Earlier this year, Jeremy Watt was on a call with Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady, executive producers of Crave’s Heated Rivalry. For Watt, cofounder of the Toronto-based lifestyle and apparel brand Province of Canada, it was the culmination of a crazy run of events that occurred after his company found itself sucked into the viral vortex of social media chatter around the hit show. In episode 2, one of the main characters, Shane Hollander (played by Hudson Williams), wore a Team Canada fleece jacket, seen just for a few moments on-screen. But it was enough to make fans start clamoring…
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The most powerful AI models are now treated, at least in Washington, as potential national-security events. Before companies release them to the public, the government wants a chance to see what they can do: whether they can discover software vulnerabilities, assist cyberattacks, or otherwise introduce risks that federal officials may not fully understand until the models are already in use. President Trump’s new executive order, signed Tuesday, is meant to give the government that chance. But the final version leaves AI companies with considerable control over the process. It asks them to voluntarily submit advanced models for government review 30…
AI-generated summaries in Google search results take content from online publishers while reducing traffic to their websites—a tricky relationship that has been seemingly inevitable until now. Today, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that publishers will no longer have to allow Google’s AI-generated tools to use their content in exchange for appearing in the search engine’s traditional links. “In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews,” the CMA stated in its announcement. “This will put publishers, like news organisations, in…
Aza Raskin, a cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, has spent years sounding the alarm about where the race to build powerful AI is taking us. Just days after the center’s other cofounder visited the Vatican, Raskin unpacks the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s sweeping new encyclical on artificial intelligence, and exposes the incentive structures pushing Silicon Valley toward dangerous territory—while making the case that it’s not too late to change course. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response, hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company Bob Safian. From the team behind the Masters…
Coursera, the online learning platform that hosts online courses from major universities and tech companies, announced on Wednesday a new app called Ollie, which offers bite-size lessons that take only a minute or two to complete. The lessons include short vertical videos, often around 90 seconds long, clipped from Coursera’s extensive library of learning materials. Users can find lessons recommended based on their interests through a front page or a social media-style feed, scrolling down to explore a range of topics or scrolling right to dive deeper into a particular subject. When they come across something interesting, they can watch…
I opened my South by Southwest (SXSW) session with a confession: I have a video from over a decade ago where I am impersonating Ron Burgundy from “Anchorman.” Stiff delivery, robotic cadence, completely inauthentic. Did I say video? I’ll clarify and say this was footage broadcast on the local news during my stint as a local TV news reporter. I thought that’s what “being on camera” was supposed to look like. I was wrong. Today I speak on stages across the country, host a podcast, and coach founders and executives on how to show up confidently on video. The transformation…
A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for their phones and type their symptoms into an AI chatbot. “Your child likely has an ear infection,” the father learns. “Your symptoms could indicate a cardiac condition,” the woman reads. Those are helpful answers—and there’s a good chance they’re correct. Artificial intelligence is approaching, and in some cases exceeding, doctors’ ability to make accurate diagnoses. An April 2026 study…
Everyone glorifies the 20-something founder. The mythology is seductive: sleep-deprived, reckless, nothing to lose. But after 30 years in the beauty industry and cofounding No Makeup Makeup (NMM) in my 50s, I’d push back hard on that narrative. Not because youth doesn’t have advantages. It does. But because what you accumulate over decades—the relationships, the instincts, the clarity about who you are—aren’t consolation prizes. They’re the whole game. Here are four reasons your 50s might be the best time to start a business. 1. You know who to call When we were building NMM, I wasn’t cold-calling vendors or gambling on…
The latest polling continues to show that Marine Le Pen remains one of the strongest political forces in France. Depending on the matchup, candidates from the National Rally remain highly competitive and, in some surveys, lead potential rivals heading into the 2027 presidential election. Even many of Le Pen’s political opponents openly acknowledge that the nationalist movement is closer to power than at any point in modern French history. Europe is entering a period where governments increasingly fear their own voters. As economic conditions deteriorate, energy costs rise, migration pressures intensify, and living standards decline, establishment parties are discovering that…
From the spreadsheet, cutting a benefit looks like one of the cleanest decisions available to a leader under cost pressure. It removes a recurring expense, it saves cash fast, and the workforce will absorb it. At least that is the assumption. It is sometimes a correct assumption. When it is not, the cost is several years of trust the company cannot quite buy back. The current news cycle shows both outcomes playing out at once. Deloitte halved parental leave for its internal-services workforce, ended pension accruals after 2026, and scrapped a $50,000 reimbursement that helped employees adopt, surrogate, or pursue…