In 2017, Brian Schimpf was in the California desert with an engineering problem to solve. The place was Apple Valley, expansive, sandy, and surreal. Schimpf—CEO and cofounder of Anduril, then a startup in the truest sense of the word—had been…
Here’s the thing about the gas crisis nobody is talking about: it’s not making companies travel less, it’s making them pay more to do less. According to Q1 2026 numbers from SAP Concur, the platform that processes travel and expense…
A prolonged war in Iran will bump the odds of inflation while simultaneously forcing a slowdown in consumer demand. All of this is troubling for the chief executive of container shipping giant Maersk, who warned that deadly combination is already rocking…
The deaths of three passengers aboard the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius have triggered an international scramble to trace passengers and crew exposed to the rare Andes strain of hantavirus. The outbreak has reignited public fear about a virus most…
Goldman Sachs chief information officer Marco Argenti thinks monitoring every employees’ AI use is the wrong way to measure whether it’s actually making people more productive. As companies increasingly push employees to adopt the technology to try to spur productivity,…
The war in Iran has done what once seemed impossible: forced Americans to rethink the idea of driving everywhere. The conflict in the Middle East itself might be teetering on a tentative ceasefire, but higher gasoline prices are likely here…
Phones are disappearing from classrooms. There’s no longer a soundscape of notifications during lessons, no more hidden glances at messages and DMs. No longer does the slacker in the back of class scroll endlessly on TikTok. At least 37 states,…
Iran’s regime has so far withstood U.S. and Israeli bombardment, but the economic forces that sparked the most serious conflict in decades have only gotten more severe. Spiraling inflation and a collapsing currency set off mass protests in late December…
A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final exams. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for…
Ray Dalio has been warning for years that America’s debt problem could trigger an economic “heart attack.” Now he’s saying that’s only part of the story. The billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates is widening his alarm, arguing in a recent conversation…