When the U.S. and Israel launched attacks against Iran this weekend, prompting a military response across the Middle East, concerns spiralled from the humanitarian cost to the macroeconomic. On the latter, analysts have been carefully watching for signals that Iran…
Meta was recently granted a patent in Dec, 2025 that would essentially allow the social media platform to post on a dormant user’s behalf—whether they took a break from social media or long after they’ve passed away. The patent, first…
Deepfake fraud drained $1.1 billion from U.S. corporate accounts in 2025, tripling from $360 million the year before. By midyear last year, documented incidents had already quadrupled the 2024 total. And most corporate communications and brand teams remain dangerously unprepared. Executives now face synthetic…
Before he became the most powerful banking CEO in America, JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon set himself a simple career rule that sounds almost radical in the age of personal branding: keep your mouth shut. As a 28‑year‑old Harvard MBA…
Asia-Pacific’s newest crop of entrepreneurs are rapidly turning to artificial intelligence, with founders both launching new AI startups and spending more on AI tools. Spending on AI tools by founders rose 20% last year, according to an in-house study of…
For more than a decade, a trend has emerged in standardized testing data for students in Utah. After years of increasing reading and math scores, results from the state’s National Assessment of Educational Progress testing for fourth- and eighth-graders have…
The New York Times has long had an implacable animus towards all things blockchain, and last week decided to double down by publishing a stupid and dishonest op-ed titled “Crypto is pointless. Not even the White House can fix that.”…
On Friday, just hours after publicly backing rival Anthropic for standing firm against the Pentagon’s demands, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his company had struck its own deal with the Department of Defense. The move came shortly after the U.S.…
Seventy-year-old baby boomer Martha Shedden spent more than three decades building a successful career as a civil engineer. But 15 years ago, in 2011, she found a new set of numbers to obsess over: the fiercely complicated rules of the…
The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, killing its supreme leader and launching a regional war as Iran and its proxies retaliated against its neighbors, but crude oil prices spiked by only a relatively muted 6% on March 2. With the…