The Children’s Place (Nasdaq: PLCE), a popular children’s clothing retailer with around 500 locations, has announced it is filing for bankruptcy.

A job search, whatever the length, is demoralizing.

The recent reports of artificial intelligence agents gone rogue—hacking into corporate systems without being told to by the humans who manage them—are enough to make any systems administrator’s hair stand on end.

Republican Congressman Byron Donalds, Florida’s first Black governor-elect, wants space and tech at the forefront of job creation in Florida. He also wants NASA to move its headquarters there. 

Since August 2010, typing into Yahoo Search has meant getting a list of purple links yodeled by Microsoft Bing. That changes today. The Sunnyvale, California, company has rebuilt its engine powering its search using Scout, its AI answer engine launched as a beta in January. Eric Feng, senior vice president and general manager of the Yahoo Research Group, calls it “truly the biggest update that we’ve made to Yahoo search in years.” Scout is also colonizing all of Yahoo’s properties.

Grand Theft Auto has never been much for following the rules.

Nearly three decades after a video game built around stealing cars, outrunning police and embracing criminal mayhem first arrived, the franchise has survived controversy, transformed open-world gaming and become one of the biggest sellers in entertainment.

Now, after a 13-year wait since its last main installment, Grand Theft Auto VI is preparing for another big score. The latest chapter arrives Nov. 19 with a return to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City with two protagonists.

For longtime fans, GTA VI is a highly anticipated return. For everyone else, here’s what to know about the blockbuster video game, its characters and the enormous business riding on its release:

Rumors have spread for months that Anthropic’s IPO valuation could reach the head-spinning sum of $2 trillion. 

I am a big fan of artificial intelligence taking on the miserable tasks of creative work. Renaming and tagging footage, syncing multiple camera angles, reformatting an ad for 50 different aspect ratios? Let the computer do that, thanks. Adobe showed me how its AI agent can do all that, right inside its apps, back in June. But actual creative work? Pass.

Before the lifestyle brand Dairy Boy had a logo or a single follower, Paige Paul—formerly Paige Lorenze—was a New School student crafting a mood board made up of vlogs and pictures.

November has already been a tough month for layoffs.

Companies are often asked to drive business value while simultaneously supporting their communities. In my experience, both goals can be accomplished at the same time. We see it happening in multiple industries.

For most of my corporate career, if an executive had a major speaking engagement in another country, someone from communications was getting on the plane. Often, that someone was me.

Buying new technology will not make your company innovative. It may give your people new capabilities, but technology alone will not imagine a better way to serve your customers. Only people can do that.

OpenAI wants to be Google. The company would likely reject the idea publicly, but think about the economics of advertising. Google built one of the best businesses in history by putting companies in front of people at the moment they say they need something. People forget how big that business is.

Do you remember Juicero? It was a $400 Wi-Fi-connected juicer that only worked with proprietary fruit packets, each costing as much as a juice from the store. After a much-hyped launch, the company tanked magnificently when it was discovered that the packets could simply be squeezed by hand, making the machine virtually useless.

It’s never been easier to make an image. Even for people who don’t consider themselves creative, translating an idea into an illustration, graphic, video—any format, really—is now as simple as typing a prompt into a box (quality not guaranteed). 

When I began considering electroconvulsive therapy, better known as electroshock, I assumed the “shock” part referred to the electrical zap you received. An electrode or two on your head. Some doctor pressing a button. A machine buzzed audibly. Zap, zap. You were shocked. Maybe changed forever. Maybe for good, maybe for ill. Zap, zap. Like a ray gun in a dystopian thriller. And no thriller was more dystopian (I flattered myself) than the anxious depression that had me in agony every waking moment.