The generation that grew up with one shared phone in the hallway learned something their children never had to: how to be bored in front of other people without reaching for an escape
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We assume entrepreneurs peak in their twenties, but a Kellogg School study of 2.7 million company founders found the average founder of the fastest-growing tech firms was 45, and a 50-year-old is nearly twice as likely to build a runaway success as a 30-year-old
A large founder-age study from Azoulay, Jones, Kim, and Miranda complicates the young-founder myth by linking high-growth outcomes with middle-aged founders and prior industry experience.
A film about the founding of OpenAI was written, cast, directed by Luca Guadagnino, test-screened to warm reviews, and then quietly shelved by the studio that financed it approximately 4 months after that studio invested $50 billion in the company the film depicted unfavorably
There is a version of the "Artificial" story that is an ordinary Hollywood development story.
A Georgia Tech team scanned more than 100 people at rest and found that those who reported more frequent mind-wandering in daily life tended to score higher on fluid intelligence and creativity tests — suggesting that, in some people, a wandering mind may reflect an efficient brain with spare cognitive capacity, rather than simple distraction.
A Georgia Tech resting-state brain imaging study complicates the usual workplace story about mind-wandering, creativity, and visible focus.
McKinsey surveyed C-suite executives and found they believed only 4% of their staff used AI for at least 30% of daily work; the real figure, from the employees themselves, was 13% — meaning AI has already spread three times further than leadership knows
A McKinsey survey gap suggests workplace AI may be spreading through everyday employee habits faster than leadership dashboards can see.
IKEA is owned by a Dutch foundation with no shareholders and no owner, an arrangement that protects the company from any takeover, keeps its tax bill low, and for years left it running the world's wealthiest charity and one of its least generous
Ask who owns IKEA and the honest answer is that almost nobody does, by design.
Mach Industries raised $300M at a $1.8B valuation — and its new in-house rocket-motor arm targets a U.S. supply bottleneck
A three-year-old unmanned-systems maker just raised $300 million. Two weeks earlier it bought a propulsion company, a move aimed at one of the defense industry's most stubborn shortages.
One of the five brothers who kept Ubisoft independent for 40 years just died in a plane crash, and the real question is whether the family voting bloc can survive its first generational test
Claude Guillemot, a co-founder of French video game publisher Ubisoft, reportedly died in a plane crash.
Trump’s Iran deal faces backlash in Tehran as ceasefires fray and both sides test the limits
Sixty days. That is the window U.S. and Iranian negotiators gave themselves in Switzerland to turn a war-ending memorandum into a final nuclear settlement, according to Axios.
I asked AI to show me a picture of my future kids, and learned a harsh lesson in how technology shows us what we want to see, not what's real
A baby-prediction app takes two adult photographs, runs them through a generative model trained on faces, and returns what is, mechanically, a weighted composite nudged toward whatever its training data treats as a normal, healthy, appealing infant.
As AI eats into paid creative work, people are taking up the same skills — drawing, writing, crafts — on their own time, for no money, just to feel human
I'm not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher.
Fable 5 blocks biology, chemistry, and cybersecurity queries by design. Does this mean the era of self-regulating AI has quietly arrived?
On 9 June 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly accessible model from its Mythos class.