Dropping $1,200 on a brand-new iPhone only to have an Apple Store salesperson casually hand you a $49 silicone case and a $39 charging brick feels like a minor mugging.

This evening, the night sky is helping to set a spooky mood for the upcoming Halloween festivities later this week.

Generosity is in the air, or so it would seem. The Trump administration recently mailed a round of $500 checks to almost a million users of Healthcare.gov. The AI rivals OpenAI and Anthropic have promised to share their (eventual) wealth with the public beyond investors, and Anthropic this week got a bit more specific, proposing a Public Benefit Fund pegged at 5% of the company’s overall value. And never to be outdone, Elon Musk promptly pledged to give “every kid in America” a share in SpaceX. 

AI agents are powerful, but most ordinary people don’t yet use them. Town wants to change that. Led by CEO Jean-Denis Greze, playfully referred to as Town’s mayor, the company announced a $108 million Series B on October 19, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, at a $1 billion valuation.  

What do you do when you think your company’s technology may fundamentally alter the fabric of the economy—or rend it apart entirely?

Below, Lindsay Crouse shares five key insights from her new book, The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out.

Concerned about its workers losing brainpower as they outsource work to artificial intelligence, Dropbox is considering using cognitive training tools, like memory exercises and attention-span training, to keep them mentally sharp. 

A few years ago, one of our team members came down with a big health problem—a splitting headache that just wouldn’t let up. She visited several doctors, who recommended various treatments and medications to alleviate the pain, none of which worked. The pain was so intense that it made it difficult to carry out basic tasks, affecting both her personal and professional lives.

Back in 2022, when the auto industry was fixated on autonomous vehicles, I was cofounder and chief technology officer at Luminar, where our lidar technology was helping enable the next generation of self-driving cars. Speaking at an automotive conference, I remarked how exciting it was to have a front-row seat to one of the most significant technological transformations in the industry’s history.

Netflix has been pumping out original content for so long and at such an immense scale that it recently released its second original movie entitled War Machine.

For its 2026 After Dark Tour, a nighttime race series of 10Ks and half-marathons for women, Nike designed a multipurpose medal that’s meant to be worn long after race day as a necklace, bracelet, keychain loop, or belt chain.

As anyone who travels frequently knows, airfare costs around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays can be significantly higher than those for the same route at other times of the year. It’s little surprise why: the year-end holiday period sees millions traveling to visit family and friends, creating demand for flights; the more demand, the more airlines can charge.

I was a card-carrying scaredy-cat through my childhood and early teen years, but the release of Wes Craven’s 1996 film Scream single-handedly turned me from nervous Nellie to horror aficionado overnight. Watching Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott fight back against Ghostface helped me understand the delights of feeling deliciously scared.

The more news we read about the evolution of corporate AI offerings and implementations, the more I struggle with one thing: The industry is rapidly turning AI agents into some sort of simulated employees. 

Below, Seth Godin shares five key insights from his new book, The Knot: Problems Can Be Solved.

If you’re in a public-facing role, you are likely to get caught up in some kind of “hot mic” event in which an offhand remark said in private gets aired publicly. (Indeed, this piece was inspired by the recent experience of a former colleague.) These events are embarrassing, and they almost always end with a standard—and unsatisfying—apology in which the speaker regrets the remarks and says that they did not mean them.

With the midterm elections around the corner, political anxiety is in season—and productivity could pay the price.

We’ve got two competing realities when it comes to tracking down info online these days:

How much do you really know about the world right outside your door? A trending tool has the answers, highlighting all there is to see, do, and discover within a 30-minute walk of your location.

There’s a phenomenon happening in advertising and marketing. If you’ve been on LinkedIn lately, you’ve experienced it in the endless scroll of bland thought leadership posts. Your inbox is filled with decks and documents that your coworkers and vendors are churning out, expecting you to decipher.