The “Golden Age of Science” had no scientists. For nearly three centuries, discoverers like Darwin and Copernicus, still wrestling to break free from Greek thought, called themselves “natural philosophers.” They made discoveries based on their own curiosity. The purest of…
President Trump told a cheering crowd at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, on July 22 that “affordability” was a term invented by his political opponents, recounting the exact moment he says he first heard it: at his very first…
MoonPay says it has made a big advance in the nascent field of using AI agents for consumer purchases. On Thursday, the payments company unveiled Paybox, a new wallet tool that users can plug into their Claude or ChatGPT screens,…
C-suite executives from around the world could have been forgiven for reaching for the atlas when the former Mayor of Manchester (a smallish city 200 miles north of London) became the U.K.’s seventh prime minister in ten years. Andy Burnham is so keen to make the city he once ran the heart of…
For most of 2026, ServiceNow has been Exhibit A for the “SaaSpocalypse”—the fear that autonomous AI agents will let companies build their own workflows and gut demand for traditional enterprise software. The stock entered Wednesday down roughly a third for…
The U.S.-Iran war is not going fantastically well for either side. President Trump has been unable to conduct the negotiations he had hoped for and reach a final deal over the Strait of Hormuz. And Iran’s military infrastructure—and a great…
Good morning. Is the American Dream still about getting ahead, or just about not falling behind? Bill Ackman wants to get back to when success inspired rather than divided people. “When I grew up, if a guy in my neighborhood…
Spain’s victory over Argentina in the 2026 FIFA World Cup final not only secured the country’s first men’s World Cup title in more than a decade—it also came with a $50 million prize from FIFA. While the trophy now sits…
Jensen Huang has been on a bit of a philanthropic streak, having donated one of his iconic leather jackets to raise nearly $1 million for the Edge Institute, a nonprofit that brings together people working in tech, science, culture, and…
Why is the US president now handing out US$1,000 to American babies – and what does it have to do with a retirement system built on the other side of the world? President Donald Trump has pointed to Australia as…