rooms] are now a whole phenomenon in and of themselves.



So I think that was a really important moment for the museum, because in some ways it was both—it was an art historical contribution, but it also allowed people to see that it became a phenomenon not just here in D.C. but everywhere that the show traveled. 



What are you looking forward to in the future as we see technology and the way people interact with art online and in person change? What are you anticipating? 



Well, I’m struck by one of the things that we often say about our education center. Our mantra there is, “Think like an artist.” So, what does that mean? What museums can bring is to develop a sense of what creativity is, how creativity is expressed, and how it can be a part of your life.



While we talk a lot about screen culture and AI, creativity is still that one thing that is a very human thing to do. While in a museum, you are experiencing a whole spectrum of creative acts through different media. 



We do think of museums as important convening spaces because of that, and if I think of a skillset in particular, yes, it’s creativity, but it’s also visual acuity. If you are able to develop the skills to be able to see things in different ways, it gives you the ability to attune different things around you in different ways.



Is there anything else that you would like to share with people about your next steps?



To make art is such an extraordinary act, and I think that museums become that place where people can see what is usually a private experience in an artist’s studio. It’s the public version of it. I really do feel strongly that museums are that convening place. ]]></description>
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<title>Target courts millennial women with Delia’s collection—a blast from the era of 1990s catalogs</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/target-courts-millennial-women-with-delias-collectiona-blast-from-the-era-of-1990s-catalogs</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Target Corporation is big time baiting millennial women with a new clothing drop. 



The latest brand to hit the chain’s rack is none other than the once-famous Delia’s, a 1990s and 2000s clothing company designed for teens and young women, which went out of business in 2014. 



Now that it seems to have resurrected itself at Target stores, the original Delia’s fan girls are filing in.



If you’re a millennial woman, then you are almost certainly familiar with the Delia’s brand. If not, it was a mega-popular clothing company that started in catalog form in 1993 before branching out to physical stores in 1999. 



If you didn’t live in an area that had a Delia’s, or you came of age before the stores popped up in shopping malls, then you likely ordered the old-fashioned way: from the catalog—like an OG.



Catalog dreams



Catalog ordering seems like an ancient and inefficient way to shop these days, but back in the 1900s, it was kind of a vibe. 



Teen girls of the era spent hours circling their favorite trendy checkered pants, butterfly hair clips, whimsical t-shirts, and babydoll dresses, then dutifully calling their friends on party lines (the original group chat) to make sure no one was getting the same garb. 



You’d place your order by mailing in a little slip with a check or your parent’s credit card information or calling it in directly. 



Sure, you’d have to wait an ungodly amount of time for your items in the mail by today’s standards. Still, there was no beating the excitement when your Delia’s package arrived in the mail. 



Delia’s was massively popular before its eventual decline, which happened mostly due to shifting styles and a failure to move toward online ordering. 



A social media win



At the height of Delia’s demand, the catalog showed up in the mailboxes of around 55 million teens across the country each year. 



And those faithful Delia’s girlies are watching Target’s latest drop closely. To make the experience even more nostalgic, some Target stores will even receive catalogs to give to shoppers, the retailer told NBC Chicago.



On Instagram and TikTok, women who grew up ordering from the catalog have been sharing their absolute astonishment and joy over seeing the brand on racks.In one popular video on TikTok that has over 105,900 likes at present, a user shared her jaw-dropping reaction to seeing the nostalgic clothing items. Commenters on the post echoed the same emotions over the good surprise. 



“Shut upppppppppppp. Is there a catalog so I can circle everything and make my mom mad when I hand it to her?” one popular comment reads. 



In another similar video, a wide-eyed TikTik user gives her followers a glimpse of the clothing items. The text overlay on the video reads, “My 90’s Delia’s dream closet just exploded into Target stores.” 



On social media, there is certainly no shortage of millennials posting about the new clothing drop. Still, some expressed skepticism toward Target’s ability to fully recapture the joy of Delia’s catalog ordering.



“Excuse me I had to order Delia’s from a catalog 20 years ago not go to Target,” one user playfully wrote. 



Either way, no one seems to actually be complaining about the brand showing up at Target. However, the clothing drop comes as the chain is still recovering from a recent fiasco. 



About a year after Target was hit with boycotts over dropping its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, the brand removed a Halloween costume that many felt closely resembled Jim Crow-era blackface minstrelsy. Target said it was “deeply sorry” about the incident. 



While many people are still rushing to Target regardless of the controversy, some have continued to double down on their boycott efforts.



Target shares are up 62% in 2026



Shares of Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) are down since the costume controversy, but the stock has performed exceptionally well this year amid a broader turnaround plan, with Target reporting 5.3% growth in net sales for its most recent quarter, thanks in part to higher traffic.



As of Friday’s close, Target stock is up more than 62% in 2026 so far.



Regardless, it makes sense to court millennials, whose purchasing power is rapidly rising and whose total spending is expected to surpass that of their Gen X counterparts sometime in the early 2030s, according to a report from World Data Lab and NielsenIQ. 



Meanwhile, Target is not the only way to shop for Delia’s items, no matter what decade you were born in. A resurrected collection is listed on the website of retailer Dolls Kill. No, it’s not old school catalog ordering, but it’s 2026. We can’t have everything. ]]></description>
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<title>Autumn Budget 2026 – what can small business owners expect?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/autumn-budget-2026-what-can-small-business-owners-expect</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
The Autumn Budget 2026 is set for 28 October, delivered by new Chancellor, John Healey. Here&#039;s what we know so far  
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<title>What to Wear If You Were Invited to a Wedding or Attending a Funeral</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-to-wear-if-you-were-invited-to-a-wedding-or-attending-a-funeral</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ What you wear to a wedding or funeral says less about fashion — and more about emotional intelligence. Both occasions are ceremonial, emotional, and symbolic. One celebrates beginnings. The other honors endings. Your clothing should respect the mood, not compete with it. ]]></description>
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<title>Reading Zhipu’s GLM&#45;5.3 results past the headline number</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/reading-zhipus-glm-53-results-past-the-headline-number</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Zhipu’s release note for GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own cybersecurity results, the Beijing company writes that capability “is growing fastest exactly where we are furthest behind.” Zhipu, which also trades as Z.ai, is one of a handful of Chinese labs releasing models that compete with […]
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<title>Alvys launches AI agents for freight TMS workflows</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Freight software provider Alvys has launched an agentic AI platform that allows carriers and brokers to automate operational tasks directly within its transportation management system (TMS). Called Alvys Foundry, the platform supports pre-built and custom AI agents that work with freight data and workflows already held within the TMS. Foundry includes more than 20 pre-built […]
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-president-urges-enterprises-to-hasten-ai-security-defences</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an account of what the company calls the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, using it to argue that organisations need to uplevel their security practices with what he terms unprecedented speed. He writes that he […]
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<title>Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/relativity-networks-raises-22-million-to-bring-a-faster-kind-of-fiber-to-data-centers</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber. ]]></description>
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<media:keywords>Relativity, Networks, raises, 22, million, bring, faster, kind, fiber, data, centers</media:keywords>
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<title>AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s the data, stupid. ]]></description>
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<title>You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Kids these days don&#039;t know how good they have it. ]]></description>
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<title>CareCloud confirms 3.7M patients had their medical records stolen in data breach</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/carecloud-confirms-37m-patients-had-their-medical-records-stolen-in-data-breach</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The cyberattack at CareCloud resulted in one of the largest reported data breaches in the U.S. healthcare industry this year. ]]></description>
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<title>Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here’s why.</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/home-batteries-are-suddenly-cheap-and-everywhere-heres-why</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Companies including Tesla and Base Power are vying for a piece of the rapidly growing market for home batteries. One technology has made it all possible. ]]></description>
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<title>Home Depot’s $730 million tariff refund was largely offset by rising costs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Home Depot, Amazon, and Walmart are taking very different approaches to the tariff refunds flowing back to retailers. ]]></description>
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<title>Even potato&#45;chip tasters are temporary in the economy of 2026 — there’s nearly 57 million of these ‘disposable workers’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ MIT labor economist Paul Osterman tracks them in his new book, “Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment.&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>Also’s $3,500 e&#45;bike is a $1 billion Trojan horse for autonomous transportation</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/alsos-3500-e-bike-is-a-1-billion-trojan-horse-for-autonomous-transportation</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/alsos-3500-e-bike-is-a-1-billion-trojan-horse-for-autonomous-transportation</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Rivian spinoff just raised $150 million to build autonomous vehicles for moving people and packages—not just pedalers. ]]></description>
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<title>Unitree, famous for its dancing robots, surges by 460% on its trading debut, lifting valuation to $66 billion, far ahead of U.S. competitors</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/unitree-famous-for-its-dancing-robots-surges-by-460-on-its-trading-debut-lifting-valuation-to-66-billion-far-ahead-of-us-competitors</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Hangzhou-based startup, founded in 2016, has quickly become something akin to a national champion in China&#039;s robotics sector. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Exclusive: Replit taps OpenAI’s low&#45;cost Luna model for new ‘Free Mode’</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/exclusive-replit-taps-openais-low-cost-luna-model-for-new-free-mode</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/exclusive-replit-taps-openais-low-cost-luna-model-for-new-free-mode</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ An 80% reduction in the cost of tokens for OpenAI&#039;s Luna allowed Replit to roll out the new service, which despite its &#039;free&#039; name, still requires a monthly subscription. ]]></description>
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<title>Pub planning protections will not stop closures, industry warns</title>
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New pub planning protections announced by Angela Rayner will not stop closures, industry figures warn, with Camra reporting 1,836 pubs shut since 2025. ]]></description>
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<title>UK Space Agency backs 16 satellite projects with £13m funding</title>
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The UK Space Agency is funding 16 satellite communications projects with £13 million, from a ScotRail broadband trial to low-cost sensors for farmers. ]]></description>
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<title>Dragons’ Den firm Y1 Group buys Redbird Apparel in seven&#45;figure deal</title>
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<title>Perini Navi, builder of Mike Lynch’s Bayesian, put up for sale</title>
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<title>Fairphone is launching its latest repairable phone in the US too</title>
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<title>Daniel Ek’s body&#45;scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York</title>
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<title>Apple’s new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera</title>
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<title>Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India</title>
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<title>OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it</title>
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<title>AI fears are fueling the ‘handmade’ branding trend</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ By now you’ve probably already noticed it in some of the brands you use daily—“hand-drawn” typography or hastily scanned textures layered over otherwise unremarkable photos. Maybe your cleaning product brands use visual references from a time when “things were easier,” like hand-painted signage and retro illustrations. Or they’re using imperfect blobby type that’s supposed to help designs feel “organic.” Ever notice that your favorite new bakery’s identity seems purposely a little ugly?



The use of this kind of “handmade” aesthetic has been debated in the design community for a long time. But, I’d argue that it’s only recently that the trend has drifted into something that feels . . . forced. Panera Bread’s recent incorporation of highly polished swash typography to no doubt recall the hand-painted signage of your favorite local grocer feels at odds with its reputation for mass-produced “quality ingredients.” St. Regis has recently announced a collection of ultra-high-luxury hospitality brands, many of which use hand-drawn elements perhaps at odds with its highly polished luxury properties. Most telling is Claude’s branding, incorporating hand-drawn illustrations and details that attempt to tell the world, “Hey, we’re the more human AI.”



Blame technology. Designers have a tendency to lead with their passions, and with AI feeling both threatening and exploitative to many in the community, there’s a natural impulse to push away from anything digital. But, as with the skeuomorphism of the aughts or the grunge-ification of the ’90s before it, our industry has pushed too far, sparking a trendy style that reflects designers’ uneasy relationship with technology more than it serves a real need.



Hand-drawn, hand-crafted elements have a place in design, to be sure—for the right brand or the right concept. And true craftsmanship is never out of style. But when this hand-rendered patina is used over and over again, it begins to fall flat, and offer neither enough resonance nor substance for a brand to truly stand out. This is creating a real problem for brands in the age of AI, looking to express that their values, offering, or services are more human-centered.



Old problems, new solutions



This isn’t the first time a trend like this has taken hold. Skeuomorphic design follows a similar mindset in design thinking—if we need to push a trajectory in a specific direction, go literal. And it worked pretty well in the early days of the iPhone and Blackberry to help bridge the gap between the traditional office environment of the desk and this new glass brick you tap. But it also went too far, and seeped into other applications where it really didn’t make any sense.  Same with the “grunge” movement of design in the late 90s, with photocopied type samples and photoshop brushes that aimed to capture the energy and zeitgeist of the Zine movement—but under false pretenses.



This latest fake craft and hand-drawn era is more of the same. And it will take designers being especially mindful to avoid falling into traps. Here’s how:




Root your ideas in the contextWhenever you’re running to social media and trying to imitate patina or “style,” that’s when the trouble starts. Instead, if you can root your ideas in the context of the project itself, that’s when it really sings. For example, one of my favorite branding projects of last year was for a bakery called Rose by Super Studio, which took the bread itself and “printed” with it, creating a hand-expressed marble texture that was literally the product. They used hand-drawn textures with real meaning, making the designs an expression of the quality of the bread.



Ask yourself what it means to be “human”The rise of AI has challenged a lot of previous conventions about how we define “being human,” whether that’s making mistakes, being delightfully irrational, thinking nonlinearly, or using a variety of voices, tones, and outfits to define who we are in any given moment. If the end goal is to make an organization or message feel more human, then perhaps finding ways to make the identity system act human instead of just grabbing a pencil and making marks could lead to more authentically human expressions while simultaneously moving the art of design forward, too.



Collaborate with the machine . . . just like other designersThe biggest myth of working with AI agents is thinking they give you the right answer on the first prompt. That barely ever happens in practice. You need to go back and forth with it, iterating over content, code, and expressions, teaching it what you want and exploring mistakes and potential unexpected discoveries. The most meaningful work I’ve made with agents has been through dialogue with them, as if I’m directing them. The more specific you can be, and the more iterations you have, the more human and intentional the work becomes.



Embrace depth and variation in your brandsHuman beings are messy, dynamic, and constantly changing. Strong brand identities are considered rigid, rigorous, and standardized. One way bring more humanity into these identity systems is to introduce variation—different logos, different voices and tones for different scenarios, or color palettes that shift based on mood, seasonality, experience. When the one-size-fits-all approach is feeling too stiff and cold, adding depth and variation to a brand can make it feel more like us. Yes, that adds complexity, but I’d argue the demands on a brand identity are more complex than they were during Paul Rand’s or Saul Bass’s era. And our audiences are dramatically more sophisticated  at brand recognition than they were 50 years ago. Perhaps we need to rethink the shackles of the “brand police” as the only tool for enforcement, and begin to design flexibility into our design systems.




As with most trends, the fake “handmade” aesthetic has become about blending in rather than standing apart. And that’s not what design is being called to do. The task, especially in terms of brand, is to create distinction and separation in the marketplace. And AI isn’t the only force that’s leading to creative homogeneity. Sometimes, when we react reflexively without considering the consequences, we can do it to ourselves, too.



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<title>I measured my brain during one of the hardest business trips of my year. Here’s what I learned about performance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last month, I traveled through three countries and multiple time zones, packing investor meetings, customer dinners, panels, and leadership sessions into just 10 days.



Like many founders, I wore the schedule as a badge of honor. If I could keep up, I assumed I was performing at my best. 



Then I looked at my brain.



Throughout the trip, I’d been wearing Neurable’s EEG-powered headphones, giving me an objective view of how my brain responded to everything from travel and sleep to stress and recovery. Rather than relying only on how I felt, I could compare my subjective experience with objective measures of neural activity. 



I expected to see increased stress levels in my brain data during a work trip. What I didn’t expect was how often the data contradicted my intuition, and it made me wonder how often I was pushing through cognitive fatigue without even realizing it.



How we feel vs. what’s actually happening



As a neuroscientist, I’ve spent my career studying the gap between how our brains function and how we perceive them to function. This trip reminded me that we’re all prone to judging our cognitive performance by how we feel rather than what the brain is actually experiencing. 



It’s easy to see how so many business leaders can fall into this trap, particularly because today’s work culture makes this blind spot difficult to recognize. We’ve created a world that never switches off. Our offices live in our pockets, our days are filled with endless decisions, and true downtime has become a rarity.



We accept that pace as the cost of doing business, yet we rarely stop to ask how it’s affecting the quality of our thinking.



Instead, most of us judge our ability to perform in the workplace by a simple question: Do I feel ready to tackle my work today?



Feeling ready or being ready?



The first morning after arriving in Germany, I felt like many travelers do after a long international flight. Mentally, I was eager to get to work. Physically, I wanted to crawl back into bed.



I assumed it was ordinary jet lag, but my brain data suggested something more nuanced. My sleep debt had largely been repaid during the flight, but my circadian rhythm hadn’t caught up. My body was in Germany while my internal clock was still somewhere over the Atlantic. I expected the effects to linger much longer, but within about three days, my cognitive measurements had largely returned to baseline.



It was my first reminder that feeling ready and being cognitively ready aren’t always the same thing. As it turns out, my experience wasn’t unique. Research has consistently shown that after insufficient sleep, objective cognitive performance can continue to decline even after people’s subjective sense of impairment has plateaued.



Looking back, I wondered how many strategy meetings, business decisions, or difficult conversations I’d entered simply because I felt sharp, even when my brain data was telling a different story.



Recovery and performance



A few days later, I noticed something else unexpected. My brain had largely recovered from jet lag. I was surprised by how quickly it bounced back, which made me appreciate just how central recovery is to sustained performance.



Professional athletes understand this instinctively. They don’t train at maximum intensity every day because they know recovery is essential to peak performance. Business leaders often do the opposite. We celebrate pushing through and treat recovery as something we’ll get to later, if at all.



The biggest lesson from the trip, however, came from something entirely within my control.



Like many people, I assumed jet lag would be the biggest challenge. Instead, the greater cognitive cost came from a series of ordinary decisions.



Misdiagnosing performance



One evening in Vienna, I attended a networking dinner, enjoyed a couple of glasses of wine, and stayed up until nearly 2:30 a.m. taking work calls back to Boston. The next morning, my cognitive measurements looked remarkably similar to what I’d seen after crossing the Atlantic. The combination of wine, a late night, and about five and a half hours of sleep had produced a cognitive cost comparable to jet lag.



It made me realize how often we misdiagnose our own performance. We prepare meticulously for investor meetings, board presentations, and international travel, yet we rarely prepare for the cumulative impact of another drink at dinner, another hour spent answering emails, or another morning convincing ourselves that six hours of sleep is enough.



None of those choices seems consequential on its own, but together, they shape the quality of our judgment, the very thing we depend on most and measure the least. 



The irony is that modern companies already measure almost everything, from revenue and margins to customer acquisition costs and burn rates. On a personal level, many of us now also track our sleep, heart rate, and physical activity. Yet the organ responsible for every negotiation, hiring decision, strategic pivot, and creative breakthrough has remained largely invisible and rarely optimized for peak performance.



Before diving into yet another work task, I used to ask myself a simple question: Can I push through this?



Now, I ask a different one: Is this the version of my brain I want making this decision?



That question doesn’t always change my schedule. Sometimes the meeting still happens, and the flight still takes off. But it changes how I prepare, which decisions I tackle first, and when I remind myself that recovery isn’t a luxury, but rather a necessity. 



Every important business decision begins in the mind of the person making it. Every leader should spend a little less time asking whether they can push through their packed schedules and a little more time making sure they’re setting themselves up to think at their best. After all, every important business decision deserves the clearest thinking we can bring to it. ]]></description>
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<title>Leadership lessons from America’s fastest&#45;growing private companies and news from the new Susan G. Komen CEO</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning. 







Every CEO is managing uncertainty and complexity. Now imagine layering on exponential revenue growth—like percentage growth in the triple or quadruple digits. That’s what CEOs of companies on the Inc. 5000—Inc.’s annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in America—deal with every day. “I liken it to standing in the ‘ready position’ in sports,” says Anne Fulenwider, cofounder and co-CEO of Alloy Health. The company’s 4,503% three-year revenue growth rate earned it the No. 61 spot on the list. “You have to be knees bent, ready to move in any direction at any time,” she says.  



Fulenwider is one of several Inc. 5000 founders I spoke with about the special leadership issues fast-growth CEOs face, from retaining their company cultures as their businesses scale to figuring out how to fill a big order that outpaces their production capabilities. Their experiences are inspiring and instructive. After all, many of these founders defied skeptics, launching their ideas without the resources enjoyed by their larger counterparts, yet producing gains that are the envy of the business world. 



Together, Inc. 5000 honorees racked up $385 billion in 2025 revenue, employed nearly 1.5 million people, and posted a median three-year growth rate of 130%. The top 500 companies posted a median three-year growth rate of 1,338%. 



Ready, Set, Grow 



Donie Yamamoto, founder and CEO of Vital Pet Life, No. 3170, dealt with last year’s sweeping tariffs (struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in February) and the disruptions they caused her international supply chain by “going back to the values of why we started a company and staying true to it,” she says. Yamamoto began the company, which sells natural health products for cats and dogs, in 2017 when she couldn’t find a clean product to help relieve her dog’s dry skin. She adds, “By just staying true to our mission, it got [us] through the challenges.” 



Ali Ansari, CEO of Micro1, says he has learned to embrace the chaos of being a fast-growth company. Micro1, No. 37, works with experts around the world to train artificial intelligence models. Despite the fast pace, Ansari says he is working to build a culture that is “hardcore in the way that we work, but we’re also very kind to each other.” The company distributes a quarterly form titled “Are You Happy?” inviting employees to answer questions about compensation, staff interactions, and other issues. Ansari reads every response himself, then routes feedback to the people who can act on it. 



Ultimately though, for Inc. 5000 companies, capitalizing on fast growth is their superpower. Matt McKinney, founder and CEO of the AI-powered logistics platform Loop, No. 10, tells Inc.: “If you can outcompete on speed, that’s a competitive advantage.”  



Bringing speed to the nonprofit world



Fast Company has had the opportunity to work with the advertising agency McCann on a few projects, and Modern CEO recently caught up with McCann New York’s CEO, Amber Guild, who just announced that she would become the next CEO of Susan G. Komen, a leading breast cancer organization. Guild, who was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in 2020, says her diagnosis made the nonprofit’s mission deeply personal and also made her acutely aware of how many women don’t get the access and care that she did. 



Like the Inc. 5000 CEOs I spoke with this week, Guild is thinking about speed as she steps into her new role on October 1. “My vision is to build a more modern, more connected Komen, one that uses everything technology and data now make possible to bring in more people, move faster, and have more impact,” she says. 



Is your company a fast-growth organization? If so, how do you keep your teams moving quickly? Send your answers to me at stephaniemehta@mansueto.com. We will publish the best insights in a future newsletter.  



Read more: inspiration from the Inc. 5000 




Oprah loved their charcuterie boards. Now the brand generates $85 million in sales a year 





A nurse practitioner’s hair care company is on track for $269 million 





Inside Replit’s $1 billion vibe-coding empire  




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<description><![CDATA[ Since the onset of the internet, brands have been fighting to optimize their spot in search engines, getting as close to the top of any given page of Google results as possible. But in the AI age, traditional search engines are falling by the wayside—and with them, more than one in four brands are becoming completely invisible, says a new report.



The 2026 AI Visibility Index, an inaugural report from the strategic communications firm Lucie Content, assessed how many businesses are being recommended by artificial intelligence chatbots. Showing up in AI responses has never been more important for brands; a 2026 report from BrightLocal found that 45% of consumers now turn to AI for business recommendations, a massive jump from just 6% in 2025.



How can you make sure you’re not the odd brand out when it comes to AI visibility? Beyond offering a glimpse into the current state of AI as a search engine, Lucie’s report comes with tips, and a tool, for assessing any company’s AI visibility.



What is AI visibility?



AI visibility is the measure of how often AI chatbots will cite or recommend a given business, along with how accurately it will be described. For its assessment, Lucie simulated realistic customer queries, then measured how often a business appeared in the AI model’s responses. It also tracked whether the AI model’s description of the business was accurate, whether it understood the business’s category, and what businesses it recommended instead.



Craig Lucie, founder and CEO of Lucie Content, explained the rationale for the company’s research in a press release.



“Search used to be a list of 10 links, and you decided where to click,” he said. “AI gives you one confident answer with only a few names in it. If your business isn’t one of those names, you’re not just losing to your competitors—you aren’t even in the running. And what we learned through our research is that most business owners don’t realize this is happening.”



Lucie’s results



Lucie Content ran 94 businesses through three different brand-blind scenarios in Gemini’s consistency mode. It ran each scenario three times, resulting in 894 queries that informed the report’s findings.



More than one in four businesses (26.6%) never appeared in any of the tested scenarios. But the report also found that there’s almost no middle ground when it comes to AI visibility: 84% of the companies in the sample scored either a zero or a 100 on retrieval, meaning a given company either consistently appeared in results or didn’t appear at all.



The report also saw almost zero correlation between being visible in traditional search engines and showing up in AI responses. Of the 90 companies in the study’s sample with a Google eligibility score of 70 or above, 24 still had zero AI visibility. Independent research confirmed that there’s only a 45% correlation between top performers in Google search results and in AI recommendations.



How to check your AI visibility



Lucie also launched a free tool with the release of its report, where brands can run an AI visibility scan for themselves on models including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. But the tool returns a brand’s score only on one of the six modules Lucie tested for—technical readiness. More info can be had through a “teaser report,” and the full assessment is available through a consultation with Lucie.



But the report’s experiment is also repeatable on a small scale by individual brands. Though Lucie’s full methodology is under wraps, its general strategy of simulating and repeating realistic customer queries can help brands get a sense of their own standing when it comes to being recommended by AI.



If a brand is getting passed over in AI responses, where should it look to improve? In its press release, Lucie Content identified “clear, consistent, and factually supported information, combined with strong video and imagery that helps both people and machines understand and verify the business” as key factors in AI visibility. Lucie, the CEO, says the firm applied these improvements to its own business model and saw results.



“The great news about what our research found is that the problem is fixable,” he said. “We tested this on our own company before we tested a single client—and measurably improved our own visibility.” ]]></description>
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<title>A popular ice cream brand sold at Walmart and Kroger files for bankruptcy after ‘trade dress’ lawsuit</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/a-popular-ice-cream-brand-sold-at-walmart-and-kroger-files-for-bankruptcy-after-trade-dress-lawsuit</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A years-long lawsuit between two ice cream brands, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream and Rebel Creamery, has come to a possible end, with a federal judge ruling that Rebel infringed Van Leeuwen Ice Cream’s trade dress, and ordering that Rebel owes Van Leeuwen tens of millions of dollars.



But now, Rebel is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while it appeals the judgment. Here’s what you need to know.



What’s happened?



Rebel Creamery, the keto-friendly ice cream brand sold at Walmart, Kroger, and other grocery stores across the country, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection roughly a month after U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee ruled that Rebel had infringed on competitor Van Leeuwen’s trade dress.



As a result, Komitee ruled that Rebel must pay Van Leeuwen $23.8 million and change its packaging, reports Yahoo News.



Of the two ice cream brands, Van Leeuwen’s is arguably the better-known, having been founded about 18 years ago. 



The company operates a chain of ice cream parlors in more than a dozen states and sells its ice cream to retailers across the country. Its pints, dressed in pastel colors with black script, can be found in grocery stores across the country.



Rebel is the newer of the two brands. It began its life on Kickstarter in late 2017 and focuses on making keto-friendly, zero-sugar ice cream.



However, Rebel’s packaging also contains pastel colors and black script, and that similar design led Van Leeuwen to sue the company for trade dress infringement in 2021. That case has now been concluded, with Rebel having been found to have infringed on Van Leeuwen’s trade dress.



What is a trade dress?



Most people know what a trademark is: a legally protected name and/or logo. Think “Coca-Cola” or the Nike swoosh. If a company owns a trademark, other companies can’t use it.



A trade dress is similar to a trademark, but instead of protecting a name or logo, a trade dress protects the overall look of a product, such as a product’s packaging.



As Yahoo News notes, Van Leeuwen’s trade dress—the sparse, pastel packaging with the company’s name in black lettering—has been in use since around 2016. When Rebel’s products went on sale a few years later, its packaging was also very similar: sparse, with pastel colors and the company’s name in black lettering.



Van Leeuwen sued, alleging that Rebel copied the look of its packaging and that resulted in customers and even grocery store workers confusing the two brands, which Van Leeuwen said cost it tens of millions in sales. Last month, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled in Van Leeuwen’s favor.



Why did the court rule against Rebel?



It’s entirely possible that two companies can independently develop the same aesthetic for their products without knowledge of each other’s look. But at trial, the presiding judge ruled that this was not likely what happened in Rebel’s case.



In short, Van Leeuwen was able to produce detailed records and files of the origins of its trade dress look from 2016, when the company hired a design firm to develop its packaging and aesthetic.



Rebel’s founders, on the other hand, said they designed Rebel’s packaging themselves without the help of a design firm. But as noted by Yahoo News, they said they no longer had files showing the evolution of their trade dress, only the final file. As a result, the judge ruled in Van Leeuwen’s favor.



Rebel Creamery files for bankruptcy



The judge ordered that Rebel must change its packaging and also pay Van Leeuwen nearly $23.8 million.



However, the ultimate outcome of this ice cream battle is far from certain. That’s because Rebel is now appealing the case and, in the meantime, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which prevents creditors from collecting money owed.



Rebel’s bankruptcy filing shows Van Leeuwen’s unsecured claim of $23,785,000 as the largest claim on its books. However, the filing lists this claim as “Disputed.”



The bankruptcy also allows Rebel to continue operating, meaning it can keep selling its ice cream as it reorganizes under Chapter 11. Ultimately, however, the main thing determining what kind of future Rebel will have is the outcome of its appeal.



Fast Company has reached out to Rebel Creamery and Van Leeuwen for comment. We will update this story if we hear back. 



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<title>Employers’ liability insurance – what is it and do you need it? </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/employers-liability-insurance-what-is-it-and-do-you-need-it</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Here, we answer all of your questions around employers&#039; liability insurance - how much will you pay and what happens if you don&#039;t have it?  
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<title>Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/novo-nordisk-and-aws-bring-agentic-ai-into-drug-discovery</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Novo Nordisk is expanding its use of AWS artificial intelligence tools across drug discovery, including AI agents for target identification, therapy design, and research workflows. Under the agreement announced recently, AWS will become Novo Nordisk’s preferred cloud provider and strategic AI partner. The companies have also created a co-innovation hub at Novo Nordisk’s existing London […]
The post Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Google tests AMIE for clinical video consultations</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-tests-amie-for-clinical-video-consultations</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Google’s research medical AI system, AMIE (Video), conducted synchronous video consultations with professional patient actors and received clinical evaluator ratings on par with primary care physicians across several core measures. Fifteen trained actors portrayed conditions across cardiopulmonary, abdominal, HEENT, neurological or psychiatric, and musculoskeletal presentations. Google says studies involving real patients and their own health […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/okta-targets-ai-agent-token-costs-with-mcp-scoping</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token costs. Each model call made by an AI agent can include schemas, names, descriptions and parameters for every tool exposed by a MCP server. Okta calls the resulting prompt overhead the “tool tax”: tokens consumed as a model considers tools, including […]
The post Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Google AI health coach to use Abbott glucose data</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-ai-health-coach-to-use-abbott-glucose-data</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Abbott and Google are linking continuous glucose monitoring data with Google’s AI-powered health coaching tools, giving the Gemini-powered service access to another source of personal health information. Under a multiyear agreement, data from Abbott’s Lingo continuous glucose monitor will be integrated into the Google Health app. Users will be able to view glucose trends alongside […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Samsung health AI models analyse wearable biosignal data</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/samsung-health-ai-models-analyse-wearable-biosignal-data</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/samsung-health-ai-models-analyse-wearable-biosignal-data</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart activity, sleep, and physical activity. The company discussed its Connected Care vision at the Health Forum during Galaxy Unpacked in July 2026. Samsung described a future of […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-we-know-about-the-alleged-iranian-hacks-on-us-water-utilities</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the Iranian government. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/thrives-joshua-kushner-chides-silicon-valley-vcs-over-ai-euphoria</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/thrives-joshua-kushner-chides-silicon-valley-vcs-over-ai-euphoria</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The AI opportunity is huge, but &quot;it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline,&quot; Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter. ]]></description>
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<title>Self&#45;driving trucks are officially testing on California highways</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/self-driving-trucks-are-officially-testing-on-california-highways</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/self-driving-trucks-are-officially-testing-on-california-highways</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Self-driving, trucks, are, officially, testing, California, highways</media:keywords>
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<title>Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/talks-to-sell-paypal-to-stripe-and-advent-are-heating-up</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/talks-to-sell-paypal-to-stripe-and-advent-are-heating-up</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm&#039;s new CEO attempts to turn the company around. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Talks, sell, PayPal, Stripe, and, Advent, are, heating</media:keywords>
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<title>‘The great quantum migration’ is coming as more than $2 trillion in digital assets is at risk—nearly the entire value of the overall crypto market</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-great-quantum-migration-is-coming-as-more-than-2-trillion-in-digital-assets-is-at-risknearly-the-entire-value-of-the-overall-crypto-market</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ According to Quantus CEO Christoper Smith, digital assets are secured by elliptic-curve cryptography that is vulnerable to quantum computing. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Before employers shift more healthcare costs to workers, they should ask hospitals a question</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/before-employers-shift-more-healthcare-costs-to-workers-they-should-ask-hospitals-a-question</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/before-employers-shift-more-healthcare-costs-to-workers-they-should-ask-hospitals-a-question</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Healthcare is a growing operating expense and, per Mercer data, roughly three-quarters of CFOs rank healthcare as a top five operating cost concern. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democracy share the same crisis: ‘there is a tendency to escalate everything’</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nobel-laureate-daron-acemoglu-says-ai-and-liberal-democracy-share-the-same-crisis-there-is-a-tendency-to-escalate-everything</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nobel-laureate-daron-acemoglu-says-ai-and-liberal-democracy-share-the-same-crisis-there-is-a-tendency-to-escalate-everything</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ &quot;It&#039;s become sort of radical to hold two apparently conflicting ideas in your head at the same time,&quot; the MIT economist told Fortune. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The ‘manosphere’ is actually a multibillion&#45;dollar industry that sells courses and supplements to insecure Gen Z men, report finds</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-manosphere-is-actually-a-multibillion-dollar-industry-that-sells-courses-and-supplements-to-insecure-gen-z-men-report-finds</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-manosphere-is-actually-a-multibillion-dollar-industry-that-sells-courses-and-supplements-to-insecure-gen-z-men-report-finds</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ “In the very real moment of confusion…there is an industry of platforms, influencers and advertisers who are making billions off of young men’s insecurities.” ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>AI is creating a new wave of philanthropists. The system they’re walking into is broken</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-is-creating-a-new-wave-of-philanthropists-the-system-theyre-walking-into-is-broken</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ai-is-creating-a-new-wave-of-philanthropists-the-system-theyre-walking-into-is-broken</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Sometime in the near future, a significant portion of the people building today&#039;s AI industry are expected to become very rich. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Entain warns against lumping betting shops in with gaming arcades</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/entain-warns-against-lumping-betting-shops-in-with-gaming-arcades</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Entain chief Stella David said betting shops should not be grouped with adult gaming centres under reforms to the Gambling Act&#039;s aim to permit rule ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>China on course to export up to 10 million vehicles this year</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/china-on-course-to-export-up-to-10-million-vehicles-this-year</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/china-on-course-to-export-up-to-10-million-vehicles-this-year</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Chinese car exports have driven charter rates for large car carriers to $70,000 a day, Clarksons data shows, with vessels booked years ahead. ]]></description>
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<title>Meta glasses banned from courts across England and Wales</title>
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Meta glasses are now prohibited in courts and tribunals across England and Wales, with security staff instructed to hold the devices at the entrance. ]]></description>
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<title>Terry de Havilland to launch in Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom</title>
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Terry de Havilland US expansion moves into department stores, with the British footwear brand planning a launch with Macy&#039;s, Bloomingdale&#039;s and Nordstrom. ]]></description>
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<title>Government opens review of EV sales targets ahead of 2030 phase&#45;out</title>
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ZEV Mandate review: the Government has opened a consultation on EV sales targets ahead of the 2030 petrol and diesel phase-out, running to 23 October. ]]></description>
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<title>If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone&#039;s devices. ]]></description>
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<title>Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The surveillance company announced it&#039;s making a tool called &quot;Audit Assistance&quot; mandatory for all customers, claiming it&#039;s already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raising questions about its effectiveness. ]]></description>
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<title>Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup. ]]></description>
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<title>Uber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The partnership is expanding beyond the initial market of Zagreb, Croatia to four additional European cities. ]]></description>
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<title>US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals. ]]></description>
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<title>The creative economy’s greatest competitive advantage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today, most of the conversations about the future of the creative industries have focused on what technology will make possible. The more important question is what the future will require from the next generation of talent.



Artificial intelligence is changing more than how creative work gets done. It is changing what employers expect from the people entering the workforce. According to PwC’s newly released 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, entry-level jobs most exposed to AI are now seven times more likely than others to require skills once reserved for senior roles, including leadership, strategic thinking, and judgment.



This finding represents a profound and exciting shift. For decades, graduates entered the workforce expecting to develop those skills over time. Today, employers increasingly expect them on day one.



AI does not have an imagination, so it will not replace creativity. More importantly, we need to consider how the next generation of creative professionals will develop the judgment, confidence, and cultural understanding that AI cannot provide.



The answer is in the classroom.



Creative education has always been about more than mastering a craft. It is where students learn to defend an idea, accept criticism, ask a great question, collaborate across disciplines, navigate ambiguity, and understand the cultural context and history behind their work. Those are becoming workplace expectations and one of the creative industries’ greatest competitive advantages.



THE VALUE OF RISK REHEARSAL IN THE CLASSROOM



I think of the classroom as the safest place to take creative risks. A designer can present an idea that does not work. A marketer can rethink a campaign. A filmmaker can abandon an entire concept and start over. Failure is often where the best learning begins.



The ability to experiment matters because judgment develops through repetition, critique, curiosity, and reflection. Failure and iteration until a product or process works is a fundamental part of creative education. Those experiences build instincts that have become increasingly valuable in an AI-powered workplace.



WHERE CAREERS REALLY BEGIN



The best creative education also brings the industry into the room. When students learn alongside the people already shaping their fields, they gain that exposure while they are still testing ideas and developing their instincts. They enter the workplace with a foundational understanding of how the industry operates and will be ready to contribute on a higher level from the start.



The classroom is where the industry and education come together. It is an extension of the industry itself, where ideas are challenged, relationships are built, and future collaborators, mentors, and employers are often found. That kind of proximity is the difference between studying a field and becoming part of it.



THE NEW VALUE OF CREATIVE THINKING



As AI changes how creative work gets made, employers are looking for more creativity, paired with the judgment to know what’s worth making.



Professionals with AI fluency are already commanding a 62% wage premium, according to PwC, and while traditional roles are growing more slowly, demand is rising for hybrid roles combining creativity with data, tech, and ethical practice. The World Economic Forum has pointed to creative thinking, leadership, and resilience as among the fastest-rising skills employers want. A creative education has long been designed to cultivate that exact combination.



Neither educators nor employers have fully solved this transition. We are learning alongside one another in real time. That is exactly why closer partnerships between classrooms and industry matter more than ever.



The institutions willing to evolve alongside industry, while remaining grounded in timeless creative principles, will produce graduates prepared not just for today’s jobs, but for careers that don’t yet exist.



GREAT IDEAS NEED CULTURAL CONTEXT



Instinct is not built only at a desk or in a critique. It is shaped by exposure to culture, history, and great work.



That is what exposure to a museum, a gallery, and a classroom can offer that no algorithm can replicate. In an AI era, philosophy, history, and art may be among the oldest subjects we teach, but they could also be the most urgent.



I recently spoke with a designer now leading one of fashion’s great houses. He described how essential it was to understand the cultural history and creative thinking that came before him. That knowledge, he said, is what helps a designer determine what should come next.



Technology can be a research partner, capable of tracing the history of a textile or a silhouette in seconds. It cannot replicate the instinct that comes from standing in a room with the work itself, or the judgment that comes from a classroom built to test ideas before the world does.



EDUCATION IS AN ECONOMIC STRATEGY



The best classrooms continue shaping students after graduation. Alumni return to teach, mentor, and hire the next generation, making creative education cyclical rather than linear. What students learn in their twenties can stay with them throughout their careers, eventually finding its way back into the same classrooms that first shaped them.



The strongest creative industries are defined by the companies they produce and by their ability to continuously develop talent. The future of the creative industries will be determined by who develops people with the judgment, curiosity, and imagination to use it well.



That work begins in the classroom.



Jason Schupbach is president of the Fashion Institute of Technology.



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<title>Total solar eclipse live stream today: Here’s where you can see the 2026 eclipse in person and online</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Today around 15 million people will be able to view a total solar eclipse in its entirety, with hundreds of millions more able to view a partial eclipse. Here’s when the eclipse is set to occur and how and when you can watch it in person and online.



What’s happening?



A total solar eclipse will be visible today (Wednesday, August 12, 2026) in parts of North America and Europe, including Greenland, Iceland, Portugal, Russia, and Spain. 



Varying degrees of a partial eclipse will be visible over a much wider area, including in parts of Canada, the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Liberia, Tunisia, and more.



In total, more than 70 countries will experience the partial or total eclipse today, according to TimeandDate.com. Nearly 980 million people, or 12% of the Earth’s population, will be able to see part of today’s eclipse.



NASA has an animated map that shows the path of totality for the eclipse.



It is occurring, as all solar eclipses do, because the moon will briefly move between the Earth and the sun today, blocking the sun’s light from hitting the planet for a few moments. 



When to see the total eclipse in person



If you want to see the total eclipse in person, you’ll need to be in select areas of Greenland, Iceland, Portugal, Russia, or Spain today. 



If you are, you’ll be able to witness the moon nearly completely blocking the light of the sun for roughly two minutes, with a longer, partial eclipse visible on either side of the total eclipse.



The time the total eclipse occurs depends on which city and country you are in. According to TimeandDate.com, those times include:




Greenland: 13:07 ADT to 17:50 WGST



Iceland: 16:42 GMT to 18:49 GMT



Portugal: 17:30 AZOST to 20:42 WEST



Russia: 03:37 ANAT to 21:34 MSK



Spain: 19:30 CEST to 20:46 WEST




When to see the partial eclipse in person in the United States



Here in America, it won’t be possible to see the total solar eclipse. Depending on your location in the United States, you’ll be able to see the sun partially eclipsed by the moon to varying degrees. 



According to NASA, people in Alaska will be able to see the most eclipse coverage, at about 28%, while those in Washington, D.C., and Michigan will be able to see only 4% and 3% coverage, respectively.



NASA says the following times are when people in the following cities can expect to see the most eclipse coverage possible (all times local):




Anchorage, Alaska: 8:21 a.m.



Bangor, Maine: 1:53 p.m.



Boston: 1:55 p.m.



Detroit: 1:36 p.m.



Fairbanks, Alaska: 8:27 a.m.



Juneau, Alaska: 8:24 a.m.



New York: 1:54 p.m.



Philadelphia: 1:53 p.m.



Portland, Maine: 1:53 p.m.



Washington, D.C.: 1:53 p.m.




Eclipse viewing safety



If you do plan on viewing the total or partial eclipse in person, it’s important that you never look directly at the sun. Doing so can permanently damage your eyes and cause blindness.



NASA maintains an Eclipse Safety page here with instructions on how to protect your eyes and view an eclipse safely. 



TimeandDate.com also stresses that sunglasses will not protect your eyes during an eclipse. 



How to stream the total eclipse live



The safest way to view the total eclipse is to watch one of the live streams covering the event from the comfort of your own home.



Both TimeandDate and NASA are offering a live stream of the total eclipse beginning later today on their YouTube channels.




TimeandDate’s live stream will begin at 12 p.m. ET.



NASA’s live stream will begin at 1:15 p.m. ET.




Both are available on YouTube, and both are embedded below.











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<title>Social Security changes: See the full list of 14 rare conditions just added to the fast track for disability benefits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Social Security Administration (SSA) is allowing more people to fast track their access to disability benefits. 



On Tuesday, the agency added 14 more medical conditions to its Compassionate Allowances list (CAL). The newest conditions on the list include genetic disorders, cancer, and more. 



What are compassionate allowances? 



As noted by the National Council on Aging, the SSA first created the Compassionate Allowances program in 2008. 



According to Social Security, the allowances “are a way to quickly identify diseases and other medical conditions that, by definition, meet Social Security’s standards for disability benefits.”



This includes applications for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. 



The Social Security Administration looks at a person’s medical records if they apply for any of these disability benefits. In many of the claims, the agency can use technology to see if the applicant has any of the Compassionate Allowance conditions.  



With the new additions, the list now includes 314 conditions, such as ALS/parkinsonism dementia complex, child lymphoma, and ovarian cancer. 



“Social Security is strengthening our disability programs and making the disability determination process better, faster, and higher-quality to serve the American public,” Social Security Administration commissioner Frank J. Bisignano said in the announcement. “The Compassionate Allowances initiative cuts through red tape and allows us to deliver support to individuals who experience life-changing diagnoses and need help fast.”



Which medical conditions were added?



The 14 new conditions added to Social Security’s Compassionate Allowances list are: 




Adenylosuccinate Lyase Deficiency – Neonatal Form and Type 1



Aicardi Syndrome



Baraitser-Winter Syndrome



Beare-Stevenson Cutis Gyrata Syndrome



Bohring-Opitz Syndrome



CASK-Related Gene Disorders



Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma



Lafora Disease



Malignant Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy (MMPSI)



OPHN1 Syndrome



Primary Cardiac Sarcoma



Primary Intracranial Malignant Melanoma



Uveal Melanoma – with Metastases



Warburg Micro Syndrome




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<title>American Express adds 350 luxury hotels to Platinum Card travel program as it doubles down on premium travel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ American Express is expanding one of the Platinum Card’s most valuable perks, adding more than 350 curated premium hotels to its Fine Hotels + Resorts and The Hotel Collection programs as premium credit card issuers continue to compete for high-spending travelers.



The additions expand the combined portfolio to more than 3,400 properties across 116 countries, giving Platinum Card members hundreds of new places to book curated stays while taking advantage of benefits like complimentary breakfast, guaranteed late checkout, and on-property credits. 



The expansion also marks the 35th anniversary of Fine Hotels + Resorts, American Express’s luxury hotel program.



Building a bigger travel ecosystem



The move is the latest example of American Express (Amex) investing in a broader premium travel ecosystem rather than relying solely on traditional credit card rewards to keep cardholders happy. Over the past year, the company has introduced its new Sidecar by The Centurion Lounge concept for travelers with limited time before flights, expanded its airport lounge footprint, and rolled out new travel-focused benefits, even as issuers like Chase and Capital One aggressively court affluent cardholders.



Earlier this year, Audrey Hendley, president of American Express Travel, told Fast Company that the company is increasingly designing travel benefits around how cardmembers actually travel instead of simply adding more perks. That thinking helped inspire Sidecar, the company’s new 33-seat airport lounge concept in Las Vegas, after research found many Centurion Lounge visitors spend less than an hour before boarding.



Espacio Nagoya Castle in Nagoya, Japan [Photo: American Express]



“We’re seeing a significant segment of travelers who only spend 30 to 45 minutes in the lounge,” Hendley previously told Fast Company. “Sidecar is our way of honoring that time with the same level of care and service.”



She said Amex is “always looking for ways to understand better how customers travel and what they’re looking for in the experience,” an approach that’s evident in the company’s latest hotel expansion.



“For 35 years, Fine Hotels + Resorts has helped Platinum Card members turn hotel stays into more rewarding travel experiences,” Hendley said in Wednesday’s announcement. “This expansion gives card members more choice across the places they want to go now—from beach escapes and culinary capitals to culture-rich cities and adventure destinations—while continuing to deliver the elevated benefits they expect from American Express Travel.”



The strategy also reflects how American Express sees luxury travel evolving. Rather than simply booking a five-star hotel, travelers increasingly want properties that serve as a gateway to local food, culture, wellness, and outdoor experiences.



Casa Lucia, Meliá Collection, in Buenos Aires, Argentina [Photo: American Express]



American Express says its 2026 Global Travel Trends report found travelers continue prioritizing meaningful, authentic experiences when planning trips, and the newest additions were selected to reflect those evolving preferences.



Among the new properties is Selman Marrakech in Morocco, a luxury equestrian retreat that’s become a destination for milestone celebrations and once-in-a-lifetime getaways. In Japan, Espacio Nagoya Castle blends Japanese art, regional history, wellness, and access to one of the country’s most distinctive culinary cities. Travelers looking for outdoor adventure can book Roki Collection Queenstown in New Zealand, with access to helicopter tours, heli-skiing, hiking, boating, golf, and wineries. Meanwhile, Casa Lucia, Meliá Collection, in Buenos Aires joins The Hotel Collection, putting guests within easy reach of the city’s parrillas (grill restaurants), cafés, bakeries, and contemporary Argentine cuisine.



More ways to justify a premium annual fee



For Platinum Card members, the biggest impact is simple: more opportunities to use benefits that can help offset the card’s annual fee.



Bookings of two nights or more through The Hotel Collection include a $100 credit toward eligible on-property charges, which vary by hotel, along with noon check-in, late checkout, and room upgrades when available. Fine Hotels + Resorts reservations include daily breakfast for two, guaranteed 4 p.m. checkout, and access to select complimentary night offers at eligible properties.



Mont Cervin Palace in Zermatt, Switzerland [Photo: American Express]



Those benefits have become increasingly valuable as luxury hotel prices climb and premium credit cards compete on experiences rather than points alone.



Celebrating 35 years



The expansion also serves as a milestone for Fine Hotels + Resorts.



To mark the program’s 35th anniversary, American Express is highlighting several longtime favorites that have helped define the collection, including Mont Cervin Palace in Zermatt, Switzerland; Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok; Amandari in Bali; and The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, in New York City.



When Fine Hotels + Resorts debuted in 1991, the program included just 120 hotels that fit inside a printed directory sent out to cardholders. Today, together with The Hotel Collection, the program spans more than 3,400 properties around the world. That evolution mirrors American Express’s broader strategy: expanding beyond rewards points to build an interconnected ecosystem of airport lounges, curated hotels, dining benefits, and premium travel experiences designed to keep cardmembers engaged long after they’ve booked a flight.



With Chase continuing to expand Sapphire Lounges and Capital One rapidly growing both its airport lounge network and premium travel offerings, American Express is betting that a broader ecosystem of exclusive experiences, not just rewards points, will keep the Platinum Card at the center of luxury travel.



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<title>How do Siri and Alexa sound so human? A computer engineer explains</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.








How is a text-to-speech voice made? – Sarah G٫ age 11٫ Seguin٫ Texas








When you talk to computerized assistants like Siri or Alexa, they reply in voices that sound very human. But how do computers, smartphones and apps actually talk like a person? They use a technology called text-to-speech.



When you speak, your lungs push air up your windpipe and through the vocal cords in your throat. That makes the vocal cords vibrate, which creates sound. Your brain tells your mouth, tongue and lips to shape that sound into words.



I’m a computer engineer who researches how computers create realistic experiences for people. A computer simulates this process of making spoken words. It sends electrical signals to a tiny speaker, which vibrates really fast. The vibrations push against the air surrounding the speaker, creating sound waves. Software in the computer controls those electrical signals in order to shape the sound waves to create speech.



If a computer wants to say “Hello, how are you?” it breaks each word into bits of sound called phonemes. Phonemes are the smallest building blocks of speech, such as the sounds “sh,” “short i” and “p” to say “ship.” The software creates the phonemes and groups them in the correct order to form words: “Heh” “lo” “how” “r” “u”? The human brain and mouth create and connect phonemes, too. 









People began trying to make machines speak like humans in the 1700s.



Robot speech



Way back in the 1700s, inventors tried to make machines work like your lungs and throat do. They used bellows—a big bag that a person could squeeze—to push air from inside the bag through pipes, whistles and leather tubes. The sounds that came out were squeaky, weird and creepy.



The first electronic speech machines, called synthesizers, were built in the 1930s. One famous machine was called Voder, which made its debut at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. Voder looked like an organ. A person had to press electronic buttons, keys and foot pedals to get it to gasp out basic phrases like “Good morning!”



Computers began speaking by putting together phonemes in the 1960s, creating stiff, robotic speech.



Pieces to a puzzle



Old computer voices often sounded robotic and choppy, like “He-llo-hu-man-I-am-a-com-pu-ter.” This happened because older software programs had to stitch together small sounds that had been mapped out from recorded voices. The maps, called spectrograms, look like graphs with peaks and valleys representing how strong each tone was at each instance when a sound happened.



The programs put the maps together like pieces in a puzzle and turned them back into sounds. That method worked, but it sounded very unnatural. 









Early computer-synthesized speech sounded stiff and robotic.



Today’s computers use machine learning, a kind of artificial intelligence, to sound like a person. Engineers and scientists train an AI program by giving it many hours of recordings of real people talking. The machine learning software analyzes patterns in the speech. That includes everything from how people breathe to when they laugh and to how their voices sound higher when they get excited.



The patterns allow the computer to shape phonemes into words and sentences in all the subtle ways people do.



This advanced technology even allows a sophisticated AI computer to listen to a recording of your voice for just a few seconds, learn your exact speech patterns and copy it. It can then say sentences you have never actually spoken, in a voice that sounds just like yours.



Helpful and harmful voices



Text-to-speech software helps millions of people every day. In cars, it gives directions so drivers can keep their eyes on the road. It can read news articles and websites for people who are blind, and it can give a voice to people who cannot speak.



Like some other powerful technologies, the software can also be misused. Advanced software can create highly realistic fake voices, sometimes called audio deepfakes. These synthetic voices can sound almost identical to a real person’s voice by learning from a short sample of their speech.



Scammers can use this technology to impersonate family members, co-workers or celebrities. They can make phone calls or leave voice messages that try to fool people into believing bad information. Scientists and engineers are working to make tools that can identify fake voices to help stop scammers.



So the next time you hear a phone, computer or video game speak with a human voice, you know how it was able to it without having lungs, vocal cords, lips or a tongue!







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Tam Nguyen is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Dayton.



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<title>Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.</title>
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<title>This former notorious red&#45;light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs</title>
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<title>Turn your handwriting into a font for Android, Windows, or MacOS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Handwriting has personality. Get to know someone well enough and their handwriting will remind you of them, because we all form letters just a bit differently.



Our devices, for the most part, lack that kind of personality. Sure, you can choose a font from a drop-down list in your word processor of choice—but it’s not the same.



So what if you could inject some of that unique-to-you personality into your digital discussions? It’s possible—with the right free tool at your fingertips.



This tip originally appeared in the free Cool Tools newsletter from The Intelligence. Get the next issue in your inbox and get ready to discover all sorts of awesome tech treasures!



Your handwriting, your font



​FontCrafter​ is a free web app that can turn your handwriting into a font.



➜ Just download a PDF, fill it in by hand, and the site will create a completely custom font exclusively for you based on your writing.



⌚ It takes around 15 minutes from start to finish—and then the custom font is yours forever to use on any device you want, without any additional setup.



For perspective, that’s nothing compared to the typical laborious process of creating an actual custom typeface. FontCrafter takes something that’d ordinarily be out of reach for most of us and makes it downright easy.



✅ As for the specifics, when you visit the website, you can download a PDF template to start. The idea is that you’ll print out the PDF and then fill it in by hand to show every letter and character in your natural writing.



The template gives you three lines. I filled out the first with uppercase letters and the next two with lowercase ones, but you can do all with uppercase letters if you prefer. Providing multiple versions of letters is meant to introduce a bit of variation, allowing the typed text from your font to look more natural.



FontCrafter starts by having you fill in each letter multiple times.



When you’re done filling out the form, you’ll need to scan it and upload it back to the website, making sure the crosshair symbols in the corners are included. This is going to work best with an actual physical scanner, because a certain amount of precision is needed—but you could always try using the built-in scanning function in Google Drive​ or another such app, if you want. 



⛔ If you don’t have a printer or a scanner handy, there are workarounds. I used my ReMarkable writing tablet, which made the process easy. You could do the same thing with an iPad or Android tablet or even just with a stylus or your finger on your phone, depending on what you have handy. Just note that having a stylus is going to result in more realistic-looking text than using your finger, for obvious reasons.



However you go about it, once you’ve got your template filled out, head back to the website and submit it. The web application will process it, right in your browser, then ask you if you want ligatures (a custom character shape created when two letters merge into a single joined form) or not. Just choose whatever option looks best to you.



You’ve got a couple options for how your custom handwriting font appears.



Last but not least, you’ll have your font ready to download in whatever format you prefer. Both TrueType and OpenType are available, and both will work with most devices and software that supports custom fonts in the first place. 



All that’s left is to install the font in your operating system—something that’s possible with Android​ as well as Windows​ and ​MacOS​—and use it in whatever applications you like. 



Once your font is finished, you can install it anywhere that accepts custom font uploads.



Is this practical? Possibly not. But is it cool to turn your handwriting into a font? Definitely. I’m enjoying it, even though my handwriting is awful. Just imagine how well it will work for you, a much cooler person with much better penmanship than me.




FontCrafter runs right in your regular web browser​—no downloads or installations needed.



It’s completely free to use, without any limitations (or even ads). You can opt to make a contribution to its creator if you want.



The service is a client-side web app, meaning it’s 100% private and everything happens locally on your own device. Your handwriting is never uploaded to a server, no accounts or sign-ins are required, and no one has any access to any of your data.




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<title>Why can’t your email be as secure as your texts?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Most people take for granted that the messages they send via popular messaging apps like Meta’s WhatsApp or Apple’s iMessage are end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), meaning that no one but the sender and receiver—not even WhatsApp or Apple—can read the contents. Unfortunately, this rock-solid privacy-preserving encryption doesn’t extend to the other major type of messages we send: emails. 



Not a one of the big four email providers—Google’s Gmail, Apple’s iCloud Mail, Microsoft’s Outlook, or Yahoo Mail—supports end-to-end encryption for personal accounts. Fortunately, if you do want E2EE protection for your emails similar to what you have for your texts, there are some email platforms that offer such robust privacy protections.



Why aren’t emails end-to-end encrypted?



If you have a personal email address ending in @gmail.com, @iCloud.com, @outlook.com, or @yahoo.com, the emails you send and receive are not end-to-end encrypted. However, it’s important to note that the email providers do use some encryption to protect your messages. 



They do this in two ways, primarily: by encrypting your messages in transit between the sender, their servers, and the receiver, and by encrypting your emails at rest on their servers. However, this encryption isn’t end-to-end because email providers hold the encryption keys, meaning they could read your emails if they wanted or turn them over to government agencies if presented with a lawful court order. In the worst case, if an attacker stole the email platform’s encryption keys, they could possibly access all your emails and their contents.



On the other hand, with end-to-end encryption like that used by the world’s most popular messaging apps, the service provider does not have access to the encryption keys that unscramble the message to make it readable—only the sender and receiver do. This restriction is why end-to-end encryption provides superior privacy and security versus regular encryption.



The question that arises then is, why wouldn’t these email platforms just end-to-end encrypt your emails as they do with the messages in the popular messaging apps you use? 



The answer is less conspiratorial than practical. Email is a decades-old technology, designed to work seamlessly across all services. If emails were encrypted end-to-end, email interoperability would break. It would be very hard, if not impossible, to send an email from, for example, a Gmail account to an iCloud account. End-to-end encrypted email would also have other drawbacks. Email services scan emails for signs of spam and phishing attempts. If those emails were end-to-end encrypted, the services wouldn’t be able to detect, quarantine, and block potential emails that are seeking to harm you. 



Other useful features we’re used to, like search, would also be severely hindered. Currently, most of your emails don’t actually reside on your devices. The older ones are stored on the service’s servers. Yet you can still search for them by keyword to find that old email you need precisely because the service’s servers can read the content of your emails. E2EE emails would break this server-side ability, meaning that if you wanted to search through your thousands of old emails, you’d need to download all of them to your smartphone or laptop first.



Of course, sometimes it’s prudent to sacrifice convenience for privacy, and if you want your emails end-to-end encrypted, you do have some good options.



Trade iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook for these platforms



Since the early 1990s, a technology called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) has allowed people to end-to-end encrypt their emails. However, using PGP is pretty complicated for the average email user, as it involves the manual management of encryption keys.



Thankfully, if you want end-to-end email encryption, you don’t need to manually mess with PGP—provided you are willing to switch email providers. In recent years, a number of companies have sprung up offering ready-to-use end-to-end encrypted emails. Two of the most popular are Proton Mail and Tuta Mail.



Both services are essentially the Signal of the email world. By that I mean that any emails sent from one Proton address to another Proton address, or one Tuta address to another Tuta address, are end-to-end encrypted by default, without your having to do anything.



However, there are some important limitations to these end-to-end encrypted email services. If you use either to send an email to an email address other than one ending with the E2EE address you are using (for example, sending an email from your Proton email account to someone with a Gmail email address, or even from a Proton email address to a Tuta email address), you will lose the protection of end-to-end encryption, as its transmission will default to standard email protocols. If the E2EE email service didn’t ditch the encryption in these instances, the recipient with the other email service wouldn’t be able to read the content of the message.



To get around this limitation, both Proton and Tuta allow you to send end-to-end encrypted emails to non-Proton and Tuta email addresses, respectively, via a secure online platform. Instead of seeing text in the body of the email, the Gmail or Yahoo Mail user, for example, will get a secure link. Clicking it takes them to a website where they can enter the password you provided them to decrypt your end-to-end encrypted message.



Should you switch to E2EE email?



So, should you switch to an end-to-end encrypted email platform? Most people would likely find the inconveniences too burdensome.



But if you want the most protection possible for your emails, Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, and Yahoo aren’t the services to use. In that case, E2EE email providers like Proton and Tuta are worth checking out.



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<title>States with the least—and most—housing market inventory heading into the fall</title>
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Nationally aggregated inventory is up just 2.1% on a year-over-year basis from July 31, 2025, to July 31, 2026.



While that’s up a tad from the +1.9% year-over-year pace last month, it’s decelerated significantly since last year.



If you go back 12 months, that year-over-year national inventory growth rate was much higher (+24.7.%). After a period of a burst of softening in which leverage shifted more toward homebuyers, the supply-demand balance in the nationally aggregated housing market has been more stable over the past year, settling into what ResiClub considers a “soft” market. Note, however that there’s a lot of nuance regionally and locally.



Nationally, we’re still below pre-pandemic 2019 inventory levels (9.1% below July 2019), and some resale markets, in particular chunks of the Midwest and Northeast, still remain, relatively speaking, tight-ish.







July inventory/active listings total, according to Realtor.com:




July 2017 -&gt; 1,322,659



July 2018 -&gt; 1,261,916



July 2019 -&gt; 1,239,534



July 2020 -&gt; 822,834



July 2021 -&gt; 546,686 (pandemic housing boom overheating)



July 2022 -&gt; 691,652



July 2023 -&gt; 647,135



July 2024 -&gt; 884,273



July 2025 -&gt; 1,102,787



July 2026 -&gt; 1,126,252




From July 2024 to July 2025, U.S. active inventory across the country rose by 218,514 homes for sale.



From July 2025 to July 2026, U.S. active inventory across the country rose by 23,465 homes for sale.



Right now, we’re looking at state inventory data. ResiClub members (paid tiers) can get our monthly interactive deep-dive analysis looking at inventory shifts and signals for 800-plus metro areas, 3,000 counties, and 25,000 zip codes. ResiClub PRO details here.



Below is the year-over-year active inventory percentage change by state.



Click here to view an interactive version of the year-over-year map below.







While active housing inventory is rising in most markets on a year-over-year basis, the pace of growth continues to decelerate across much of the country (see the side-by-side maps below). In fact, Florida—home to many of the weakest regional housing markets over the past two years—is now seeing active inventory edge down a little year-over-year (-14%).



From left: Year-over-year active inventory shift from July 2024 to July 2025; year-over-year active inventory shift from July 2025 to July 2026







And while active housing inventory is rising in most markets on a year-over-year basis, some markets still remain tight-ish.



As ResiClub has been documenting, both active resale and new homes for sale remain the most limited across huge swaths of the Midwest and Northeast. That’s where home sellers in the summer are likely, relatively speaking, to have more power than their peers in many Southern markets.



In contrast, active housing inventory for sale has neared or surpassed pre-pandemic 2019 levels in many parts of the Sunbelt and Mountain West, including metro-area housing markets such as Punta Gorda, Florida, and Austin.



Many of these areas saw major price surges during the pandemic housing boom, with home prices getting stretched compared to local incomes. As pandemic-driven domestic migration slowed and mortgage rates rose, markets like Punta Gorda and Austin faced challenges, relying on local income levels to support frothy home prices.



This softening trend was accelerated further by an abundance of new-home supply in the Sunbelt. Builders are often willing to lower prices or offer affordability incentives (if they have the margins to do so) to maintain sales in a shifted market, which also has a cooling effect on the resale market: Some buyers who would have previously considered existing homes have opted for new homes with more favorable deals over the past couple of years—which then put additional upward pressure on resale inventory.



Click here to view an interactive version of the map below.







At the end of July 2026, 16 states were above pre-pandemic 2019 active inventory levels: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Washington. (The District of Columbia is also back above pre-pandemic 2019 active inventory levels.)



Click here to view an interactive of the chart below (best done on desktop).







Big picture: Over the past year the post-boom softening hasn’t been as strong as it was in 2024 or 2025, and inventory growth has decelerated on a year-over-year basis. That said, the nationally aggregated housing market remains soft. While home prices are declining in some parts of the Sunbelt, large parts of Northeast and Midwest markets are still eking out small year-over-year gains. At the national level, home prices are essentially flat year over year.



Click here for an interactive version of the table below.







Below is another version of the table above—but this one includes every month since January 2017.







If you’d like to further examine the monthly state inventory figures, use the interactive below.



As ResiClub has been closely documenting, Florida—which has been the epicenter of housing market weakness over the past 2.5 years, particularly in Southwest Florida—is no longer seeing the same upward burst in inventory.



Indeed, the intensity of Florida’s housing market correction is easing across many pockets of the state. There are still pockets of weakness, particularly in Southwest Florida, but the burst of softening has let up. Some builders have also reported that their affordability adjustments have helped them better meet the market in the state. To really get a sense of the zip ode nuances, I recommend using the ResiClub Terminal.



Click here to view an interactive/searchable version of the chart below.






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<title>‘If trust breaks, your business breaks’: How Alphonzo Terrell is building Spill to be a different kind of social platform</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Alphonzo Terrell was the global head of social and editorial at Twitter, until Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition that led to roughly 80% of the company’s workforce being laid off—Terrell included.



But he wasted no time in creating his own social media platform, Spill, with a very clear perspective.



After years of seeing firsthand how harmful and exploitative social media can be to Black and queer folks in particular, Terrell wanted to design a space to serve, safeguard, and give equity to those communities.



The app includes features such as Spades (a popular card game within the Black community) and subcommunities for users to find their specific tribes, e.g. Foodie Spill, Art Spill, Book Spill, etc. Operating in the background of all that is an AI moderation tool the company says has a 90% success rate. And the company held a community investment round last year that allowed users to become shareholders.



It’s no wonder why just three years in, Spill is on pace to more than double signups and revenue year over year, having crossed into positive cash flow earlier this summer due in large part to brand partnerships including Netflix, Paramount+, and Gilead.



[Screenshots: Spill]







Terrell pushes back against Spill being labeled as a standalone app for Black Twitter. “I think it minimizes the power of our communities,” said Terrell in an episode of Fast Company‘s podcast Creative Control. “We didn’t own Black Twitter. We didn’t actually have agency. And it was sort of this sadomasochistic relationship of like, here’s this platform that’s constantly harming you, but yet I have to keep using it because it’s the only way I can have a microphone.”



Terrell will join a main stage panel at Fast Company‘s 12th annual Innovation Festival September 14-17 in New York City to discuss what it means to put communities at the core of your business.



But in the meantime, check highlights of Terrell’s episode of Creative Control below and be sure to listen to the episode in full on the audio platform of your choice.



On defining what Spill really is . . .



“We’ve evolved and clarified our value prop today that’s actually fundamentally different [than being Black Twitter]. We really see Spill as an operating system for fandom—and more importantly, culture-forward fandom.



 When you find a place where you can be around other people that love the same thing that you love, it’s an immediate belonging. And many of us are not honest about how weird we are. And so these platforms and these tools became an incredible way to find people that were into superspecific niche things.”



On driving revenue through community . . .



“We have a really robust intelligence engine where we can tell you basically what our communities think about pretty much any topic under the sun, from Black maternal health to a new campaign about a new sauce. And that’s been really helpful for the brands. . . . A lot of these brands don’t want to make mistakes that can be costly or end up in situations where they’re getting boycotted and probably could have avoided that if they came and talked to platforms like us. We’re not a market research firm per se, but we have first party data and intelligence that nobody else has. And we want to use it so that people can make better decisions that benefit our communities.”



On maintaining trust while working brands . . .



“Anything that would hurt or harm the communities that we are built to serve and that we are every day working our asses off to build and maintain trust with is antithetical to our business model. It’s not even personal at that point or moral. It’s just, this would be bad for business. 



[It’s] really about calculating short-term gain versus long-term gain. If you want to take a deal from something questionable now, maybe. But then think about six months, 12 months down the line, 24 months—if that trust breaks, your business breaks. And was that worth the cost of one deal? Most often that’s actually not that hard of a calculus to make.”



Join thousands of business leaders, makers, and innovators at Fast Company’s 12th annual Innovation Festival in New York City this September 14-17. Purchase your festival pass today and save. Standard rates end Friday, August 21.



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<title>Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ At last, we know how Elon Musk’s fabled Terafab will look. Tesla and SpaceX showed a video rendering of their jointly developed advanced chip factory on Thursday. It will occupy 100 million square feet in Grimes County, Texas, about 45 miles northwest of downtown Houston. The sci-fi-looking building is so vast that you could fit six of them in Manhattan. Musk, the CEO of both companies, took to X on Thursday to declare it “the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.”



Except, you know, it doesn’t actually exist. As with so many of Musk’s grand projects, like the ones he used to sell his inflated SpaceX IPO, this is just a megacool gigafuturistic terarender.



Musk’s brand is the epic announcement, and the Terafab launch does not disappoint in that regard. The factory’s website labels itself as “the most epic chip-building effort ever.” It is a cosmic vision, sold as imminent, wrapped in renderings.



The question isn’t whether Terafab will ever be real; it’s whether it will be this Terafab, on this schedule, at this size. 




The foundations for an exciting future are being built in Texas. Next up: Terafab → https://t.co/jGg52Zhn5I pic.twitter.com/SNfSXNr2tb— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 6, 2026




What is Terafab, exactly?



SpaceX says the facility will be “an advanced semiconductor fab that will bridge the divide between current global chip supply and the compute demand of the future.” A vertically integrated factory putting manufacturing, packaging, and testing of advanced logic and memory under one roof, the company claims “Terafab will be epic in both its mission and in its sheer size.”



The chips will be optimized for edge computing and inference, destined for Tesla’s Optimus robots and self-driving Cybercabs, while additional high-power chips will sustain SpaceX’s space-based data centers. Intel is participating, though Intel won’t say what its role is. SpaceX promises to employ at least 3,000 workers from Grimes and neighboring Brazos counties, and says it’s “committing to the use of” water from the local Gibbons Creek Reservoir rather than local groundwater. 



According to Bloomberg, the fab (semiconductor fabrication plant) will be powered by natural gas power plants that SpaceX will build itself. “We are bringing our own power,” Riley Trettel, SpaceX’s head of energy and data center development, told residents at a public meeting Wednesday—plus “very large battery arrays.” Solar power is nowhere in the plans, even though project partner Tesla is itself a solar manufacturer.



SpaceX, freshly public after raising $87.5 billion in its IPO, got a 100% tax abatement from Grimes County—contingent on spending at least $5 billion by 2030 and creating at least 1,800 full-time jobs by 2035—plus $30 million in state incentives. The news landed one day after hundreds of residents packed a county meeting Wednesday to protest those millions in tax breaks and what they saw as insufficient transparency.



The Texas Governor’s office put out a statement endorsing the deal from Dr. Sarah Borowicz, superintendent of the Anderson-Shiro Consolidated Independent School District, promising every opportunity would be managed “wisely, transparently, and always with students at the center of every decision.” 



Still, the price keeps shifting. Terafab was unveiled in March as a $25 billion factory, then slated at $55 billion in later filings, and is now budgeted at $16.8 billion for its first phase—with filings suggesting the total bill could reach $119 billion across a “multi-phase” construction plan. Same factory, third price tag. Terafab, it’s worth noting, did not come up on SpaceX’s first earnings call earlier this week.



[Rendering: SpaceX]



Size matters



Putting aside its fantastic ambitions and potential conflicts with the interests of Texas residents, one can only be amazed at Terafab’s theoretical final size. Apple Park, the “spaceship” complex in Cupertino, California, is roughly 2.8 million square feet. Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas facility, already one of the largest buildings in the world, is about 10 million square feet. At 100 million square feet, Terafab would be 10 Gigafactory Texases and 35 Apple Parks.



Back in March, Musk said Terafab was going to be as big as 15 Pentagons. Yesterday, Musk was posting that Terafab “will be 50 times the size of the Pentagon when complete.” Either way, it’s massive.



This otherworldly footprint mirrors Musk’s other supersize ambitions, which include launching 1 million AI servers into orbit and establishing a 100-gigawatt space data center, fed by a factory on the moon that would catapult the servers into Earth’s orbit using an electromagnetic mass driver. Back then, experts in physics, aerospace engineering, and chip design pointed out that Musk’s plan ignores basic thermodynamics. Of the lunar factory and its mass driver, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb said: “The entire project sounds more like a speculative science fantasy than a believable technological project.”



Terafab feels like the terrestrial mirror of that space fantasy. Ironically, among its planned output are the high-power chips designed to run SpaceX’s space-based data centers.



Musk will keep selling the future in units of epic. Epic in mission and epic in sheer size. Maybe Grimes County gets its 3,000 jobs and its robot chip factory. Or maybe it gets a very large, very tax-exempt construction site and a hard lesson: The rendering is always the biggest version the building will ever be. ]]></description>
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<title>Bernie Sanders hails Michigan result as ‘most extraordinary victory that I can think of in modern American politics’</title>
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<title>Senate panel to vote on Fauci contempt claim, whether to refer to DOJ for prosecution</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ David Crowley dropped out, re-entered with Gov. Tony Evers&#039; backing, and now faces democratic socialist Francesca Hong after two rivals quit mid-race. ]]></description>
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<title>Bank of England staff worked nearly 13,000 days overseas, FOI data shows</title>
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More than 1,000 staff used the Bank of England working from abroad policy for 12,889 days in total, freedom of information data released this week shows. ]]></description>
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<title>Six&#45;month&#45;old Volta strikes $10bn deal with Anthropic</title>
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Volta Anthropic deal: the London start-up incorporated in January has agreed a $10bn data centre partnership and raised funding from Nvidia at $2.4bn. ]]></description>
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<title>Anthropic finds three hacks by its AI models after OpenAI disclosure</title>
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Jaded London has been told to drop an email ad after the ASA ruled that an image of a model holding a lit cigarette irresponsibly glamorised smoking. ]]></description>
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<title>Saudi&#45;led consortium completes $55bn EA takeover</title>
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The $55bn EA takeover by Saudi Arabia&#039;s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners has closed, taking the games publisher off Nasdaq. ]]></description>
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<title>AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts. ]]></description>
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<title>Indian EV startup River raises $120M Series C to scale production, launch more models</title>
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<title>Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups</title>
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<title>MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on&#45;device inference to devs building for its app store</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI&#039;s models. ]]></description>
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<title>Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content to its short&#45;form video feed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ As streamers compete with social media giants for viewer attention, Disney+ is partnering with TikTok to bring creator content to its app. ]]></description>
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<title>Sam Altman shared a parenting hack. Thousands of moms and dads instantly disagreed.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Sam Altman has some advice for parents, and it’s going about as well as you’d expect. 



On August 31, the Open AI CEO took to X (where he’s a frequent poster) to share an idea with his followers: “cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night,” he wrote. “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birthday, some news, etc.”



The tweet now has more than 11,000 likes and almost 4,500 comments, most of which are less than glowing. For the majority of commenters, the tweet is yet another example of how AI CEOs are living in their own self-reinforcing bubbles—and the rest of us just have to deal with the consequences.



“What if you just talked to your children?”



In the days following his August 31 tweet, parents are showing up in Altman’s comments in droves to point out their problems with the premise of using AI to generate a daily podcast for their kids’ car rides. 



Most commenters are zeroing in on the idea that Altman seems to be suggesting that users outsource what should be a positive daily interaction with their kids to AI.



“Yeah my dad AI generates podcasts about my upcoming birthday instead of talking to me while we drive to school,” game developer Sean Gause wrote. 



Film concept artist Reid Southen added: “Or you could be an actual parent instead of having AI summarize your kids for you, you absolute sociopath.” 



One of the post’s top comments came from Alex Hirsch, creator of the TV show Gravity Falls, who simply suggested: “What if you just talked to your children?” His comment has garnered over 200,000 likes. 



Another subsection of commenters is zeroing in on the potential data security concerns with handing over their kids’ daily schedules to Open AI. “Sam wants to know your kids’ schedules, interests, and birthdays,” one user wrote. “Not creepy at all.”



Why tech CEOs just can’t stop talking about AI



Tech CEOs like Altman have always been vocal about their opinions on artificial intelligence. Lately, though, those ideas have become increasingly unavoidable. 



Earlier this year, at graduation ceremonies across the U.S., multiple CEOs made the mistake of mentioning AI—presumably expecting the audience’s support—only to be booed by the crowd. 



It happened at the University of Central Florida, where real estate executive Gloria Caulfield likened AI to the “next industrial revolution”; at Middle Tennessee State University, where Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta claimed that AI is “rewriting production”; and at the University of Arizona, where former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that AI will “touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person, and every relationship you have.”



In a post to X this May, around the same time as the graduation speeches, Box CEO Aaron Levie responded to a claim that CEOs are the “most delusional about AI.” He proposed that “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.” 



The phenomenon of CEOs being overly optimistic about AI has become so pronounced that one social media creator, Brian Patrick, has turned tracking executives’ outlandish AI comments into his full-time job. In one such video, Patrick examines a 2015 clip of Altman himself stating that “my job is to help people destroy jobs” (a claim he’s since walked back). In a more recent video, Patrick highlights Altman’s statement from a July 2026 podcast episode that OpenAI is “close to creating a genie that can grant every wish.”



Altman’s latest tweet feels like yet another example of how tech CEOs are grossly misunderstanding the general public’s stance on AI and, in the process, coming across as deeply disconnected from reality.



“I feel bad for Sam Altman. He probably thought this was some ‘feel good’ use case, and had no idea how creepy and weird it is,” freelance writer James La Forte commented under the tweet. “Can we please get some normal people running these tech companies?”



Fast Company reached out to Altman for comment, but had not heard back at the time of publication. ]]></description>
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<title>Chase Bank is closing another wave of branches this summer: See a list of shuttered locations in several states</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ JPMorgan Chase operates the largest network of retail consumer banks in the United States, and even at a time when more financial services are automated and face-to-face customer service feels like something from a bygone era, the banking giant has continued to invest in physical locations.



Since 2018, Chase has opened more than 1,000 locations, a company spokesperson told Fast Company. But there’s a catch.



While Chase Bank has continued to open new branches at an aggressive pace, its net branch count is not dramatically larger than it was eight years ago, the company’s financial filings show. 



At the end of 2025, Chase reported 5,083 branches. That’s just 48 more branches than it reported in 2018. 



One reason for that is because Chase also closes many branches that it deems unnecessary, either due to low foot traffic, consolidation, or because it plans to relocate a branch to a nearby address.



This summer has been no exception. Since June, Chase has closed more than a dozen branches across several states, recent filings with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reveal.



The closures have impacted Chase Bank branches in Florida, Washington, Ohio, Illinois, California, Louisiana, Arizona, and New York. They include a Chase Bank location at One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, which is now just listed as an ATM. 



Additional filings show that more branches are expected to close, though the advance closure notices do not specify expected closure dates.



A spokesperson for Chase declined to say how many closures are expected this year.



Which Chase Bank branches have closed this summer?



Since June, at least 13 Chase locations have closed in eight states, OCC filings show. The locations are listed below. According to Chase, some of the branches were relocated to nearby locations. Those addresses are marked accordingly.   



Closed in June




922 Jimmy Buffett Mem Hwy, Indian Harbour Beach, FL 32937 (relocated)



2700 S Washington Ave, Titusville, FL 32780 (relocated)



13119 Seattle Hill Rd, Snohomish, WA 98296



5730 N Dixie Dr, Dayton, OH 45414



3703 N Main St, Dayton, OH 45405 (relocated)



875 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 (relocating soon)



2314 N Chester Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93308 




Closed in July 




1001 N Martin Luther King Hwy, Lake Charles, LA 70601



6950 E Main St, Mesa, AZ 85207



3420 Severn Ave, Metairie, LA 70002



1435 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, CA 92014 



One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007



5550 W Touhy Ave, Skokie, IL 60077 (relocated)




These closures come four months after earlier media reports listed 16 Chase branches that were set to close this year, although there is some overlap between the two lists.



Is Chase scaling back physical retail?



Not according to Chase. “We continue to invest in our branch network to deliver experiences and services customers love,” a spokesperson told Fast Company in a statement. “Chase operates the largest branch network in the U.S. and is the only bank with branches in all lower 48 states.”



Regarding the recent branch closures, the spokesperson added, “In some cases, we may relocate a branch if another is nearby or foot traffic is low—helping ensure a strong network that serves communities for the long term.”



Back in February, JPMorgan Chase publicly reaffirmed a commitment to its branch network, announcing plans to open more than 160 new branches in about 30 states in 2026.



While the Chase spokesperson declined to say how far along the company is in that goal now that we are more than halfway through the year, the February announcement was part of an ongoing growth strategy. Two years earlier, Chase announced plans to open more than 500 branches by 2027. 



Chase’s annual reports show the company’s branch network peaked in 2013. 



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<title>Levain Bakery just dropped a Crate &amp;amp; Barrel collab for all your cookie needs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Levain Bakery used to use Crate &amp; Barrel products to display its cookies because the home goods brand’s serveware looked clean, simple, and elevated.



“We weren’t finding some sheet pans or something at a restaurant supply place,” Levain Bakery’s cofounder, Pam Weekes, tells Fast Company. “We kind of wanted something that was a little more unique and special.”



Now the bakery has collaborated with the home goods brand on a 17-piece collection.



[Photo: Levain Bakery]



The two brands announced their collaboration Tuesday, which includes items like plates, glasses, dish towels, spatulas, mixing spoons, and a $15 ceramic Mini Crate inspired by the berry box colanders Levain Bakery has long used to display their cookies. The collection’s $18 Cookie Glass is hand-blown, and the $20 Perfect Silicone Cookie Mat was designed to make Levain-sized cookies at home.



Everything in the collection is something the bakery’s cofounders would use themselves.



“It was a real collaboration, which was really nice because I think we’re pretty particular, and we’re pretty clear about what we like and what we don’t like,” Weekes says. “But they’re pretty particular as well.”



The design process brought together Levain Bakery’s baking know-how and playful visual identity with Crate &amp; Barrel’s manufacturing expertise and functionality.



When the bakery said they wanted to make a cookie jar, for example, Crate &amp; Barrel had plenty of experience with making them. And when they wanted to make a bench scraper, a tool used to cut dough and scrape messy counters clean, Weekes and her team could explain their specific needs. Bench scrapers at restaurant supply stores are typically too big and clunky, so Levain Bakery has gotten theirs from France. (The bakery also got its name from France, as levain means leavening.)



[Photo: Levain Bakery]



“They’re not expensive, but they are hard to replace,” the other cofounder, Connie McDonald, says of their bench scrapers. “So . . . we explained it to the Crate &amp; Barrel team like, ‘This bench scraper has to kind of fit in your hand and it has to feel good.’ And they did it, and it feels great.”



The $50 cookie jar, which comes with a maple lid, includes original illustration in Levain Bakery’s signature blue style by the artist and longtime collaborator Libby VanderPloe, as do the collection’s textiles, tools, and serveware.



[Photo: Levain Bakery]



For Levain Bakery, which opened as a bread shop in 1995 and is now preparing to open its 21st location, the collaboration helps get its brand name in more places, as Crate &amp; Barrel has more than 100 stores, outlets, and franchise locations globally. Finally, fans of the New York City bakery you could get only in a few select cities can bring it to their own home.



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<title>How Byron Allen plans to turn BuzzFeed into a YouTube rival</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When the media mogul Byron Allen took a controlling stake in BuzzFeed in May—becoming its CEO and chairman—it was his latest bold bet in a volatile media landscape. The Allen Media Group founder explains his strategy for BuzzFeed, why YouTube and Netflix aren’t untouchable in the streaming wars, and why race matters in media ownership. (Editor’s note: This interview was recorded before BuzzFeed announced layoffs for 35% of its staff on July 27, 2026.)



This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response, hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company Bob Safian. From the team behind the Masters of Scale podcast, Rapid Response features candid conversations with today’s top business leaders navigating real-time challenges. Subscribe to Rapid Response wherever you get your podcasts to ensure you never miss an episode.







You started out as a performer, and you personally host the TV show Comics Unleashed, which is in Colbert’s old spot, but you’re also very much a businessperson. How do we know when you’re joking and when you’re serious? You do make some audacious moves: trying to buy BET or ABC, suing McDonald’s, threatening GM.



I have made it very clear that, unfortunately, Black-owned media—not to be confused with Black-targeted media—virtually does not exist, and that’s unfortunate. You have to remember, I started the company from my dining room table, where I’m sitting now. I started the company from my dining room table in ’93. And Coretta Scott King was a friend of mine, Martin Luther King’s widow, and I think she’s the true queen of America. Bob, she taught me a lot. She said to me, “Byron, as Black people in America, we had four major challenges. Number one, end slavery. Number two, end Jim Crow. Number three, achieve civil rights.” Then she choked up and said, “Number four, the real reason they killed my Martin: achieve economic inclusion.”She said, “You know, Byron, they didn’t kill my Martin”—that’s how she referred to him—”over the ‘I have a dream’ speech. They killed him over the speech he gave in February of ’68 at Stanford University called ‘The other America.&#039;” In that speech, he said, “There are two Americas. One America has access to opportunity and economic inclusion and education, and the other America doesn’t. Two Americas will not survive. We must achieve one America or the whole system will implode.” And I said to her, “OK, you’ve done more than enough. It’s for our generation to deal with the fourth and final chapter.” All I said to corporate America is this simple thought, Bob: The greatest trade deficit in America is the trade deficit between white corporate America and Black America. Until we close that trade deficit, we can’t have one America. It starts with economic inclusion for all Americans, especially Black Americans, the furthest left behind. That’s the reason I filed the lawsuits, Bob.



You created a distinction between Black-owned media and Black-targeted media. And I know those lawsuits were about devoting more of their media budgets to Black-owned outlets.



That’s right.



But you bought the Black News Channel out of bankruptcy and merged it into TheGrio. Is there a business opportunity in talking to and engaging with Black audiences differently? Is that where there are undervalued properties and audiences, or are these things completely separate?



You should not have a world where we don’t have Black-owned media. We need to control our images. We need to control how we’re produced. We need to control how we’re depicted. Are you OK, Bob, if I control all of media and I control how your white children grow up and see themselves? Will you trust me with that? Can I tell your white children how to think about themselves, how to see themselves, who they are in this society? Are you OK with me having that power and that control over your children’s psychology and self-worth?



Let me ask you about BuzzFeed. You’ve built a lot of your media business by buying distressed, overlooked assets—the Weather Channel, regional sports networks—and taking advantage of these opportunities. You bought a majority stake in BuzzFeed for $120 million. It’s a business that has struggled for several years. Why? What do you see in BuzzFeed that others don’t value?



Look, really simple. BuzzFeed is phenomenal. BuzzFeed is one of the great original brands, right? And it’s not only BuzzFeed. It’s HuffPost. It’s Tasty. Tasty has 174 million social media followers, Bob. Unbelievable, OK? They announced that they were about to run out of money. I’m a firm believer in business as a contact sport, and speed wins championships. So I quickly called them and I said, “Hey, I understand you have some issues here. I’m here to help you get it done. Let’s work on it, and let’s get it done now.” So we cut a deal. No analysis paralysis. Let’s get to it. When I bought into the company, the stock was trading at about 60 to 70 cents a share. Once it got announced, it immediately moved to a buck 40, buck 50. And BuzzFeed is now going to chase YouTube.When you think about BuzzFeed and the first 20 years of BuzzFeed, it was text. It was written. Advertisers are only paying about a buck 25 CPM [cost per thousand impressions] for written content, articles, a buck 25. Who cares? It’s a waste of time. We’ll do it. We will definitely do it. I love the written word, but I’m saying it’s a waste of time to invest huge resources when the advertisers are not supporting it.



Which is what Jonah [Jonah Peretti, cofounder and former CEO of BuzzFeed] figured out when he closed BuzzFeed News, right? It was just costing too much money.



And I love having those articles. I want that. I’m going to build on that. I’m going to make it even stronger. I love HuffPost. I love BuzzFeed. We’re going to do some amazing things with Tasty. But we have to get into the video business. A buck 25 for text, video is approximately $30. So I’m here, and I’m able to put BuzzFeed immediately into the video business and chase YouTube. YouTube is . . .



Because you’ve already got video from your other properties.



That’s exactly right. YouTube is the biggest streamer on the planet. Why? Two words: free and streaming. The world loves free and streaming. Bob, the two easiest things you will ever sell in your life: free and streaming. So it’s hard to fall off the floor. I like to buy businesses in the lobby and take them to the penthouse. I have no interest in buying a business in the penthouse and taking it to the lobby. BuzzFeed was on the floor. I picked it up. It’s on the elevator. We are going to be a serious competitor for free streaming video, and I’m taking it to the penthouse. And when I get to the penthouse, they’re going to have to add a lot more floors, because I’m going to go beyond the penthouse where it currently sits.People must remember that the video sitting at YouTube, 99.9% of it, is noninclusive. Hey, YouTube creators, if your content is sitting at YouTube and you like getting one check, take your content, put it at BuzzFeed, and get two checks. Not a hard pitch, Bob. Not a hard pitch. Day one, I’m going to put over 30,000 movies, TV shows, and documentaries on BuzzFeed. Over 750 FAST [free ad-supported streaming TV] channels: People Magazine, Kevin Hart, Johnny Carson, Architectural Digest, and over 400 ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox affiliates. Super-hyperlocal news, weather, sports, and traffic, geofenced to the user’s ZIP code. I already have that technology with Local Now. I’ve been building it and investing in Local Now since I bought the Weather Channel in 2018.I have won best streamer [from various media outlets] three times with Local Now, and nobody knows about Local Now. So I have the best technology and the worst branding. Now I’m going to take some of the best branding, BuzzFeed and HuffPost, and marry it with the best technology.



The snootiest among my colleagues often complain that content quality is going down as access gets ubiquitous, and we’re going to the lowest common denominator as we change these financial models. Does that hold any weight? Are we losing anything culturally in this transition?



I don’t think so. I’ll say to your snooty friends, “Don’t smell it, sell it.” That’s what I’ll say to your snooty friends. Sell it. And Henry Ford said it best: “Opportunity is never lost. Your competitors will always find it.”



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<title>ChatGPT dominates Congress’s AI spending</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Anthropic may have topped OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup a few months ago, but when it comes to power users, Sam Altman’s company still has the edge.



ChatGPT accounted for 88% of all known spending on AI tools by the U.S. House of Representatives between April 1, 2025 and March 31 of this year, according to a study of House disbursement records by CNBC.



The analysis only looks at paid usage, so free accounts are not factored into the equation, nor is any AI usage that’s bundled with larger software contracts. But of the $113,740 spent in named vendors during that period, $100,580 went to ChatGPT. Spending by Democrats was three times that of Republicans, the records show.



Spending on Anthropic’s Claude was a distant second, accounting for $13,160 across just 37 transactions.



The heavy usage by Congressional members and their staff could give OpenAI an edge over its rivals as the debate over AI regulation continues and the government awards contracts to AI giants for a variety of departments.



The totals gathered by CNBC are almost certainly far short of the actual spending by Congress on AI. The data did not include Senate usage (though it’s worth noting the Senate does not allow Claude for official use) and some House offices have individuals sign up for a subscription to an AI service, then reimburse that staffer, which would not be line-itemed in the disbursement records.



Big spending



In some cases, the use of OpenAI could be habitual. ChatGPT was the first major AI chatbot on the market and was the first form of the technology that many members of the House experimented with in 2023, when the legislative body formed an AI working group.



OpenAI and Altman have also been significant donors to many Congressional races and have spent significantly on lobbying in recent years.



In the second quarter of this year, OpenAI spent $1.2 million on lobbying, an increase of nearly 18% from the first quarter and a new record for the firm. It’s also nearly double what it spent in the second quarter last year. (Anthropic, meanwhile, spent $1.97 million from April through June.)



Last year, OpenAI spent nearly $3 million in federal lobbying, and Altman has personally donated more than $126,000 to individual candidates and political parties since the launch of ChatGPT. The vast majority of those donations were to Democrats. Previous donations include six-figure contributions supporting Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential run and $250,000 to the Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century in 2020.



Altman did, however, also personally donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund in 2024. (He’s said he doesn’t plan to make any political donations in the 2026 midterm elections. “I would love to see money out of politics in general,” he said last month.)



Meanwhile, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman, along with his wife Anna, have committed $50 million to the pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future super PAC, which says it plans to support AI-friendly candidates from both parties during the midterm elections. (Other donors to Leading the Future include private equity giant Andreessen Horowitz and Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale.) The Brockmans also gave $25 million to Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC in September of 2025.



The heavy House usage of ChatGPT and the political spending of AI companies is increasingly important as momentum grows for government regulation of the industry. Leaders of the top AI companies, including Altman, are expected to gather at the White House Tuesday to discuss a new framework that would allow the government to review frontier AI models before they launch. This comes after models from OpenAI and Anthropic both went rogue and hacked into other companies recently. ]]></description>
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<title>From two friends to ten countries: Amazon Ads spotlights Rising Stars’ entrepreneurs</title>
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<title>Your Closet May Know More About Your Future Than You Think</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Clothes We Choose Become Daily Reminders of the Person We Intend to Become



Every morning, millions of people stand in front of their closets and ask the same question:

&quot;What should I wear today?&quot;

What most people don&#039;t realize is that there is a second question quietly hiding behind the first one:

&quot;Who am I becoming?&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>How AI is Changing Linux VPS Security for Businesses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Cybersecurity wasn’t really something small and mid-sized businesses worried about too much a few years back. That’s changed fast. Once your customer data, your apps, your internal tools all end up online, protecting the server behind them stops being optional. And attacks aren’t getting any simpler either, which is part of the problem with sticking […]
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Zuckerberg details Meta’s personal AI superintelligence strategy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Mark Zuckerberg has published a WSJ op-ed that argues superintelligence must reach individuals, not just a handful of institutions. The Meta chief published the piece as a statement of company philosophy rather than a product announcement. It contains no release dates, no benchmark figures, no named models. What it does contain is an argument that […]
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<title>OpenAI aligns safety practices with EU AI Act’s GPAI Code</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI has outlined how it aligns safety, security, and transparency work with the EU AI Act’s GPAI Code as enforcement approaches. The company has contributed to and endorsed the EU’s General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice and the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. Both emerged from multi-stakeholder processes. The GPAI Code sets […]
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<title>Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI&#039;s CEO seemed excited to share a &quot;cool use case&quot; for parents. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Apple&#039;s new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that &quot;the level of dopamine that I&#039;ve been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world.&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/judge-denies-xais-request-to-block-minnesota-ban-on-nudify-apps</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/judge-denies-xais-request-to-block-minnesota-ban-on-nudify-apps</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Judge, denies, xAI’s, request, block, Minnesota, ban, ‘nudify’, apps</media:keywords>
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<title>Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/inside-the-london-hacker-house-taking-a-stand-against-founder-burnout</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/inside-the-london-hacker-house-taking-a-stand-against-founder-burnout</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout . ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Inside, the, London, hacker, house, taking, stand, against, founder, burnout</media:keywords>
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<title>Trump just invoked a 1930 tariff law no president has ever used — against Canada</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trump-just-invoked-a-1930-tariff-law-no-president-has-ever-used-against-canada</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trump-just-invoked-a-1930-tariff-law-no-president-has-ever-used-against-canada</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The administration’s evidence supporting the tariffs is weak at best. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Trump, just, invoked, 1930, tariff, law, president, has, ever, used, —, against, Canada</media:keywords>
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<title>Two&#45;thirds of parents say their adult Gen Z kids still rely on them financially for support—even though it’s putting them under strain</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/two-thirds-of-parents-say-their-adult-gen-z-kids-still-rely-on-them-financiallyfor-supporteven-though-its-putting-them-under-strain</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/two-thirds-of-parents-say-their-adult-gen-z-kids-still-rely-on-them-financiallyfor-supporteven-though-its-putting-them-under-strain</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ About 64% of parents say their adult Gen Z children still rely on them for money, housing, and more. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Two-thirds, parents, say, their, adult, Gen, kids, still, rely, them, financially for, support—even, though, it’s, putting, them, under, strain</media:keywords>
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<title>The average worker would need to save for 52 years to claw their way out of the middle class and be classified as wealthy, research reveals</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-average-worker-would-need-to-save-for-52-years-to-claw-their-way-out-of-the-middle-class-and-be-classified-as-wealthy-research-reveals</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-average-worker-would-need-to-save-for-52-years-to-claw-their-way-out-of-the-middle-class-and-be-classified-as-wealthy-research-reveals</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Bleak research warns not even a lifetime of savings would be enough to lift workers out of the middle class into the top 10%. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>The, average, worker, would, need, save, for, years, claw, their, way, out, the, middle, class, and, classified, wealthy, research, reveals</media:keywords>
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<title>For the third time in history, women outnumber men in the workforce as the stay&#45;at&#45;home boyfriend becomes an economic trend</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/for-the-third-time-in-history-women-outnumber-men-in-the-workforce-as-the-stay-at-home-boyfriend-becomes-an-economic-trend</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/for-the-third-time-in-history-women-outnumber-men-in-the-workforce-as-the-stay-at-home-boyfriend-becomes-an-economic-trend</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Women now hold more jobs than men in America, for the third time ever. A Federal Reserve economist says this time, it&#039;s not reversing. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>For, the, third, time, history, women, outnumber, men, the, workforce, the, stay-at-home, boyfriend, becomes, economic, trend</media:keywords>
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<title>Infantino’s $20 billion FIFA plan collapses and now he faces a European mutiny over the future of the World Cup</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/infantinos-20-billion-fifa-plan-collapses-and-now-he-faces-a-european-mutiny-over-the-future-of-the-world-cup</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/infantinos-20-billion-fifa-plan-collapses-and-now-he-faces-a-european-mutiny-over-the-future-of-the-world-cup</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Gianni Infantino truly looked the “King of Soccer,” as U.S. President Donald Trump likes to call him, as the two allies sat together watching the World Cup final less than two weeks ago. Sure, there were some boos inside Stadium near New York, when the two men walked across the turf to present the trophy and medals […] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Infantino’s, 20, billion, FIFA, plan, collapses, and, now, faces, European, mutiny, over, the, future, the, World, Cup</media:keywords>
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<title>How to Build a Lead Management Process That Scales</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-build-a-lead-management-process-that-scales</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-build-a-lead-management-process-that-scales</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Adding more leads to an unoptimized pipeline rarely solves a growth problem. In fact, scaling lead generation without a structured operational backbone usually exposes underlying structural cracks. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>How, Build, Lead, Management, Process, That, Scales</media:keywords>
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<title>LinkedIn adds ‘AI slop’ button as 40% of long posts found AI&#45;written</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/linkedin-adds-ai-slop-button-as-40-of-long-posts-found-ai-written</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/linkedin-adds-ai-slop-button-as-40-of-long-posts-found-ai-written</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
LinkedIn AI slop button: users can now privately flag posts they suspect are AI-generated, as the platform scraps its own AI &#039;enhance your post&#039; tool. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>LinkedIn, adds, ‘AI, slop’, button, 40, long, posts, found, AI-written</media:keywords>
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<title>Petrol hits 160p a litre, highest since Iran war began, says RAC</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/petrol-hits-160p-a-litre-highest-since-iran-war-began-says-rac</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/petrol-hits-160p-a-litre-highest-since-iran-war-began-says-rac</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
UK petrol prices have hit their highest level since the Iran war began at 160p a litre, RAC figures show, with diesel forecast to reach 185p in weeks. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Petrol, hits, 160p, litre, highest, since, Iran, war, began, says, RAC</media:keywords>
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<title>York and North Yorkshire secures established status in rural first</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/york-and-north-yorkshire-secures-established-status-in-rural-first</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/york-and-north-yorkshire-secures-established-status-in-rural-first</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority has been granted Established Mayoral Strategic Authority status, the first rural mayoral area to hold it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>York, and, North, Yorkshire, secures, established, status, rural, first</media:keywords>
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<title>BP puts North Sea business up for sale after 60 years</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bp-puts-north-sea-business-up-for-sale-after-60-years</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bp-puts-north-sea-business-up-for-sale-after-60-years</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
BP North Sea sale: BP is seeking a buyer for its North Sea oil and gas business, with five production hubs and 1,100 staff, after a portfolio review. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>puts, North, Sea, business, for, sale, after, years</media:keywords>
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<title>India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/india-is-starting-to-pay-for-apps-not-just-download-them</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/india-is-starting-to-pay-for-apps-not-just-download-them</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ India&#039;s app market generated a record $345 million in Q2. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>India, starting, pay, for, apps, not, just, download, them</media:keywords>
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<title>Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/silicon-valley-loves-young-founders-until-it-doesnt</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/silicon-valley-loves-young-founders-until-it-doesnt</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Silicon, Valley, loves, young, founders., Until, doesn’t.</media:keywords>
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<title>Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e&#45;bikes after months of delays</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/rivian-spinoff-also-to-start-delivering-e-bikes-after-months-of-delays</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/rivian-spinoff-also-to-start-delivering-e-bikes-after-months-of-delays</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a &quot;vehicle&quot; company and has plans to make four-wheel pedal-assist cargo vehicles for Amazon. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Rivian, spinoff, Also, start, delivering, e-bikes, after, months, delays</media:keywords>
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<title>OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-reportedly-finds-evidence-that-more-of-its-agents-ran-amok</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-reportedly-finds-evidence-that-more-of-its-agents-ran-amok</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>OpenAI, reportedly, finds, evidence, that, more, its, agents, ran, amok</media:keywords>
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<title>What’s the best handheld mini fan?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/whats-the-best-handheld-mini-fan</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/whats-the-best-handheld-mini-fan</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ From premium Shark and Dyson offerings to random Amazon devices, these mini fans will make your sweaty summer a little more managable. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>What’s, the, best, handheld, mini, fan</media:keywords>
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<title>TGI Fridays store closures: See a list of locations that have lost the most restaurants since its bankruptcy</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tgi-fridays-store-closures-see-a-list-of-locations-that-have-lost-the-most-restaurants-since-its-bankruptcy</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/tgi-fridays-store-closures-see-a-list-of-locations-that-have-lost-the-most-restaurants-since-its-bankruptcy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ TGI Fridays is forging a path forward after a headline-grabbing bankruptcy raised doubts about its future nearly two years ago, but fans of the casual dining brand in the United States might still have a harder time finding one these days.



The restaurant chain has lost almost 200 locations since the beginning of 2024, according to its most recent franchise disclosure document. 



Some states, including New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Virginia, have seen net location losses in the double digits over that period.



Reached for comment by Fast Company, a spokesperson confirmed that TGI Fridays currently has 76 U.S. locations. Its disclosure document shows it had 269 U.S. locations at the start of 2024, including both company-owned and franchised locations.



That net loss of 193 stores is not entirely surprising. 



The brand’s former owner, TGI Fridays Inc., sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November of 2024 after announcing earlier that year that it would close dozens of underperforming locations.



However, the beloved Fridays brand has since begun to move forward under new ownership. TGI Fridays is now operated by Sugarloaf Hospitality, and once again led by CEO Ray Blanchette, who had stepped down from the top job in 2023.



In a statement to Fast Company, Blanchette said TGI Fridays has almost 400 locations in 40 countries, and that it’s expected to grow globally in the years to come. 



“We are always evaluating our footprint as we work towards our target of more than 1,000 units and $2 billion in global annual revenue by 2030, but cannot get into specifics on plans for individual locations,” Blanchette said. 



Which states have lost the most TGI Fridays locations?



According to Fridays’ franchise disclosure document, the following states lost the most TGI Fridays restaurants between early 2024 (before its bankruptcy petition) and the end of last year. These counts include both franchised and company-owned locations:




New York: -26 locations



New Jersey: -17 locations



Florida: -15 locations



Virginia: -13 locations



Illinois: -12 locations



California: -12 locations



Ohio: -10 locations



Texas: -10 locations



Massachusetts: -8 locations




The document, which was issued in April, further showed that TGI Fridays did not expect to open any new U.S. restaurants in 2026.



Additionally, there have been some high-profile closures since the disclosure document was produced:




Indiana: A Fridays location in Evansville, Indiana, was reported closed by local media earlier this month.



Pennsylvania: A Fridays location in Loyalsock Township was reported closed in May.



Massachusetts: A Boston location in the city’s Mission Hill section was reported closed in February.




What’s next for Fridays?



In January, TGI Fridays announced its “1-2-3 Strategic Vision” plan, through which it aims to leverage its brand internationally and be a global leader in American-style casual dining—in part by thinking more flexibly about the format of its restaurants across markets. 



“The brand’s growth strategy includes a diverse mix of formats, from high-volume airport locations to right-sized hotel concepts and traditional full-service restaurants,” the announcement read, “designed to meet guests where they are and optimize franchise development opportunities in key markets.”



This story is developing and may be updated. . .  ]]></description>
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<title>Blueberry recall expands to more products sold at Publix as E. coli outbreak hospitalizes 4 people</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/blueberry-recall-expands-to-more-products-sold-at-publix-as-e-coli-outbreak-hospitalizes-4-people</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Early this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted an update about an ongoing investigation into an E. Coli outbreak believed to be affecting multiple states. 



The outbreak was believed to be linked to blueberries, and as a result, one blueberry product was recalled. 



But now, additional berry products are being recalled as the outbreak investigation continues. Here’s what you need to know.



What’s happened?



On July 3, Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile announced a recall of one of its blueberry products over concerns that it could be linked to the E. coli outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted the recall notice three days later, on July 6.



The recall covered a specific lot of Frozen GreenWise Organic IQF Blueberries, which were sold at Publix stores. 



Now, Publix itself has initiated a recall of additional GreenWise berry products sold at its stores, out of concern that they could also be contaminated with E. coli. 



It should be noted, however, that none of the products have been confirmed as the source of the outbreak, nor have they been identified as contaminated with E. coli.



Instead, Publix says it is recalling the additional berry products “out of an abundance of caution.”



It’s a caution that seems warranted. According to the CDC’s most recent update on the E. coli outbreak linked to frozen blueberries on July 30, the outbreak has resulted in 12 confirmed cases so far, with a third of those individuals requiring hospitalization.



What products are being recalled?



The original recall initiated by Frutas y Hortalizas S.A. on July 3 covered only one product:




Frozen GreenWise Organic IQF Blueberries in 10oz packaging, with the lot code 60401 and Best By Date of February 9, 2028




Publix’s new recall expands to all lots of four additional GreenWise berry products, including:




GreenWise Organic Whole Blueberries, 10-ounce, UPC 41415-06453



GreenWise Organic Whole Blueberries, 48-ounce, UPC 41415-12053



GreenWise Organic Whole Mixed Berries, 10-ounce, UPC 41415-06753



GreenWise Organic Whole Mixed Berries, 48-ounce, UPC 41415-12153




Images of the recalled products’ packaging can be found here.



Where were the recalled products sold?



Publix says that the four berry products included in its recall were shipped to Publix retail stores in the following states:




Alabama



Florida



Georgia



Kentucky



North Carolina



South Carolina



Tennessee



Virginia




What should I do if I have the recalled products?



Publix says that if you purchased any of the recalled products, you should not consume them.



Instead, you should return them to their place of purchase for a full refund, or you should discard them.



Those who have additional questions or concerns about the recalled products can contact Publix Customer Care at 1-800-242-1227. ]]></description>
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<title>Why memory chip stocks are rallying again: Micron and Sandisk surge as AI optimism returns</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-memory-chip-stocks-are-rallying-again-micron-and-sandisk-surge-as-ai-optimism-returns</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-memory-chip-stocks-are-rallying-again-micron-and-sandisk-surge-as-ai-optimism-returns</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Memory chip stocks are rallying big after a week of poor performances. 



Companies including Micron Technology (Nasdaq: MU) and Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE: 005930.KS) saw their shares rise on Thursday, July 30, and into premarket trading Friday, July 31. 



South Korea’s Kospi (Korea Composite Stock Price Index) recovered and then some from its fall earlier this week, jumping almost 18% on Friday. 



Its growth was led by a similar turnaround from Samsung and SK Hynix Inc. (KSE: 000660.KS), jumping 26.81% and 29.95% on Friday, respectively. 



Meanwhile, American chip manufacturers saw similar turnarounds as the week ended. Still, the boosts weren’t enough to make up for a month of falling stock prices. 



Here’s where the companies stand as of today: 



Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU)




Close Thursday: up 18.36%



Premarket Friday: up 4.66%



Past month: down 24.23%




Sandisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK)




Close Thursday: up 25.99%



Premarket Friday: up 6.18%



Past month: down 43.71%




Western Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: WDC)




Close Thursday: up 15.37%



Premarket Friday: up 6.17%



Past month: down 16.55%




Seagate Technology Holdings (Nasdaq: STX)




Close Thursday: up 11.41%



Premarket Friday: up 6.06%



Past month: down 11.74%




All premarket figures are as of publication. 



Why have chip manufacturers’ shares surged?



All of the chip manufacturers had suffered earlier in the week from ongoing fears around AI over-investment. 



But their fates changed—at least for the moment—thanks to strong earnings reports from Microsoft, Amazon, and Lam Research across late Wednesday and Thursday.



The tech giants beat expectations on the strength of their cloud growth, indicating that chip demand will continue to be strong. 



For instance, Amazon Web Services (AWS) grew its net sales by 37%, its quickest growth since 2021. 



Microsoft’s own cloud computing services, Azure, saw more than $100 billion in revenue for the first time. Microsoft 365 Copilot also surpassed 30 million paid seats. 



In its earnings report, the company stated that the milestones reflect “the confidence customers are placing in us to power their AI transformation.”



Meanwhile, Lam Research’s revenue rose more than 15% from last quarter “as AI-driven demand continues to reshape the semiconductor industry,” CEO Tim Archer said in the release. 



Shares of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), and Lam Research (Nasdaq: LRCX) also rose significantly in response to the earnings reports.



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<title>National Avocado Day 2026: List of all the best freebies and deals, from Chipotle to Qdoba</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The average American eats nine pounds of avocado every year, according to the Wall Street Journal. One special day of the year might have something to do with that: National Avocado Day.



Here’s a roundup of the avocado deals that will “guac” your world as the holiday hits this Friday, July 31.



Chipotle Mexican Grill



California-based Chipotle Mexican Grill is one of the biggest names in Mexican chains. Its guac is pretty famous, too. 



For two days, July 31 and August 1, Chipotle guests can receive free chips and guac with the purchase of an entree. There’s one catch: You have to order online using the code AVO2026 at checkout.



Qdoba Mexican Eats



Guacamole is always free on Qdoba’s create-your-own entrées. But for National Avocado Day, the fast-casual chain is making the entrées themselves free. Rewards members who purchase an entrée and drink on July 31 or August 1 can get a free entrée to go with.



Del Taco



Del Taco is celebrating National Avocado day all weekend long. From July 31 to August 2, customers who purchase an Epic Fresh Guac Burrito will get a second one for free.



Fuzzy’s Taco Shop



Irving, Texas-based Mexican chain Fuzzy’s Taco Shop is teaming up with Avocados From Mexico to give customers free chips and guacamole with the code AVODAY in-app. 



Enjoy the free scoop alongside an item from Fuzzy’s new Beach Club menu available through August 30.



Barberitos



This Friday, the southwestern-inspired food chain Barberitos is adding free guacamole to any in-store entrée purchase. 



Even better, the restaurant is giving one lucky customer free guacamole for a year. To enter, all you have to do is follow @barberitos on Instagram. 



Unexpected Deals



Tex-Mex isn’t the only cuisine where free avocado is a plus. 



Pokeworks, a national poke bowl and burrito chain, is offering a free scoop of avocado with any entree today through August 2. Use the code AVOSUMMER to unlock the deal, both online and in-store. 



The western burger chain Farmer Boys is giving rewards members $3 off on their signature avocado-topped Farmer’s Burger between July 31 and August 1. ]]></description>
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<title>How to safely eat your greens during the cyclospora outbreak, according to an infectious disease expert</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-safely-eat-your-greens-during-the-cyclosporaoutbreak-according-to-an-infectious-disease-expert</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Salads – along with other fresh produce – are some of the healthiest foods you can eat. Leafy greens are rich in vitamins A, C and K, folate, potassium and magnesium. They also contain lots of fiber, which supports a healthy gut microbiome, promotes fullness, helps regulate blood sugar, and may contribute to healthy aging and better cognitive function.



But an ongoing 2026 outbreak of cyclosporiasis, caused by the cyclospora parasite, has sickened more than 11,500 people across the United States with explosive diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms and has put a damper on salad consumption. A poll released on July 26 reports that 40% of U.S. adults have cut down on buying and eating fresh produce. News of egg and blueberry recalls, plus an investigation into a new, separate cyclospora outbreak, has not helped.



As an immunologist and infectious disease specialist studying how germs spread and cause illnesses and outbreaks, I know it’s impossible to entirely eliminate your risk of being infected with microbes that can contaminate foods, such as cyclopsora, E. coli and salmonella.



But rather than avoiding fresh produce, adopting a few sensible food safety practices can help you significantly reduce your risk of getting sick while continuing to enjoy the many health benefits and flavor perks of salads and fresh veggies.



During an active outbreak, washing your prewashed greens is a good idea. But better still would be choosing a whole head of lettuce that you wash at home.



The perks of prewashed produce



Bagged lettuce and other veggies, often labeled “triple washed” or “prewashed” and marketed as ready to eat, have become very popular. The packaging gives consumers confidence that the product has been commercially cleaned and helps save time when preparing fast, healthy meals.



Convenience is important: Research shows that when vegetables are easier to prepare and eat, people tend to consume more of them.



Commercial processors follow food safety practices, and millions of bags of produce are consumed safely each year. Normally, using prewashed lettuce right out of the bags is a low-risk move. 









Salad has some hefty health benefits – and there are ways to keep eating it, even during a foodborne illness outbreak.



Commercial packaging risks



However, prewashed doesn’t mean sterile. “Triple washed” or “ready to eat” means a product is cleaned to commercial standards, not that it is free of all harmful germs. And the same things that make prewashed vegetables convenient and appealing also introduce risk. That’s because each stage of production – harvest, cut, wash, conveyor belt and packaging – creates another opportunity for contamination.



What’s more, bagged lettuce often travels a considerable distance to consumers. This gives germs ample time to multiply, making contaminated food harder to locate and recall. During commercial processing, pathogen from a single contaminated leaf can spread to additional leaves through equipment or wash water, increasing the potential for cross contamination. Research also suggests that cut leaves release plant juices that may help bacteria survive and multiply.



Cyclospora is resistant to the chlorine and sanitizers commonly used to sanitize fresh produce, and routine washing may not completely remove the parasite. It’s also a particularly persistent pathogen in that its eggs adhere tightly to the surface of leafy greens and other bumpy produce. For these reasons, preventing contamination during growing, harvesting and processing is the most effective strategy for reducing risk.



Benefits of whole, local lettuce



In the face of multiple outbreaks involving fresh produce, choosing whole heads of lettuce and washing them at home is a reasonable way to reduce risk. Strip off and throw away the outer leaves, wash the leaves you plan to eat under running water and dry them in a salad spinner or with paper towels.



Whole lettuce heads undergo less processing than commercially bagged lettuce, which means fewer chances for exposure to microbes that can make people sick. That’s also true of locally grown produce. Local produce usually comes from smaller farms and gets to your plate in fewer steps, so it tends to be safer than mass-produced fruits and vegetables.



Buying lettuce at local farmers markets or farm stands – or even just choosing locally grown produce at your supermarket – can lower your risk of exposure during the current cyclosporiasis outbreak, which is suspected to come from commercial producers.



The upshot is that the health benefits of salad far outweigh the relatively small risk of foodborne illness – particularly if you follow these three simple rules:




Opt for whole heads of lettuce when possible, and rinse them well at home. Thoroughly scrub other produce with water and a produce brush, too.



When possible, buy locally grown produce, since nationwide outbreaks generally come from large commercial producers.



If you do go for bagged and prewashed greens and other produce, give them a good rinse even when they say “prewashed.”




Lisa Cuchara is a professor of biomedical sciences at Quinnipiac University.



This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Henry Williams on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Whether you serve cocktails or craft ales, check out our pick of the best POS systems that can help to boost efficiency and revenue
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<title>How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov. The Hong Kong-listed company’s fastest programme reached candidate nomination in nine months, while its typical timeline is about 13 months, Zhavoronkov said. He said […]
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Armenia’s AI Bet Is Not Chip Manufacturing. It Is Compute Sovereignty </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/armenias-ai-bet-is-not-chip-manufacturing-it-is-compute-sovereignty</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Armenia is not a big country. It’s not a wealthy country. It’s not a famous country. And yet, it has become not only a consumer of different AI products akin to Clideo subtitles generator for video editing, or giants like OpenAI, but also entered the headlines of global news for several reasons, not the least […]
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<title>Guardoc Health processes clinical documentation using Amazon Nova models</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Guardoc Health says it processes over one million clinical documents daily using Amazon Nova models through Bedrock. Bringing AI into clinical documentation comes down to a specific kind of risk calculation. Get it wrong and the errors compound into denied Medicare claims under the Patient-Driven Payment Model, audit fines, litigation exposure, and in the worst […]
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<title>Google AI Overviews become more common in search</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/google-ai-overviews-become-more-common-in-search</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Google’s AI-generated summaries appeared in 43% of US searches measured by Similarweb, up from 15% a year earlier, according to the market intelligence firm’s 2026 Generative AI Landscape report. AI Overviews display generated summaries within conventional Google results, while AI Mode provides a conversational interface for longer questions and follow-up prompts. Users can move from […]
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<title>OpenAI report links coding agents to faster science software builds</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-report-links-coding-agents-to-faster-science-software-builds</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI has released a new field report tracking eight scientific computing projects where coding agents cut runtimes. The report documents projects that used Codex on its own in five cases and a combination of Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code in three others. Worth flagging upfront: this is a vendor publishing a survey of its own […]
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<title>Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents</title>
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<title>As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it</title>
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<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/as-ai-content-floods-the-internet-pangram-raises-9m-to-detect-it</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview. ]]></description>
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<title>Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/fast-metals-is-treating-waste-with-more-waste-to-extract-critical-minerals</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/fast-metals-is-treating-waste-with-more-waste-to-extract-critical-minerals</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste. One startup has a plan to clean it up and turn a profit. ]]></description>
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<title>DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/doordash-is-building-its-own-drone-delivery-business</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/doordash-is-building-its-own-drone-delivery-business</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States. ]]></description>
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<title>Spotify adds a running mode to its app</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spotify-adds-a-running-mode-to-its-app</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Running Mode will be available to Premium users on iOS in select countries ]]></description>
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<title>Dr. Fauci, the Age of Big Players in science and what his diary reveals about the disputed origins of Covid</title>
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<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/dr-fauci-the-age-of-big-players-in-science-and-what-his-diary-reveals-about-the-disputed-origins-of-covid</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the age of Big Players, even science has become politicized. The most recent evidence is contained in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary. ]]></description>
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<title>China’s robot makers shipped 25x more units than U.S. rivals in 2025, so America banned them</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The ban lands weeks before Xi Jinping&#039;s planned September visit to meet President Trump, adding another flashpoint in the US-China tech rivalry ]]></description>
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<title>‘I started going to Instagram to get my news’: Left&#45;wing’s populist turn fueled by retreat from traditional media</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ &quot;I couldn’t stand all the lies on the stations,″ said Farah Berent, a physician assistant in Michigan, who cited Palestinian suffering in particular. ]]></description>
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<title>AWOL Mitch McConnell challenged by his governor: ‘provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ McConnell&#039;s office has issued just two updates, each with a single photo, since his June 14 hospitalization. ]]></description>
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<title>Fed expected to hold rates as Iran&#45;Jordan clash reignites war fears, with oil prices jumping more than 4%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The central bank isn&#039;t expected to move on rates Wednesday, but 76% of traders see a September hike as inflation stays above the 2% target. ]]></description>
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<title>Heathrow expansion would move 15,200 aviation jobs to London by 2050, NEF says</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Heathrow third runway would move 15,200 aviation jobs from the regions to London by 2050, New Economics Foundation analysis of DfT forecasts finds. ]]></description>
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Retail sales volumes fell at a slower pace in July, with the CBI balance at -26% from -54% in June, while wholesale sales stabilised after 25 months. ]]></description>
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<title>East of England growth confidence dips to 83%, KPMG finds</title>
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East of England business confidence has fallen to 83% from 86%, KPMG&#039;s mid-year Private Enterprise Barometer finds, with 67% prioritising technology. ]]></description>
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<title>Blick Rothenberg: US tariffs make UK more appealing to Japanese firms</title>
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US tariffs on Japan, set at 12.5%, may make the UK a more attractive investment base, says Blick Rothenberg, as Japan&#039;s June exports rose 19.3 per cent. ]]></description>
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<title>HP drops bid to remove manager of Mike Lynch’s £500m estate</title>
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<title>Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing</title>
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<title>Lyft and Baidu enter London’s robotaxi battleground as testing begins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Baidu&#039;s Apollo Go autonomous vehicles will be available on Freenow, the mobility network that Lyft acquired in 2025. ]]></description>
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<title>Granola launches an Apple Watch app</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Granola debutes an Apple Watch app for in-person notetaking ]]></description>
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<title>Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date. ]]></description>
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<title>Apple launches ‘Upgrade’ device leasing program in partnership with Klarna</title>
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<title>How Toniebox and Hasbro built games kids can play without a screen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When my 10-year-old got her hands on a Toniebox loaded with Hasbro’s The Game of Life, she didn’t leave her room for an entire afternoon. When I popped in to check on her, she was choosing different life paths—a fashion designer with a passion for gardening, an astronaut with twins. Later, she roped her dad into a round of Monopoly. Neither game required a screen.



That’s precisely the market Tonies, a decade-old toy company, is chasing. Gaming time among kids age 8 and under has surged 65% since 2020 while overall screen time has held steady at around two and a half hours a day. Much of that gaming arrives marketed as educational or harmless. But the volume alone has rattled parents. More than half say they’ve felt their child was addicted to screens.



[Photo: Hasbro]



Tonies thinks it has found a middle path. The company, best known for its screen-free storytelling cubes, has partnered with Hasbro to turn three of the toy giant’s best-known board games—Monopoly, The Game of Life, and Guess Who?—into screen-free adventures that run on its newest device. It’s part of a wider push, among toy and tech companies alike, to build products for kids that are engaging without being engineered to keep them hooked.



“Our goal isn’t to have you never leave Tonies,” says Ginny McCormick, Tonies’ first-ever chief experience officer. “Stories end. They’re appropriately balanced.”



[Photo: Tonies]



Screen-Free Storytime



Tonies was founded in Germany in 2016 by Patric Faßbender and Marcus Stahl, two fathers who met at their children’s preschool and bonded over a shared frustration of trying to play stories to their kids on scratched CDs. They built an indestructable foam cube speaker that would tell stories when you placed a figurine on top: A little Pinocchio toy would play fairytales, a Little Mermaid toy would play the Disney story with some songs. The system was designed to be intuitive enough for a toddler to use on their own, allowing parents to have their kids entertained without a screen.



[Photo: Tonies]



The company arrived in the U.S. in 2020 and has become a fixture in Target and Walmart aisles, growing largely through word of mouth. McCormick says families use the device consistently—an average of 240 minutes a week—for everything from bedtime routines to long car rides, and that the appeal cuts across income levels even though the device is pricey. (The box costs $130, and the Tonie figurines start at $20.) The common thread, she says, is parents who want something their kids can operate independently, but that is not algorithmically driven.



That growth accelerated with Toniebox 2, which launched in the U.S. on October 5, 2025. The new device added a light-up ring, sleep and wake alarms, deeper parental controls in the app, and—for the first time—Tonieplay, a library of screen-free games that you can play with a small companion controller.



[Photo: Hasbro]



Hasbro Games In A New Format



Hasbro just launched three games for the system: Monopoly, Game of Life, and Guess Who? All of them run on the same physical interface: A controller serves as a dial or can be pressed like a button. And each game has its own set of additional pieces.



In Monopoly, you tap your player card to the Toniebox to bid in speed auctions for properties like the railroads and the electric company. You can compete with a partner on little challenges, like seeing who has the quickest reaction time when pressing the button. Mr. Monopoly’s narration keeps a running, spoken tally of everyone’s money.



[Photo: Hasbro]



In Guess Who? an inspector walks players through each case while the player lays out 30 plastic monster cards. Kids listen to a spoken clue, physically flip over any monster that doesn’t match, and then turn the controller to lock in their final guess once one monster remains. The Game of Life turns the controller into a spinner, which kids turn to move their piece around the board and press to answer career and life questions.



[Photo: Hasbro]



McCormick says the Hasbro and Tonies teams worked closely to find ways to spark kids interest through the storytelling. “If you show everyone a dragon, they know exactly what it looks like,” she says. “If you tell everyone about a dragon, there’s a thousand different ways they can imagine how it looks and feels. That’s what sparks the imagination and lets children drive the narrative.”



The hardest part, McCormick says, was resisting the urge to stick too closely to the board games. Guess Who? is the clearest example. The original is a visual game, built around scanning faces on a board. Toniebox’s version swapped in monsters that a narrator describes. The company also built in solo modes for Guess Who? and The Game of Life, since McCormick says one of the biggest barriers to family game night is simply getting enough people to the table at once. Monopoly still requires at least two players.



[Photo: Hasbro]



What’s Next



Toniebox has worked with Hasbro for years on other licenses, including Peppa Pig, which Hasbro owns. Now, McCormick says the companies are exploring how to bring more of Hasbro’s game catalog into audio form.



Internally, Toniebox’s development studio—a mix of music producers, storytellers, and child-development researchers—is constantly testing new mechanics. “It’s a combination of art and science,” McCormick says. “We do wild ideation and we have a very strong curation process to match that game mechanic to the right stage of development for that child.”



The bet, McCormick says, is that the next generation of kids’ technology won’t be judged by how long it keeps a child’s attention, but by how well it lets that attention go.



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<title>Senior&#45;level women are struggling and CEOs should not ignore it</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning.







To corporate leaders who think their senior-level female employees have the resources and support they need: They don’t. Research and first-person accounts reveal that executive women are struggling to manage both the pressures of home life and the complexity of the modern workplace, not to mention that bias is still a factor in their careers. This is your wake-up call.



McKinsey and LeanIn’s most recent Women in the Workplace report reveals that 60% of senior-level women report burning out, compared with half of men and four in 10 employees overall. A quarter of senior-level women in the same study say they’re not raising their hands for promotions because “personal obligations” make it too hard to take on extra responsibilities. Just 15% of male respondents feel the same pressure. Meanwhile, a January 2026 study from Catalyst, a nonprofit that champions women’s progress, found that 42% of women who voluntarily left the workforce in 2025 cited childcare responsibilities and costs as the primary reason they decided to quit.



Hanging by a thread



My colleague Shalene Gupta has collected the stories of more than 100 high-achieving, accomplished women, chronicling their struggles and the hacks they’ve developed to succeed at work while caring for kids, tending to health issues such as menopause, and more. The upshot for CEOs? Some of your most committed and valuable employees are hanging on by a thread. “Women who seemed to have it all together told me under the condition of anonymity that they were on the brink of quitting,” Gupta tells Modern CEO. 



Indeed, many of these accomplished women have left corporate ranks for entrepreneurship, by either acquiring small companies or launching new businesses, in record numbers. “When I joined Amazon, I set three nonnegotiables as a parent: I would be there when my kids woke up, there when they got home from school, and there to put them to bed. The tech industry made those impossible to honor,” Anica John writes in Fast Company. John worked as a product leader at Amazon before buying DiggyPOD, a book-printing business, in 2025. She adds: “Ownership is the only structure I found that lets me build that life on my own terms.”



Stop the brain drain



When women start or lead businesses, they often implement the kind of workplace policies that women say they value. Many of the female-led companies on Inc.’s 2026 Best Workplaces List are fully remote or offer other work-life friendly perks such as extended family leave and mental health benefits.



CEOs can stop the brain drain. “If we can rethink how companies do work to incorporate AI, why can’t we—and why aren’t we—doing this for women?” Gupta asks. Companies can retain hybrid and remote work options instead of rolling them back, as many have in 2025 and 2026. And when companies offer flexible work arrangements, they mustn’t then penalize women for opting in. The McKinsey and LeanIn research found that women who work remotely were less likely to receive promotions in the past two years than women who work in the office.



Supporting women isn’t just good for female employees; it’s good for business. The McKinsey and LeanIn study found that employees who see their workplace as fair and inclusive are twice as likely to feel inspired to do their best work. And, yes, they’re less likely to consider leaving. 



Announcing made possible



Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in Made Possible, a Fast Company partnership with PepsiCo that tells the story of the food and beverage giant’s digital transformation. Our custom studio has just released the first video in the series, highlighting the way PepsiCo is reimagining manufacturing using AI-powered digital twins. You can also check out my conversations about reinvention with Dr. Athina Kanioura, CEO, Latin America, and global chief strategy and transformation officer at PepsiCo.



Read more: women at work




4 things companies can do to support women during menopause





The Inc. Female Founders 500: women defying the odds





The HR pros turning workplace horror stories into startup successes




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<title>Why this Ulta K&#45;beauty bestseller is enlisting the undead to market its new eye cream</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What do zombies have to do with skincare? The K-beauty brand Peach &amp; Lily is making connection with its latest face cream—and rolling it out with a marketing campaign straight out of a George Romero movie.  



Peach &amp; Lily’s Advanced Rebound BioGLow Zombie Cream is designed to target “zombie cells” that can contribute to aging. The $59 cream launches July 27 on the brand’s website and as a retail exclusive at Ulta Beauty—where Peach &amp; Lily tops the K-beauty category and is the second-largest prestige brand.



For the cream, Peach &amp; Lily is combining the latest in skin science with clever marketing to get people curious about the cells being addressed by the cream.



What are zombie cells?



Zombie cells, aka senescent cells, are damaged cells that haven’t died. In skin, they release signals that cause inflammation, which contributes to the aging process. Peach &amp; Lily’s CEO, Alicia Yoon, says the presence of the cells—and the havoc they wreak on skin—was something she’s wanted to tackle but didn’t have a good solution for until recently.



[Photo: Peach &amp; Lily]



“We can have science that understands the mechanism of things that are happening in our skin, but sometimes it takes a minute for the research to catch up on ingredients that can actually do something about it,” Yoon says. “We kept testing and formulating and seeking out the best ingredients and so forth. Through the advancements in skincare, [we can address] senescent cells in a scientifically rigorous formula.”



One of those new ingredients is Eterwell Youth. Introduced in 2024, the ingredient is derived from an alpine willow plant and included in Peach &amp; Lily’s product to remove senescent cells. Peach &amp; Lily’s product also uses an antioxidant called fisetin to calm signs of inflammation linked to the cells, and includes a biosynthetic placenta growth factor complex to repair the damage left on the skin.



[Photo: Peach &amp; Lily]



Penny Coy, senior vice president of marketing at Ulta Beauty, says the cutting-edge formulation was part of what enticed Ulta to be the product’s exclusive retailer. “It’s not just another product launch,” she says. “It’s innovation [in] treatment-inspired science . . . which very much excited us.” 



Undead outreach



As it rolls out the product, Peach &amp; Lily is combining the need to educate consumers about the product with an out-of-the-casket marketing campaign. 



“One thing that has been a winning combination for us is pairing breakthrough innovation with breakthrough marketing,” Yoon says. When it teased the launch on July 23, the brand posted a video of a model whose face transforms into a zombie’s visage. For the launch, it has enlisted actors in full zombie makeup to advertise the product. 




  @peachandlilyofficial Some things refuse to die. Something is coming for them. 7.27.26 ♬ original sound – Peach &amp; Lily   




In New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, Peach &amp; Lily will deploy the zombie actors to install interactive, tear-away ads on streets across the cities. “[The ad] is only showcasing zombies,” Yoon says. “It sets up the consumer to already be asking the question, ‘Why zombies?’ So . . . there’s a natural resolution when we educate on zombie cells.” 



It’s not the first time Peach &amp; Lily’s influencer marketing has taken an unconventional approach.



Last year, the brand sent content creators unbranded samples of its MiniProtein Exosome Bioactive Ampoule, encouraging an unbiased review, before revealing that it was behind the packages. With the Advanced Rebound BioGLow Zombie Cream rollout, it’s hoping to revive its reputation for viral marketing.



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<title>Petsense is closing stores: List of doomed locations grows as pet supplies retailer faces shifting habits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Another retailer has announced that it is closing some of its stores. This time around it’s the popular pet supply chain Petsense, which is owned by Tractor Supply Company (Nasdaq: TSCO). Here’s what you need to know about the Petsense store closures.



Petsense to shut approximately 75 locations



On the company’s second-quarter earnings call last week, Tractor Supply Company CEO Harry Lawton said the firm will close approximately 75 of its Petsense locations.



Petsense is a popular pet supply retailer found in small and mid-sized communities. Petsense was founded in 2005 and acquired in 2016 by Tractor Supply Company (which itself is much older, having been founded in 1938 as a mail-order service for tractor parts). 



Petsense sells pet food and supplies, and also offers services like grooming and cat adoption.



According to a check of its store locator tool, Petsense currently has 208 locations in more than 20 states. However, more than a third of those locations will now be closing. On Tractor Supply Company’s earnings call, Lawton said that approximately 75 underperforming Petsense locations will close.



“We believe these actions will improve returns, simplify business, and allow us to direct resources towards higher growth, higher return opportunities,” Lawton said, according to a PitchBook transcript of the call.



When asked about the closures, Lawton said that “the 75 stores that we announced today that we’re shutting down are negative four-wall cashflow.” This means the individual stores marked for closure were costing more to run than they were bringing in.



“We will be able to use that negative four-wall cashflow once we shut those stores down and reinvest that back into the core of our business,” Lawton added.



“Shopping more deliberately”



Speaking broadly about all of Tractor Supply Company’s businesses, which include online pet pharmacy Allivet and VIP Petcare veterinary clinics, Lawton said that customer engagement had not changed but that customer spending behaviors had. 



“Customers continue to invest in the care of their pets, animals, farms, and properties, but they’re shopping more deliberately, consolidating trips, and prioritizing needs-based items while taking a more measured approach to discretionary purchases,” Lawton noted.



Which Petsense stores are closing?



The Tractor Supply Company did not specify which Petsense locations will be closing. But once the stores do shutter, Petsense’s retail footprint will be significantly diminished.



Petsense currently has around 208 locations. Closing approximately 75 locations will leave Petsense with around 133 locations.



Fast Company has reached out to Tractor Supply Company for comment.



Petsense has multiple locations in the Pacific Northwest, but the vast majority of its stores are in the southern United States, including Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.



How has Tractor Supply Company’s stock price performed?



Not well in 2026. On Friday, TSCO shares closed up around 2.3% to just above $31 apiece. 



However, for the year to date, the company’s stock price has declined nearly 38%. Over the past 12 months, the drop is even steeper, with TSCO shares down nearly 48%.



Most recently, for its Q2 2026, Tractor Supply Company posted a 1.5% decline in comparable store sales and reduced its full-year fiscal 2026 outlook. 



In addition to its subsidiary stores, Tractor Supply Company operates more than 2,400 Tractor Supply stores in 49 states. ]]></description>
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<title>CXMT stock soars in China IPO as investors pile into the memory boom</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/cxmt-stock-soars-in-china-ipo-as-investors-pile-into-the-memory-boom</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/cxmt-stock-soars-in-china-ipo-as-investors-pile-into-the-memory-boom</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Forget SpaceX: This Chinese chip stock is going to the moon.



ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, recently went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s tech-focused STAR Market (a China-based equivalent to the Nasdaq exchange), and has quickly shot up the charts. 



On its initial day of trading, it shot up almost 466%, becoming the most valuable company on the exchange, and accrued a market capitalization of around $487 billion.



Despite many people only now learning its name, CXMT was founded a decade ago, in 2016, and has grown from a startup into a budding global player in the microchip industry. 



AI-driven demand for memory chips



CXMT’s growth in the more immediate term is likely associated with the huge demand for chips and memory related to the proliferation of AI—and additionally, as China looks to create and foster more domestic chipmakers. 



That’s in part because the U.S. federal government has instituted export controls and rules concerning semiconductors and similar technology being sold or otherwise sent to China.



Currently, large-scale AI data center infrastructure buildouts are fueling most of the demand, and with it, demand for dynamic random access memory chips (or “DRAM”) is up. 



Prices are likewise up, and that’s spilled over into the market, with investors gobbling up chipmaker stocks and sending some companies to valuations of more than $1 trillion.



Committing to memory



That includes American memory chip company Micron Technology (Nasdaq: MU). While its shares have been volatile recently, the stock is up more than 727% over the last 12 months.



CXMT’s post-IPO rise puts it in the conversation, but it’s still much smaller than other large chipmakers, such as South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the latter of which went public in the United States earlier this month.



CXMT’s prospectus states that the company holds approximately 8% of the global market share in the chipmaking space, with Samsung accounting for 36%, SK Hynix at 29%, and Micron at 24%. 



Notably, CXMT’s share has grown around 3% over the past year, so the company is making more than just waves in the stock market. 



Even so, the company’s huge surge in the markets doesn’t mean it’s in the same strata as those competitors, experts say. 



“It’s going to be a steep hill to climb for CXMT in the high-bandwidth memory market,” said Neil Shah, vice president of research for Counterpoint Research. ]]></description>
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<title>What is a PDQ machine and how does it work?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-is-a-pdq-machine-and-how-does-it-work</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-is-a-pdq-machine-and-how-does-it-work</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By Nick Ismail on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


A PDQ machine is just another name for a card machine - find out out everything you need to know about how they work, how much they cost, and where you can buy them
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<title>AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amd-to-invest-up-to-5-billion-in-anthropic-under-ai-infrastructure-deal</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/amd-to-invest-up-to-5-billion-in-anthropic-under-ai-infrastructure-deal</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacity using AMD’s Instinct MI450-series accelerators, with deployment of the first gigawatt beginning in the first half of 2027. AMD’s investment will […]
The post AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nvidia-bets-physical-ai-can-solve-healthcare-robotics-data-problem</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nvidia-bets-physical-ai-can-solve-healthcare-robotics-data-problem</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Nvidia’s new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code. Physical AI is the term Nvidia and much of the robotics industry now use to describe machines that have to learn how the world behaves through contact, force, and consequence, rather than through […]
The post Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>OpenAI Presence sells enterprise AI agents with engineers attached</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-presence-sells-enterprise-ai-agents-with-engineers-attached</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-presence-sells-enterprise-ai-agents-with-engineers-attached</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The newest way to buy enterprise AI agents from OpenAI does not involve buying anything online. OpenAI Presence, announced on July 22, is a managed product delivered through a limited general availability programme, and the company states plainly that it is not yet available as a self-serve product. Deployments are led by OpenAI’s own Forward Deployed Engineers […]
The post OpenAI Presence sells enterprise AI agents with engineers attached appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-pushes-chatgpt-into-patient-health-records</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-pushes-chatgpt-into-patient-health-records</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged 18 and older can access it now on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers. Users link Apple Health and, where supported, records from US […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open&#45;weight AI</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/meta-microsoft-nvidia-ibm-and-others-back-open-weight-ai</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/meta-microsoft-nvidia-ibm-and-others-back-open-weight-ai</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with little obvious overlap in business model: Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, Palantir, ServiceNow, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Mistral, Andreessen […]
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between </title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/techcrunchdisrupt-2026s-new-smart-money-stage-explores-fintech-payments-ai-and-everything-between</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/techcrunchdisrupt-2026s-new-smart-money-stage-explores-fintech-payments-ai-and-everything-between</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that progression. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Prentis, new AI lab co&#45;founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/prentis-new-ai-lab-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-mark-pincus-in-talks-to-raise-100m</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/prentis-new-ai-lab-co-founded-by-reid-hoffman-mark-pincus-in-talks-to-raise-100m</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI&#039;s biggest use case. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Prentis, new, lab, co-founded, Reid, Hoffman, Mark, Pincus, talks, raise, 100M</media:keywords>
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<title>SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spacex-launches-new-v3-starlink-satellites-but-suffers-another-booster-failure</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spacex-launches-new-v3-starlink-satellites-but-suffers-another-booster-failure</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster&#039;s rocket engines. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>SpaceX, launches, new, Starlink, satellites, but, suffers, another, booster, failure</media:keywords>
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<title>I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/i-tried-out-openais-new-ai-keypad-which-will-be-fun-for-some-coders-and-slightly-mystifying-to-everyone-else</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/i-tried-out-openais-new-ai-keypad-which-will-be-fun-for-some-coders-and-slightly-mystifying-to-everyone-else</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ OpenAI&#039;s fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/one-fallen-power-line-exposed-a-growing-ai-data-center-problem-heres-how-to-fix-it</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/one-fallen-power-line-exposed-a-growing-ai-data-center-problem-heres-how-to-fix-it</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here&#039;s how to fix the problem. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Bechtel CEO: to build America’s future, we must first build the builders</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bechtel-ceo-to-build-americas-future-we-must-first-build-the-builders</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bechtel-ceo-to-build-americas-future-we-must-first-build-the-builders</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We sent 9,000 workers to save America&#039;s first new nuclear plant in 30 years. The next bottleneck isn&#039;t code — it&#039;s welders, pipefitters, and electricians. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/startups-are-installing-tiny-data-centers-in-peoples-homes-to-reduce-strain-on-the-beleaguered-electrical-grid</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/startups-are-installing-tiny-data-centers-in-peoples-homes-to-reduce-strain-on-the-beleaguered-electrical-grid</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Span, in partnership with Nvidia and PulteGroup, uses homes’ underutilized electrical capacity in computer processing. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech&#45;first policies</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/schools-across-america-are-quietly-admitting-that-screens-in-classrooms-made-students-worse-off-and-are-reversing-years-of-tech-first-policies</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/schools-across-america-are-quietly-admitting-that-screens-in-classrooms-made-students-worse-off-and-are-reversing-years-of-tech-first-policies</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as tech falls short of the miracle solution it was sold as. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, CEOs of Amazon, Citi, and McDonald’s say opportunity is still there—if you have the right mindset</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/as-millions-of-gen-zers-face-unemployment-ceos-of-amazon-citi-and-mcdonalds-say-opportunity-is-still-thereif-you-have-the-right-mindset</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/as-millions-of-gen-zers-face-unemployment-ceos-of-amazon-citi-and-mcdonalds-say-opportunity-is-still-thereif-you-have-the-right-mindset</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ From Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Amazon boss Andy Jassy, Fortune 500 leaders have shared their advice for workers to thrive in today’s shaky job market. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>A Hims cofounder fired his entire marketing team for AI. Now his 24/7 online vet service is growing 20% a month</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/a-hims-cofounder-fired-his-entire-marketing-team-for-ai-now-his-247-online-vet-service-is-growing-20-a-month</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/a-hims-cofounder-fired-his-entire-marketing-team-for-ai-now-his-247-online-vet-service-is-growing-20-a-month</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Joe Spector helped build a multibillion-dollar telehealth company. Now he’s on to own remote vet services. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>James May rejects wealth tax as millionaires beg Burnham to tax them</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/james-may-rejects-wealth-tax-as-millionaires-beg-burnham-to-tax-them</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/james-may-rejects-wealth-tax-as-millionaires-beg-burnham-to-tax-them</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
James May rejects the wealth tax urged by Gary Lineker&#039;s millionaires. Here&#039;s what a £24bn levy on the super-rich could mean for UK small businesses. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Burnham opens No10 North, but the SME payoff waits until 2032</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/burnham-opens-no10-north-but-the-sme-payoff-waits-until-2032</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/burnham-opens-no10-north-but-the-sme-payoff-waits-until-2032</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Burnham opens No10 North in Manchester, but the civil service campus isn&#039;t operational until 2032. What his devolution push means for UK SMEs now ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Record entries and 200 shortlisted: Britain’s small businesses defy the gloom at the UK’s flagship business awards</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/record-entries-and-200-shortlisted-britains-small-businesses-defy-the-gloom-at-the-uks-flagship-business-awards</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/record-entries-and-200-shortlisted-britains-small-businesses-defy-the-gloom-at-the-uks-flagship-business-awards</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
From a nine-generation family farm to a challenger radio station, the 2026 Lloyds British Business Excellence Awards shortlist tells a different story about British SMEs, and one of them will win £500,000 of ITV airtime ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Kardashian’s Skims fills empty Ted Baker flagship on Regent Street</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kardashians-skims-fills-empty-ted-baker-flagship-on-regent-street</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kardashians-skims-fills-empty-ted-baker-flagship-on-regent-street</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Kim Kardashian&#039;s Skims opens its first UK store on Regent Street, taking the old Ted Baker flagship on a 10-year lease. What it signals for UK retail. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Kardashian’s, Skims, fills, empty, Ted, Baker, flagship, Regent, Street</media:keywords>
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<title>Oil at $100 drives mortgage rates back to a month&#45;old high</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/oil-at-100-drives-mortgage-rates-back-to-a-month-old-high</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/oil-at-100-drives-mortgage-rates-back-to-a-month-old-high</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
UK mortgage rates have climbed to a one-month high as $100 oil dents rate-cut hopes. What the squeeze means for SME owners and how to lock in now. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics</title>
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<title>Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next breakout startup</title>
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<title>How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work. ]]></description>
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<title>Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system</title>
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<title>OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app</title>
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<title>How To Buy A Domain Name? Step&#45;By&#45;Step Guide For Beginners</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Buying a domain name is one of the important steps when you are building an online presence. If you pick a bad name, you will have to explain the confusing name for years or even worse. You will have to rebrand your business as well as domain name from scratch, once the business has already […]
The post How To Buy A Domain Name? Step-By-Step Guide For Beginners appeared first on Fincyte. ]]></description>
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<title>Your exit interviews are asking the wrong questions</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/your-exit-interviews-are-asking-the-wrong-questions</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ “She didn’t quit because she didn’t love the job. She quit because her son’s school kept calling her out of meetings, because the after-school program in her neighborhood closed, because by the time she got home on two buses she had nothing left. None of that appeared on the exit survey.”



Her manager told me this story when I asked what he wished the company’s people team understood. He’d lost four high performers in 18 months—all for reasons that never made it into a data field, because no exit survey asks about broken sidewalks, shuttered childcare centers, or neighborhoods without a grocery store within a mile.



This is the central blind spot in contemporary workforce strategy: the assumption that employees’ lives begin and end at the employer’s front door. Everything we know about human health, human cognition, and human performance says otherwise. The conditions in which people live—stability, safety, access to nutrition, the quality of their children’s schools, the reliability of their transportation—determine how much of themselves they can bring to work. Not occasionally. Every single day.



The business cost of ignoring this is concrete. Built to Thrive: A Blueprint for Healthier Communities, Stronger Workforces, and Economic Vitality, a new analysis by the Leadership Council for Healthier Communities, documents that businesses absorb more than $575 billion a year in costs tied to poor community health. This surfaces as higher emergency room utilization, absenteeism, and presenteeism that standard wellness programs never reach. And it shows as turnover that costs 50% to 200% of a person’s annual salary to replace. These aren’t soft costs. They are in your operating budget right now.



INVEST IN COMMUNITIES



The companies getting ahead of this are asking different questions than just how to improve benefits packages. Instead, they are asking: What are the health conditions in the communities where our employees live? What is the state of childcare access, food security, and transportation reliability in the ZIP codes where our workforce lives? Where are the leverage points upstream of us that would reduce the pressure our people carry through the door each morning?



This isn’t altruism. Built to Thrive draws on decades of published research showing that upstream investment in public health returns $14 for every dollar spent, and that closing community health gaps could add $5 trillion to GDP over five years. The companies that invest in the communities where their talent lives are building a workforce advantage that cannot be replicated with a hiring bonus or wellness app.



THE ISSUE IS GROWING



Federal safety net rollbacks now taking effect are going to make this more urgent. As Medicaid coverage contracts and food assistance tightens, the pressure on working families grows. That pressure arrives at work, sits in meetings, misses deadlines, and eventually walks out the door, to an exit interview that never identifies the real reason.



The manager who lost four people in 18 months has started asking different questions. He’s mapping where his team lives. He’s asking what their neighborhoods actually have. He’s beginning to understand that his retention problem is a community problem. And that community problems have community solutions, if leaders are willing to invest in them.



Jean Accius, PhD, is president and CEO of CHC: Creating Healthier Communities and founder of the Leadership Council for Healthier Communities. ]]></description>
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<title>Why the AI “friction phase” is a sign you’re doing it right</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Every corporate announcement seems to be about an “AI-first” launch or a new agent. On paper, it looks like a revolution. On the ground, it feels a lot more like chaos. Rushing these tools out is slowing teams down, forcing endless rework, and confusing everyone involved.



Naturally, when leaders see their teams slowing down after getting AI tools, they panic. The immediate assumption is often that the technology is broken or the strategy failed.



But moving slower isn’t a sign of AI failure. It’s what happens when you try to change how a business operates. There’s no collapse, you’re just hitting the friction phase. If you want to build a business where humans and software work together at scale, you have to expect this part and work through it.



SPEED IS A FALSE METRIC



In the rush to figure out AI, too many companies are obsessed with how fast they can roll things out and drive adoption. It is easy to see why. The pressure to move fast is real. At the same time, a culture of experimentation is critical, and that has to start at the top. As CEO, I spend time building and playing around with my own AI agents, because you can’t task your team to take risks if you aren’t doing it yourself. If your teams are afraid to experiment with new AI tools, even if it means writing bad prompts or breaking a few things along the way, you’ll be left behind before you even start.



But there is a massive difference between experimenting fast and scaling fast.



When you mistake a slick software demo for organizational change, you run straight into a wall. Rapid rollouts are causing silent chaos because executives confuse deploying a tool with people using it successfully. Moving slower at the enterprise level is required if you want to be strategic in an implementation meant to be sustained for years.



MESSY WORKFLOWS WEREN’T BUILT FOR ALGORITHMS



We talk a lot about AI-powered workflows, but if your day-to-day processes are a mess, throwing AI at them just builds a faster mess.



Our current workflows were created by humans for humans. They rely on institutional knowledge, implicit assumptions, and manual handoffs. When you drop an autonomous AI agent into that ecosystem, things break. Even if the AI does exactly what it was programmed to do, it can disrupt the entire workflow and confuse the users around it.



Plugging high-speed agents into legacy, human-centric processes naturally creates a ton of friction before you see any real benefit. As leaders, we must realize that friction doesn’t mean the tech is broken, but that the environment housing it needs to adapt.



We saw this recently with a steel manufacturing client whose estimating team was bogged down by spreadsheet-related fatigue and weeks of communication silence. They deployed an AI agent to handle pre- and post-sale operations. Technically, the AI worked perfectly; it processed email threads and task comments to generate project digests and automate weekly status reports.



But there was a learning curve. Because the team was accustomed to manual requests and sidebar conversations, the sudden shift in automation speed was jarring. The tech wasn’t failing. The human-centric process surrounding it was. The team took time to adjust, but they trusted the process. Those chaotic workflows were eventually replaced with a transparent, automated, single source of truth, allowing them to shift their focus to high-margin, solution-driven work.



DON’T MISTAKE FRICTION FOR FAILURE



The biggest risk to a company right now is a leader who mistakes this integration friction for a failed initiative. 



When a new AI tool causes a temporary bottleneck or forces a process to be rewritten, impatient leaders tend to switch vendors or scrap the initiative entirely. Walking away too early kills momentum. If you constantly reset your strategy the second things get messy, your organization will never see the technology start paying off.



Surviving the AI transition requires the patience to view this messy phase as a predictable, necessary stage of transformation. Getting scale right takes time, and it requires the right building blocks. You cannot skip the infrastructure phase.



Fortunately, the friction phase is manageable. This adjustment period gets shorter when you use a platform designed from the ground up to help humans and AI work together. Instead of just throwing AI tools at disorganized spreadsheets and hoping for the best, you’re building a clear structure where human intent and machine execution align. That’s how you get to a successful outcome.



RE-ARCHITECT FOR AN AI-ENABLED FUTURE



To move past the friction into productivity, you have to stop trying to force AI into your old way of doing things. The value only comes when you redesign your workflows from scratch with AI in mind.



As you lead your team through this, also change how you measure success. Judging early milestones solely on immediate ROI misses the point. Instead, look at how well your teams are adapting. If your teams are getting better at working alongside digital agents, clearing up their data inputs, and catching mistakes early, you’re doing well. That is the exact foundation you need to scale later.



TO SUCCEED WITH AI, PLAY THE LONG GAME



The companies that flourish over the next decade will have executive stamina to sit through the messy friction phase and thoughtfully re-engineer their business for a machine-assisted world.



When you build the right foundation, where clean rules give your tools the guardrails to operate on their own, you finally fix the bottlenecks holding your team back. That’s how a smart rollout turns a system that simply tracks work into one that gets work done.



Thomas Scott is CEO of Wrike.



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<title>The real math crisis isn’t the test scores. It’s the test</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This past school year, Cambridge, Massachusetts, placed every eighth grader in Algebra I. It didn’t go well. Ultimately, more than 60% of rising ninth graders will repeat the course. 



The consequences were immediate: weeping students, angry parents, and roiling debate about the rollout, teacher support, and tracking.



Lost in the shuffle was this essential point: We teach obsolete rote math that adults don’t use, while missing entirely the math that defines our lives.  



Let’s start with the math sequence followed by kids in Cambridge and across America: Algebra I, Geometry/Trig, Algebra II, pre-Calculus, and the much-desired Calculus. This track was laid out in 1893 by the Committee of Ten, a working group of educators, when respected professions (e.g., surveyors, engineers, astronomers, munitions officers) needed humans able to execute rote math procedures quickly and accurately by hand: factor (x³ − 6x² + 11x − 6), compute square roots, solve systems of linear equations. Quite sensibly, school helped kids master a body of rote math. 



But then, emerging computational resources began absorbing all rote math tasks. The fantastic book (and movie) Hidden Figures showcases the talented Black women who performed rote math by hand for the Apollo space missions. By 1970, these women recognized that mainframes made their skill set obsolete. Yet 56 years later, our education system hasn’t reached this realization. Worse, math scores are a principal measure of education quality for states, districts, and schools. Rote math scores define the futures and self-esteem of every American teenager. Rote math that adults don’t use, that smartphones perform flawlessly, and that pushes aside the math that matters. 



In our personal lives, we need to understand the probability behind a medical diagnosis, the long-term impact of compound interest, the risks of online gambling, the statistics behind “studies show” headlines, and the algorithms that determine what we read, watch, and believe. In our careers, we need to estimate market sizes, devise statistics to track an organization’s progress, predict revenue growth, optimize scarce resources, deploy proprietary algorithms, and make sound decisions. The powerful, fascinating math that is essential in life, but doesn’t make the cut in the math curricula of most students. We pay a high price for this. Only about a third of U.S. adults have the numeracy skills needed to navigate real-world financial and health decisions, while most—by some estimates, more than 90%—report some degree of math anxiety. Generations of Americans suffer from math, rather than capitalize on it. 



Meanwhile, we define the quality of a K-12 education—for a person, school, district, state, and nation—according to how humans perform on tasks that AI does perfectly. Why? We test kids at such a massive scale that the only way to keep costs in check is to rely on exams expressly designed to be graded by a computer. And if a computer can grade it, a computer can do it. If a young adult enters the real world with skills inferior to what a set of AI agents does for $20/month, they will struggle to find any decent career path.



But even if you disagree with our critique of today’s math curriculum, there is a deeper problem. We never had the conversation. Policymakers, school boards, journalists, and philanthropists have largely treated the traditional math sequence as a given rather than asking whether it still serves students in an AI-driven world. 



It is not too late to have these conversations. Cambridge—and districts across America—can still have the discussion they skipped, shifting the focus from “How can we do obsolete things better?” to “What mathematical capabilities will students need to thrive in an AI-driven world?”  



Review the current high school math curriculum and ask, “Do any of us ever use this?” On the website for Ted’s new book, Aftermath, you can find a simple eight-question math quiz using practice questions from The Nation’s Report Card Grade 8 exam, the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and a state-mandated exam. Start by asking community members—especially school boards and local legislators—to take this quiz (12 minutes, no devices), and reflect on whether these questions should define the futures of every kid coming through our school system. 



As we consider how to educate for a world shot through with algorithms, AI itself also gives us powerful new tools for listening. Instead of relying on a handful of public hearings, school districts can use AI to synthesize thousands of perspectives, identify common ground, surface disagreements, and explore alternatives. AI makes it practical for communities to contribute their expertise and experience and for even the busiest institutions to listen.



Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools recently engaged more than 10,000 families, educators, students, and community members to shape its AI strategy, surfacing broad support for AI literacy alongside concerns about academic integrity and the pace of adoption. In our own Unlocking Literacy initiative at Northeastern University, we ran a national engagement on literacy. We used AI to enable participation in multiple languages and from people with different literacy levels, then synthesized what communities told us. 



Imagine applying that same approach to mathematics. Instead of assuming the traditional sequence is immutable, districts could ask students, parents, teachers, employers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers what quantitative reasoning people actually need in an AI-driven world. AI can make it practical to gather thousands of perspectives, identify where there is consensus, clarify where there is disagreement, and make curriculum decisions that reflect today’s realities rather than yesterday’s assumptions.



The stakes couldn’t be higher. If we continue graduating students whose greatest strength is performing tasks AI already does effortlessly, we will leave them poorly prepared for the world they are inheriting. 



But if we have the courage to rethink both what we teach and how we decide what to teach, we can prepare a generation to do what only humans can: reason, create, judge, and solve the problems that matter most. It’s long past time to change the equation.



—



Ted Dintersmith is an advocate for transforming education and the author of “Aftermath: The Life-Changing Math that Schools Won’t Teach You” (2026). Beth Simone Noveck is the director of The Governance Lab at Northeastern University and the author of “Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy” (2026). ]]></description>
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<title>Monday.com layoffs: Hundreds of jobs slashed as work platform proclaims its embrace of ‘the new AI era’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Monday.com has just become the latest company to lay off its employees in favor of AI. 



On Wednesday, July 22, the work management software firm announced that it will lay off about 20% of its workforce, or just over 600 employees. 



The news came through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in which the Tel Aviv-based company said it had “initiated a restructuring plan.” 



In the SEC filing, Monday.com stated: “The Plan reflects the Company’s ongoing transformation of its product, marketing, and go-to market strategy and is intended to support a leaner, more focused operating model as the Company continues to invest in its AI-driven growth strategy.” 



Yes, those 20% of employees losing their jobs have been replaced by AI growth. It is perhaps not surprising for a company that announced a platform-wide AI shift a year ago and now self-identifies as an “AI work platform,” but it’s still disheartening. 



Monday.com has offices in New York and Denver, in addition to cities in Europe, Australia, South America, and Asia. Fast Company has reached out to Monday.com for more information on where the impacted jobs are located. We will update this post if we hear back. 



Monday.com estimates it will face $45 million to $55 million in net charges as a result of the new plan, but expects to maintain or improve on its predicted 19% to 20% year-over-year (YOY) revenue growth for 2026. 



Eran Zinman, a cofounder of the company, posted a memo about the layoffs on LinkedIn. 



“[Changing] our strategy and product is not enough,” Zinman wrote. “The organization we built for our previous chapter is not the organization that fits the new AI era.”



Shares of Monday.com Ltd (Nasdaq: MNDY) rose marginally following the news, but the stock is still down 74.45% YOY and 49.91% year-to-date (YTD).



Overall, software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks have faced downward pressure from perceived AI disruptions this year.



Tech companies claim to be trading employees for AI



Monday.com is far from the first company to cite AI in a headcount reduction announcement.



At fintech company Block, CEO Jack Dorsey laid off more than 4,000 people in February to focus on “intelligence tools.” Then there’s Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, who laid off about 1,000 people in April due to “rapid advancements in artificial intelligence.” 



More recently, Uber Technologies cut 10% of its customer service jobs, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. An Uber spokesperson told the publication that the company is working “to simplify operations, strengthen in-person collaboration, and continue to embrace AI.” 



At the same time, companies like Klarna Group have rehired for roles previously replaced by AI after realizing that maybe a human touch does matter.  ]]></description>
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<title>19 million eggs sold at Kroger and other stores recalled due to Salmonella fears: See a list of impacted products</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Conventional wisdom says breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but you don’t want to be starting your morning off by eating any of the 19 million eggs that are part of a massive recall.



These eggs, which were sold at Kroger and other retailers, are potentially contaminated with Salmonella. Here’s what you need to know.



What’s happened?



On July 22, egg producer Midwest Poultry Services announced a voluntary recall of 1,589,577 dozen eggs. That equates to just over 19 million eggs in total.



According to the recall notice posted on the website of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the massive egg recall is being initiated because the eggs have the possibility of being contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis—a subtype of the Salmonella bacterium that can cause severe illness in people.



Midwest Poultry Services (MPS) said it identified the possible contamination at two of its Texas farms via “proactive environmental monitoring practices and root cause analysis.” 



As a result, the company says it is not distributing fresh eggs produced at its Texas farms for the time being. 



The company also said it “is not aware of any specific illnesses linked to its products.”



What is Salmonella Enteritidis?



Salmonella Enteritidis is one of the thousands of types of Salmonella, and it is often associated with eggs. 



According to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), eggs can become infected with Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in a few different ways. 



For instance, the egg can become infected while it is still being formed in the hen, before the shell has formed; during the egg-laying process, where SE contaminates the shell itself; or after egg-laying, where SE can enter the pores in the laid egg.



In other words, Salmonella Enteritidis can infect the egg’s shell on the outside, or yolk and egg whites on the inside.



What are the symptoms of a Salmonella infection?



According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a Salmonella infection usually presents with the following symptoms:




Watery diarrhea that might have blood or mucus



Stomach cramps that can be severe




Additional symptoms may include:




Headache



Nausea



Vomiting



Loss of appetite




While anyone can get a Salmonella infection, certain individuals have an increased risk of infection, including children younger than 5, adults over the age of 65, adults over the age of 50 who have underlying medical problems, and people with weakened immune systems.



When and where were the recalled eggs sold?



According to the recall notice, the eggs were produced and distributed from Texas farms and shipped to food-service and retail customers in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.



The notice says the eggs were sold at:




Kroger stores in Louisiana and Texas 



Brookshire Grocery stores in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.



“other smaller retail outlets”




What eggs are included in the recall?



The recalled eggs were produced between June 6, 2026 and July 3, 2026 and feature sell-by or best-by dates of between July 20, 2026 and August 17, 2026. 



They include eggs sold under various brand names, including:




Kroger 



Simple Truth



Brookshire’s



Country Morning



Sunups




You can find a full list of more than 30 impacted products, along with photos, on the FDA’s recall notice.



What should I do if I have the recalled eggs?



The recall notice states that consumers should not consume the recalled eggs. Instead, the recalled eggs should be returned to their place of purchase for a refund.



Consumers who have questions about the recall can contact Midwest Poultry Services at 574-405-9531 or email the company at recallassistance@mpseggs.com. ]]></description>
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<title>Pubs, clubs and live music venues to get 20% business rates cut</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/pubs-clubs-and-live-music-venues-to-get-20-business-rates-cut</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/pubs-clubs-and-live-music-venues-to-get-20-business-rates-cut</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


The government confirms a 20% business rate cut for pubs, clubs and live music venues. More details will be revealed in the Autumn Budget
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<title>Kimi K3 open&#45;weight model: China’s biggest AI is a bet on memory, not compute</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kimi-k3-open-weight-model-chinas-biggest-ai-is-a-bet-on-memory-not-compute</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kimi-k3-open-weight-model-chinas-biggest-ai-is-a-bet-on-memory-not-compute</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 open-weight model has been read almost entirely through its parameter count since it launchedon July 16. At 2.8 trillion parameters, it is the largest open-weight model released to date. Model sizes are usually grouped into rough brackets, and 2.8 trillion rounds into what the industry calls the 3T class. A tier no […]
The post Kimi K3 open-weight model: China’s biggest AI is a bet on memory, not compute appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>US public health agencies to test OpenAI and Anthropic AI models</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/us-public-health-agencies-to-test-openai-and-anthropic-ai-models</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Public health departments across the United States will test generative AI tools under a new programme involving the Coalition for Health AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Accenture. The Public Health Use Case and Learning Scaling Engine, known as PULSE, will support trials in 10 state, local, tribal, or territorial jurisdictions. The programme is intended to produce […]
The post US public health agencies to test OpenAI and Anthropic AI models appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Chinese open&#45;weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs.</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/chinese-open-weight-models-are-cheap-washington-is-deciding-what-that-costs</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Enterprises evaluating Chinese open-weight models this month face a question that has nothing to do with benchmarks: whether using one will still be straightforward in a year. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 arrived on July 16 as the largest open-weight model yet released, and within days it had reopened a policy argument in Washington that had […]
The post Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs. appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Bristol Myers Squibb buys Nvidia AI system for drug discovery</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bristol-myers-squibb-buys-nvidia-ai-system-for-drug-discovery</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bristol-myers-squibb-buys-nvidia-ai-system-for-drug-discovery</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Bristol Myers Squibb is purchasing an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD built on the chipmaker’s Vera Rubin architecture to support artificial intelligence use across its drug discovery and development operations. The pharmaceutical company said it will be the first life sciences group to acquire a DGX SuperPOD based on Vera Rubin. Nvidia introduced the architecture earlier this […]
The post Bristol Myers Squibb buys Nvidia AI system for drug discovery appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<media:keywords>Bristol, Myers, Squibb, buys, Nvidia, system, for, drug, discovery</media:keywords>
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<title>The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-ai-slot-machine-effect-why-generative-feeds-disrupt-deep-work-and-how-to-reclaim-focus</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-ai-slot-machine-effect-why-generative-feeds-disrupt-deep-work-and-how-to-reclaim-focus</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You open a generative AI tool expecting a quick boost. Ten minutes later, you’re still there, refining a prompt for the fourth time. The task you started with has drifted off to the side somewhere. Sound familiar? Knowledge workers in 2026 are running into this more and more. It makes sense once you look at […]
The post The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus appeared first on AI News. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/colossal-biosciences-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-new-capital-at-20b30b-valuation</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/colossal-biosciences-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-new-capital-at-20b30b-valuation</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Colossal, Biosciences, reportedly, talks, raise, new, capital, 20B–30B, valuation</media:keywords>
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<title>Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/anthropics-landmark-15b-copyright-settlement-is-approved</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The final approval settles one case, but it doesn&#039;t resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Anthropic’s, landmark, 1.5B, copyright, settlement, approved</media:keywords>
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<title>Gritt exits stealth with $32 million for robots to build solar plants — then, everything else</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gritt-exits-stealth-with-32-million-for-robots-to-build-solar-plants-then-everything-else</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gritt-exits-stealth-with-32-million-for-robots-to-build-solar-plants-then-everything-else</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Gritt, exits, stealth, with, 32, million, for, robots, build, solar, plants, —, then, everything, else</media:keywords>
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<title>Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors on barges</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bluecore-energy-raises-10m-to-build-portable-nuclear-reactors-on-barges</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/bluecore-energy-raises-10m-to-build-portable-nuclear-reactors-on-barges</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson &amp; Co. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bluecore, Energy, raises, 10M, build, portable, nuclear, reactors, barges</media:keywords>
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<title>Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI&#45;generated</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/music-streamer-deezer-says-more-than-50-of-daily-uploads-are-ai-generated</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/music-streamer-deezer-says-more-than-50-of-daily-uploads-are-ai-generated</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Music, streamer, Deezer, says, more, than, 50, daily, uploads, are, AI-generated</media:keywords>
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<title>Gen Z entrepreneur found a Wilt Chamberlain Lakers warm&#45;up for $3.07 outside Portland — it was a $90,000 genuine article</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gen-z-entrepreneur-found-a-wilt-chamberlain-lakers-warm-up-for-307-outside-portland-it-was-a-90000-genuine-article</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gen-z-entrepreneur-found-a-wilt-chamberlain-lakers-warm-up-for-307-outside-portland-it-was-a-90000-genuine-article</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ For the past three years, Quinn Brown has been reselling clothes online after finding them in thrift stores. ]]></description>
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<title>Kalshi’s ‘chronically online’ war room figured out World Cup virality — and realized AI might be bringing back the monoculture</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kalshis-chronically-online-war-room-figured-out-world-cup-virality-and-realized-ai-might-be-bringing-back-the-monoculture</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/kalshis-chronically-online-war-room-figured-out-world-cup-virality-and-realized-ai-might-be-bringing-back-the-monoculture</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Here&#039;s how a 20-person team turned the World Cup into a $24 billion trading moment, and discovered something unexpected about what AI is doing to culture. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>The rare ‘great conservation success story’ is happening off New England as $10 million over 10 years brings back the quirky oystercatcher bird</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-rare-great-conservation-success-story-is-happening-off-new-england-as-10-million-over-10-years-brings-back-the-quirky-oystercatcher-bird</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Conservationists have been fencing off nesting sites, trapping predators and educating beachgoers to bring back a bird wiped out 100 years ago. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Rich countries have cut road deaths by more than 30% in 30 years—but about 90% of fatal crashes now happen in poorer nations</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/rich-countries-have-cut-road-deaths-by-more-than-30-in-30-yearsbut-about-90-of-fatal-crashes-now-happen-in-poorer-nations</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/rich-countries-have-cut-road-deaths-by-more-than-30-in-30-yearsbut-about-90-of-fatal-crashes-now-happen-in-poorer-nations</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Pedestrian and vehicle occupant deaths rose over that time in six countries — including the U.S., but even that is softening recently. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Rich, countries, have, cut, road, deaths, more, than, 30, years—but, about, 90, fatal, crashes, now, happen, poorer, nations</media:keywords>
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<title>HUD suspends disaster funding to U.S. Virgin Islands housing authority, saying mismanagement has kept $1.3 billion from hurricane survivors</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/hud-suspends-disaster-funding-to-us-virgin-islands-housing-authority-saying-mismanagement-has-kept-13-billion-from-hurricane-survivors</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/hud-suspends-disaster-funding-to-us-virgin-islands-housing-authority-saying-mismanagement-has-kept-13-billion-from-hurricane-survivors</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Nine years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the territory has spent only $570 million of $1.9 billion in federal recovery funds, HUD claims. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Jingye demands payout as Beijing turns on UK over British Steel</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jingye-demands-payout-as-beijing-turns-on-uk-over-british-steel</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/jingye-demands-payout-as-beijing-turns-on-uk-over-british-steel</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Jingye demands compensation for the British Steel nationalisation, accusing the UK of trampling investment rules. What the row means for UK SMEs. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Business Economic Syndicated News</dc:creator>
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<title>Leeds&#45;born UKREiiF takes its £4bn dealmaking model to Australia</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/leeds-born-ukreiif-takes-its-4bn-dealmaking-model-to-australia</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/leeds-born-ukreiif-takes-its-4bn-dealmaking-model-to-australia</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
UKREiiF will launch its first overseas event in Australia in 2027, exporting the Leeds model behind £4bn of UK deals. What it means for UK business owners. ]]></description>
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<media:keywords>Leeds-born, UKREiiF, takes, its, £4bn, dealmaking, model, Australia</media:keywords>
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<title>Burnham enters No 10 with eight in ten SME owners braced for impact</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/burnham-enters-no-10-with-eight-in-ten-sme-owners-braced-for-impact</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/burnham-enters-no-10-with-eight-in-ten-sme-owners-braced-for-impact</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Andy Burnham is prime minister. What his business rates pledge, tax stance and a stagnant economy mean for UK SME owners ahead of the autumn Budget. ]]></description>
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<title>Topgolf founders pot $55m to drag pool into the digital age</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/topgolf-founders-pot-55m-to-drag-pool-into-the-digital-age</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/topgolf-founders-pot-55m-to-drag-pool-into-the-digital-age</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Topgolf founders Steve and Dave Jolliffe land $55m from Bluestone for Poolhouse and its BillyQ pool technology. What it means for UK hospitality SME ]]></description>
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<title>Borrowing costs rise as Burnham vows biggest shake&#45;up in 40 years</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/borrowing-costs-rise-as-burnham-vows-biggest-shake-up-in-40-years</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/borrowing-costs-rise-as-burnham-vows-biggest-shake-up-in-40-years</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Gilt yields rose to 4.97 per cent after Andy Burnham&#039;s first speech as prime minister. What dearer UK borrowing costs mean for SME loans and contracts. ]]></description>
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<title>Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/can-an-apple-lawsuit-derail-openais-hardware-plans</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple&#039;s lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAi&#039;s much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public. ]]></description>
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<title>What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-to-watch-for-after-jensen-huangs-japan-visit</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/what-to-watch-for-after-jensen-huangs-japan-visit</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan&#039;s entire tech ecosystem. ]]></description>
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<title>Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/netflix-paid-587m-for-ben-afflecks-ai-filmmaking-startup</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/netflix-paid-587m-for-ben-afflecks-ai-filmmaking-startup</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck. ]]></description>
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<title>How to deal with failure and stick with hard things</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Below, Steve Kamb shares five key insights from his new book, How to Try Again: An Approachable Guide to Navigating Chaos and Making Change That Sticks.



Steve is the founder of Nerd Fitness, an approachable fitness company that helps busy humans level up their lives. Since 2009, he has published research-backed essays and a weekly newsletter that explores failure, self-compassion, and making change that sticks.



What’s the Big Idea?



Failure is part of doing anything worthwhile, and every setback teaches us something we can use moving forward. Success comes from accepting reality, staying afloat when life gets hard, and pursuing goals we genuinely want.



Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by Steve himself—in the Next Big Idea App, or buy the book.



1. Failure is one possible outcome for anything worth doing.



In 2023, I visited the touring Museum of Failure, packed with history’s most famous failures, flops, and frauds. Wandering around this museum was an absolute delight, as I got to see some truly baffling decisions. The Hula Chair worked more like a medieval torture device than a fitness product. King Gustav II of Sweden commissioned a comically expensive military warship that sank to the bottom of the harbor 50 minutes into its celebratory voyage. However, my favorite failure on display was probably Hooters Airlines. Yes, that Hooters.



If you ever feel like a failure for not making wiser decisions, just imagine how many people had to agree with the following statement: “We got rich making chicken wings; how hard could it be to run a profitable airline?”



The more failures I encountered, the more I came to understand failure differently. This museum didn’t only exist to poke fun at bad inventions. I mean, it did that too. I’m still laughing about Hooters Air. But it also showed the ways in which failure was one of many possible outcomes, and no company was immune to failed initiatives. In fact, most of the world’s most successful companies were on display too. Nintendo and the Virtual Boy, Microsoft and its Zune MP3 player, even Apple, whose Pippin videogame console was such a flop that I, proud nerd gamer, had never heard of it.



Interestingly, there were many products on display that were simply casualties of poor timing: early chatbots, multifunctional cellphones, personal digital assistants, and the first digital camera back in the 1970s that Kodak never released for fear of it cannibalizing their sales of physical film! The vision was there, as was the ambition, and once technology finally caught up, the road had been paved for companies to achieve far greater success.




“Rather than trying to prevent failure, we can instead decide to embrace it as a possibility and focus on recovering quickly after failure.”




We need to reframe how we think about failure. Rather than trying to prevent failure, we can instead decide to embrace it as a possibility and focus on recovering quickly after failure. Ed Catmull, one of the founders of the animation studio Pixar, said it best: “Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.”



Many of the best rewards in life are only available to those willing to open themselves up to failure as a possibility. Our biggest success might be hiding behind our next failure, so let’s see what can happen when we embrace failure openly. Even if that failure is Hooters Air.



2. We never go back to “square one.”



No matter how far backward we’ve fallen after a setback, we never truly start over. Let’s say we tried to build a workout routine last year. We went to the gym a few times and then gave up. We’re demoralized that we’ve gone all the way back to “square one.”



Fortunately, we’ve also learned the most difficult parts! After all, going to the gym isn’t one decision. It’s multiple decisions. We had to research which one to join, find parking, and then go through the sign-up process. We had to learn where the locker room was, how the equipment worked, and where to fill up our water bottle. And then we had to find the courage to exercise in public. Most importantly, we had to do all of this within the confines of our busy lives. Just getting to “I went to the gym” takes a ton of mental bandwidth, effort, and courage.



So sure, we might be starting over with how much we can lift on the bar or how fast we can walk, but every past attempt is still with us. We know where the gym is. We know where to park. We know how the equipment works. We know what to wear. We’ve already navigated the toughest parts.



Furthermore, our hard-earned past failures might help us avoid the pitfalls we fell into last time. We learned what type of workout or routine didn’t work for us. Or what time of working out doesn’t work for us. That knowledge lets us use our precious energy to hopefully make it further on this next attempt. When viewed through this lens, each failure is not a step backward, but a step forward. We should be thankful for our past attempts, because they got us where we are today. Failure isn’t the end, but the beginning.



3. Treading water isn’t the opposite of progress; it’s the next best thing.



When we think about moving toward a goal, the first word we think of is “progress.” And boy, do we humans love progress. It makes us feel good! Seeing positive movement toward a goal gives us that warm, fuzzy feeling and a sense of control that we are making things better. And when we are not making progress? We feel like we’re falling behind. We feel “stuck.”



However, there’s an important third option we’re not considering. The opposite of progress isn’t stagnation or staying still. It’s “regress.” Moving backward. Away from our goal. When we find ourselves struggling, our inclination is to try again, but harder. Trying again or working harder might be the wrong move, especially if we’re trying again at the wrong thing, and we might be making things worse. So, compared to those options, “treading water” can be the best, most optimal decision. Allowing ourselves to do less is more than just okay. It can be life-preserving.




“Allowing ourselves to do less is more than just okay.”




When we feel weighed down with the pressure that we’re so far behind or that we’re not doing enough, we can pause. We can realize that what might feel like a “motivation” problem is actually a “resources” problem. We’re asking too much of ourselves, and we’re going to burn ourselves trying to continue doing it all. We need to redefine what “enough” is for us.



Instead of worrying about how much farther we need to go on a goal, or how far behind we feel, we can ask, “What needs to happen today to show I haven’t given up yet?” We can remind ourselves that an “all or nothing” mentality quickly becomes “all, then nothing.” In between those two extremes, “some” is a perfectly acceptable amount. And “some” can keep us afloat for a long time. One healthy meal, a single exercise, a five-minute walk reminds us that we’re still here, and still afloat. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.



4. Acceptance isn’t giving up. It’s the only way forward.



No matter how much we want to have control of our future, we’ll never be able to accurately predict what life will throw at us next week, let alone next month or next year. Which leaves us with two choices. We can spend all day raging at the universe when things don’t go the way they should, or we can get to work on accepting things as they are now. We can get mad at ourselves for not magically developing the skills to plan better, or we can learn that life is going to remain chaotic and never go according to plan.



This requires acceptance. As a recovering overachiever, I used to believe that acceptance was a sign of weakness. I thought it meant giving up all ambition, letting myself off the hook, and enabling lazy behavior. So, I made things worse instead: I set ridiculously high standards and remained unbelievably critical of myself, always felt behind, and never felt “enough.”



Fortunately, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Acceptance is the only way we can finally start to see reality for what it is. We can stop waiting for “next week to get back to normal” and accept that our life right now, warts and all, is normal. We can stop getting frustrated when our schedule falls apart and start expecting it. We can prepare for our plan not going according to plan. The sooner we accept that our current “normal,” with clothes on the floor and life being messy, is normal, the sooner we can choose to act differently.



Acceptance is the only way we can function in a world that feels contradictory, because it lets us embrace those contradictions. What’s the best way to do that? By practicing “yes and” thinking. Yes, we accept that life is challenging right now, and we have some real limitations. Here’s where we’re focusing our efforts today: on things we can control.



5. Don’t just ask, “Is the juice worth the squeeze?” Make sure you like juice.



I love watching documentaries about amazing things I have absolutely no desire to do. My heart skipped two beats watching the Academy Award–winning documentary Free Solo about climber Alex Honnold scaling “El Cap” in Yosemite National Park without a safety rope. I’ll stick with my safe indoor rock-climbing walls, thank you.



Unfortunately, that reasonable mentality does not apply when I learn about things I kind of want to do, or think I could do, or think I should do. This is where I get myself into trouble. It’s unsexy to accept that success in anything requires sacrifices in other areas of life, and just because somebody else is doing it, and doing it well, doesn’t mean it’s the right path for me.




“When we see someone who has what we think we want, it’s tempting to assume they have found the one correct path and are living a blissful life without any problems.”




We humans are social creatures. We love learning how to be successful, happy, or healthy by copying others who we hope have all the answers. When we see someone who has what we think we want, it’s tempting to assume they have found the one correct path and are living a blissful life without any problems. That’s what the folks selling us the dream want us to believe, anyway. As long as we live like them, and buy their product or service, we can be successful too. No compromises required!



This is where we must be careful. When we take our life, motivations, and expectations, and compare them to others who are playing with a different scorecard, we forget that everything has a cost attached to it. We see a financially successful entrepreneur telling us to rise and grind. We don’t see that person working late nights at the office to avoid their family (because they are fighting with their spouse), their deep insecurities, or the void they’re trying to fill with just making more money. The truth is that we can never truly know what’s going on in somebody else’s life, especially when we only see their public-facing highlight reel.



Everything has a cost attached to it, and the cost of chasing greatness or trying to reach an arbitrary level of success might require more sacrifices than you or I are willing to make. That’s okay! I like it when people are honest about it. When the Smartless podcast hosts asked Ken Burns, arguably the most accomplished documentarian alive, how he manages to be so prolific and still keep a healthy work-life balance, he replied, “You’ll have to ask my two ex-wives about that.”



There’s nothing wrong with admitting to ourselves that we don’t want to do the work and make the sacrifices for the chance at succeeding. The problem isn’t that we lack the required dedication. It’s that we have the expectation that we should have that dedication or be willing to make those sacrifices. It’s perfectly okay that we don’t want those things, or that we’re not willing to go down that path.



We shouldn’t forget to ask, “What if this works?” When we encounter videos, interviews, or success stories, we can pause and challenge our thoughts. Instead of only asking, “Is the juice worth the squeeze?” we should also ask, “Do I even want juice?”



This article originally appeared in Next Big Idea Club magazine and is reprinted with permission.



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<title>Madrid is electric with World Cup energy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Madrid, the other city that never sleeps, is more awake than ever for the 2026 World Cup final between Spain and Argentina, which will be broadcast from New Jersey today. 



Even in the middle of July, with the town feeling almost empty because everyone’s either on vacation or escaping the scorching summer temperatures, there’s an electricity in the air.



The streets may seem deserted, but people are filling terraces, bars, cafés, markets, plazas, and parks, excitedly talking about the second time in history that Spain has reached the final of the biggest sports event on the planet. 



And yes, some will argue that it doesn’t matter whether the city is taken over by hordes of Pope Leo, Bad Bunny, or Taylor Swift fans, there will always be Madrileños gathering together to enjoy tapas and cañas. I admit that my people will go out and buzz even if it’s the beginning of the end of the world. It’s a city that lives out.



Madrid, July 15, 2026 [Photo: Aaron Heredia/NurPhoto/Getty Images]



This is especially true with football. Or fútbol. Futebol. You know, soccer. Whatever you want to call it. It’s woven into the corazón of the inhabitants of this metropolis. It is, after all, the home of the greatest team in soccer (I’m biased). What do you expect? Whenever there’s a big game, people congregate in bars and cafés like matter around a black hole.



But this time is very different. This isn’t just a big game. This is The Game. It’s a feeling that unites everyone, even in a moment of political division. On Friday, as I walked toward the Plaza de Colón, I spoke to random passersby. 



“Yeah, we will go to Colón,” two Gen Zers—Javier and his girlfriend, Rosa—told me in Paseo de la Castellana, the main avenue that connects the city north to south. “I will go, too, with my friends,” chimed in twenty-something Nuria, who, like us, was waiting for the bus.



Plaza de Colón, July 14, 2026 [Photo: Diego Radames/Anadolu/Getty Images]



They’re too young to remember the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa, they told me. But I remember exactly where I was when Spain won its first estrella. Sadly it wasn’t here, but in New York. 



I was in good company, with my friends Omar and Gema, at their home, watching along with other Spaniards, when a brilliant player called Andrés Iniesta scored what we collectively refer to as el gol de nuestras vidas (the goal of our lives). I remember screaming with pure, overwhelming joy.



I also remember the wave of red that took to the streets of New York that day: Thousands of Spaniards wearing La Roja jerseys seemingly came out of nowhere and ran toward Union Square and the nearby La Nacional, the historic Spanish Association of New York on 14th Street between 7th and 8th avenues. 



And I remember how I called my dad, who fortunately lived to see the event of a lifetime. I cried like a baby then, like I cried later watching my fellow Madrileños screaming on the streets, watching the game on giant screens in a collective climax.



Puente del Rey in Madrid Rio Park, June 26, 2026 [Photo: David Canales/NurPhoto/Getty Images]



City of fútbol



This time I’m getting ready to watch the game with my own son in the food court of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, one of the hundreds of public venues that will hold free parties.



All the bars and cafés in the city are hosting, too, thousands of which have installed screens just for the World Cup final. The Bernabéu has huge wall-to-wall 4K LED screens, with people congregating around the different spaces while enjoying the offerings of some 20 food stands.



There will also be about 15,000 people by the Manzanares, the river that crosses Madrid, the site of a major restructuring and restoration that has made the riverbank one of the best spots to watch the game. The city has installed two large LED displays near the historical Puente del Rey (Bridge of the King).



Puente del Rey, July 14, 2024 [Photo: Gustavo Valiente/Europa Press/Getty Images]



Another stadium, the Movistar Arena, has been readied to accommodate some 15,000 fans, featuring a massive central screen measuring approximately 52.5 by 29.5 feet.



There are many other venues and plazas that will host people, both in Madrid and in the nearby cities, but Plaza de Colón, home of the largest Spanish flag in the country (measuring more than 3,000 square feet) and now featuring a multiscreen setup, will be the main destination. 



At the start of the tournament, the plaza accommodated about 6,000 spectators. But as Spain advanced, the area expanded to fit roughly 20,000 people by closing adjacent sections of Castellana. A newly added secondary screen pointing toward Calle Génova will serve the overflow crowd who can’t get into the square.



Argentina fans in Puerta del Sol square, July 16, 2026 [Photo: David Canales/NurPhoto/Getty Images]



What can go wrong



There are only two things that can ruin the party at Plaza de Colón. The first is the temperature. If it triggers an official “orange alert” (near or exceeding 102.2 degrees Fahrenheit), authorities will suspend the viewing and urge fans to seek air-conditioned indoor alternatives, a protocol already enforced earlier in the tournament when Spain played Saudi Arabia. The last time I looked, the daytime temperature was expected to be about 100 degrees.



And speaking as a Spaniard, the other thing that can ruin this party is a throng of Argentineans. There are about 60,000 nationals in Madrid. And they’ll be cheering for their team not only against Spaniards but seemingly against the entire world.



Madrid is as welcoming to strangers as New York City, so much so that people say nobody who lives in Madrid is actually from Madrid. But I suspect the Argentineans will not be watching at the Plaza de Colón or any other public venue. My friend Cristina, who owns a bar called Meseta in the southern Madrid district of Usera, said: “I told my Argentinean clients that they should find themselves another place to watch. They went pale!”



It doesn’t matter. Whatever happens, it will be memorable. For me, at least, because I’ll be with son celebrating his country’s first World Cup final like I couldn’t do with my dad 16 years ago. That’d be enough. And if they win, well . . . I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself after bawling my eyes out.


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<description><![CDATA[ To say the 2026 FIFA World Cup final between Spain and Argentina is the most-anticipated sporting event of the year would be an understatement. 



More than 80,000 people are expected to attend the final at the New York-New Jersey stadium, and well over a billion viewers are likely to tune in to the broadcast globally.



Meanwhile, the quarterfinals averaged over 25 million viewers across Fox, Telemundo, and Peacock, according to Nielsen Media Research and Adobe Analytics. 



While soccer fans are excited for the game itself, many are also eager for the first-ever halftime show, which is being curated by Coldplay front man Chris Martin and produced by Global Citizen, and will feature Madonna, Shakira, BTS, and Justin Bieber as headliners. 



Oftentimes, viewership for sporting events spikes during halftime shows. Take, for instance, the Super Bowl LIX game in 2025, during which Kendrick Lamar drew 133.5 million viewers and garnered a larger audience for his performance than the actual game itself. Bad Bunny’s halftime show from earlier this year at Super Bowl LX also attracted a slightly larger viewership than the regular game.



Given the massive star power of the World Cup performers, it’s safe to say the halftime show could generate just as much—if not more—viewership for those 11 minutes. 



But with a global event as massive as the World Cup and a star-studded halftime show, how do the companies involved ensure the technology goes smoothly for the live audience and the millions of viewers watching around the world? 



“FIFA is a different animal”



As the official telecommunication services sponsor of the World Cup, Verizon provides the primary network and powers the digital infrastructure for the tournament. Abraham Arencibia, vice president of technology and product development for Verizon, said the company isn’t a stranger to halftime shows of this magnitude.



Verizon previously honed its 5G Ultra Wideband network to power interactive and 360-degree mobile experiences for the Super Bowl LVI halftime show back in 2022, which featured Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Mary J. Blige.



However, Arencibia admitted that the World Cup halftime show will be a different experience, one they’ve been preparing for and building two years in advance. 



[Photo: Verizon]



“FIFA is a different animal,” Arencibia told Fast Company, because of the scale of the events. To understand the scale of the World Cup final, Arencibia described the infrastructure as a “technology layer cake,” with each layer serving a distinct and important purpose. 



The first layer starts on the soccer pitch with the high-tech referee body cameras and localized connectivity, which utilizes Verizon’s private 5G networks to provide low-latency, real-time data from the field for the immersive and live moments. 



Moving up to the middle layer, Arencibia said the infrastructure has to be able to support the massive data spikes generated by the crowd. More than 60 to 100 cameras capture content from the stands with a wireless network capable of supporting 50 terabytes of data. Since the stadium will hold around 80,000 attendees for the final, Arencibia said Verizon increased the capacity of its wireless network by four times compared with standard operations.“Think of every single Netflix movie ever streamed at the same time for 90 minutes,” Arencibia said. “That’s the capacity that we’re supporting for the fans.”



The aim is that when fans pull out their phones to record the halftime show, the network will remain flawless. In fact, Arencibia said the two most critical parts his team will pay attention to are the game’s kickoff and the beginning of the halftime show. From there, it’s smooth sailing whether Madonna or BTS is on the stage. 



“That is the moment that people are most excited about,” Arencibia said. “They’re going to pull up their phone, and that’s when you see a spike in our network. [We] build for those first few minutes . . . if you survive that, everything else starts straightening up.”



The digital backbone of the tournament



While the stadium relies on the 5G network, the heavy lifting of the global broadcast is handled by the Broadcast Contribution Network (BCN), which is the final layer of the cake. 



Think of this as the digital backbone of the tournament. Every camera feed, video asset, and data point from the host stadium is funneled to the International Broadcasting Center (IBC) in Dallas via 80,000 miles of fiber, where the signal is processed and redistributed to a person’s phone or TV screen in a different state or country. 



“The center is basically the central nervous system where all the venues are talking to that location,” Arencibia said. “We start at the field and the stands before going wider.”



However, one might wonder how Verizon prepares for any technical difficulties, lags, or frame drops on a broadcast or livestream. Arencibia says they’re well-equipped for that with a lot of checks and balances in place. 



He noted that every venue has around four to five “100-gig circuits” (100 gigabits of data per second). 



“Our goal is to be invisible”



Behind the scenes, Arencibia said Verizon has a “war room,” which functions as a high-stakes command room with thousands of engineers who monitor every single cell spike and fiber connection in real time. 



Arencibia said ultimately, he doesn’t want fans to think of Verizon when they’re at the game. “Our goal is to be invisible, but be involved in that journey from the people getting to the venue when they have to show their tickets, when they actually pull out their phone, and when the cameras are rolling.”



For him, it basically has to be a perfect, seamless recipe for the entire infrastructure—or layer cake—from the private network, wireless network, and fiber network. “You’re not going to be thinking about us,” Arencibia said. “You only think about us if there’s a problem. That’s our job.”



Arencibia emphasized this year’s World Cup is the most technologically advanced and most connected one ever, even more than Qatar in 2022 or the previous tournaments. This one especially, he said, impacts him on a personal level. 



“The creation, the implementation of the network, and the connectivity has no comparison to any other World Cup that has ever happened, so we’re very proud,” Arencibia said. “As a Spaniard who grew up in the Canary Islands and tried to be a soccer player at one point, the fact that I’m helping to do this is a dream come true.” ]]></description>
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<title>Thinking Machines is coming for Anthropic’s intellectual vibe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In ads, influencer partnerships, and blog posts, Anthropic has continued to position itself as the intellectual, even creative, AI platform. 



“There’s hope in hard questions,” explicates one ad. “Keep thinking with Claude,” suggests another. 



Anthropic’s models, notably, are named after literary forms, while its CEO, Dario Amodei, has styled himself as a thought leader through a series of heady blog posts.









The company’s message is that AI should enhance human cognition rather than offload it.



Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded last year by former OpenAI leader Mira Murati, is now putting its own spin on that approach. 



Earlier this week, the startup announced the release of its first AI model, Inkling, which it says can be fine-tuned via its Tinker platform (released last fall). The company says Inkling has 975 billion parameters, including 41 billion active parameters. It’s also an open-weights model, meaning that core aspects of the model are publicly available.



Thinking Machines concedes that Inkling is not the most powerful AI model on the market. Instead, the company aims to compete on customization. It also emphasizes that its goal is to enhance human intelligence rather than replace it.



The approach echoes some of Anthropic’s language and appears aimed at a more intellectual vision of AI.



“For artificial intelligence to benefit from distributed knowledge, it must itself be distributed. Every organization is powered by the expert knowledge of its people, gained and expressed through their work,” a recent company blog said. 



“We believe in AI that helps the organization cultivate that unique knowledge, not AI that extracts a snapshot of it and replaces it with a standard offering,” the blog continued. “This cultivation is an ongoing process that requires AI to work with people, not in their stead.”



With Inkling, Thinking Machines says consumers and enterprises can shape the AI in their own image rather than use a system that reflects the average preferences of the broader population. Inkling’s terminal even includes an option to instruct the model to communicate and organize its responses according to the user’s preferences, such as writing in the style of a New Yorker article or communicating only in riddles.



The model also communicates extensively about how it’s processing prompts. Users can control how much reasoning effort and token capacity Inkling expends on a task.



All of this suggests that AI companies don’t believe they’ll get far by selling consumers technology that replaces their thinking. Consumers appear to prefer something closer to an intellectual superpower.


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<title>National Ice Cream Day freebies and deals: See a list of the best places to score a scoop today</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ There are many reasons to scream right now—from cyclospora to corrupt politicians avoiding accountability. 



What if instead we collectively squealed for ice cream on National Ice Cream Day? Well, we’re in luck because it’s today: Sunday, July 19, 2026.



Here’s some history along with deals to make this cool snack an even sweeter treat.



Before machines, how was ice cream made?



Ice cream is made up of cream, sugar, air, and frozen water. Flavors were added based on an individual’s taste preferences. Before refrigerators and machines, these ingredients were combined in a separate container, surrounded by ice and salt, which reached temperatures below freezing. 



The mixture was then stirred and churned by hand. Because of this labor-intensive process, ice cream was once just a dish for the wealthy elites.



Who invented ice cream?



A fascinating aspect of this chilled delight is that many cultures created their own frozen desserts, paving the way for ice cream. 



During the Tang Dynasty in ancient China, a precursor to ice cream was a sweet drink of iced camphor-infused buffalo milk. The Roman Emperor Nero liked to sweeten his iced beverages with honey. In India, kulfi, a frozen condensed milk dish, was enjoyed by Mughal emperors.



In England, Elias Ashmole recalled King Charles II of England being served a plate of ice cream at a fancy banquet. 



In America, President Thomas Jefferson served ice cream at the White House. After his death, he left behind many writings, including only 10 recipes, one of which was for French vanilla ice cream.



What inventions helped bring ice cream to the masses?



In 1843, Nancy M. Johnson invented the first hand-cranked ice cream maker. She was also wise enough to patent her “Artificial Freezer.” This machine cut down on the hard manual labor and allowed ice cream to last 30 minutes. 



The invention of the home refrigerator in 1910 also helped accelerate ice cream’s popularity. By the 1940s, many had ditched the outdated ice box for the new technology.



What does Ronald Reagan have to do with National Ice Cream Day?



In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July National Ice Cream Month. He designated the third Sunday as National Ice Cream Day.



Where can you get National Ice Cream Day deals?



[Photo: Häagen-Dazs]



Now ice cream belongs to the people. Here’s where you can fulfill your purpose on the big day.



Häagen-Dazs



Häagen-Dazs reward members are eligible for a buy-one-get-one-free deal through the Sundae Funday Club. 



Pick between the Caramel Cone Sundae, Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Sundae, or Hot Fudge &amp; Caramel Sundae. This deal is valid every Sunday in July and ends on the 26th.



16 Handles



While you might think of 16 Handles as a frozen yogurt spot, it also has ice cream. (And froyo is also delicious, anyway.) On National Ice Cream Day, rewards members can score a free cup, up to a $5 value.



Blue Bell Ice Cream



Blue Bell Ice Cream is celebrating all month like Reagan intended. It introduced a limited-time flavor, Chocolate Lava Cake.



Petco



Ice cream is better when it’s shared. At least that’s what the dogs want us to believe. 



Thankfully, Petco is offering rewards members a free Ben &amp; Jerry’s ice cream pup cup at participating locations while supplies last. If you are not a rewards member, it is free to sign up.



Dairy Queen



At Dairy Queen, after making a $1 in app purchase, DQ Rewards members will be rewarded with a free Dilly Bar.



If you find yourself in Chicago and ride the train, you might be in for a sweet surprise. 



Petty Cool Ice Cream



Pretty Cool Ice Cream and the Chicago Transit Authority are setting up at the Logan Square Blue Line and Fullerton Brown Line at 12 p.m. and 95th St Red Line and Pulaski Orange Line at 2:30 p.m. 



The first 300 people who show up and also follow @prettycoolicecream and @chicagocta will get a free popsicle based on the different lines.



Dippin’ Dots



Select Dippin’ Dots locations will be giving out free mini cups of the unique treat during a special two hour window. Click here to find a location and time frame near you.



If you want even more Dippin’ Dots, head to Chuck E. Cheese. At the place where a kid can be a kid, you can also get one free small Dippin’ Dots per household.



Shout for joy. The horrors of the world will keep while you eat your frozen treat. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ Romantic travel always looks effortless in photographs.

A couple walks beside the sea at sunset. They laugh over dinner. Their hotel room has flowers, candles, and a balcony overlooking something magnificent. Nobody is arguing about directions, missing chargers, delayed luggage, room temperature, or why one person packed eight pairs of shoes for a three-day trip. ]]></description>
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<title>AWS and Bluesight build AI for hospital 340B compliance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AWS (Amazon Web Services) has explained how Bluesight developed Prism, an AI layer that connects hospital pharmacy and compliance data across its product suite. Prism Assistant for ControlCheck has reached general availability and operates across 20 health systems, according to AWS vendor statements. Meanwhile, a multi-product agent for 340B Group Purchasing Organisation (GPO) compliance remains […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia’s AI&#45;RAN platform: a radio comeback that runs on NVIDIA</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/nokias-ai-ran-platform-a-radio-comeback-that-runs-on-nvidia</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Nokia’s AI-RAN platform arrived on July 15 with a claim worth examining: that it is the industry’s first. The vendor says the platform, built on its anyRAN software and NVIDIA’s Aerial system, will let operators pull far more capacity from the spectrum they already own, and it has framed the launch as one of the most significant […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Neko Health raises $700 million to expand AI body scans in the US</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/neko-health-raises-700-million-to-expand-ai-body-scans-in-the-us</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Neko Health has raised $700 million to expand its AI body scans in the United States, starting with a clinic in New York. The company’s preventive screening service combines medical imaging, blood tests, proprietary sensors, and clinician review. The Series C round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners. Existing […]
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<title>Examining Google DeepMind’s AI bioresilience push</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs outlined a bioresilience program to curb AI misuse in biology while aiding outbreak response. The two organisations published an update on a joint initiative that began quietly and has now built out more than 15 partnerships with government bodies, biosecurity organisations, and research groups over the past 12 months. The […]
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her ‘Mafia’ skills)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Ryan Beiermeister, who demonstrated cool analysis in the Founders Fund YouTube series &quot;Mafia,&quot; has joined the firm as a partner. ]]></description>
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<title>Coca&#45;Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/coca-cola-suspended-production-at-its-fairlife-dairy-after-a-ransomware-attack</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/coca-cola-suspended-production-at-its-fairlife-dairy-after-a-ransomware-attack</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Coca Cola said dairy production at its Fairlife unit will &quot;remain suspended&quot; in the United States following a hack. ]]></description>
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<title>SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/spacex-suddenly-aborts-second-starship-v3-launch-after-ignition</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The company didn&#039;t immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX&#039;s stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses. ]]></description>
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<title>San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In the wake of a massive hours-long gridlock event, San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has told state regulators it&#039;s time to put more requirements on robotaxi operators like Waymo. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-the-first-gpu-financiers-are-turning-to-inference-chips-in-a-400-million-deal</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-the-first-gpu-financiers-are-turning-to-inference-chips-in-a-400-million-deal</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals. ]]></description>
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<title>Former Obama official on AI anxiety and the depression nobody remembers — and the training model that gives him hope</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/former-obama-official-on-ai-anxiety-and-the-depression-nobody-remembers-and-the-trainingmodel-that-gives-him-hope</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/former-obama-official-on-ai-anxiety-and-the-depression-nobody-remembers-and-the-trainingmodel-that-gives-him-hope</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A 22-year-old with an AI assistant can now do what once took a consulting team. Anthropic is betting on its &quot;Claude Corps.&quot; ]]></description>
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<title>Esther Perel has a warning for executives: your workforce is suffering from social atrophy and AI is making it worse </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Europe&#039;s boardrooms have spent the past year fixated on productivity, AI adoption, and the search for growth in a stagnant economy. Esther Perel thinks they&#039;re missing a more urgent problem. ]]></description>
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<title>Netflix stock hits a 52&#45;week low after earnings—but analysts say investors are missing the bigger picture</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/netflix-stock-hits-a-52-week-low-after-earningsbut-analysts-say-investors-are-missing-the-bigger-picture</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ There may be a growth story brewing at Netflix that the market is missing. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Lettuce from Mexico sold at Taco Bells in 5 states identified as source of diarrhea&#45;causing parasite</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lettuce-from-mexico-sold-at-taco-bells-in-5-states-identified-as-source-of-diarrhea-causing-parasite</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/lettuce-from-mexico-sold-at-taco-bells-in-5-states-identified-as-source-of-diarrhea-causing-parasite</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Federal warnings to consumers did not identify the company, but an official briefed on the investigation said it was Taylor Farms of Salinas, California. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Trump is selling millisecond access to his Truth Social blasts — and traders are already lining up</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trump-is-selling-millisecond-access-to-his-truth-social-blasts-and-traders-are-already-lining-up</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/trump-is-selling-millisecond-access-to-his-truth-social-blasts-and-traders-are-already-lining-up</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Trump’s firm is pitching Truth PSI to trading desks for ultra‑fast feeds from “top” accounts as Trump monetizes another aspect of the presidency. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Earning Money Is Not the Same as Understanding Money</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/earning-money-is-not-the-same-as-understanding-money</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/earning-money-is-not-the-same-as-understanding-money</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Why financial literacy matters as much as a paycheck

 

The day we receive our first paycheck is often unforgettable. It represents independence, hard work, and the beginning of our professional journey. For many people, earning a good salary is seen as the key to a comfortable and secure life. Yet as the years pass, many discover a difficult truth: earning money and understanding money are not the same thing. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Diether Avery E. Hernandez</dc:creator>
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<title>Stonegate faces £16m fine threat over treatment of pub tenants</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/stonegate-faces-16m-fine-threat-over-treatment-of-pub-tenants</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
The Pubs Code Adjudicator is investigating Stonegate over its treatment of tied pub tenants, with fines of up to £16m possible. What tenants should know. ]]></description>
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<title>HMRC moves to scrap separate EMI notifications in red tape win</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/hmrc-moves-to-scrap-separate-emi-notifications-in-red-tape-win</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/hmrc-moves-to-scrap-separate-emi-notifications-in-red-tape-win</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
HMRC&#039;s draft Finance Bill scraps separate EMI grant notifications from April 2027, folding them into the annual return. What SME employers need to know. ]]></description>
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<title>British Steel nationalised as ministers refuse to let it go bust</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/british-steel-nationalised-as-ministers-refuse-to-let-it-go-bust</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/british-steel-nationalised-as-ministers-refuse-to-let-it-go-bust</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 
British Steel nationalisation secures 2,700 Scunthorpe jobs and the UK&#039;s last virgin steel supply. What public ownership means for SME supply chains. ]]></description>
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<title>Ofcom investigates TikTok over ‘serious doubts’ its age checks work</title>
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Ofcom launches an investigation into TikTok&#039;s child age checks, casting doubt on age inference tech. Why the clampdown matters for UK platform owners. ]]></description>
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<title>Importers face six&#45;year record rule as UK carbon border tax nears</title>
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UK CBAM rules hit importers of steel, aluminium, cement, fertiliser and hydrogen from January 2027. What SMEs must do now to avoid HMRC penalties. ]]></description>
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<title>Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry. ]]></description>
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<title>Phone maker OnePlus says it won’t release new phones in the US and Europe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027. ]]></description>
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<title>Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self&#45;harm with its AI chatbot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers. ]]></description>
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<title>Ultrahuman’s former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Aina is going to pilot a new device in the coming weeks. ]]></description>
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<title>Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple&#039;s AI ambitions in a key market. ]]></description>
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<title>A surprising restaurant chain outgrew Starbucks, Chipotle and Dunkin’ last year</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ America’s fastest-growing restaurant isn’t Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, or Chipotle. It’s a chicken wing chain that’s been opening hundreds of new locations.



In a preview of QSR Magazine’s annual QSR 50, which ranks the leading fast food chains, Wingstop led the 2026 cohort of restaurants. The full report is expected to be released in August.



While in past years Starbucks has topped the ranking, this year Wingstop has earned the top spot by opening 382 new locations, around 100 more than any other brand. Wingstop has risen through the ranks, becoming the fourth-fastest growing brand in 2024 and reaching the top spot in just under two years. At the time, Starbucks was ahead by 589 locations, but Wingstop has since caught up.



[Photo: Wingstop]



Headquartered in Dallas, the 32-year-old company has had its share of challenges. In 2025, the company saw a 3.3% decrease in same store sales, the first decline in more than two decades. The chicken restaurant kicked off 2026 facing external pressures like a dip in customer visits due to harsh weather, and rising gas prices.



The company ended 2025 with some 3,056 locations, including 407 international franchises. In all, around 98% of locations are franchised.



Wingstop is not the only restaurant chain outpacing Starbucks this year. A report by Yelp found that the brand with the highest consumer interest for 2025 was 7 Brew, a Starbucks competitor. Wingstop made the list at number 10.



Wingstop’s quick rise follows a broader trend of popularity around chicken restaurants. In a 2025 restaurant ranking from the market research company Circana, chicken restaurants like Raising Cane’s and Wingstop saw some of the fastest growth. Raising Cane’s placed 16th on the list while Wingstop reached the 21st spot, moving up nine and eight spots respectively from the year before. ]]></description>
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<title>Everyone’s a wiener! Here’s a list of National Hot Dog Day freebies and deals, from 7&#45;Eleven to Dog Haus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Whether you’re grilling one out in the backyard or enjoying one with all the fixins’ at a baseball game, nothing says American summer like a hot dog.



And the pinnacle of hot dog mania is today: National Hot Dog Day. Here’s a roundup of deals so you can join in on the holiday’s 35th anniversary this Wednesday, July 15.



7-Eleven



The Texas-based and internationally operated convenience store giant 7-Eleven is offering a Mix and Match deal, giving customers any two roller grill items—including the Big Bite hot dog—for just $3.50.



If you aren’t into hot dogs, the chain is also offering $1 taquitos on Wednesday. Members of 7Rewards and Speedy Rewards can earn a $2 Big Bite hot dog or a $5 Meal Deal in the app through July 22.



Dog Haus



Dog Haus, a gourmet hot dog and hamburger chain based in Pasadena, California, is giving out free Haus Dogs on Wednesday. You have to register as a Haus Rewards member first, earning you a two-for-the-price-of-one Haus Dog offer valid through the end of the month. 



Love’s



The popular highway stop and gas station Love’s is joining the hot dog action, with a lineup of hot dog-centered deals throughout the week. Thursday’s dog deal features a buy one, get one free for $1, and Friday’s deal is two dogs for $3. But the real winner is today’s deal: a free hot dog in honor of the holiday. 



Philly Pretzel Factory



Don’t get it twisted: Philly Pretzel Factory isn’t known only for pretzels. It also touts a famous pretzel dog filled with an all-beef sausage and American cheese. Customers can get the delicacy for $1 all day on Wednesday.



Portillo’s



The Chicago-based chain Portillo’s, famous for its Chicago-style hot dogs, has been celebrating hot dog season since the beginning of the month with the launch of its spicy Char’diniera Dog.



The brand also released a line of hot dog merch—including tees, hoodies, and beach towels—to celebrate National Hot Dog Month. This week, Portillo’s Perks members can get a $1 Hot Dog with $5-plus purchase, and the brand has promised more surprises to come.



Krystal



The southern fast food chain Krystal sells patty melts, sliders, and miniature hot dogs, cleverly called pups. Today, Krystal rewards members can choose between a Classic Pup, Corn Pup, or a Chili Cheese pup with a purchase of $5 or more. 



Unexpected deals to relish



These fast-food chains aren’t the only ones celebrating; hot dog deals are also available at retailers that don’t specialize in dogs. 



Pringles, which released limited-edition Pop Dog Buns earlier this month, is offering free Pop Dog Buns with a $6.97 Pringles three-pack online purchase, starting at noon ET on Wednesday.



The movie theater chain Regal Cinemas is running a buy five, get one free deal for Nathan’s hot dogs and is inviting Regal Crown Club members who purchase two hot dogs to enter a sweepstakes trip to Coney Island.



Regal also posted on Facebook that all customers named Nathan will receive a free hotdog on Wednesday, with proof of ID.



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<title>You haven’t fixed your AI problem</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For years, “swivel chair work” was shorthand for a very real problem: employees spinning between applications, copying data from one system to another, and chasing approvals through multiple inboxes. The term stuck because it was accurate.



Harvard Business Review reported in 2022 that workers toggle between applications 1,200 times daily, losing nearly 4 hours per week to reorientation. That’s roughly 9% of total work time. For a knowledge worker earning $100,000 annually, the cost translates to $9,000 in lost productivity per employee per year. For a company with 10,000 employees, that fragmentation amounts to roughly $90 million annually, not from bad strategy or underinvestment, but from the basic friction of fragmented digital infrastructure. Almost no organization has a line item for it. It just compounds.



WE GAVE AI THE WRONG JOB



When generative AI arrived, most organizations gave employees better tools for the work they were already doing. Better search, faster drafting, and sharper summaries. But they didn’t change the underlying architecture. The siloed systems, approval chains, and status emails were all still there. We added AI to the workflows without redesigning the workflows. Employees ended up with one more window to toggle to.



In many organizations, AI just made the chairs swivel faster.



The first generation of enterprise AI was primarily generative, retrieval-augmented systems that surface the right document, summarize it well, and hand it back to a human to act on. That’s a meaningful capability, but it’s still a handoff. The AI produces an output for a person to carry it forward. Output is not outcome. In business, no one gets paid for outputs, but rather for completed work.



FINISHING THE WORK IS HARDER THAN IT LOOKS



The next phase of AI is about completing the work.



Agentic AI is defined as systems that can plan a sequence of steps, select the right tools, execute actions across systems, and govern the outcome with auditability. They can now take a request from initiation to resolution without a human manually stitching it together.



The intelligence part—the reasoning, language understanding, and ability to interpret an ambiguous request—is increasingly commoditized. Two years ago, GPT-4-level reasoning was a competitive advantage. Today, that capability is available open source, inference costs have dropped by roughly 10-fold annually, and benchmark performance across the leading models has converged to where the differences are largely invisible to enterprise users. What remains genuinely difficult and differentiated is the execution layer connecting that intelligence to the enterprise’s operational fabric.



Consider what completing a single workflow actually requires. Onboarding a new hire might span a human resources information system, an IT provisioning system, a facilities platform, a payroll processor, and a compliance training tool. Each has its own data model, permissions architecture, and API behavior. And they were never designed to talk to each other.



This is why “just use an LLM” isn’t an enterprise AI strategy. A large language model without enterprise context produces large language model results—fluent, plausible, and often disconnected from your actual business machinery. The grounding layer, the connectors, the context graph, the permissions model, and the workflow orchestration are what turn a capable model into a system that completes work.



WHAT EXECUTION AT SCALE LOOKS LIKE



What makes this possible is the harness around the model. When an employee submits a request, they’re not talking directly to an LLM, but to a layer incorporating business context. The LLM selects the right path, applies the right permissions, and decides which systems need involvement and the order. The model supplies the reasoning and the harness supplies the judgment about how to apply that reasoning inside your organization.



That’s why we’re seeing enterprises resolve the majority of service desk requests without human involvement. They are resolved end to end, with the right action taken, logged, and governed. Live agent chat volumes drop in days because the requests never had to escalate. At one global manufacturer, approval processes that once averaged 10 hours of VP time now close in under 10 minutes. Same policy. Same people. The harness surfaces the right context in sequence, and the inbox archaeology disappears.



The swivel chair became unnecessary.



These productivity improvements are structural changes to how operations run. The people who were spending their days on coordination overhead are now doing the work that requires their expertise. That is the shift worth chasing.



THE MOAT HAS MOVED



McKinsey’s 2025 Global Survey found that 88% of organizations report regular AI use in at least one business function. Individual use cases show promise, including a 14% productivity boost in customer service operations while using AI. That’s meaningful, but incremental.



The competitive question now is: How deeply is your AI connected to how work happens in your organization?



The companies building that depth with context graphs, orchestration layers, and the governed workflow execution are getting more efficient. Every workflow you automate teaches the system more about how your company operates. That compounds. It comes from building AI into how the company runs.



WHAT THIS MEANS RIGHT NOW



If you’re still measuring AI ROI in tokens generated and summaries produced, you’re measuring the wrong thing.



Find the work nobody chose. The status updates nobody asked to send. The approvals stalled in inboxes. The handoffs that require a human because the systems should communicate, but don’t. Map where your most capable people are spending time on coordination instead of judgment.



That’s your AI roadmap. Start with one workflow. Prove value in production. Then let the compounding begin.



The goal was always to make the swivel chair unrecognizable, to reach a point where the next generation of employees doesn’t know what the phrase means because they’ve never experienced the problem. We’re closer to that than most leaders realize. But only by building AI into the workflow, not on top of it. 



Bhavin Shah is SVP and GM of Moveworks and AI at ServiceNow. ]]></description>
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<title>PayPal stock is skyrocketing after Stripe and a private equity firm reportedly made a buyout offer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Shares in PayPal Holdings (Nasdaq: PYPL) are skyrocketing in premarket trading this morning after a report that the legacy digital payments platform has received a joint buyout offer from one of today’s most successful fintech companies and a major private equity firm. Here’s what you need to know.



What’s happened?



Early this morning, Reuters reported that the fintech giant Stripe and the private equity giant Advent International have offered to buy PayPal for well above its closing stock price on Tuesday.



According to Reuters, Stripe and Advent made PayPal a buyout offer of $60.50 per share, equating to about $53 billion in total. That $60.50 per share offering price is roughly 28% higher than PayPal’s closing price of $47.37 yesterday.



Stripe and Advent reportedly made the offer to PayPal earlier this month. It is an offer that PayPal has reportedly not responded to yet. 



While Reuters did identify its sources, other than saying they were people “familiar with the matter,” news of the proposed buyout offer could put pressure on PayPal leadership to publicly respond—and face displeasure from PayPal investors if they do not like the company’s response.



Fast Company has reached out to PayPal, Stripe, and Advent for comment.



What do Stripe and Advent want with PayPal?



The report didn’t go into specifics about what Stripe and Advent would do with the legacy online payments giant should they acquire it, but Reuters said that the two suitors would jointly own PayPal instead of breaking up the company.



Stripe is one of the biggest players in the modern fintech scene. The privately held company was valued at around $159 billion in February. But Stripe’s specialty and core business is facilitating transactions between a business’s bank account and a customer’s payment method.



One of PayPal’s strengths is facilitating peer-to-peer transactions. It also has a massive user base of consumers and small businesses that trust the brand and are loyal to it.



It is possible Stripe sees a PayPal acquisition as a way to move into areas of the fintech space where PayPal clearly dominates.



Would PayPal sell itself?



No one can answer that but PayPal leadership. However, a buyout offer could be attractive to PayPal’s board and investors, considering the company has struggled in recent years.



While PayPal was the de facto payment backbone of consumer e-commerce for roughly the first two decades after its founding in the late 1990s, in recent years the company has lost ground to competing products like Apple Pay and Google Pay, which make it much simpler to pay digitally for products and services right from smartphones and other devices.



While PayPal’s stock did see a massive boost during the pandemic years, when online shopping boomed like never before, it has tumbled since then.



In 2021, PayPal stock was trading at more than $291 per share—an all-time high. As of yesterday’s closing price, PYPL shares were trading at just above $47. That stock price decrease came as a result of newer technologies and more competition that siphoned away business.



In February of this year, PayPal replaced its CEO, Alex Chriss, with HP’s Enrique Lores.



“The payments industry is changing faster than ever, driven by new technologies, evolving regulations, an increasingly competitive landscape, and the rapid acceleration of AI that is reshaping commerce daily,” Lores said at the time. “PayPal sits at the center of this change, and I look forward to leading the team to accelerate the delivery of new innovations and to shape the future of digital payments and commerce.”



How have PayPal’s shares reacted?



Investors have reacted very well to the reported buyout offer. As of the time of this writing, PYPL shares are currently up around 19.87% to $56.72 in pre-market trading.



That’s well above PayPal’s closing price of $47.37 yesterday, but still slightly under Stripe’s and Advent’s reported offering price of $60.50 per share. ]]></description>
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<title>The workplace isn’t designed for older women</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ My kids were finally almost grown, and I was in my late 50s, when my mother started to fall. Not once. A series of falls, each one taking a little more of her, until the word the doctors used was acute. My husband and I drove out into the high desert and hiked, because that is what we do when we can no longer think and have to anyway. Somewhere on that trail I understood the shape of the choice in front of me. I could close the business I had spent decades building and bring her home. Or I could find her a place, which is the gentle phrase we use for the thing that breaks your heart. There was no third door.



I had spent 35 years by then coaching senior leaders, and most of them were men. Men who moved through their careers on a road already paved. No motherhood penalty at the front, and rarely a caregiving crisis at the back, because somewhere in their lives there was usually a woman absorbing the work at home. I was good at helping them. Then I hit the wall myself and went looking for the map I had been handing other people. There was none. The workplace I had given my life to had never imagined a woman would still be inside it on the day her mother began to disappear.



When Fast Company ran “Corporate America is crushing senior-level mothers” by Shalene Gupta last month, the response was enormous. Thousands of words came back from women who finally felt named. Underneath the relief I heard a second question the piece could not reach. These women survived it. The day care years, the pumping in supply closets, the promotions timed around due dates. They came out the other side. And now what?



Most organizations still build careers for women around the young-mother arc. The whole structure assumes the defining tension of a woman’s working life is the one between babies and ambition, the toddler on the hip against the seat at the table. That assumption was not wrong; it was partial. It put a gate at the front of a woman’s career and left everything past it as open country, with no road markers.



For every woman promoted at the director level, McKinsey and LeanIn found, two women directors walk out the door. There is a leak at exactly the altitude where companies say they want more women, and we have spent years blaming the women for it. 



Consider the woman who is in mid- or late career. She is not arranging childcare anymore. She is arranging hospice, or memory care, or the third specialist this month. She is one of the more than 48 million Americans who gave unpaid care last year worth an estimated $600 billion, most of them women, and she is doing it in the years she was finally supposed to be running things. The squeeze does not announce itself. It arrives as a phone call during a meeting she cannot leave, and it does not end when the call does.



Brenda (pseudonym), a VP of philanthropy at a national nonprofit, breathed a sigh of relief when her youngest child graduated from college. Three days later her husband was diagnosed with ALS, and she had to care for him as his body failed. Her career-capping fundraising ambitions paled alongside the gargantuan role she had to play at home, resulting in FMLA leave, fragmented efforts, and distracted attention to her big career goals.



The body is in this story too, whether we are comfortable with it or not. Menopause arrives and lasts the better part of a decade, landing squarely on the most senior and most expensive years of a woman’s career. The Mayo Clinic put its cost to the U.S. economy at $26.6 billion a year, and that figure does not count the women who simply leave the workforce. Rachel (pseudonym), an executive VP at a major consumer brand, described it this way: “My perimenopause brain fog was intense, and I felt I had to back off the big role. I took early retirement, even though I wasn’t ready.”



According to research discussed in Harvard Business Review in 2023, women suffer from a “never right” bias pattern around age, meaning the same gray hair that makes a man look seasoned makes a woman look finished. His experience gets celebrated. Hers gets walked toward the door. You thank her for mentoring the young men who will be promoted past her. You celebrate what she knows precisely because you have stopped betting on what she could still do.



And here is the part Gupta’s motherhood essay could not hold. The young-mother design doesn’t fail just the women who passed through it. It fails the women who never had children at all. Jean (pseudonym) was a pinch hitter throughout her 30s and 40s, always able to travel on assignment as a senior partner. She was the backstop, assumed to be endlessly available because, in the words people use, she had nothing else going on. Women like Jean covered the leaves and the snow days and the late nights, and they reached the far side with the same failing parents and the same vanishing relevance, plus a quarter century of having been the accommodation that let everyone else’s accommodation work.



We built women’s careers around one season of one kind of life, then treated everything that fell outside it—the aging parent, the changing body, the second act—as a private problem for the woman to absorb in the dark. The cost was always real. We simply arranged never to see it.



It does not have to be this way, and the fix is not a women’s affinity group or a webinar on resilience. It is design. 



First, treat caregiving as a normal feature of a working life rather than a one-time emergency. We built parental leave and then behaved as though care ended at kindergarten. It does not. People care for parents, partners, siblings, adult children, themselves, in waves that recur across 40 years. Build leave, flexibility, and real reentry paths that assume those waves are coming, and make them available to everyone by policy, not granted one woman at a time behind a closed door.



Second, audit who gets the future and who gets the past. Look honestly at who receives the stretch assignments and who gets routed onto the legacy panels and the mentoring tracks. If your most seasoned women are advising and stewarding while the high-visibility roles go to people 15 years younger, that is a pattern, not a series of coincidences. Promote inside the highest-earning decade instead of escorting people out of it.



Third, make menopause an ordinary workplace fact. It is a predictable stage of human health, not a scandal, and right now it is draining some of your most expensive talent. Manager education, flexibility in schedule and environment, and simple permission to name it out loud turn a hidden attrition driver into a routine accommodation, the way we eventually learned to handle pregnancy instead of pretending it wasn’t happening.



Design for all genders a working life that runs 50 years, not a 30-year sprint that peaks at 45. That means sponsorship, lateral moves, and genuine second acts built for people in their 50s and 60s. It means looking around the room and noticing that the most capable person in it is often the one you have already written off.



I made it through my own impossible year the way these women always do. On my own, without a single road the workplace had ever thought to build for me. The women in this story are not asking to be protected. They are the most capable people in most of the rooms they walk into, and they know it. They survived the front half. The question was never whether they still had something to give. It is whether we will finally build workplaces able to meet their back half.



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<title>Chancellor announces SME funding package</title>
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The chancellor has unveiled SME funding support as part of her Mansion House speech in July 2026. Here&#039;s what is coming up
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<title>TikTok Shopping: A New Era For E&#45;commerce Store Sales</title>
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<title>How Personalised Corporate Gifts Improve Employee Engagement &amp;amp; Loyalty?</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-personalised-corporate-gifts-improve-employee-engagement-loyalty</link>
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<title>Monzo founder Blomfield joins Anthropic as AI talent war escalates</title>
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Monzo founder Tom Blomfield has joined Anthropic&#039;s compute team, the latest coup in the AI talent war. What his move signals for UK founders and SMEs. ]]></description>
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<title>Scrap National Insurance and the 45p rate, think tank tells Burnham</title>
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Policy Exchange urges Andy Burnham to abolish national insurance, stamp duty, inheritance tax and the 45p rate. What the plan would mean for UK SME owners. ]]></description>
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<title>Scrap green levies to cut energy bills by a fifth, Burnham told</title>
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Business energy costs must be Andy Burnham&#039;s day-one priority, say CBI and Energy UK, with green levy cuts worth a fifth off bills and a £130bn boost. ]]></description>
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<title>Festivals get longer licences and red tape cut in £45m music plan</title>
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The government&#039;s new UK music plan promises festival licensing reform and a £45m growth fund. What Turn It Up means for venues, clubs and small firms. ]]></description>
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<title>$300 a kilo: space cargo costs falling faster than steam ever did</title>
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Space launch costs are falling faster than steamship freight in the 1800s and could hit $300 a kilo by 2040. What the space economy means for UK firms. ]]></description>
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<title>The Black Shirt Story</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For years, people have asked why I wear black.

Some believe it is sophisticated.

Others think it is branding. ]]></description>
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<title>Dress Like Your Future Is Watching</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Why Your Fashion Statement May Be Predicting Who You Become

My theory may not be scientific. It may not be approved by professors. And it probably won&#039;t be taught at Harvard.

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<title>‘Rotten to its core’: Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its secrets</title>
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Apple sues OpenAI, alleging poached staff took trade secrets to its hardware venture. What the case teaches UK SMEs about protecting their own IP. ]]></description>
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<title>Small firms freeze hiring as Iran war drags growth to five&#45;year low</title>
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Britain&#039;s businesses have stopped hiring and slipped into &quot;survival mode&quot;, with economic output stuttering to a five-year low in June as the Iran war, weak consumer spending and relentless cost increases combine to squeeze firms from every direction. ]]></description>
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<title>Red card for red tape: 96% of firms say regulation is failing them</title>
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96 per cent of firms told the government&#039;s own red tape survey that regulators create unnecessary problems. What the findings mean for UK SMEs and owners. ]]></description>
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<title>Burnham will not ‘tax the hell out of you’, says Jim O’Neill</title>
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<title>Banker who bought Northern Rock named to lead audit watchdog</title>
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Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, ex-Virgin Money chief, is the government&#039;s pick to chair the FRC. What the audit watchdog&#039;s new leadership means for UK firms. ]]></description>
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<title>America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows — the worst in the OECD</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It does better at creating conditions where people can find a job, scoring about 75%, ranking 10th. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer</dc:creator>
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<title>Elon Musk and Sam Altman are accusing each other of scamming investors as SpaceX and OpenAI jockey to lead AI revolution</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A social media fight erupted after their companies launched competing AI models one day apart. ]]></description>
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<title>Stolen laptops, data breaches, secret moles, and recruiting&#45;as&#45;espionage. Here are the wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Apple&#039;s lawsuit against OpenAI for stealing trade secrets reads like a corporate spy thriller ]]></description>
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<title>McConnell’s absence could jeopardize Republicans’ defense spending agenda as the Iran war escalates</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/mcconnells-absence-could-jeopardize-republicans-defense-spending-agenda-as-the-iran-war-escalates</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Trump administration has asked Congress for an additional $350 billion in defense funds amid the reignited Iran war. ]]></description>
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<title>U.S. launches new strikes on Iran while Tehran mocks Trump’s reversal on charging for Hormuz transits — ‘20% is of course too much. We will be fair’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “POTUS is absolutely right. Whoever provides secure and safe passage of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz should be compensated for this service.” ]]></description>
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<title>Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/hermes-agent-maker-nous-research-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-15b-valuation</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors. ]]></description>
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<title>X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/x-just-tweaked-its-algorithm-to-make-it-more-friendly-less-battleground</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/x-just-tweaked-its-algorithm-to-make-it-more-friendly-less-battleground</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users&#039; mutual followers&#039; to give the feed more of a communal feel. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Video&#45;generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/video-generation-startup-pixverse-raises-439m-valuation-soars-past-2b</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/video-generation-startup-pixverse-raises-439m-valuation-soars-past-2b</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies. ]]></description>
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<title>Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/ubers-product-chief-on-hotels-robotaxis-and-why-the-company-doesnt-want-to-be-everything-for-everyone</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company&#039;s financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/already-rich-already-successful-why-the-last-wave-of-tech-winners-is-grinding-again</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/already-rich-already-successful-why-the-last-wave-of-tech-winners-is-grinding-again</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ They&#039;re rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI&#039;s defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Why Simplicity Makes a Man Look Wealthier</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-simplicity-makes-a-man-look-wealthier</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-simplicity-makes-a-man-look-wealthier</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a strange paradox in modern style. The more some men try to look rich, the less wealthy they actually appear. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Difference Between a Stylish Man and a Fashion Victim</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/difference-between-a-stylish-man-and-a-fashion-victim</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/difference-between-a-stylish-man-and-a-fashion-victim</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a very thin line between looking stylish and looking like you lost a bet with a designer. Modern fashion is dangerous that way. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Gentleman’s Guide to Wearing White Without Looking Flashy</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gentlemans-guide-to-wearing-white-without-looking-flashy</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/gentlemans-guide-to-wearing-white-without-looking-flashy</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Wearing white as a man is dangerous. Done correctly, it looks elegant, expensive, relaxed, and effortlessly sophisticated. Done incorrectly… ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>The Silent Power of a Well&#45;Fitted Black Jacket</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-silent-power-of-a-well-fitted-black-jacket</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/the-silent-power-of-a-well-fitted-black-jacket</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Every man has that one piece of clothing that changes everything.

Not the loud designer shirt. Not the “limited edition” sneakers he bought during an emotional online shopping episode at 2 a.m. Not the jacket covered in logos large enough to be seen from space.

No. It is usually something much simpler. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Why Expensive Men Rarely Look Loud</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-expensive-men-rarely-look-loud</link>
<guid>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/why-expensive-men-rarely-look-loud</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ There is a strange moment many men experience when they first enter a truly wealthy environment. They expect diamonds. They expect giant logos. They expect gold watches the size of frying pans. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Giulliano Russelli - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Diether Avery E. Hernandez to Launch Syndicated Financial Literacy Column on The Business Economics</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/diether-avery-e-hernandez-to-launch-syndicated-financial-literacy-column-on-the-business-economic</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Educator and financial professional will offer practical guidance on building financial confidence, security, and responsible money habits. His forthcoming column will reflect the belief that financial planning is not reserved for the wealthy. Instead, it is a practical and necessary process for anyone who earns, spends, saves, supports a family, or hopes to prepare for the future. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - Senior News Editor</dc:creator>
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<title>Taylor Swift fans are willing to buy her trash. Meet the NYC artist who cashed in from the pop star’s wedding night</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Swifties will buy anything related to Taylor Swift: a CD or a vinyl—even if they listen on Spotify anyway—a cardigan or scarf inspired by her songs, and yes, even garbage.



Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot on July 3 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden (MSG), gathering A-list celebrities from across industries.



But as fans flocked to the venue for a chance to peek inside the secretive event, at least one person turned his attention to the floor—picking up trash to package and sell to fans eager to score a souvenir from the party.



The New York-based artist Justin Gignac made his way to MSG the night of the celebrity wedding, wearing the same tuxedo he used at his own wedding, paired with thick gloves and a trash pickup stick.



The venue’s perimeter was filled with around 40 fans in each corner, Gignac says, as he circled the arena and picked up garbage from the floor before packaging it and selling it online—something he has done before.



“I’m always trying to find these big cultural moments in New York City,” Gignac tells Fast Company. “I’ve done New Year’s Eve in Times Square and I’ve done the championship parades for the Yankees, Giants, and Liberty . . . but this was such an interesting one.”



Come as you are



The trash was not actually from inside the wedding, but from the edge of the venue, hence the name of the series, “Not Invited Edition.” 



Anything from a stray Airpod to a can tab was collected and packaged in clear boxes measuring 1 by 1 by 0.75 inch, just small enough to carry around in one’s pocket. The near-cube is marked with the wedding date, the same day the garbage was picked up, and the phrase “JUST&amp;T MARRIED!” a nod to the message that filled the MSG screens after the celebrity couple tied the knot.



Gignac has been collecting trash and selling it in sealed acrylic cubes for almost 25 years—he calls his art project and business New York City Garbage—although the regular cubes are much larger (3.5 by 3.5 by 4.5 inches).



In planning for the project’s anniversary, Gignac had ordered the smaller cubes, but opted to turn them into a Swiftie-inspired drop when he heard about the wedding.



The 50 limited cubes were priced at $25 each, selling out in 24 hours and 8 minutes, although he is hoping he has enough trash to complete 39 more—bringing the total to 89, a tribute to Swift’s birth year, 1989.



While the 50 boxes for Swifties are bringing Gignac a renewed wave of popularity, the drop is just one small piece of the decades-long project.



New York City Garbage



The project began back in 2001, when Gignac was a 21-year-old intern at MTV. He debated with a coworker who argued that packaging design was not important. To prove him wrong, Gignac decided to package the thing he couldn’t image anyone wanting to buy: garbage.



Packaging it in clear boxes with a sleek typeface that read “New York City Garbage”—which would become the name of the business—Gignac set up a small stand in Times Square, persuading passersby to buy his creation.



And it worked. Not only did he prove his coworker wrong, but he began a small business that would lead to more than 1,700 garbage cubes sold around the world.



“I went out on the streets of Times Square with a little cardboard box that I spray-painted ‘Garbage for Sale’ on it,” he says. “Finally, after eight hours, a gentleman from Ecuador who barely spoke English—but he connected with it—bought the first one.”



The first few were priced at just $10, eventually going up in price from $25 to $100. This was to discourage people from buying them, as Gignac was too busy to meet the demand while he tried to kick-start his career in advertising.



Still, people kept buying.



“It’s interesting how people’s perspective shifts,” Gignac says. “When it was $10, people thought it was a funny joke. When it was $25, people considered it like a cool souvenir. And at $50, people started calling it art. So it’s amazing how you change the price and it changes people’s perception of it.”



Top of the heap



As the business grew, so did Gignac’s professional ambitions, and in 2012 he decided to shut down New York City Garbage to start his own business and pursue other creative projects—including the popular Elf Yourself app.



It wasn’t until 2024, when too many of his friends asked him to resume the business, and he was ready to slow down and focus on raising his 2-year-old daughter, that he reopened the store.



The first drop sold out faster than his Swift-inspired collection—50 cubes priced at $100 selling out in just 90 minutes.



“Had about a decade more of people waiting for them,” he says. “Since then, the other drops haven’t sold out as quickly, but they sell out fairly quickly, usually like a couple days or a week.”



Now that his focus is back on trash, Gignac has a renewed inspiration for what New York City Garbage is and can be.



“I think it blurs the line between art and business, and I think all good things do. It is the art of the sale,” he says. “The art happens in that exchange. I like that. It’s the story that we tell.”



With this new phase, Gignac wishes to explore the affection that individuals can attach to trash and their connection with special moments; for instance, he is interested in collecting trash from locker rooms of teams as a memento for fans.



“People are always like, ‘Why would you pay for garbage?’ And I’m like, I don’t know, but would you pay for garbage from your first date or your kid’s last Little League game?” he says. “It’s not just garbage. It’s stuff that has meaning.”



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<title>The missing ingredient in successful networking</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The greatest missed opportunity at most conferences is not a keynote session, a panel, or a workshop. It is the conversations that never happen.



Every year, professionals attend conferences hoping to build relationships, discover new opportunities, and create momentum for their careers or businesses. Yet many leave with little more than a collection of business cards and LinkedIn connections that never turn into anything meaningful. The problem is that most people have never learned to articulate what they need in a way that allows others to help.



Many professionals actually know what they are trying to accomplish. They want a strategic partner. They need an introduction. They are looking for customers, investors, mentors, advisors, board opportunities, or new career opportunities. Yet when someone asks what they hope to gain from an event, the answer is often broad and generic. They want to learn, meet interesting people, or expand their network. The real objective remains beneath the surface, never clearly articulated and therefore impossible for others to help advance.



PEOPLE WANT TO HELP



Part of the challenge is that making an ask is a skill, and it is one that many professionals rarely practice. Throughout their careers, they are rewarded for being resourceful, self-sufficient, and capable of solving problems for others. They become comfortable being the helper, not the asker. Yet some of the most important opportunities for both leaders and their organizations depend on their willingness to clearly communicate what they need. Asking for help can feel uncomfortable, even when it serves an important business objective.



The irony is that most people are far more willing to help than we assume. In fact, if we simply asked, we would likely be surprised by how often support is offered. Most asks are not enormous requests. They are introductions, insights, recommendations, or connections that require very little effort but can create significant value.



I first started noticing this dynamic at conferences where some of the most accomplished executives in the country were gathered in the same room. These events were filled with people who had extensive networks, significant influence, and the ability to open doors for one another. Yet conversations often remained at the surface level. People would leave feeling inspired by the speakers and energized by the atmosphere, but without any concrete next steps that could create practical value for themselves or their organizations.



One experience in particular changed how I think about networking. I asked an executive at a conference what she hoped to gain from attending. Her initial answer was broad and unfocused. After a few more questions, she revealed that she really wanted to find corporate partners for an initiative she was leading. As it happened, I was meeting with several executives that evening who could potentially help. I made a few introductions and meaningful conversations followed.



The opportunity had always been there. What was missing was the ask.



ASK AND ACT



That observation led me to develop a simple framework I call “ask and act.”Before attending an event, identify one meaningful ask and be prepared to articulate it clearly. The ask creates clarity around what you are trying to accomplish and where you genuinely need support. Just as important, commit to helping at least one other person during the conference. When you approach networking with both an ask and a willingness to help, the conversation shifts. Instead of exchanging business cards and surface-level introductions, people begin uncovering opportunities to create value for one another. A clear ask makes it easier for others to help, and a genuine willingness to help makes it easier for others to share what they need.



I have since organized “ask and act” conversations around conference tables, private dinners, and leadership communities. Rather than beginning with traditional networking, participants are invited to come prepared with one meaningful ask and a willingness to help someone else solve theirs. What emerges is a room full of people actively looking for ways to create value for one another.



By the end of these sessions, participants consistently identify potential collaborators, advisors, clients, investors, and future business partners. More importantly, they leave with specific commitments and next steps. The experience has reinforced a lesson I continue to see at conferences of every size: The most meaningful moments rarely happen in the keynote hall. They happen in small circles where people feel comfortable being honest about what they need and generous about what they can offer.



The next time you attend a conference, leadership summit, or networking event, spend less time thinking about who you might meet and more time thinking about what you need and how you can help someone else. During the conference, know your ask and proactively share it. Also, follow through on any commitments you make to others.



The most successful networkers are the people who know how to turn conversations into outcomes.



Tami Rosen is a board member, executive, and advisor to technology and finance companies. ]]></description>
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<title>Papa Murphy’s is closing stores, joins list of national pizza chains to shutter locations in 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It’s no secret that pizza chains are struggling. Over the last several months alone, Pizza Hut and Papa John’s announced hundreds of closures.



That pizzapocalypse trend continues this month, with the owner of the popular U.S. pizza chain Papa Murphy’s announcing it will close up to 50 locations. Here’s what you need to know.



What’s happened?



Last week, the Canadian fast-casual and quick-service dining conglomerate MTY Food Group announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2026.



The earnings were rough. For the quarter, MTY brought in revenue of $279.9 million CAD, down 8.2% from the period a year earlier. MTY attributed the decline to “lower revenue from corporate stores, which was tightly correlated to a decrease in the number of corporate-owned locations,” among other factors.



But on the company’s earnings call, later that day, MTY also confirmed that it will close more corporate-owned locations, most notably, the “take and bake” pizza chain Papa Murphy’s.



MTY Food Group owns dozens of restaurant brands in the U.S. and Canada, including Baja Fresh Mexican Grill, Blimpie, Cold Stone Creamery, Planet Smoothy, and Wetzel’s Pretzels.



But Papa Murphy’s, via its corporate-owned and franchised stores, has one of MTY’s largest retail footprints in America. 



The pizza chain’s stores are currently found in 34 U.S. states and, according to a Papa Murphy’s franchise disclosure document, there were a total of 1,014 Papa Murphy’s stores as of November 2025. 



In the United States, those stores included 965 franchised locations and 49 company-operated locations. 



However, it now looks as if MTY will close the majority of its company-owned Papa Murphy’s locations.



How many Papa Murphy’s locations are closing?



On the company’s most recent earnings call, MTY’s CEO, Eric Lefebvre, announced that it would close 68 company-owned stores across its brands in the near future.



While these 68 locations won’t all be Papa Murphy’s stores, the majority of them will be.



Lefebvre told analysts that between 45 and 50 of the store closures will be Papa Murphy’s locations, with the remainder being stores under the company’s other banners.



Why are Papa Murphy’s locations closing?



Speaking broadly about the total 68 store closures, Lefebvre said that the selected stores were “performing significantly worse than the average,” according to a PitchBook transcript of the call. 



In choosing the locations to close, MTY looked at several factors, including “the performance, outlook, [and] economic profile of each location.”



“Where we saw path improvement, we chose to continue investing efforts into making our existing assets as productive as they can be,” Lefebvre said. “Where the fundamentals no longer supported that path, we made the decision to close the store.”



Speaking more specifically about the pizza industry, Lefebvre said it was an extremely competitive space in the United States, noting that Papa Murphy’s was suffering more than other brands. 



“We run different promotions and we see that there’s very little loyalty in that market and the consumer will go where the pizza is the cheapest at any given time.”



Papa Murphy’s stands out among well-known pizza chains such as Domino’s and Pizza Hut. It is primarily a “take and bake” chain, where customers go to the store, order the pizza they want, and are given it uncooked. The customers then go home and put it in their ovens to cook.



Lefebvre noted that while promotional activity is “super productive,” MTY also needs to protect its franchisees’ profit margins. “So our teams are actively seeking more data on all the promotions we run to try to adjust them to make it as profitable as possible for our franchisees.”



Which Papa Murphy’s locations are closing?



Right now, MTY has not specified which Papa Murphy’s locations would close. Currently, the chain has stores in 34 states, which include both franchisee and corporate locations. Those states are:




Alabama



Alaska



Arizona



Arkansas



California



Colorado



Florida



Georgia



Idaho



Illinois



Indiana



Iowa



Kansas



Kentucky



Louisiana



Michigan



Minnesota



Missouri



Montana



Nebraska



Nevada



New Mexico



North Carolina



North Dakota



Oklahoma



Oregon



South Carolina



South Dakota



Tennessee



Texas



Utah



Washington



Wisconsin



Wyoming




When will the Papa Murphy’s locations close?



Lefebvre said some of the company’s 68 closing stores, which include Papa Murphy’s locations, will begin closing as early as this week. He added that it will take between six and nine months to shutter all the locations marked for closure. ]]></description>
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<title>Sen. Graham’s cause of death is released in preliminary report by medical examiner</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, died after a tear in his aorta, according to a preliminary medical examiner finding shared by his office.The tear in the inner wall of the aorta, called an aortic dissection, was related to the hardening of Graham’s arteries. An official cause of death will be disclosed after toxicological and microscopic testing.Graham, a prominent South Carolina Republican and former Air Force lawyer who served in Congress for more than three decades, had turned 71 years old just two days before dying on Saturday night. His office had originally said he had suffered from a “brief and sudden illness.”Trump, who talked to Graham frequently, said he was “like a member of the family. It’s very tough.” He said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Graham had called him on Saturday night after returning from a trip to Ukraine and “sounded a little bit tired, but perfect.” The president ordered that flags across the country be flown at half-staff until next Saturday evening.A noted foreign policy hawk, Graham was one of the most influential figures in Washington on international affairs and he advised Trump on matters such as the Iran war and Russia. On Friday, Graham had announced an agreement with the Trump administration to move forward on a package of Russia sanctions.As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Graham also had a central role during Trump’s second term as Republicans pushed major legislation on party-line votes while holding a narrow 53-47 majority in the chamber.Under South Carolina law, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster will appoint a temporary replacement for Graham, who was seeking a fifth term in November. A new nominee will be selected in a special primary, which is required to be held within weeks of a vacancy. The winner of November’s general election will start a full six-year term in January.



Graham had a close, complicated relationship with Trump



Graham, elected to the Senate in 2002 after serving in the House, long promoted a policy of robust U.S. military interventionism and strong national defense that in later years would put him at odds with the growing isolationist wing of his party.Over time, Graham became well-known for his close ties with Trump, whom the senator briefly ran against for the presidential nomination in 2016.Their relationship would begin on a rough note, with Graham calling the then-New York businessman “unfit for office.” Graham used a profanity to describe Trump after Trump made disparaging comments about Arizona Republican John McCain, Graham’s best friend in the Senate and a Vietnam War veteran. McCain and Graham, along with Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., were known as the “Three Amigos” and frequently traveled together to promote their foreign policy views around the globe.During a campaign rally in South Carolina, Trump read out Graham’s personal cellphone number and continued to belittle him throughout the 2016 race as Graham made it clear he would not support Trump.Graham, however, shifted significantly once Trump won the White House and emerged as one of Trump’s top allies — speaking with him frequently and becoming a regular presence on the golf course alongside the president — even as McCain remained a critic.In a 2018 interview with The Associated Press, Graham explained his pivot by saying McCain taught him that the country must move forward after elections and that meant “you have an obligation” to help the president. McCain ran twice for the White House.“And I’ve tried to be helpful where I could because I think he needs all the help he can get,” Graham said of Trump. “You can be a better critic when people understand that you’re trying to help them be successful.”Graham was a prominent defender of Trump during the president’s two first-term impeachments — a reversal from Graham’s role as a House prosecutor during Democratic President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998, when he urged senators not to make up their minds before listening to all of the arguments. Both Trump and Clinton were eventually acquitted.Graham appeared to break with Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, saying in a dramatic speech on the Senate floor that night, “Count me out. Enough is enough.” But the senator soon returned to Trump’s side and the two remained close during Trump’s second term.



Foreign policy was a focus for Graham



Graham had just been in Ukraine to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said the senator visited his country 10 times during the years since Russia invaded in February 2022. “Lindsey was a true defender of freedom and the values that make our world safer,” Zelenskyy said.He was also one of the chief backers of Trump’s war in Iran, having advocated for years for direct confrontation between Washington and Tehran. Graham continued to defend Trump this summer even as many of his fellow Republicans questioned a tentative June ceasefire agreement that they worried could send billions of dollars to Iran.“I’d rather try diplomacy than take it off the table,” Graham said of Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Tehran.Graham’s travels made him a familiar face to dozens of world leaders.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Graham understood that the security of Israel and the United States was inseparable.“Israel has lost one of its greatest friends. America has lost a great patriot. I have lost a beloved friend,” Netanyahu said.



Graham led both the Senate Budget and Judiciary committees



As Budget Committee chairman, Graham helped oversee a Senate procedure that allowed Republicans to pass significant policies such as last year’s tax law without the threat of a Democratic filibuster.He had previously led the Senate Judiciary Committee when Republicans confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in 2020. The senator was in line to regain that gavel if the party kept its majority after the midterm elections and had pledged to confirm “as many conservative judges as possible.”Graham was a key player in the Senate’s efforts to craft a massive immigration overhaul in 2013 as a member of a bipartisan group. The legislation passed the Senate with 68 votes but was never taken up by the House, so it did not become law.Graham’s views on immigration, particularly an endorsement of a path to citizenship for people in the U.S. without legal status, put him at odds with some Republican factions.Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat who was his ally on that issue, said Graham was “part of every important policy issue and an indispensable player” in bipartisan negotiations.



An ‘irreplaceable’ force in the Senate



Graham often worked across the aisle, even as he remained fiercely loyal to Trump. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat, said in a statement that “personal relationships often mattered more to him than the political disagreements of the day.”Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Graham was “over the moon” with the Russian sanctions deal announced Friday. “The last thing in the world I would have guessed was that he was sick or ill or in any way vulnerable,” Blumenthal said.Jaime Harrison, a former national and state Democratic Party chairman who unsuccessfully ran against Graham in 2020, said that even during their “fiercest political battles” the two men “could still share a conversation, a laugh, and a mutual respect for South Carolina.”Graham was unique in the Senate for his influence not only on Trump, but also with his fellow Republicans who were aware of his ability to sometimes move the president’s thinking. He was also known for his sense of humor, often deployed to defuse tensions.



Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the second-ranking Republican, said Graham will be missed for his “quick wit and infectious laughter.”



McMaster said in a statement that Graham was “irreplaceable.” Former Republican President George W. Bush said Graham “understood how the world works” and “was a kind and funny man who loved our country and loved serving it.”



Graham often spoke about his humble roots, growing up in the back of a South Carolina bar and helping to raise his sister, Darline, after his parents died at a young age. Graham was not married and did not have children.



Special election to replace Graham could be within weeks



Graham won 57% of the GOP vote in South Carolina’s primary in June and was up against Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, and several minor party and independent candidates in November.His death will likely prompt a scramble to fill a rare open Senate seat.A number of Republican names began circulating as possible replacements to serve out the rest of Graham’s term, including three candidates who fell short for the party’s nomination for governor this year — Rep. Nancy Mace, Rep. Ralph Norman and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.Also in the mix is Rep. Russell Fry, who was elected to the House in 2022.







Kinnard reported from Columbia, S.C. Associated Press writers Chris Megerian and Will Weissert in Washington, Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Brian P. D. Hannon in Bangkok and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.



—Seung Min Kim, Mary Clare Jalonick and Meg Kinnard, Associated Press ]]></description>
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<title>This prefab homebuilder is moving from tiny ADUs to small&#45;scale starter homes</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-prefab-homebuilder-is-moving-from-tiny-adus-to-small-scale-starter-homes</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Samara, the prefabricated homebuilder that was created to chip away at California’s housing shortage with well-designed accessory dwelling units (ADUs), is sizing up. But not too much.



The company has just unveiled Locale by Samara, an expansion into single family homebuilding. But these aren’t the typical single family homes, which now average nearly 2,200 square feet (204 square meters) in size in the U.S. Instead, the company is developing significantly smaller homes, ranging between 1,000 and 1,750 square feet, sited in urban infill sites in some of California’s most desirable cities, and built using the same modular, factory-based process that’s behind the company’s quickly constructed ADUs. It’s an attempt to counter the state’s extravagantly expensive and constrained housing market with homes that are sized and priced more like the starter homes of the past.



[Image: Samara]



“It’s a missing form factor in California,” says the CEO, Mike McNamara. “The price points would be significantly lower on the back of the square footage. And we think it’s the right product, too, because more people want lower square footage, they want smaller yards, they want to be closer to the cities, not driving two hours to go to work.”



McNamara has led Samara since 2020, a few years after it was created as a research and development division within Airbnb. In 2022, it was spun out by McNamara and Airbnb’s cofounder, Joe Gebbia. (Gebbia, now the Trump administration’s chief design officer, is still involved with Samara as cofounder.) Since then the company has been selling backyard ADUs as products, handling the design, permitting, and construction for customers who want a turnkey additional unit on their property.



It’s a niche part of the housing market that’s grown significantly over the past decade, as municipalities and eventually the state have made ADUs legal and feasible to build. More than 30,000 were permitted statewide in 2024, a 20-fold increase from 2016, according to the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development. Samara, which raised $34 million in Series B funding in late 2025, has 250 ADUs either built or in the works, with prices starting at $152,000 plus installation.



[Image: Samara]



With Locale, Samara seeks to replicate that growth in small stand-alone homes clustered on lots that were once zoned exclusively for single family homes. Samara’s starter home focus comes on the heels of a recent amendment to California’s Starter Home Revitalization Act, which allows eligible lots to be subdivided for up to 10 small-footprint homes. The company has about 10 such cluster projects in various stages of development, and McNamara says Samara is using what it’s learned building ADUs in prefab housing factories to bring up the speed and bring down the cost of building single family homes.



[Image: Samara]



“Our first product was an ADU, but it was never our objective to be an ADU company. It was always meant to be an infill company,” McNamara says. “We designed our entire system around that concept, around small form factor [compact] housing.”



Samara is playing the role of developer for these first 10 projects, buying the land, designing the clusters of homes to meet the site conditions, and going through the entitlement and permitting process. The company has permits to build in Los Angeles and in the northern California counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Sonoma.



[Image: Samara]



The first Samara starter home projects are in Healdsburg, in the Sonoma County wine region. One project is two small homes, and the other is six. Each home has its own small yard and one-car garage, and abuts a shared paseo. The houses top out at 1,750 square feet. (The two-unit property is priced at $2.195 million, which the company contends is in line with similarly sized new construction in the area.)



McNamara says the projects are all designed specifically for their sites—partly due to the often oddly sized lots available for infill development, but partly to make the projects complement their surroundings. “We work really hard to find the right neighborhood where this slots in, where the neighborhood would benefit and the community would benefit by introducing some additional small form factor homes,” he says. “We want to make sure that we control what they look like because it’s really important for us to be received by the community and be attractive to the community and help that gentle densification that’s coming.”



Samara’s buildings tie into municipal grids for water, sewage, and electricity, and require a slab foundation. After the prefab modules are installed, the homes are ready for people to move in.



[Image: Samara]



The first project is complete, and the second is expected to finish construction later this summer, using the same off-site building approach Samara has used to expedite the construction of its ADUs. “As soon as the foundation’s done, we can truck in our modules, put the modules on site, turn them into a home, and do that at a rate which is three times faster than what the traditional builders could do,” McNamara says.



That speed and the size of the homes will help bring prices down below the typically high cost of new housing in California. McNamara says it’s too early to say how much each home will sell for, but that they’re expected to be generally lower than the typical new home in each of the markets the company is targeting. “It’ll have a more approachable price point,” he says.



[Image: Samara]



The houses are also designed with sustainability measures, including energy efficient utilities and appliances that can help make them more affordable to operate, as well as whole-house air and water filtration systems. Each will have solar panels and be prewired to run off batteries, and the exterior materials and forms were selected to reduce susceptibility to wildfire. McNamara expects to have more than 150 homes in the company’s development pipeline by the end of the year.



For now, Samara will be developing them on its own, but McNamara says there’s room for partnerships with other developers looking at infill development of a smaller variety.



“Densification is coming, and we’d like to help lead with that,” he says. “We think there’s a lot of opportunities.”



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<title>Redundancy pay – a Small Business guide</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/redundancy-pay-a-small-business-guide</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs


Take these tips to keep your business on the right lines if you need to make your employees redundant 
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<title>AWS GraphRAG deployment cuts drug research cycles by 87%</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/aws-graphrag-deployment-cuts-drug-research-cycles-by-87</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ A recent AWS GraphRAG deployment reduced drug research and development cycles in pharmaceutical environments by 87 percent. This acceleration is achieved by integrating previously separated proprietary databases into a unified and queryable knowledge graph. Historically, initial data gathering and screening phases took over six months per iteration, yielding a low five percent success rate. Crucial […]
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How to shrink the token budget without shrinking the team</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/how-to-shrink-the-token-budget-without-shrinking-the-team</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it comes with a token budget attached. Speaking on the All-In Podcast at the close of GTC 2026, the Nvidia chief executive said that if a $500,000 engineer’s annual AI token consumption came in under half their salary, “I am going to […]
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<title>AI agent crawlers now need permission. Here’s how to get it</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ AI agent crawlers, the bots that fetch pages in real time on behalf of a person waiting for an answer, will be blocked by default on a slice of the web from September 15 onwards. Cloudflare announced the change on July 1, and most of the coverage since then has focused on Google. The more useful part […]
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<title>OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/openai-bets-on-families-as-chatgpt-goes-deeper-into-households</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting. ]]></description>
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<title>Smart glasses without a camera? Even Realities bets productivity beats recording everyone</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/smart-glasses-without-a-camera-even-realities-bets-productivity-beats-recording-everyone</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The glasses are targeted at people who might be constantly in meetings, giving presentations, and traveling to countries where different languages are spoken.  ]]></description>
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<title>This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat wave</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/this-slushie-machine-was-a-lifesaver-during-nycs-heat-wave</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I stayed home and put the new Ninja Slushi Twist to the test. Ninja’s latest slushie machine builds on the popularity of the original […] ]]></description>
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<title>Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/reed-jobs-would-rather-talk-about-curing-cancer-than-his-last-name</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in roughly the same window, creating all kinds of new opportunities; and AI has gone from a curiosity to, in Jobs&#039;s words, a huge part of what Yosemite does. &quot;I didn&#039;t expect Yosemite to be moving this fast,&quot; he said. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ As governments race to restrict minors’ social media use, the tech billionaires who built the platforms are imposing strict screen limits at home. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.” ]]></description>
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<title>Want to earn nearly $100,000 within 5 years of graduating? Study engineering, Fed research says</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/want-to-earn-nearly-100000-within-5-years-of-graduating-study-engineering-fed-research-says</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ 80% of the top 10 college majors with the highest incomes five years after graduation are engineering degrees, New York Federal Reserve study shows. ]]></description>
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<title>Brené Brown warns American workers are not neurologically wired for this level of rapid change and instability: ‘People are not okay’</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “People are emotionally dysregulated, distrustful, and disconnected,” bestselling author and professor Brené Brown warned. ]]></description>
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<title>Sen. Lindsey Graham, a foreign policy hawk who became a close Trump ally, dies suddenly at 71</title>
<link>https://thebusinesseconomic.com/sen-lindsey-graham-a-foreign-policy-hawk-who-became-a-close-trump-ally-dies-suddenly-at-71</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Graham was one of the most influential figures in Washington on foreign policy, and he advised Trump on matters such as Iran and Russia. ]]></description>
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<title>Families told to hold their nerve as inherited property tax fears swirl</title>
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Capital gains tax on inherited property could rise if the &#039;uplift on death&#039; is scrapped. Experts explain why panic selling now could prove costly. ]]></description>
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<title>Student loans sold like phone contracts open a serious trust gap</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Student loan mis-selling has opened a serious trust gap between young people and university, warns Best Student Halls founder. What it means for UK firms. ]]></description>
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