The number of Americans applying for jobless aid fell modestly last week as layoffs remained in the same historically low range of recent years.U.S. applications for unemployment benefits in the week ending June 13 dropped by 4,000 to 226,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s in line with the 225,000 new applications forecast by analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet.Weekly filings for unemployment benefits are considered representative of U.S.
Dmitry Shevelenko believes the future of work looks less like a series of apps and more like a single assistant that you ask to do something once and then let it run.
As people gather across the U.S. to celebrate Juneteenth on Friday, former President Barack Obama’s presidential center is opening its doors to the general public for the first time.
In 2014, my husband came home from a run one day with the crazy idea that we should make an at-home insemination kit. We had zero experience in the fertility industry, no MBA, no connections, and not much money. But we had one important element: first-hand user experience. We knew personally that this product was greatly needed. We had looked for it, and never found it.
Claude Design, Anthropic Lab’s AI design tool, launched in April to a crowded market of vibe coding design programs. Now, after a few months in the hands of designers, Anthropic is launching a big update to Claude Design that addresses their biggest pain points.
If you’re serious about your career, then chances are you’re constantly on the hunt for resources to help you prosper at work. The most successful leaders are readers, and it’s a no-brainer that books offer the most useful guides on how to reach your professional goals.
Tomorrow.io’s “weather intelligence” platform started with a focus on better data and eventually grew to include the company’s own constellation of satellites to cover the globe in detail, sampling every point on the planet roughly once an hour. But the CEO, Shimon Elkabetz, saw the opportunity to go farther and use agentic AI to help customers evaluate specific weather risks.
More than 100 working mothers shared how corporate America is making it harder to succeed at work and at home. Their stories expose a broken system.
Shares of Sleep Number Corporation will no longer be publicly traded after next week.
The World Cup is officially up and running, bringing fans from across the world together for the globe’s largest sporting event. But in Mexico, fans are cheering more than the players.
Bina Ramroop broke down in tears when she realized she wasn’t going to get the World Cup tickets she had bought for her grandson’s 13th birthday.
After driving into floodwater, gates, and telephone poles, Waymo’s robotaxis are being recalled yet again for navigating into hazardous situations. This time, Waymo’s fleet of nearly 4,000 vehicles is being pulled back for updates after at least 13 instances of the cars entering construction zones on highways.
Eugenia Kuyda remembers when one of her favorite apps became too bloated. All she wanted was a simple weight tracker. But she also got calorie counting, meal tracking, and a subscription she didn’t need.
After seeing how coders have been delegating large parts of their jobs to AI, Charles Lamanna wants office workers to start doing the same. Lamanna, Microsoft’s executive VP of agents and business apps, heads Copilot Cowork, which lets workers hand off complex tasks to AI agents that hook into Microsoft’s 365 suite.
Until recently, Peter Steinberger was a developer working in relative obscurity. But in November 2025, he launched the viral AI agent platform OpenClaw. Within a few months, he was receiving a hero’s welcome at a San Francisco OpenClaw event where 1,300 people signed up for a 500-capacity space—a crowd that felt closer to one of Apple’s famously buzzy launches.
Since the Knicks won the Eastern Conference finals on May 25, New York City transformed into one big fan zone. After enduring decades of heartbreaking defeats, dysfunctional ownership, and bad luck, the city had real hope that a championship title was on the horizon at last. The dream came true on June 13, with a 94-90 win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.