After rising by more than 580% in a single trading session yesterday, shares of Allbirds Inc. (Nasdaq: BIRD) fell this morning in premarket trading, at one point more than 30%.

In 1988, a London pre-teen with a penchant for programming and gaming wrote a version of the classic board game Othello—also known as Reversi—for his Amiga 500 home computer. Teaching a piece of software to play the game was an ambitious coding project for someone so young.

To buy one of each item in President Donald Trump’s company’s online storefront today would cost you nearly six figures. The good news is you’ll qualify for free shipping for an order over $125.

In 2020, as people began to realize they would be spending significantly more time at home than they had planned in January, a lot of people splurged on a new TV. Approximately 315.6 million new sets found their way to households around the world that year, a 6% increase from the year before.

Egyptian coder Assem Sabry has long wanted an AI model that represents his culture. The problem is he hasn’t been able to find one. “The AI industry in Egypt . . . doesn’t exist,” Sabry says. So he built his own: Horus, named after the ancient Egyptian god of the sky.

Elon Musk wants to execute the largest initial public offering in history, chasing a staggering $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion valuation for SpaceX. To justify this unprecedented price tag, he is aggressively hyping a cosmic vision: launching 1 million artificial intelligence servers into orbit to create a 100-gigawatt space data center in the next decade. He plans to one day build a factory on the moon to catapult these servers to Earth’s orbit. 

In this episode of “It’s all in the typeface,” Fast Company’s creative director Mike Schnaidt chose Kyoto for its handmade, human feel, blending Japanese calligraphy with classic Latin forms. Inspired by a process of exploration, its design reflects the human touch behind every page of this issue.

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

A silent productivity killer is operating in every enterprise without detection, causing harm unnoticed: the 100-page slide deck, which I call the “Frankendeck.” It is a bloated, decentralized collection of charts, bullet points, and appendices emailed to the C-suite 48 hours before a critical meeting.

At SXSW this year, artificial intelligence was everywhere. Every panel. Every hallway conversation. Every prediction about the future of work seemed to revolve around the same question: How do we keep up? But the moment that stayed with me wasn’t about AI at all; it was reconnecting with the world of Jack Johnson.

The world can’t seem to escape the Brooklyn-based Gen Z band Geese. Some call them “America’s Most Thrilling Young Rock Band,” while the band and their front man, Cameron Winter, are drawing endless comparisons to their predecessors, the Strokes and Julian Casablancas. Just last week, the band took the stage at Coachella as they gear up for an already sold-out tour.

Not sure what to order on your next Starbucks run? Now, ChatGPT can help.

After introducing a new strategy for performance reviews to include evaluations of how effectively workers use AI, Duolingo founder and CEO Luis von Ahn said employees started questioning the decision. And due to the pushback, Duolingo has reversed its decision on using AI as a performance metric.

It’s a brutal hiring market for new grads. Hiring has slowed across multiple industries, and competition is especially fierce, given that AI has recently begun to take on tasks usually associated with entry-level roles.

The organizer behind SantaCon, a Santa Claus-themed pub crawl that raises money for local charities, is being charged with defrauding ticket-buyers and establishment owners.

When Pokémon launched in 1996, the brand offered just a pair of video games, a single region within its world for players to explore, and 151 creatures for them to capture and train. Thirty years later, Pokémon mania is stronger than ever.

The fall of former direct-to-consumer darling Allbirds has taken a very weird turn. Allbirds, the sustainable shoemaker that caught fire with the Silicon Valley set about a decade ago, will start selling silicon itself. 

How many new oil wells did you drill this year? Did your oil and gas reserves deplete? Do you operate your pipelines through a master limited partnership?

Did you know that December is spelled with an X? Neither did we—until one influencer’s viral video showed the pitfalls of relying on AI for answers.