On our video call, Shreyas Narlanka holds up a 3-inch square screen called Meadow. It looks like a thick, equilateral iPhone 13 mini. It would easily fit in my jeans’ front pocket. 

Many call the development of artificial intelligence the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but I disagree. I would say AI is the first, and the last, intelligence revolution.

For five years, the former Meta employee had been feted as a high performer by her managers. She had even received a rare equity award in recognition of her performance, which had never fallen below an “exceeds expectations” rating. 

What happens to all of your online accounts—credit cards, merchants, news subscriptions, social media, streaming services—after you die? How will your heirs know how to access these accounts or understand what you want done with them? Most people haven’t considered these questions, and this lack of planning can create significant headaches for next of kin.

It is trite to say that we work in a global economy, but over the past decade more companies have begun to hire workers from different regions of the world and have them work in teams that are separated by large distances. Through video conferencing and messaging platforms, it is easy to share information among remote teams, but there are still significant challenges in enabling these teams to work well together.

Less than a year ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott stood beside Sundar Pichai, the Google CEO, to celebrate the company’s $40 billion investment in the state’s cloud and AI infrastructure. Three new data center campuses would help make Texas, Abbott declared, the “epicenter of AI development.” 

For a device with such a straightforward name, the iPad Mini has had many lives over its 14 years. Yes, it’s always been a small iPad. But at various times, it’s also been a cheap iPad with a lesser display, an iPad as technologically sophisticated as any you could buy, and a midrange iPad.

The midterm elections have the potential to upend everything from politics to business to the stock market. But the person most impacted by Tuesday’s results could be President Donald Trump, and that, in effect, could determine the course of his final two years in office.

Hinge users may soon have access to a more affordable subscription tier. The app’s parent company, Match Group, announced on November 2 that it’s testing a new feature geared toward women.

Yum Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell, KFC, and The Habit Burger & Grill, reported higher-than-expected third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, driven in part by KFC’s global expansion and higher revenue from its franchises.

A startup wants to fill the night sky with ultrapowerful beams of redirected sunlight. What could go wrong?

Whether or not Tuesday’s midterm elections deliver a so-called blue wave, one thing is for certain: More volatility will likely ripple through financial markets.

U.S. employers ramped up their job postings in September as stronger economic growth may be encouraging more hiring. Yet voters are headed to the polls Tuesday, largely gloomy over an economy beset by higher prices.

A battle over abortion rights is playing out in several states Tuesday as voters decide 145 proposed laws and constitutional amendments, including some that could affect voting for future elections.

The ballot measures provide a political undercard for a high-profile midterm election that will determine which party controls Congress, state legislatures and gubernatorial offices in many states.

Some measures put President Donald Trump’s priorities to a public test by gauging support for his attempts to reshape congressional districts, limit transgender athletes in sports and strengthen voter identification requirements.

In the 20 years I’ve been a TV producer, media executive, and speaking coach, I cannot count the number of times I’ve seen people literally cringe upon hearing their own voice. Sometimes it’s a slight scrunch of the nose and sometimes it’s an audible sigh. Why do we hate our own voice? And what can we do about it?

Yesterday, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) reported its fourth-quarter results, which closed out its fiscal 2026 financial year.

The stakes in Tuesday’s election — which party will control Congress — are crystal clear. But when that will be known is impossible to say.

The Associated Press will be calling races in all 435 House districts and the 35 Senate contests that are up for election this year.

Control of the House depends on which party reaches 218 seats. Currently, 219 members caucus with Republicans, just one more than the minimum needed for a majority when all seats are filled. There are two vacancies now.

The bar for the Senate is 51 seats for Democrats or 50 for Republicans, since Vice President JD Vance can cast a tiebreaking vote for his party. Republicans have a 53-47 edge in the Senate right now.

During the last midterm elections in 2022, the AP called control of the Senate four days after Election Day, while the House call was eight days after.

During the presidential cycle of 2024, there was a bigger gap between the two. Senate control was called the day after Election Day, with the House call coming eight days later.

Some states consistently take days to count all their ballots. California, the nation’s most populous, has seen thousands of mail ballots dropped off on Election Day. In 2022, half the state’s votes were counted after Election Day.

Other states like Alaska and Maine, which have key Senate races this year, use ranked choice voting.

A candidate can win with more than 50% of votes in the first round, but if no one reaches that threshold then the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated and their votes are redistributed to the voter’s second choice. The process can significantly delay results.

The AP does not make projections and will only declare a winner when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow the trailing candidates to close the gap.

Election Day 2026 is here. By the end of today (Tuesday, November 3, 2026), the balance of power in Washington is almost certain to have shifted. But the big question is, by how much?

The final day of voting in this year’s midterm elections arrived Tuesday against a backdrop of uncertainty after a year in which President Donald Trump has tried to interfere in how states run their elections and sown doubts about the outcome should Republicans lose.

Millions of Americans already have cast their ballots, with early voting turnout on pace to eclipse that of the last midterm elections. In contrast to the president’s continued rhetoric about election cheating, voting so far has unfolded with relatively few problems.

Trump has spent months trying to use the power of the presidency to put his thumb on the scale of this year’s elections, which will determine whether his party keeps control of Congress.

His Justice and Homeland Security departments have been involved in a massive hunt for voters who are not U.S. citizens, at one point engaging in a made-for-the-cameras predawn operation that led to more than two dozen arrests in California. The Department of Justice was planning its largest-ever effort to monitor Election Day polling places, countered by an even larger effort among Democrats and allied groups, and at the president’s urging had sued to block certification of Alaska’s results if the outcome of the Senate race favored Democrats.

At the same time, Trump’s constant false claims about widespread voter fraud led election officials and Democratic groups across the country to plan for the possibility of immigration agents at voting sites or federal officers seizing voting machines. His administration has insisted that no armed federal officials would be guarding the polls on Election Day.