On Feb. 10, 2026, an 18-year-old woman, Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed eight people and herself in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. OpenAI had previously flagged her ChatGPT conversations as having a disturbing fascination with extreme violence, and suspended her account, but reportedly the company did not notify law enforcement. On Oct. 2, 2025, a young man named Jonathan Gavalas in Jupiter, Florida, took his own life after developing what his father’s lawsuit described as a romantic attachment to Google’s Gemini chatbot. The suit claimed that Gemini coached Gavalas to shed his own body. The suit said Google…
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In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.The World Meteorological Organization also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.66 degrees Celsius) between now and 2030 and a dangerous drought with potential wildfires for the Amazon, a crucial part of Earth’s natural defenses to lessen human-caused climate change. A hotter globe from the burning of coal, oil and gas means more extreme weather including floods, droughts and…
For years, the smart ring has been pitched as a piece of jewelry that happens to read your sleep stages, your heart rate variability, and your blood oxygen. In reality, though, most smart rings are chunkier than anything you would pick at a jewelry store—something that many consumers find annoying. Oura, the Finnish-founded, San Francisco-based company that helped invent the category over the past 12 years, has heard the complaint from its own customers repeatedly. “The feedback we always hear is, ‘We love the power and insights of the ring, but can you make it smaller?’” said Lindsey Belknap, Oura’s…
In January 2026, Anthropic published an 84-page constitution for Claude, its AI model that’s notable for what it doesn’t do: it doesn’t list rules. Instead, it explains why Claude should behave in certain ways, so the model can reason through situations its creators never anticipated. The core idea is simple: rules run out. Judgment doesn’t. I’ve been thinking about that distinction for years, not in the context of AI, but in the context of leaders I’ve worked with throughout my career. Across multiple financial services institutions, through multiple waves of technology transformation, I watched smart, principled people do things that,…
Below, Lindy Elkins-Tanton shares five key insights from her new book, Mission Ready: How to Build Teams That Perform Under Pressure. Lindy is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, and leader of the billion-dollar NASA Psyche mission, a robotic space probe bound for a metallic asteroid, for which she won NASA’s Outstanding Public Leadership Medal. She is the author of A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman. What’s the big idea? In Mission Ready, Elkins-Tanton argues that high-performing teams are built not by charisma, rigid hierarchy, or flawless planning, but by culture:…
I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a problem-solving process that is 50% qualitative research and 50% the application of design principles such as visualizing data and prototyping. In the design thinking world, we are well aware that 80% of the problem-solving process is grounded in making sure you even ask the right question . . . before you go running down the rabbit hole of possible solutions. All great problem-solving starts with identifying the actual problem to solve, which…
People are leaving Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and were moving to Parlar. Google and Apple removed the Parlar APP and then Amazon kicked then off of AWS. This is a complete purge going on of all conservatives. We are in the midst of nothing short of a real live Russian version of a revolution. Cheer up – you get to see what it was like to live history in a major confrontation between left and right. But make no mistake about it, the super-rich remains in power just behind the curtain. They own the press and social media while they use…
Many people, Gen Zers in particular, have embraced the practice of “manifesting”: essentially, believing that positive thoughts lead to positive things happening in life. Now, it seems some job seekers are applying the same principle to their CVs—listing skills that they may not have right now but they plan to “manifest” later. A Resume Genius survey of 1,000 U.S. job seekers found that 53% have either considered listing skills they lack on their résumé before learning them, or have actually done so, while 44% of Gen Z admit the same—an approach known as “skills manifesting,” according to the company’s 2026…
For decades, Switzerland sold one thing better than perhaps any country on earth: privacy. That became its true export. People think of watches, chocolate, pharmaceuticals, or skiing resorts, but Switzerland’s real business was protecting capital from governments. That was the foundation of modern offshore banking. Switzerland has destroyed the very industry that made it rich. Hong Kong has officially overtaken Switzerland as the world’s largest offshore wealth hub, managing roughly $2.95 trillion in cross-border wealth compared to Switzerland’s $2.94 trillion, according to the latest Boston Consulting Group report. This was entirely self-inflicted. I warned years ago that Switzerland was committing…
In 2004, the designer Tory Burch launched her first store specializing in women’s apparel in Manhattan. She and her ex-husband, the retailer and investor Christopher Burch, funded it by pooling $2 million of their own money. Later, Christopher helped her raise another $10 million. Today, her Reva ballet flats and handbags are so popular, they’ve become closet staples. The eponymous brand has over 370 stores across the globe and generates about $1.8 billion in revenue, and Burch is a billionaire. However, Burch is well aware that for many other women, raising capital to build their own businesses can be an…