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Shares in the troubled private health insurer UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) are currently seeing their best trading day in months. As of the time of this writing, UNH shares are up nearly…
Hello again, and welcome to Fast Company’s Plugged In. For as long as there’s been software, upgrades have been emotionally fraught. When people grow accustomed to a product, they can come…
A month after its $1 billion acquisition by E.l.f. Beauty, Hailey Bieber’s skincare brand Rhode is heading to Sephora. Beginning September 4, the 3-year-old brand will be carried by all of…
OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents…
Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in a modern airliner’s cockpit? While you’re enjoying your in-flight movie, a quiet technological revolution is underway, one that’s not only…
On Thursday, the third and final season of “And Just Like That . . . ,” the sequel series to “Sex and the City,” came to an unceremonious end. The episode takes place over Thanksgiving,…
When SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on Nickelodeon in 1999, there was no indication it would become the global phenomenon it is today. At the time, the underwater adventures of a…
Recent Nielsen data confirmed what many of us had already begun to sense: Streaming services surpassed broadcast and cable in TV viewership. It’s a streaming world. Broadcast television…
Suzanne Kite’s AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence that emerges only through reciprocal, consensual interaction. Unlike systems…
Google Search is about to look a lot more personal. Google recently began implementing a new search feature called “Preferred Sources.” With this add-on, users can select the news sources…
So perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised when the US Department of Health and Human Services, which RFK Jr. now heads, announced “the beginning of a coordinated wind-down” of mRNA…
Squarely in the middle Taiwan’s modern security uncertainties stem from the long-contested issue of the island’s sovereignty. After losing the first Sino-Japanese War in the late 1800s,…
Imagine a busy train station. Cameras monitor everything, from how clean the platforms are to whether a docking bay is empty or occupied. These cameras feed into an AI system that helps…
Olivia loves her position in product marketing. One day, Olivia’s firm announced it would be acquired by a Japanese company. Shortly afterwards top management was let go, including her…
Nailah Williams discovered her path to a college degree in the most unlikely place: behind the wheel of her Uber. After years of jobs that forced her to choose between earning a paycheck…
I began my career in neuroscience—not in business, not in engineering, not in HR. When I became head of product at GitLab, I hadn’t managed a product team before. I didn’t have the…
When was the last time a brand didn’t just catch your eye, but moved you—made you feel something real? Today, AI can produce logos, taglines, and campaigns at lightning speed. Algorithms…
If the last 10 years were about creators building audiences, the next 10 will be about them building infrastructure. We’re entering the era of the creator-led studio. It’s already…
Since ChatGPT was released nearly three years ago, individuals and companies have experimented with reactive AI, composing AI prompts to create articles, tables, translations, to-do lists,…
Canada’s largest airline, Air Canada, will begin suspending flights starting Thursday. The decision comes after the airline’s flight attendants union, Canadian Union of Public Employees…
Ulta Beauty and Target Corp. announced on Thursday that they won’t be renewing their in-store partnership, which ends a year from now in August 2026. Until then, Ulta Beauty products will…
The tech industry is reeling from President Trump’s surprising new deal with Nvidia. Earlier this week, Trump said he would allow the company to continue selling its H20 chips to China in…
In a new ad campaign for E.l.f. Beauty, Matt Rife stars alongside drag performer Heidi N. Closet as fictional personal injury lawyers “E.l.f.ino & Schmarnes.” The brand may have been…
Then there were the specifics. How would the policy distinguish between equipment that really posed a risk, and products companies should still be able to sell? Estevez says he remembers…
