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Skills over degrees 
The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual dues for access...
An Arizona family used AI to recreate a road rage victim’s voice
The family of a man killed in a 2021 road rage incident in Arizona used artificial intelligence to portray the victim delivering his own impact statement during his killer’s...
What’s happening at Newark airport? Update on flight cancellations and delays as travel chaos continues
In the constant hustle and bustle of one of the busiest airports in the United States, a terrifying 90 seconds of quiet had disastrous results.  On April 28, the...
OpenAI’s nonprofit mission fades further into the rearview
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit with a mission to build safe artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity. For a while, that structure made sense. But in...
Why Cadillac can only make two of its new $340,000 EVs per day
“I’ve had more caviar since starting work on the Celestiq than I have during the entirety of my career at General Motors,” Erin Crossley, Cadillac’s design director for color...
Tesla’s latest European sales numbers continue to plummet to multiyear low, as Chinese EVs soar
New Tesla car sales plunged across Europe in April even as sales of other electric vehicle brands soared, in part due to backlash against CEO Elon Musk’s support for...
Justice Department asks court to break up Google’s ad tech business
The U.S. Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google by asking a federal judge to force the company to part with some of the...
Elon Musk faces backlash from Austin neighbors over his ‘Fort Knox’-style mansion
Elon Musk has ruffled plenty of feathers since stepping more prominently into the political arena. Now, it seems he’s also a bad neighbor. In 2022, Musk purchased a six-bedroom,...
Cisco says its new entanglement chip could speed up practical quantum computing timeline by a decade
Cisco is the latest company to announce a quantum breakthrough. On Tuesday, the company said it has developed a prototype entanglement source chip that has the potential to cut...
German dual-use drone maker becomes unicorn amid defence tech boom
German drone maker Quantum Systems has raised €160mn at a valuation north of €1bn, becoming Europe’s latest defence tech unicorn.   Quantum Systems builds electric, AI-powered autonomous surveillance drones that...