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            <title>Nathan Fielder may have already won Hollywood’s big parade of prestige movies based on tech founders</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Between Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elizabeth Holmes, and Elon Musk, moviegoers may get founder fatigue this season—but one project does it right.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It&#8217;s never been a better—or worse—time to be a tech founder as Hollywood turns its lens on the bizarre and often controversy-filled lives of Silicon Valley leaders.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[María José Gutiérrez Chávez]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T20:25:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Between Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elizabeth Holmes, and Elon Musk, moviegoers may get founder fatigue this season—but one project does it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Gen Z is bringing back something the digital age was supposed to replace</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Nearly 8 in 10 Gen Z consumers say collecting physical objects helps them feel more connected to the real world.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the generation that grew up with devices at their fingertips and social media as an extension of their life, a new shift is pushing Gen Z away from the screen and toward the real world.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[María José Gutiérrez Chávez]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T20:09:18</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Nearly 8 in 10 Gen Z consumers say collecting physical objects helps them feel more connected to the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>States sue OpenAI over allegedly hurting children and deceiving adults</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The wave of lawsuits is the latest filed by states accusing tech giants behind AI chatbots and social media platforms of harming children. </p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At least eight states <a href="https://apnews.com/article/meta-social-media-trials-50b3050f8e257e578a9b5c02a947c95a">are suing</a> <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="AI">artificial intelligence</a> giant <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/openai">OpenAI</a>, saying the company&#8217;s popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults in what prosecutors described as a reckless pursuit of profit.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91625470/openai-lawsuits-chatbot-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T20:06:08</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The wave of lawsuits is the latest filed by states accusing tech giants behind AI chatbots and social media platforms of harming children. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>One menu item brought 156,000 new customers to Noodles &amp; Company. Now it’s making a big change</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>A limited-time ramen promotion attracted more than 156,000 new guests, prompting the struggling restaurant chain to rethink its permanent menu.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Fast casual chain Noodles &amp; Company is about as far from an authentic izakaya as it gets, but it’s confident you’ll want to eat ramen there anyway.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylor Hatmaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T19:15:28</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;A limited-time ramen promotion attracted more than 156,000 new guests, prompting the struggling restaurant chain to rethink its permanent menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is done with email—and prefers this communication instead</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The Airbnb cofounder and chief executive thinks this email alternative creates a ‘deeper connection’ and ‘doesn’t feel like work to respond.’</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky is <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/10/15/airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-writes-just-one-email-a-week-inferior-to-texting-staff-feels-like-work/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">not a fan of email</a>.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Saalfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T19:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The Airbnb cofounder and chief executive thinks this email alternative creates a ‘deeper connection’ and ‘doesn’t feel like work to respond.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>El Niño winter forecast: See a map that shows which U.S. regions will get the most snow and rain</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The latest outlook from NOAA illustrates how the climate phenomenon will shift weather patterns in unexpected ways for much of the country.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This year’s <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?t=chromess&amp;q=site%3Afastcompany.com+el+nino+kristin&amp;ia=web#:~:text=%27Super%27%20El%20Nino%202026%3A%20Historic%20climate%20pattern%20is%20here.%20What%20it%20means%20...">Super El Niño</a> “looms large” over the winter forecast for the United States, forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote this week.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91625142/el-nino-forecast-2026-noaa-winter-outlook-us-map-most-snow-rain</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristin Toussaint]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T17:31:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The latest outlook from NOAA illustrates how the climate phenomenon will shift weather patterns in unexpected ways for much of the country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>What to know about the Starshield restrictions that rattled Ukraine’s forces</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The episode raised fresh questions about Ukraine’s reliance on the Starshield program and who actually controls access to it.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sudden <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-burnham-trump-putin-9fe44ec1bb361f19d46dfafb58da46f6">restrictions on Starshield</a> — <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/spacex">SpaceX</a>’s military-grade version of the Starlink satellite internet service and the backbone of Ukraine&#8217;s drone operations and communication — alarmed the country&#8217;s military and government officials this week, with commanders reporting lost drones and disrupted missions.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T17:30:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The episode raised fresh questions about Ukraine’s reliance on the Starshield program and who actually controls access to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Remote work may increase birth rates</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Remote work has led to a 5% increase in fertility in the U.S. and Northern Europe, Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom recently told Business Insider.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Looking for a way to boost fertility rates, which are sagging across <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/15/5-facts-about-global-fertility-trends/">most of the globe</a>?</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Saalfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T17:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Remote work has led to a 5% increase in fertility in the U.S. and Northern Europe, Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom recently told Business Insider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Fed chair Warsh says price stability is key but deflects on rate signals</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Warsh offered no fresh signals during a fireside chat with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Federal Reserve Chairman <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91597382/wall-street-analysts-unnerved-feds-new-chair-kevin-warsh-heres-why">Kevin Warsh</a> said Friday he won’t prejudge what the U.S. central bank will do <a href="https://apnews.com/article/inflation-trump-federal-reserve-warsh-b7ed20e31e1a6fa5da6d78e5fe35b0c3">about interest rates</a> at its upcoming meetings in October and December.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>2026-10-16T16:52:45</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Warsh offered no fresh signals during a fireside chat with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia defends her legal background and first briefing amid criticism</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>She will not weigh in on legal matters in her White House capacity, Zacharia said.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia on Thursday&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/katie-zacharia-lawyer-bar-trump-press-secretary-b3b7b9747856bcd11df094f331195119">defended her legal background</a>&nbsp;and justified her&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-zacharia-press-secretary-first-briefing-cba18c265eec807976fcfbbafa39f5f5">truncated inaugural briefing</a>&nbsp;as she navigates a rocky first week as the president’s chief spokeswoman.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91625187/katie-zacharia-white-house-press-secretary</link>
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            <pubDate>2026-10-16T16:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;She will not weigh in on legal matters in her White House capacity, Zacharia said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Want an easier week? Try this 30-minute Sunday routine</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>A half-hour investment on Sunday can make the next 167 and a half hours of the week run a lot more smoothly. </p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Below, Ben Meer shares five key insights from his new book,&nbsp;<em>How to Be Good at Life: Simple Systems to Achieve More and Stress Less</em>.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91622548/30-minute-sunday-routine</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Next Big Idea Club]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T15:34:19</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;A half-hour investment on Sunday can make the next 167 and a half hours of the week run a lot more smoothly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Tech layoffs 2026 update: Job losses pile up at Netflix, HubSpot, Flock Safety, and others in October</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>In a brutal year for the industry, technology companies are continuing to reduce the size of their workforces as the fourth quarter gets underway.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">October has brought another wave of layoffs across the tech industry.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91625107/tech-layoffs-2026-update-mass-job-cuts-october-netflix-hubspot-flock-more</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Mather]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T14:47:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;In a brutal year for the industry, technology companies are continuing to reduce the size of their workforces as the fourth quarter gets underway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Meta and Apple agree on at least one thing: Open-weight AI is cool</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Two very different companies worked together to make Meta’s Muse Spark Open LLM run well on Mac Studio hardware.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Meta released a new version of its Muse Spark LLM on Thursday. As its name indicates, the big news about <a href="https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Muse Spark Open</a> is that it’s an <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91577359/why-u-s-ai-companies-cant-match-chinas-open-weight-frontier-models" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>open-weight</i> model</a>. Rather than being offered solely as a cloud service, it’s publicly available for anyone to run on their own hardware. With 816 billion total parameters and a 1-million-token context window, it’s the U.S.’s most capable open-weight model, according to Meta.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91624489/meta-and-apple-agree-on-at-least-one-thing-open-weight-ai-is-cool</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry McCracken]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T14:37:06</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Two very different companies worked together to make Meta’s Muse Spark Open LLM run well on Mac Studio hardware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Date Lady syrup is having a breakout year: Retail deals with Erewhon and Sprouts are just the beginning</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>From its farmers’ market origins, the Springfield, Missouri, company set a sales goal of $10 million this year. ‘Dates are hot,’ says founder Colleen Sundlie.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many consumers are blissfully unaware of the work that it takes to get a product on the shelves of their favorite local market.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shannon Cudd]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T14:01:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;From its farmers’ market origins, the Springfield, Missouri, company set a sales goal of $10 million this year. ‘Dates are hot,’ says founder Colleen Sundlie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Why we couldn’t look away from Zuck’s Guinness wince</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Unpacking a glimpse of billionaire humanity.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mark Zuckerberg took a sip of Guinness the other day, and the internet noticed.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91624365/why-we-couldnt-look-away-from-zucks-guinness-wince</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Walker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T13:50:56</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Unpacking a glimpse of billionaire humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Can you be good at stuff you don’t like doing?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The surprising link between talent and interests.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">According to the internet, Confucius said, “Choose a job you love, [and] you will never have to work a day in your life.” He even created a great infographic on this, except it’s just one of those memorable <a href="https://mypassion.ai/blog/career-motivation-quotes">fake internet quotes</a>. That said, the notion that we are better off aligning our careers with our interests is remarkably prevalent, as is advice on <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91541851/how-to-balance-your-passion-and-your-day-job" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.fastcompany.com/91541851/how-to-balance-your-passion-and-your-day-job">“following your passions”</a> or optimizing your career for your <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012420-091122">intrinsic motivation</a>.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91622212/can-you-be-good-stuff-you-dont-like-doing</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T13:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The surprising link between talent and interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>AI’s memory chip crunch is crushing the smartphone market</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Smartphone shipments plunged a record 22%, according to IDC, as soaring memory costs force manufacturers to raise prices and abandon cheaper models.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The smartphone market suffered its worst decline on record in the September quarter, as rising memory costs pushed shipments down 22%, with worse to come, according to market researcher IDC. Memory chip prices increased by a stunning 350% over the past year, IDC says, because of competition for memory from <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="AI">AI</a> industry players.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91624656/ais-memory-chip-crunch-is-crushing-the-smartphone-market</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Sullivan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T12:38:17</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Smartphone shipments plunged a record 22%, according to IDC, as soaring memory costs force manufacturers to raise prices and abandon cheaper models.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Coke is winning the Pepsi challenge as KFC becomes the latest brand to switch</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Marriott hotels and Costco food courts are among the popular destinations that have begun serving Coca-Cola over PepsiCo products in recent years.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Coke has scored another victory in its ongoing war with Pepsi.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91624985/pepsi-losing-cola-wars-coke-kfc-switch-costco-marriott</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fielding]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T12:38:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Marriott hotels and Costco food courts are among the popular destinations that have begun serving Coca-Cola over PepsiCo products in recent years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>This one factor will define the hospital of the future</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Uniting fragmented data across hospital systems is critical to improving patient care.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In 1960, British physician Lord Taylor published an essay in <em>The British Medical Journal</em> titled “Hospitals of the Future,” in in which he predicted that the hospital of the future would need to adapt its infrastructure to changing medical needs and organize care around patients.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91624036/this-one-factor-will-define-the-hospital-of-the-future</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[Fast Company Impact Council]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Taha Kass-Hout]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-10-16T12:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Uniting fragmented data across hospital systems is critical to improving patient care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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