Why is Kelly Clarkson beefing with a Brooklyn toy shop?
Kelly Clarkson just thrust a small Brooklyn boutique into the limelight, and not in a good way. Art of Play, a high-end novelty shop offering playing cards, puzzles, games, and “playful decor,”...
View Article‘SNL’ and Shane Gillis get backlash for ‘rape culture’ jokes during a...
Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend, and the response to the comedian’s opening monologue has been fast and mostly furious. On Saturday, Gillis took the stage and almost...
View ArticleWhen your AI system breaks—and what to do about it
The announcement of a new AI model or feature fills me with a mixture of anticipation and dread. I’m excited to see what “new thing” I might be able to do, but I also know that some of my existing...
View ArticleWhen AI runs the company, what exactly is leadership for?
For quite some time in the already long series of articles I’ve been writing on what is and what should be corporate AI, I have been discussing concepts such as agents, working with ontologies and...
View ArticleSilicon Valley responds to Trump’s hands-off approach to AI regulation at...
Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial...
View ArticleAs midterms approach, Trump is sticking with tariffs even though voters...
Maybe President Donald Trump really does believe that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.Despite higher prices, criticism from trade experts and displeasure among voters, Trump...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Duo the owl’s next big act is an animated series
Duo the owl has twerked on main, flash mobbed a Charli XCX concert, died, sent his ashes to Dua Lipa, and come back to life. His next big act? Starring in his own animated show. DuoTV is a new animated...
View ArticleHow AI can prevent knowledge from walking out the door
Knowledge is what separates a good operation from a great one. It is also the hardest thing to scale, because the knowledge that matters most does not live in systems. It lives in people. The team...
View ArticleNetflix layoffs loom as stock performance struggles, growth slows, and...
Netflix is planning what could be its largest round of layoffs in four years, according to media reports. The job cuts are expected to impact 5% of the streaming giant’s workforce, with the...
View Article34 leaders share their essential work-travel rituals
Like it or not, most leadership roles require work-related travel, sometimes lots of it. While jet-setting to meetings and conferences sounded cool on paper, the reality of planes, trains, and...
View ArticleWith AI productivity, your team is burning out
I’ve been working in the tech industry for over 20 years, and for about half that time I’ve been in a leadership role. I’ve always believed that to achieve good results, it’s essential to keep an eye...
View ArticleWhat’s open and closed on Columbus Day 2026? Banks, stock markets, Costco,...
Monday holidays, like today’s double feature of Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day, can be confusing. When you layer in the observance’s controversy, it gets even muddier. Does the federal...
View ArticleHow Inc. and Fast Company get inspiration from our archives
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations...
View ArticleFear of being ‘too much’ silences women leaders. Here’s how to ask anyway
“I don’t know if I came across super harsh or not. At some point, I lost sense of how I was showing up.” That was my client after having a hard conversation with one of her leaders about getting the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spredges, glitter, and lots of gold foil: Penguin is betting on deluxe book...
This holiday season, you can give your child an actual Golden Ticket. It comes tucked inside a new special edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of a slew of deluxe editions of books...
View ArticleLyft’s historic wage theft settlement fixes the past but ignores the future
In early October, California state and city authorities reached a landmark settlement with the rideshare company Lyft over the state’s allegations that the company misclassified its drivers as...
View ArticleData centers produce heat year-round. Here’s how to save it for winter
You have probably noticed it on a hot summer day: A basement feels cool even when the air outside is baking. The ground does not heat up and cool down as fast as the air does. A few hundred feet down,...
View ArticleHow to use AI for a ‘voice of the customer’ analysis
You can read endless online advice telling you how to train AI to sound like you. Most suggest using AI to analyze your blog, your newsletter, and your social posts. That’s all fine, but you should...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Start vibe-coding your own iPhone Shortcuts already
Thanks to Siri AI and Shortcuts in iOS 27, I’ve finally created a better version of Shazam. Shazam is great for identifying songs you hear in the wild, but not so great at revisiting them later. It...
View ArticleAI-pilled bosses and clients are turning designers into ‘pixel pushers’
Emily Foran, a creative director and graphic designer, has not been asked by clients to come up with an original idea from scratch in a year. “That’s kind of killing my soul,” Foran says. “I’m having...
View Article
![[QLD, NSW, VIC] Samsung 65](http://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/31/978831l.jpg?h=8d64f0c6)
