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            <title>The invisible tax that might be holding back your startup</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>When cofounders clash, the whole company pays.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In most companies, tension between co-founders is treated as a personal issue. It’s uncomfortable, it may affect morale, and in extreme cases, it can become a governance concern, but it is rarely treated as a core business risk. I believe that is a mistake.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth O'Neill]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-26T05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;When cofounders clash, the whole company pays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Should you take that promotion?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Three questions to help you decide.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Today leadership no longer has the allure it once did. In fact, if you get an opportunity for a promotion, there may be good reasons to think it over carefully.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tracy Brower]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-26T05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Three questions to help you decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>The Toronto Tempo president explains how she’s building a WNBA franchise like a startup</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Teresa Resch discusses launching the league’s newest team from scratch, navigating a chaotic inaugural season, and building a Canadian fan base amid tensions with the U.S.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Toronto Tempo arrived in the <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/wnba" type="link" id="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/wnba" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WNBA</a> this season with record-breaking attendance, a 53-point single-game performance from a star player, and the weight of being the league&#8217;s newest franchise. As the season pauses for All-Star Weekend, team president Teresa Resch takes stock of what she&#8217;s built, what&#8217;s surprised her, and what she&#8217;s still figuring out in real time. She talks about running a sports franchise like a startup and how Canada&#8217;s complicated political relationship with the U.S. impacts building a fan base from scratch.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Safian]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-26T04:26:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Teresa Resch discusses launching the league’s newest team from scratch, navigating a chaotic inaugural season, and building a Canadian fan base amid tensions with the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Basic Business? Platinum Pro? Premium Plus? Airlines have a naming problem—here’s how to fix it</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Naming experts explain why Delta’s new ‘Basic Business’ class doesn’t work, and what airlines can do to make flying at least sound fun again.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In early July, Delta Airlines announced that it would begin offering a new category of fares for its Delta First, Delta Premium Select, and Delta One seat tiers. The Delta One option came with a name that felt like an oxymoron: “Basic Business.”</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Grace Snelling]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-25T11:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Naming experts explain why Delta’s new ‘Basic Business’ class doesn’t work, and what airlines can do to make flying at least sound fun again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Meet the ultimate Google Photos power-up</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>This lightweight add-on fixes Photos’ most glaring editing weakness—and makes the service feel complete.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It really is phenomenal how easy it is to edit photos these days.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[JR Raphael]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-25T10:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;This lightweight add-on fixes Photos’ most glaring editing weakness—and makes the service feel complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>3 big new changes to federal student loans and what they mean for you</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The Department of Education put three major changes to federal student loans into effect July 1 that could have long-term financial consequences for borrowers. </p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Federal student loan terms can change from one academic year to the next. For instance, every spring, the <a href="https://finaid.org/loans/historicalrates/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Treasury Department determines</a> the fixed interest rate for federal student loans for the upcoming award year, which runs from July 1 to June 30. Borrowers know that if they take federal loans every year of college, each one will likely come with a different interest rate.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Guy Birken]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-25T10:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The Department of Education put three major changes to federal student loans into effect July 1 that could have long-term financial consequences for borrowers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>How to make Google Maps and Apple Maps show you the actual fastest route, every time</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>These apps are great with directions but don’t always show you the fastest route. Here’s how to fix that.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When it comes to driving, most of us want to get to our destination as quickly (and safely) as possible. After all, given how bad sitting behind the wheel is <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4049576/">for your health</a>, who wants to be in a car any longer than they have to be?</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91572379/how-to-make-google-maps-and-apple-maps-show-you-the-actual-fastest-route-every-time</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Grothaus]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-25T09:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;These apps are great with directions but don’t always show you the fastest route. Here’s how to fix that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>AI may finally make ‘women’s work’ valuable. But will women benefit?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>As AI makes human connection more valuable, caregiving and relationship-based jobs could become the economy’s most sought-after work. History suggests the women who built those professions may not be the biggest winners.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For years, economists have predicted that <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="AI">artificial intelligence</a> would hollow out the labor market. Machines would write the code, analyze the contracts, draft the emails, and automate the work that once defined white-collar status.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91575822/ai-may-finally-make-womens-work-valuable-but-will-women-benefit</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Colacurcio]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-25T05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;As AI makes human connection more valuable, caregiving and relationship-based jobs could become the economy’s most sought-after work. History suggests the women who built those professions may not be the biggest winners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>AI surveillance is destroying the workplace</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The rise of AI-powered employee surveillance is degrading trust between workers and employers.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Somewhere right now, an employee is getting an automated flag for spending too long away from their keyboard. Another is being scored on keystroke volume. And another is having their Slack tone analyzed by an algorithm to determine whether they are a retention risk. None of this is science fiction. It is a normal day at a growing number of companies, and it is making everything worse.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91577271/ai-surveillance-is-destroying-the-workplace</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Schawbel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-25T05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The rise of AI-powered employee surveillance is degrading trust between workers and employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Here’s how Meta decides who to lay off—and it claims to not use AI</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>In a new filing, Meta was forced to disclose its criteria for selecting employees for layoffs—including performance ratings. But what if AI adoption impacts performance reviews? </p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Twenty-six employees at Meta who were recently laid off made a bold claim <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91573521/meta-faces-discrimination-lawsuit-over-ai-use-in-mass-layoffs">in a lawsuit</a> last week: They alleged the company had used <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="AI">AI</a> to select people for layoffs, disproportionately impacting people who had taken leave or those with disabilities. The lawsuit identified a number of factors that the plaintiffs claimed had influenced the layoff selection process, from an internal AI assistant to dashboards that tallied employees’ AI token usage.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91579690/heres-how-meta-decides-who-to-lay-off-and-the-company-claims-to-not-use-ai</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pavithra Mohan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T21:30:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;In a new filing, Meta was forced to disclose its criteria for selecting employees for layoffs—including performance ratings. But what if AI adoption impacts performance reviews? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Why 25 states are fighting Trump over $740 million in emergency funding</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The lawsuit challenges new conditions that require states to use a federal citizenship verification system for voters and conduct post-election audits to receive certain federal grants.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A coalition of governors and attorneys general is suing the Trump administration, arguing that the federal government wants to strong-arm Democratic states into complying with some of its most controversial policy changes yet.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91579623/why-25-states-are-fighting-trump-over-740-million-in-emergency-funding</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylor Hatmaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T21:06:44</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The lawsuit challenges new conditions that require states to use a federal citizenship verification system for voters and conduct post-election audits to receive certain federal grants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Europe’s central bank gets hilarious alternative designs for the euro banknote after asking for feedback</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>From water bottle caps to random people’s pets, social media has some interesting ideas for what Europe should put on its money.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Asking the internet for advice can be a dicey game: Users can either be helpful or take the chance to make a joke of it all—as the European Central Bank (ECB) has come to find out.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91579555/euro-banknote-new-design-meme-alternatives</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[María José Gutiérrez Chávez]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T20:35:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;From water bottle caps to random people’s pets, social media has some interesting ideas for what Europe should put on its money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Jensen Huang has a message about AI doomerism for his fellow tech leaders</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>“We just all have to be thoughtful and careful,” the Nvidia CEO said in a recent interview with Axios. “You’re scaring people and wrongly.”</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants other <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="AI">AI</a> leaders to quit the <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90947634/why-metas-yann-lecun-isnt-buying-the-ai-doomer-narrative">doomerism</a>.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91579649/jensen-huang-has-a-message-about-ai-doomerism-for-his-fellow-tech-leaders</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ella Chakarian]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T20:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;“We just all have to be thoughtful and careful,” the Nvidia CEO said in a recent interview with Axios. “You’re scaring people and wrongly.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>The ‘Bayou Barbie’ finally has her own Barbie doll. Here’s where to buy it</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Mattel is launching an Angel Reese Barbie Signature doll for $38, bringing the WNBA star’s longtime ‘Bayou Barbie’ nickname full circle.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Barbie has worn a black-and-white one-piece swimsuit, a pink dress, and a silver space suit—and now, thanks to a new collaboration, she can wear the Reebok Angel Reese 1, too.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[María José Gutiérrez Chávez]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T19:31:11</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Mattel is launching an Angel Reese Barbie Signature doll for $38, bringing the WNBA star’s longtime ‘Bayou Barbie’ nickname full circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Rogue OpenAI agents forced the ‘AI Kill Switch’ bill. Here’s what it aims to do</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The bipartisan legislation would authorize the government to shut down AI systems in the face of ‘catastrophic harm.’</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em> to <em>The Matrix</em>, humans have long been afraid of tech going rogue. As <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="AI">artificial intelligence</a> becomes more and more advanced, those fears have become more tangible—and <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91578008/an-openai-model-went-rogue-on-the-internet-and-stole-test-answers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">after OpenAI models hacked into another company’s servers earlier this week</a>, the threat is on everyone’s mind.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91579547/rogue-openai-models-agents-forced-ai-kill-switch-bill-heres-what-it-would-do</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Cramer]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T19:15:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The bipartisan legislation would authorize the government to shut down AI systems in the face of ‘catastrophic harm.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Cyclosporiasis update: CDC says parasite outbreak just spread to 4 new states. Full list of where to skip the lettuce</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Now in 9 states, the outbreak has been linked to Taylor Farms lettuce products, which are also used in shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell restaurants.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis linked to lettuce has spread to four additional U.S. states, bringing the total to nine, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/cyclosporiasis/outbreaks/07-26/investigation.html" id="https://www.cdc.gov/cyclosporiasis/outbreaks/07-26/investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</a>. The foodborne parasitic illness is characterized by explosive diarrhea. The update was first reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/07/24/cdc-expands-largest-known-us-cyclospora-outbreak-9-states/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Washington Post</em></a>.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91579467/cyclosporiasis-update-cyclospora-parasite-outbreak-spreads-to-4-new-states-contaminated-lettuce-taylor-farms-full-list-cdc-explosive-diarrhea</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Mattson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T18:45:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Now in 9 states, the outbreak has been linked to Taylor Farms lettuce products, which are also used in shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell restaurants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>OpenAI gets sued over ChatGPT medical advice gone wrong</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The chatbot allegedly discouraged a Florida resident from seeking a potentially lifesaving treatment and drew from his religious beliefs to make its case.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A former pastor is suing OpenAI over flawed medical advice that its ChatGPT chatbot allegedly gave him in 2025.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91579405/openai-lawsuit-chatgpt-accused-bad-health-medical-advice</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Bregel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T18:40:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The chatbot allegedly discouraged a Florida resident from seeking a potentially lifesaving treatment and drew from his religious beliefs to make its case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Want part of Amazon’s $2.5 billion settlement? The deadline is Monday</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The payout covers certain customers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime or unsuccessfully tried to cancel their memberships.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you’ve been an <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/section/amazon-prime" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amazon Prime</a> member at some point in the past several years, you have until Monday to file a claim to be included in a $2.5 billion settlement.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91579470/want-part-of-amazons-2-5-billion-settlement-the-deadline-is-monday</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna-Louise Jackson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T18:39:25</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The payout covers certain customers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime or unsuccessfully tried to cancel their memberships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 for both AI coding and general office work</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Anthropic says the model can make its way through the steps of a complicated problem without much back-and-forth with the user.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Today Anthropic released its new Opus 5 model, which the company claims delivers performance comparable to its more advanced Fable 5 model at half the price.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91578762/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-5-for-both-ai-coding-and-general-office-work</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Sullivan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-07-24T17:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Anthropic says the model can make its way through the steps of a complicated problem without much back-and-forth with the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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