When designers for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina designed a signage and wayfinding system for the tournament, they needed something that would be easy to read and scale. Their forgotten work was ingenious and economical—and it’s finally getting its due.

Working while parenting can feel a little like juggling flaming swords. Everything works fine(ish) as long as nothing surprises you. But there will always be “come pick up your feverish kid” calls from daycare and last-minute project deadlines during little league games. So you end up defending your commitment to work while agonizing over having missed your child’s game-winning home run.

The government is stepping up its push to rein in powerful AI models that it believes could endanger national security. 

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Summer is in full swing, a time when millions of Americans will embark on their annual vacations, either domestically or abroad. Data from Skyscanner shows that roughly 62% of those who plan to take a summer vacation have already booked their trips. Around 38% have not yet bought their tickets.

You landed your dream job, or so you thought. But quiet doubts grow harder to ignore: “Did I choose right?” “Can I do this for the rest of my life?” “I want something more.”

The meeting ends and everyone feels good. Decisions got made. Heads nodded. Nobody pushed back, and the room moved on without friction. To most leaders, that looks like a team working well together.

President Donald Trump’s latest attack on mail-in voting fell apart in court this week.

Lionel Messi just got a new 85-foot statue. While it is not the only structure built in honor of the Argentine soccer legend, it is for sure the most talked-about.

Soccer fans may soon be able to catch more than just flights while traveling this summer on one of America’s largest airlines.

AI was supposed to scale by removing humans. That was the promise. Build the product, automate the interaction, take the human out of the loop, and watch the margins compound. It was the SaaS playbook applied to intelligence.

Thousands of people who say Roundup caused their cancer were dealt a legal blow this week when the Supreme Court opted to protect the weed killer’s parent company from a flood of lawsuits.

Billionaire investor Leon Black said Friday that Jeffrey Epstein deceived him during a yearslong relationship in which he paid the disgraced financier $158 million, but insisted he committed no criminal wrongdoing as he appeared before the House Oversight Committee.

Search efforts are underway in Venezuela after a pair of powerful earthquakes on Wednesday killed at least 589 people, leaving at least 3,000 people injured, thousands more unaccounted for, and countless others without food or water, according to The Associated Press.

In 2022, an Apple Store outside of Baltimore became the first in the U.S. to unionize, fueled by worker frustrations over how they were treated during the pandemic. Two years later, they won a contract that enshrined protections that seemed designed to enable other workers to follow in their footsteps. The contract secured a cap on the number of temporary workers Apple could hire and carved out a process by which the union could pursue cases on behalf of workers who they believed had been unfairly disciplined or dismissed.

Media just passed a notable milestone. For the first time, people now get their news from social media and video networks like YouTube more than from any other source.

There’s no doubt about it: The general public is turning against AI. They are worried it will steal their jobs, destroy the environment, and even kill innocents. And given that two of the biggest companies on the planet have now squarely placed the blame on AI-fueled shortages for forcing them to raise prices on popular tech gadgets and devices, consumers are likely to double down on their loathing for the technology.

While much of Hollywood was consumed by the streaming wars, Issa Rae was thousands of miles away studying a different mode of entertainment: microdramas.

No stranger to creating a successful online series, the Emmy-nominated actor and producer became intrigued by China’s booming market for the short, mobile-first soap operas, seeing the format’s potential to build audiences and intellectual property.

In May, Rae’s Hoorae Media released the thriller Screen Time, one of the first major studio-quality microdrama projects developed by an established Hollywood production company. The TikTok-backed series drew nearly 75 million views during its first week.

Rae believes the format offers advantages traditional media often cannot.

“Because the price point is lower than TV and film, there’s an opportunity to take risks,” she told The Associated Press. “The turnaround time is also a lot quicker than TV and film, which allows us the opportunity to be more topical and relevant.”

With vertically shot episodes designed for the screen of a smart phone often running one to three minutes, microdramas have emerged as one of entertainment’s fastest-growing formats. That’s drawing interest from celebrities, creators and media companies looking for new ways to reach audiences who increasingly consume stories on their phones.

Beyond speed and cost, Rae said microdramas foster a more interactive viewing experience between creators and audiences.

“The communal experience is also amazing,” said Rae, whose web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl helped launch her career. “You can see what other viewers think and engage with their commentary in real time.”

Perhaps the marketing word of 2026 is “taste.” Creators debate it on TikTok, tech founders claim to possess it, and the media can’t stop dissecting it. For something easier to recognize than define, taste has lately generated an extraordinary amount of discussion.

A former Meta executive whose memoir, Careless People, provides an explosive insider account of her time at the social media giant, has sued the company for attempting to “silence” her.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Northern California, claims the tech giant’s private arbitration order barring her from speaking about the company or promoting her bestselling book is invalid. It also argues that the severance agreement she signed when she left Meta, in which she agreed not to disparage the company, was done under duress.

Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under the parent company Meta Platforms, from 2011 until her firing in 2017. Careless People alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO, and other executives. It also describes Zuckerberg’s alleged efforts to win favor with Chinese officials. Meta has countered that Wynn-Williams violated her agreement and wrote a book filled with inaccuracies.

The lawsuit says Meta is seeking $50,000 in damages for each time Wynn-Williams purportedly violates the nondisparagement agreement, putting her under financial duress. She is asking the court to lift the arbitration order and vacate her severance agreement with the company.

Meta said in a statement that its “former employee is trying to use the legal process to sell books, which an arbitrator already ruled broke the agreement she signed with the company when she accepted a large severance payment years ago. Her book is divorced from reality, disparaging and riddled with false claims.”

Meta, according to the lawsuit, has obtained an emergency gag order that bars Wynn-Williams and her lawyers from criticizing the company or promoting her book. Over the course of more than a year since the book was published, the lawsuit claims, Meta has surveilled her, with company representatives attending her public appearances and photographing her, “all to document that at each event, Ms. Wynn-Williams said nothing about Meta or her book.”

The lawsuit claims that Meta even took issue with Wynn-Williams attending an arts and literary festival in the U.K. earlier this year—where she sat on a panel but remained silent—because other panelists were critics of the company.

“Meta is pursuing Ms. Wynn-Williams at the expense of free speech and legal constraints not only because she refused to bow to the greed and power of Meta, Mr. Zuckerberg, and other executives, but also to strike fear into the heart of anyone else who dares to consider speaking the truth about Meta’s unlawful and abusive practices in the public interest,” the lawsuit says.