Every generation of leaders has been judged on their decisions. Ours may be the first judged on every draft, discussion, hesitation, and deleted comment that preceded them.

I was writing a book about the perils of recklessly chasing new things when I had an idea: I should interview Tom Hanks. 

It’s no exaggeration to say that cloud storage has changed the way we work—and, to some extent, even the way we live.

According to a new San Francisco father, “parenting hits different when you work in AI.”

Jeff Bezos wrote his first letter to Amazon shareholders in 1997. Amazon had just gone public and Bezos told investors he would be making decisions for the long term and that short-term Wall Street reactions would not influence his direction and decisions for the company. In 1999, Barron’s put “Amazon.bomb” on its cover. By late 2001, Amazon’s stock suffered a major fall. It plummeted below $6 per share. Investors were not happy. But Bezos kept building warehouses, improving Amazon software, and working on customer trust. And he attached his first 1997 letter to every annual report. He wanted investors to trust his long-term vision. 

HubSpot founder and chief technology officer Dharmesh Shah is drawing backlash on social media for a 28-word LinkedIn post thanking the hundreds of employees the company laid off this week. 

Mortgage rates marched higher for the seventh week in a row, driving the average long-term U.S. home loan rate to its highest level in nearly three years.

They’re far more likely to take taxis or rideshares and drop some money gambling or in prediction markets, but they also use coupons and rely heavily on public transportation. Welcome to the somewhat confounding spending habits of Gen Z shoppers.

Since I entered the cotton industry, I’ve spent nearly 200 days a year traveling to farms, mills, factories, brand headquarters, and trade meetings around the world.

Are the worlds of Frappuccinos and guacamole colliding? If recent reporting proves out, that could be the case.

Amazon’s latest flurry of layoffs will hit the company’s Stores division, the business unit responsible for its online retail storefront.

Even with stubborn market forces working against them, savvy first-time home buyers are figuring out ways to get a foot in the door – and into their first home. 

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy.

Tropical storm Isaias is building momentum in the Gulf and, as of Wednesday evening, strengthened into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season. 

Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don’t work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children, according to a report Wednesday by Common Sense Media.

The watchdog group urged OpenAI to restrict the chatbot to adults “until it can offer a safe, developmentally appropriate experience.”

OpenAI said the group’s testing doesn’t reflect how the chatbot’s safeguards work.

Parents, educators and child development experts have been sounding alarms over children’s use of AI chatbots, which have been blamed for facilitating cheating on schoolwork and even suicide.

While even adults can fall victim to anthropomorphizing AI and develop unhealthy relationships with it, teenagers’ brains are not yet fully developed and they can be particularly vulnerable, child development experts say.

“We are concerned that ChatGPT for Teens could give parents false confidence in guardrails that frequently don’t work,” said the report from Common Sense Media, a group that advocates for using digital media sensibly.

Its report said that some teen-mode features worked as intended, including the chatbot’s refusal of explicit sexual role-play. Others that did not work as intended included alerts meant to notify parents if their child is at risk for suicide, self-harm or eating disorders, along with support for teens in crisis, Common Sense Media said.

“ChatGPT still talks like a friend when teens treat it like a person,” the group said, though OpenAI had promised that the chatbot is prevented from suggesting it has personal feelings toward the user or implying that it is conscious or experiences emotions.

OpenAI said it is “deeply committed to teen safety,” to developing safeguards and giving parents tools to guide their teens’ use of AI.

The San Francisco company said its review of the report’s methodology shows “the bulk of their testing may have begun and concluded before activation of parental controls was complete, making their findings inaccurate.”

Common Sense Media receives funding from OpenAI and other tech companies, including those whose services it evaluates.

The quantum computing world got a jolt when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced, after market close yesterday, a list of companies selected to advance to Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), widely considered to be the most rigorous and objective vetting program for cutting-edge quantum hardware.

Roughly half of the 36.2 million small businesses in the U.S. are currently based out of people’s homes. And the number could be increasing as people have less patience for commuting and adding to their startup expenses. Telecommuting, fortunately, is supported by a large number of small-business ideas.

Just because Google and Apple are now calling it Lake America doesn’t mean everyone has to.

After President Donald Trump ordered a new name for Lake Ontario, the two U.S. tech giants quickly fell in line, relabeling the body of water on their digital maps.

The move sparked a backlash among some users, already unhappy with the companies’ decisions to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on their maps following a previous Trump edict.

The controversy and lingering worries about digital privacy have fueled interest in map services that aren’t from Big Tech companies, especially Google Maps, which is the dominant player with about 80% of the market, according to most estimates.

Here’s a rundown of some of the most popular free map app alternatives:

“I am Jane Doe.”