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            <title>Sam Altman shared a parenting hack. Thousands of moms and dads instantly disagreed.</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The OpenAI CEO suggested they use ChatGPT to generate podcasts for their kids’ car rides. Parents say they’d rather not, thanks.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sam Altman has some advice for parents, and it’s going about as well as you’d expect.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Grace Snelling]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T12:11:02</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The OpenAI CEO suggested they use ChatGPT to generate podcasts for their kids’ car rides. Parents say they’d rather not, thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Is drinking water safe? What to know about the water systems cyberattacks targeting multiple states</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Attacks against water facilities are now known to have occurred in at least seven states, according to the FBI. Here’s the latest.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Multiple U.S. agencies have confirmed ongoing cyberattacks against water systems that Americans rely on each day. The attacks are now known to have occurred against water facilities in at least seven states. </p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Grothaus]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T12:07:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Attacks against water facilities are now known to have occurred in at least seven states, according to the FBI. Here’s the latest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>The cost of underestimating the ageless generation</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>This population is rewriting the rules in real time. </p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We operate in an industry obsessed with the future. Gen Z’s media habits and predictions on how Gen Alpha will reshape retail are our everyday clickbait. Staying one step ahead is a fundamental part of the job. But in our rush to understand and capture the next generation of consumers, it is entirely too easy to ignore the demographic actively funding them.</p>]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[Fast Company Impact Council]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Graff]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T12:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;This population is rewriting the rules in real time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>The wellness industry is not selling wellbeing to black women</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>For Black women, real wellness requires economic power, community care, and the conditions to thrive.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I recently attended a wellness event built around the promise that feeling better was only a simple product purchase away.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Latham Thomas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T12:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;For Black women, real wellness requires economic power, community care, and the conditions to thrive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>You trained the AI. Big Tech got paid</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The bill for public genius is overdue.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On January 24, 1956, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was the largest private company in the world.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cameron Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T11:30:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The bill for public genius is overdue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says playing this game as a child helped develop his legendary investing skills</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Dimon says he would ‘still be humbled’ if he tried the exercise today.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jamie Dimon has run JPMorgan Chase as CEO for 20 years, and under his leadership, it’s become the largest bank in the world by market capitalization. But Dimon’s business savvy started long before he ran JPMorgan, and even before he attended Harvard Business School. According to Dimon, his education in investing started playing a game with his father—and it was a bit tougher than Monopoly.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Cramer]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T11:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Dimon says he would ‘still be humbled’ if he tried the exercise today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>The agentic AI naming trap: Why you must move from red oceans to blue</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of products now market themselves as agentic AI. And most of their names crowd into the same 18 territories the chatbots were trained on. That math should worry every founder naming one.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ask any founder with a chatbot open: generating names for a product has never been easier. A long list appears in minutes. But this is the great naming illusion of the <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="AI">AI</a> era: the belief that because generating names is now free, or nearly so, the naming challenge itself has been solved.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91576093/the-agentic-ai-naming-trap-why-you-must-move-from-red-oceans-to-blue-ai-stratgey-brands-naming</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Wolfson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T10:15:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Thousands of products now market themselves as agentic AI. And most of their names crowd into the same 18 territories the chatbots were trained on. That math should worry every founder naming one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>The influencer bubble is finally popping</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Creators seem ascendant, but don’t kid yourself: Brands and AI have the power. How new metrics and marketplaces are defining a creator economy optimized for marketers and machines.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Up until about 40,000 years ago, there were two closely related but distinct human species on this planet. The Neanderthals, who lived mostly in Europe and Western Asia, and Homo sapiens, who originated in Africa.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Beer]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T10:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Creators seem ascendant, but don’t kid yourself: Brands and AI have the power. How new metrics and marketplaces are defining a creator economy optimized for marketers and machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>These are the 3 things that are actually burning you out (and only one is your boss)</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>They create the perfect storm for mental exhaustion.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Almost every conversation I have with leaders these days revolves around the topic of burnout in their teams.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sally Clarke]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T10:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;They create the perfect storm for mental exhaustion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Stanford neuroscientists: Teen mental health problems can be predicted by speech patterns. Here’s what to watch for</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Researchers developed ‘very accurate’ models for whether children developed mental health conditions, based on what they said during stressful events.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Computer language models, which analyze what children say during stressful events, are better at predicting their future mental health than a panel of experts in the field. That&#8217;s the finding from a new study published in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-026-00683-9"><em>Nature Mental Health.</em></a></p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Mattson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T10:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Researchers developed ‘very accurate’ models for whether children developed mental health conditions, based on what they said during stressful events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Natural food dyes are winning the snack wars</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Sales of food and beverages that use natural dyes are growing faster than those with artificial colors. </p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">American shoppers are increasingly buying food made from natural colors.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hunter Schwarz]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T10:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Sales of food and beverages that use natural dyes are growing faster than those with artificial colors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>This one quality is what separates people who build something truly extraordinary from those who build something that’s merely good</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Advice from a man who has backed 18 companies that have crossed $100 million in revenue.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There&#8217;s a question I&#8217;ve been turning over for years, both as a founder and as an early-stage investor: What separates the people who build something truly extraordinary from those who build something merely good?</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexa von Tobel]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T09:09:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Advice from a man who has backed 18 companies that have crossed $100 million in revenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>To navigate the fraught AI landscape, we need to shift from debate to dialog</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Debate asks who is right. Dialogue asks what is true, what matters, and what should we do next.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence">AI</a> has quickly become one of the most emotionally loaded topics in business. Depending on the room—or the page—it’s either the engine of <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/productivity" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="9" title="Productivity">productivity</a>, creativity, and<a href="https://hbr.org/2026/06/companies-are-using-ai-for-efficiency-they-should-use-it-to-grow"> growth</a> or the latest<a href="https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-knowledge-capture-employees-a69a0e1c"> threat</a> to jobs, trust, and human judgment. That framing makes for energetic debate, but it inhibits meaningful progress toward reaching crucial goals.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Edmondson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T08:30:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Debate asks who is right. Dialogue asks what is true, what matters, and what should we do next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Disinformation doesn’t care about your facts. Here’s how you can fight back</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Changing minds, it turns out, often begins with shifting networks.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In 2011, the 9/11 truther<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Veitch"> Charlie Veitch</a> released a<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezHNdBE5pZc"> cellphone video</a> renouncing his earlier belief that the terrorist attack was an “inside job.&#8221; As<a href="https://www.davidmcraney.com/"> David McRaney</a> explained in<a href="https://amzn.to/4oWnrdB"> <em>How Minds Change</em></a>, the backlash was “swift and brutal.” Veitch was relentlessly harassed and his website was hacked. There were even death threats.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91581223/disinformation-how-you-can-fight-back-networks</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Satell]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T08:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Changing minds, it turns out, often begins with shifting networks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>1 small behavior change improves your brain chemistry, according to 201 studies</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>It also makes you happier.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">How can you change your&nbsp;<a href="https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/scientists-just-discovered-brain-chemical-that-controls-ability-to-break-bad-habit/91357456">brain chemistry</a>, releasing hormones that will help you&nbsp;<a href="https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/taylor-swifts-favorite-de-stressing-technique-is-backed-by-a-ton-of-science/91278777">de-stress</a>&nbsp;and even help protect your&nbsp;<a href="https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/want-to-live-longer-research-reveals-the-top-cardiac-risk-factor-and-its-not-smoking/91357371">heart health</a>? Perform small acts of kindness. It sounds odd, and possibly too good to be true, but researchers, psychologists, and many other experts all agree.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Inc.]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T08:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;It also makes you happier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>The power of good enough</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Why we don’t need to optimize everything we do and how that might get in the way of making magic in our professional lives.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’m not sure about you, but I think I’ve had enough of trying to optimize everything.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91584258/the-power-of-good-enough</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Lovett]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-04T05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;Why we don’t need to optimize everything we do and how that might get in the way of making magic in our professional lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>Forget em dashes: A viral report on AI-generated writing has surprising new clues</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>For one, a lack of punctuation is a more likely indicator of AI text, according to The Economist.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="AI">AI</a>-generated content takes over the internet, humans are becoming more and more vigilant about differentiating bot-written copy from genuine human writing. Last week, LinkedIn even became <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91582739/that-cringey-linkedin-post-you-can-now-report-it-as-ai-slop" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the first major platform to add a button that lets users report “AI slop.”</a></p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91584243/how-to-identify-ai-generated-writing-viral-report-has-surprising-new-clues-economist</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jude Cramer]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-03T21:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;For one, a lack of punctuation is a more likely indicator of AI text, according to The Economist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>PwC’s U.S. CEO on the career advice he gave to his kids</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>‘What you put into it is what you get out of it,’ Paul Griggs told Business Insider. ‘To me, that quote is saying yes a lot, putting in time when people are not looking. It’s being curious.’</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">PwC’s U.S. CEO and senior partner isn’t letting his kids feel deterred by the fact that his own firm plans to <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/hiring" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="5" title="Hiring">hire</a> fewer consultants and accountants. In a recent interview with <em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pwc-us-ceo-career-advice-consulting-mba-programs-2026-8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Business Insider</a></em>, Paul Griggs shared that two of his college-age children might pursue careers in accounting, and he’s supportive of their dreams.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91584403/pwcs-us-ceo-on-the-career-advice-he-gave-to-his-kids</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ella Chakarian]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-03T21:00:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;‘What you put into it is what you get out of it,’ Paul Griggs told Business Insider. ‘To me, that quote is saying yes a lot, putting in time when people are not looking. It’s being curious.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>New condo mortgage rules could mean delays, denials, and higher costs</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The underwriting requirements could add extra reviews and paperwork before many condominium loans are approved.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Buyers beware: Starting on Monday, new rules from <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/fannie-mae" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fannie Mae</a> and <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/freddie-mac" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freddie Mac</a> go into effect that could make it trickier to obtain a mortgage for a condo.</p>]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna-Louise Jackson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-03T19:47:58</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The underwriting requirements could add extra reviews and paperwork before many condominium loans are approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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            <title>SpaceX earnings latest: Stock hits record low as investors await Q2 AI spending results</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The report comes less than 2 months after the much-hyped IPO of Elon Musk’s rocket company, which has delivered less-than-stellar returns.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Elon Musk&#8217;s <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/spacex" id="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/spacex" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SpaceX</a> is gearing up for another milestone—its first-ever earnings report, which it is scheduled to deliver tomorrow, Tuesday, August 4, after the closing bell.</p>]]></description>
            <link>https://www.fastcompany.com/91584302/spacex-q2-2026-earnings-update-stock-drop-today-ai-spending-results-come-due-investors-first-glimpse</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Mattson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>2026-08-03T19:30:00</pubDate>
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            <deck>&lt;p&gt;The report comes less than 2 months after the much-hyped IPO of Elon Musk’s rocket company, which has delivered less-than-stellar returns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;</deck>
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