Anirudh Devgan has a theory about why smart people keep making the same mistakes. Every generation faces a new wave of technological disruption and responds with the same blend of overconfidence, short-termism, and reluctance to let go of what’s working.…
Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, helped plan and execute Operation Absolute Resolve, a daring mission that saw the U.S. Army capture former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. His superiors, however, were unaware that…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked tax day by making good on one of his most prominent campaign promises, and he did it while outside hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s front door—and the Citadel CEO worth over $51 billion…
Billionaires are becoming an even rarer species in California. A proposed one-time 5% tax on their wealth has led several of the state’s wealthiest residents, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to flee…
When I ask audiences who wants to live to 100, most hands go up. When I add “no matter what,” most of those hands drop. That reaction captures both the promise and the peril of what I call the longevity…
Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have both taken drastic actions to trim their workforces in an effort to streamline their operations and offset heavy spending on artificial intelligence. Meta told personnel in an internal memo on Thursday that it planned…
OpenAI on Thursday released its newest AI model, GPT-5.5, to its paid subscribers. The release, coming just six weeks after the company debuted GPT-5.4, is an extremely fast turnaround that underscores how fiercely frontier AI labs are competing for enterprise…
In the late 2000s, surging unemployment during the financial crash gave rise to the gig economy, later supercharged by the emergence of ride-sharing and food-delivery apps. Almost two decades later, gig work is as big as it’s ever been, and…
The team behind Donald Trump’s memecoin, in what is becoming a common ritual, is holding a soirée for the coin’s top holders. Even though the novelty of these gatherings may have worn off, the second Trump coin conference may appeal…
A former MrBeast employee is suing the media company, alleging she was wrongfully terminated after returning from parental leave and that she experienced pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment at her job. In a federal lawsuit filed in the Eastern District…