In a January 2025 podcast episode, Open AI CEO Sam Altman was asked what the most important skill would be in the age of AI. His answer was—in simplest terms—the ability to ask creative questions.
Cyberattacks are increasingly making use of artificial intelligence, using the technology to target organizations at scale. To fight back, the corporate cybersecurity teams that track, monitor, and respond to these threats may need to start using AI a lot more too. Or at least that’s what Edward Wu argues. He’s the CEO of Dropzone AI, which has developed a large language model-based digital cyberthreat investigator.
Everyone is talking about longevity.
While some companies are still exploring AI, Daniel Danker cites where it’s already working at Walmart. “We see it as the technology to solve a bunch of problems for customers,” says Danker, the retail giant’s executive vice president for AI acceleration.
Perhaps by now you have seen, somewhere on social media, a drink made by Crumbl that half the internet seems convinced could be a biohazard.Called the Crazy Cousins, it mixes a base like Sprite or Mountain Dew with a full can of Red Bull, strawberry purée, pineapple syrup, and a serious glug of coconut milk.
In the volatile world of manufacturing, one factor is emerging as the ultimate differentiator in 2026: speed, and in particular, operational velocity. This is the ability to sense market changes, make decisions quickly and decisively, and recover swiftly across the entire value chain.
The AI talent wars are raging on.
Hollister is continuing its resurgence with a line of home and decor products at Target.
Going from unemployed to full-time consultant was a welcome reprieve. And learning I had time to receive unemployment while trying to figure it out was exactly what I needed.
Robots and AI agents are still limited when it comes to learning new things. That’s exactly the problem that fascinates Chelsea Finn, a Stanford computer science and engineering professor. Her research focuses on giving autonomous systems frameworks to reason through complex tasks.
Before Ron Miasnik joined Cognition as head of business development, he was a partner at Bain Capital Ventures with a focus on artificial intelligence. Part of his job involved understanding how the technology was actually being used to add value, and Cognition’s AI coding agent, Devin, “kept coming up as one of the tools that was driving transformation at scale in a very meaningful way,” he says.
BYD, the China-based maker of electric vehicles, has done something no automaker has dared to do: It’s promising to pay every bill—repairs, property damage, medical costs—when its God’s Eye autonomous driving system causes an accident. No price ceiling. No fine print. No blame-shifting to the driver. No insurance claim that haunts you for years.
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If you have watched a goalkeeper face a penalty kick, you know you are watching 0.3 seconds of pure attentional reckoning.
A GoFundMe campaign for a woman whose dog was shot and killed by police on Saturday is gaining traction online.
You may want to check the cheese in your fridge before your next snack.