AI-powered smart glasses promise to keep your phone in your pocket, but their usefulness depends on how much work they can take off your day. Meta ties its glasses to its own AI services, while Google is courting eyewear makers with Gemini. As an AI assistant learns a wearer’s preferences, it can become more useful and harder to replace.

This past March, McDonald’s finally gave KPop Demon Hunters the kids’-meal treatment it was practically begging for. The movie, an animated musical about a K-pop girl group, Huntr/X, and a charming demonic boy band, the Saja Boys, had become the most-watched film in Netflix history, captivating even skeptical parents who found themselves watching it dozens of times.

The first four years of the generative AI revolution have tended to see power flow in one direction. Big Tech firms unleashed their tools on the planet and expected users to like it or lump it. Unhappy with the amount of data collected about you in the pursuit of convenience from your chatbot? Tough luck. Squeamish about the provenance of all the data AI systems have been trained on, and whether it was legally obtained? Not a lot you can do about it.

Although we love to assume that leadership must change from one year to the next—prompting us to reimagine or reinvent it on a regular basis—the reality is far more mundane.

Dolly Parton’s nephew Bryan Seaver announced the legendary singer’s death on August 25, 2026, in a prerecorded video. Seaver, the son of one of Parton’s 11 siblings, had been her head of security for many years.

As artificial intelligence makes it easier to get the answers you want to any question, retaining knowledge is becoming a rare skill. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve (introduced by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885) proves that we lose most of what we learn over time if we don’t reinforce it or put it into practice.

If you’ve been told you lack “executive presence” when you’re delivering a presentation, you know that something about how you’re coming across needs to change. What’s less clear is what, specifically, to work on. 

There’s a new word for those who are apprehensive or outright uninterested in career advancement. 

Trillions of dollars flow from governments and organizations across the globe every single year, and the money can be nearly impossible to accurately track.

Since its founding in 2021, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences has sought to bring back extinct animals, including the dodo, the iconic flightless bird once endemic to Mauritius. It was documented by humans when the Portuguese first arrived on the island in the 16th century, but hasn’t been seen in hundreds of years. The columbid (a 3-foot-tall member of the Columbidae family, which includes modern pigeons and doves) struggled to survive the arrival of new invasive species and human hunting, and, as the saying goes, went “the way of the dodo.” 

Chick-fil-A is one of the most popular fast-food chains in America. It’s also one of the most divisive. And a new interview with the company’s leader is reigniting the long-running controversy.

Andrew Cathy, CEO of the chain, recently sat down with the Today show’s Craig Melvin for his first-ever broadcast interview. But when Melvin asked the CEO pointed questions about the company’s stance on LBGTQ+ rights, he repeatedly evaded them. 

Forget stumbling across your perfect match on a dating app by chance. Thanks to a new Bumble feature, you can look them up directly—as long as you know their username.

For the average traveler, flying at 30,000 feet means tight seats and dried-out peanuts—not exactly luxury.

For the first time in more than a quarter-century, Americans have a new option when shopping for sunscreen: a skin-protecting chemical that’s long been a go-to option in Europe and other parts of the world.

With financial stress mounting for many Americans, scoring deals may be all the more important during the holiday shopping rush.

AI is giving longevity research a new way forward: better tools to identify potential interventions, and better ways to investigate their effects in people. Two recent papers from our team and academic collaborators illustrate that progression. In Cell, we introduced open tools to evaluate AI models and help researchers identify potential drug targets in aging biology.

Microsoft is pushing back on reports that the tech giant is considering major cuts to its cloud division amid increased spending on artificial intelligence. 

Americans are growing richer on average—but not everyone, and not even a little bit equally.

Renee Wegrzyn spent her career building the future of American science—including the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, the White House agency created to accelerate health breakthroughs.

While kiosks have become fixtures in many restaurants, most people still prefer ordering from a human being, industry data shows.