The Best Part of Thanksgiving, Bones and All
Thanksgiving, as it tends to be celebrated, is the most honest American holiday: all appetite, no apology. Every other event on our civic calendar asks us to remember something noble, or…
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Mentorship is the competitive edge our workplaces need to accelerate
Lately, at every networking event or leadership roundtable, I’m hearing the same things on repeat. CEOs are focused on growth in an uncertain context. HR leaders are worried about…
Amazon Leo is ready for testing and aimed squarely at Starlink’s dominance
The Bezos vs. Musk battle for satellite internet service is heating up In what’s rapidly becoming the new space race: Amazon will start testing its high-speed internet service that it’s…
What ‘Sent from my . . .’ in your emails says about you
The average U.S. employee clocks nearly 21 full business days working from their phone each year. That’s according to new research from Adobe Acrobat, who surveyed over 1,000 full-time…
Trump-Xi call covered trade, Taiwan, Ukraine, soybeans, fentanyl, and more
President Donald Trump said he has accepted an invitation from Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit Beijing in April and that he reciprocated by inviting Xi for a state visit to the U.S.…
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: New balloons, musical acts—and of course, ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
Two things that made massive cultural splashes this year — Labubu and “KPop Demon Hunters” — will fill the sky and streets of New York when the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off…
What to know about the new Kohl’s CEO: Michael Bender takes over after leadership drama, ahead of earnings
Kohl’s announced on Monday that interim CEO Michael Bender will become the ailing retailer’s permanent new CEO—making him the third chief executive to head the company in about three…
With new Opus 4.5 model, Anthropic’s Claude could remain the best AI coding tool
Anthropic launched its newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, putting the company back atop the benchmark rankings for AI software coding. Opus 4.5 scores over 80% on the widely used SWE-bench,…
DOGE is dead, but the damage is still with us. Here’s a look back at some of its most egregious moves
It’s official: DOGE, the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, has met an early end. Even before Trump took office, DOGE was conceived of as an outside advisory board…
U.S. stocks rise on another Alphabet rally
The U.S. stock market is rising again on Monday, ahead of a week with shortened trading because of the Thanksgiving holiday. The S&P 500 climbed 1.4% and added to its jump from Friday. The…
Is the housing market at risk as more homeowners slip underwater?
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. A modest rise in negative equity is emerging across parts of the U.S.…
COP30: Were this year’s UN climate talks in Brazil a flop?
This year’s U.N. climate conference in Brazil had many unique aspects that could have been part of a historic outcome. COP30, as it’s called, was hosted in Belem, a city on the edge of the…
Why 50,000 Christmas trees went on sale at this event in Pennsylvania (and what that means for holiday shopping)
Christmas went on the auction block this week in Pennsylvania farm country, and there was no shortage of bidders. About 50,000 Christmas trees and enough wreaths, crafts and other seasonal…
‘Wicked: For Good’ soars to a $226 million global debut
Universal Pictures’ two-part Wicked gamble continues to defy gravity at the box office. Just a year after part one brought droves of audiences to movie theaters around the country, even…
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
Eileen Guo writes: Even if you don’t have an AI friend yourself, you probably know someone who does. A recent study found that one of the top uses of generative AI is companionship: On…
What’s next for AlphaFold: A conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel laureate
Think of it this way, he says. Finding a protein’s structure might previously have cost $100,000 in the lab: “If we were only a hundred thousand dollars away from doing a thing, it would…
Novo Nordisk stock slides as its Alzheimer’s drug trials fail
Novo Nordisk’s closely-watched Alzheimer’s trials of an older oral version of its semaglutide drug failed to help slow the progression of the brain-wasting disease, the firm said on…
Wholesale turkey prices are jumping 44% this year. Here’s why
Old Brick Farm, where Larry Doll raises chickens, turkeys and ducks, was fortunate this Thanksgiving season. Doll’s small farm west of Detroit had no cases of bird flu, despite an ongoing…
Thanksgiving travel 2025: Want to avoid traffic? Here are the best and worst times to hit the road this week
The Thanksgiving holiday is nearly upon us, which means tens of millions of Americans will be traveling nationwide this week to visit their loved ones and celebrate around the dinner table…
Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed hacks. This means that…
Markets worldwide are mixed as traders place hopes on a rate cut by the Fed
World shares and U.S. futures were mixed on Monday after Wall Street was buoyed by revived hopes for an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.2%…
The Download: how to fix a tractor, and living among conspiracy theorists
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the man building a starter kit for…
This CEO just sold his company for $21 billion. It wouldn’t have happened without federally funded research
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from…
Why the urge to persuade can undermine your idea for change
Every good salesperson knows the 7-step process in which you identify and qualify a prospect to understand their needs, then present your offer, overcome objections, close the sale and…