Donald Trump Is Saying There’s a TikTok Deal. China Isn’t
US efforts to ban TikTok started during Trump’s first term in 2020. Months before he left office, Trump threatened to ban TikTok and another Chinese app WeChat. The Biden administration…
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Why decisive leaders earn respect
Some moments shift your perspective. My moment arrived in an email from my boss with a simple subject line: “You should take a look at this presentation as it will prepare you for your new…
Is your baby food on the recall list?
Parents who have purchased Sprout Organics baby food products from Walgreens and other stores since last year will want to check to make sure they don’t have a now-recalled Sweet Potato…
People-centered supply chains for the win
Each September, leaders from business, government, and civil society descend on Gotham for Climate Week NYC, but there is an equally important voice that can enrich these conversations:…
AI-generated Zac Efron in Prada ad spoof fools fans with spray tan and ‘Botox’ look
A Zac Efron ad campaign has the internet up in arms over his unexpected new look. An image of the actor recently went viral for its heavy-handed spray tan and bee-stung lips. In the photo,…
Why Gen Z’s credit scores are dropping—and what to do if yours is too
Gen Z has seen its credit scores drop more than any other generation over the past year, largely because of student loan debt, according to a new report out this week. The total national…
3 things companies can do to counter Trump’s attacks on democracy, according to the ACLU
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, companies across industries have been capitulating to the president’s authoritarian demands. Businesses like Target and Google have…
Silicon Valley wants its own Steven Spielberg, and it think it’s found him
It was an ambitious goal, but Hollywood was built on ambitious goals. Jason Carman gave himself until his 20th birthday to make a high-concept, effects-driven short film that would capture…
Painted cows and pasta sauce physics: A look at this year’s Ig Nobel Prize winners
A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebralike stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza…
People are boycotting Disney, Hulu, and ESPN after ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Will it work?
After Jimmy Kimmel made comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk on his show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC suspended the long-running program. The move came in the wake of criticism from…
How this AI-powered robot was designed to soothe fear and lonliness in hospitals
Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the…
How Donald Trump’s Culture-Wars Playbook Felled Jimmy Kimmel
On Wednesday, bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration, ABC pulled the late-night series “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. The show, which had run for more than two decades, was…
YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang
Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for…
Nvidia eyes $500 million investment in Wayve, a UK self-driving startup
U.S. chip designer Nvidia has signed a letter of intent for a possible $500 million investment in the next funding round at Britain’s Wayve, the autonomous driving technology group said on…
How late-night’s Colbert and Stewart are responding to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon opened their late-night shows Thursday using a mix of humor and solidarity with suspended ABC host Jimmy Kimmel. Stewart opted for satire to…
House prepares to vote on a funding bill to avert government shutdown
Republican and Democratic lawmakers show no signs of budging as the House takes up a bill Friday to avert a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks. The bill would generally…
The Download: the CDC’s vaccine chaos
Every year, MIT Technology Review selects one individual whose work we admire to recognize as Innovator of the Year. For 2025, we chose Sneha Goenka, who designed the computations behind…
How I’m really using AI right now
Greetings from Fast Company, and thank you, as always, for spending time with Plugged In. As a technology journalist, I’ve always found value in using products I write about to get actual…
How to quit your job when you feel like you’re abandoning your team
“I’ve done everything I can here,” Alex told me. “But every time I think about leaving, I feel a massive sense of guilt, like I’d be abandoning my team.” Alex is an executive vice…
Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’
Strike 3 Holdings, a company that says it makes “high quality,” “feminist,” and “ethical” adult videos, is suing Meta in a federal court in California for allegedly infringing its…
Raul Lopez Wants to Be American Fashion
In the fall of 2014, Lopez staged an official Fashion Week event at Webster Hall. He recalled thinking, I’m about to hit it, I’m about to make it now—until he realized that he wouldn’t…
BMW’s new rebrand is so quiet you might miss it
BMW just made a subtle change to the logo on its latest car. The German automaker simplified the roundel on its new, fully electric BMW iX3 by removing the inner outlines of the logo. Most…
Doctors are doing their best, but AI might be able to do better
Charlotte Blease is an associate professor in the medical faculty at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is also a researcher in the Digital Psychiatry Program at Harvard Medical School.…
How to make decisions you can stand behind regardless of the outcome
In April, when Duolingo’s CEO, Luis von Ahn, announced the company was going “AI-first,” he wasn’t just making a strategic decision. He was stepping into a spotlight few leaders envy. The…