The Download: the secrets of vitamin D, and an AI party in Africa
“At some point you’ve got to wonder whether the bug is a feature.” —Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech, ponders xAI and Grok’s…
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Bitcoin crash continues as ‘fear and greed’ index hits historic lows. What’s happening with crypto now?
Bitcoin is having a horrible week. Until yesterday, the cryptocurrency had declined by roughly 2.5% over the preceding five days. But in the last 24 hours alone, the coin has taken a major…
Jon M. Chu wants to ‘entertain the hell’ out of people
Before Wicked opened on Broadway in October 2003, the musical’s production team took the show to the Curran Theatre in San Francisco for what’s called an “out of town tryout.” The…
A $100 Million AI Super PAC Targeted New York Democrat Alex Bores. He Thinks It Backfired
It turns out that when an AI-friendly super PAC with $100 million in backing from Silicon Valley bigwigs identifies you as its first target, it ends up generating a lot of attention. “I…
Dev Hynes Returns as Blood Orange
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Google is spending $40 billion to build 3 new data centers in Texas
Google has 44 data centers in operation or in development around the world, but as demand for AI and the need for compute capacity grows, the company is getting started on three more. This…
TikTok cares about your well-being and now has a special hub to prove it
Instead of teens simply putting down their phones to take a break, TikTok wants them to use the app’s new breathing exercises and affirmation journal to improve their well-being. Over the…
We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies
In fairness to researchers, it can be difficult to run a randomized clinical trial for vitamin D supplements. That’s because most of us get the bulk of our vitamin D from sunlight. Our…
The billion-dollar AI startup rejecting 996 hustle culture
As startups race to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence, some of them seem to be borrowing from China’s exacting work culture—which normalized a 72-hour workweek, or a “996”…
3 signs in an interview that your future boss might be a bad boss
“Your new boss didn’t even offer you a glass of water?” my mother had questioned me in disbelief. “After how many interviews? You should not take that job. I am telling you not to take…
The rise of the builder C-suite
Executives are no longer measured by the weight of their title but by the scale of what they create, especially in an era reshaped by AI. The most effective leaders now marry vision with…
Why teams stop developing—and how to get them moving again
IT development has been around for more than 60 years and it has undergone radical transformations from the emergence of the first programming languages and OS development to the internet…
Selling to machines: How AI will change e-commerce
How did you get to this article? Maybe you opened a link in an email, or you navigated from the Fast Company home page. Perhaps you Googled “agentic AI” and this figured in the results.…
“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad
As part of an anti-Wicked Witch of the West smear campaign, Morrible tries to ensnare the loyalties of Elphaba’s closest ex-classmates: Glinda, a smiling yet conflicted mascot for the…
Preventing school shootings is good for business
How would a school shooting affect your employees? It’s something that most employers never want to think about, but it’s a horrifyingly real threat to any community—and the companies and…
How to get out of AI pilot purgatory
Every C-suite executive I meet asks the same question: Why is our AI investment stuck in pilot purgatory? After surveying over 200 AI practitioners for our latest research, I have a…
4 People Indicted in Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China
Stern said text messages obtained by authorities show Li boasting about how his father “had engaged in similar business on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.” Stern alleged the…
The Ghosts of Girlhoods Past in “Sound of Falling”
Decades later, in the eighties, we meet Erika’s niece Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky), a bespectacled, dark-haired teen-ager, growing up in what is now the German Democratic Republic. She…
The Nvidia market rally couldn’t save Bitcoin’s price: BTC sinks to new low today. What’s up with this crypto crash?
Is this the beginning of the end for Bitcoin? A Bitcoin (BTC) sell-off on Thursday is sending the cryptocurrency down again today by 3% to $86,410.50 in midday afternoon trading, after a…
Verizon begins laying off more than 13,000 employees in a bid to ‘reorient’ the entire company
Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees in mass job reductions that arrive as the telecommunications giant says it must “reorient” its entire company. The job cuts began on…
NBC’s ‘Stumble’: Why does Hollywood insist on treating narcolepsy as a punchline?
NBC recently debuted a new show: Stumble, a comedy about a former cheer coach leading a team of misfits. Some earlier reviews of the show, which premiered on November 7, called it…
Why Trump’s AI diplomacy is doomed to fail
This week, chips were on the menu in the White House. “When you ask about AI and chips, Saudi Arabia has a huge need for computing power,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) said at a…
Vance tells Americans to have ‘a little bit of patience’ on high prices
While President Donald Trump has struggled to settle on a way to address Americans’ concerns about high costs, Vice President JD Vance on Thursday offered a more direct and empathetic…
The World-Shifting Grooves of Fela Kuti
The rest of Fela’s story is largely a cat-and-mouse game, and then an outright battle, between art and the state, Fela and the authorities. One of the series’ great challenges is to keep…