Business
In the age of AI, L.L. Bean is betting big on brick-and-mortar shopping
When you step into the newly renovated L.L. Bean flagship, the first thing you see isn’t the brand’s latest collection of field coats or…
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Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models
Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to push a China-led open-source AI bloc. Europe settled the same question in law, and its limit is…
World
China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked
China's data regulator will set standards for embodied AI training data. Europe has a Data Act governing machine data it has not yet…
World
Tesla sets 1 October for the next-generation Roadster reveal
Tesla will reveal the next-generation Roadster on 1 October. European reservation holders have had EUR 43,000 with the company and no car…
Business
How AI is opening up spectrum space on crowded airwaves
Every time you make a phone call, stream a video, or connect to Wi-Fi, your device is sending and receiving invisible signals through the…
Business
How to use humor at work effectively
A finance director stands in front of hundreds of employees to reveal the annual figures. No, it’s not the start of the most corporate…
World
China’s AI industry is moving from models to agents, a state report says
A China Telecom report says inference will be 80% of the country's compute market by 2029. Europe's gigafactories are due online in…
World
Li Auto will launch in Europe this quarter, six years earlier than it said it would
Li Auto is bringing battery cars to Europe and leaving its extended-range models out. The EU's tariff on Chinese EVs covers range…
Business
4 things you can do to protect yourself from the rising threat of AI
For more than 25 years, I’ve been the “Computer Guy” for friends, family, and colleagues who call when something digital goes sideways.…
Business
Manischewitz is betting that a dating show can attract Gen Z to the 138-year-old brand
For the next ten days, while everyone else is settling back into school and ushering in autumn with pumpkin spice lattes, Jewish Americans…
Business
Why you procrastinate on things you actually want to do
Below, Dr. Itamar Shatz shares five key insights from his new book, Solving Procrastination: The Science of Why We Put Things Off and How…
World
Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed
Amazon's Quick desktop app is generally available. Its pitch is governance, but Quick is not on the service list for AWS's European…
World
Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated
Andy Burnham won’t back a pause on new UK data centres. A Verdant report says they will create a quarter of the jobs techUK projects.
Business
It took 2,977 drones to create this stunning 9/11 memorial show. Here’s how they pulled it off
To remember the lives of the 2,977 people killed in the 9/11 attacks 25 years ago, 2,977 drones were arranged in the shape of the original…
Business
This powerful free tool is your secret weapon against phone scams
I don’t know if you’ve noticed—honestly, I hope you haven’t!—but scams are starting to get scarily sophisticated. And that means they’re…
World
Macron’s Paris space summit ends with €20bn in commitments and 51 signed deals
The first International Space Summit closed in Paris on 10 September with about €20bn in announced investment and 51 deals, led by a…
World
AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme
An Anthropic researcher’s warning became an AI extinction meme, with dozens of X users copying his resignation post and swapping in absurd…
Business
Pennsylvania is suing TikTok over ‘addictive’ features, but regulation isn’t black and white
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a civil lawsuit against TikTok on August 11, 2026, filed in Allegheny County Court of…
World
Nvidia and Palantir are selling a sovereign AI stack, starting with Nvidia’s own supply chain
Nvidia and Palantir have launched a sovereign AI stack for supply chains, combining Foundry, Ontology and Nemotron models, with Nvidia as…
Business
Why your boss tunes you out
One of my clients came to me with a high-stakes pitch to request a budget and head count for her team. She had built a beautiful and…
World
A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident
Senator Josh Hawley has given OpenAI until 1 October to answer 16 questions about the Hugging Face incident, calling it reckless that…
Business
Personal Brand Special Report: 207 insights and ideas to grow your brand and career
In the summer of 2021, Eric Pacifici started living a double life. By day, he was one of thousands of associates at Kirkland & Ellis, one…
World
China rejects the US distillation advisory as unfounded accusations and smears
China’s foreign ministry has rejected the NSA, FBI and CISA advisory accusing six Chinese firms of industrial-scale AI distillation,…
Business
America has millions of open jobs. So why can’t people find work?
This article is written by Tina Hamilton, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Philadelphia and the founder and CEO of myHR…