Ray Dalio was a self-professed “below average” student, bringing home grades of C-minus on a good day. However, the billionaire investor is now a household name, and says when he is looking to hire talent, he seeks out people who…
The post-pandemic days of coffee badging and logging in from the couch may be coming to an end. More employers have been rolling out novel ways to keep tabs on workers’ whereabouts. And now, retail giant Target is doubling down…
Strategy is shifting strategies as the Bitcoin behemoth seeks to quell fears over its financial health. On Monday, the company announced that it may sell up to $1.25 billion in Bitcoin to build its cash reserves, cover investor payouts, and…
Lots of people know they could be eating more greens, sleeping better, and getting in more cardio. The problem is what to do with all that data now that people have real information about themselves, courtesy of wearable medical and…
The canal mania of the 1830s. The British railway bubble of the 1840s. The dot-com crash of 2000. Each began with a genuine technological breakthrough that attracted more capital than commercial returns could ultimately justify. Each ended in a recession.…
When Brown University Professor Roberto Serrano changed the format of his midterm exam last spring, he was thinking about his students’ mental health, not academic fraud. Two of them had been shot, including Ella Cook, a young woman who had…
The United States and Iran on Monday separately announced they will send delegations to Qatar this week, though Tehran insisted it has not agreed to meet with the U.S. “at any level” after attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend…
The Federal Reserve retains a special status in the government that shields it from interference by the White House, the Supreme Court said in a decision that has critical implications for the bond market. Justices ruled 5-4 on Monday President…
This summer has already produced three answers to questions the data center industry would have preferred to leave theoretical. In May, the PJM Interconnection — the grid operator serving data center-dense northern Virginia — received emergency authorization from the Energy…
Smart people disagree on the AI job apocalypse, and even the prophets of white-collar doom—Dario Amodei and Sam Altman—have walked back their predictions. But the best explanation for why AI won’t kill off jobs across the economy comes, perhaps unexpectedly,…