Military strategists are still fighting the last war while the battlefield has already changed. Every major conflict throughout history has been defined by a technological revolution. Gunpowder ended the age of castles. Tanks transformed World War II. Precision missiles reshaped modern warfare. Now we have entered the age of the drone. The military that cannot dominate the skies with unmanned systems will lose, regardless of how many tanks, aircraft, or soldiers it possesses. South Korea has reached the same conclusion. Its Defense Ministry announced that it will train approximately 500,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines as “drone warriors.” Defense Minister…
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Since her employer mandated a return to the office, Alex quickly found herself missing the peace and quiet she had once taken for granted while working from home. As someone who works in healthcare communications, she spends much of her day handling sensitive information and taking confidential calls. But in the office, finding a private space to do that can feel impossible. “Being in the office made it easy to overshare but not do more work,” Alex tells Fast Company. She asked that her real name not be used, so she wouldn’t be identifiable to her employer. “It just feels…
Politicians continue insisting that mass migration carries no economic consequences. Anyone who questions the policy is immediately accused of being anti-immigrant. That has always been the tactic. Rather than debate the economics, they attack the person asking the question. Yet reality eventually catches up with political slogans, and now even economists are beginning to quantify what common sense should have told us years ago. A new working paper from economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas examined the unprecedented surge in unauthorized immigration between 2021 and 2024. The researchers estimate that unauthorized immigrant workers accounted for roughly 30% of…
Up until recently, most leaders believed grief belonged outside the workplace. If someone experienced a loss, they may have received flowers, condolences, a few days of bereavement leave, and were quietly expected to return to normal. Most other forms of loss went unnamed entirely, and it was back to business as usual. That framework no longer reflects reality. Today’s leaders are guiding teams through layoffs, restructures, AI disruption, and the erosion of stability that employees once relied on. People are grieving careers they thought they would have, workplace cultures they no longer recognize, and professional identities threatened by automation. A…
The European Union just sent another €3.9 billion to Ukraine to buy drones. This is not humanitarian aid. This is war financing. Reuters reported that the latest transfer is part of the EU’s new €90 billion loan program designed to keep Kyiv funded through 2026 and 2027. The money is being directed toward Ukraine’s drone procurement, meaning European taxpayers are now openly financing the weapons system that has become central to this war. Do not let anyone pretend Europe is a neutral party. The EU Council itself says support for Ukraine has reached €211.3 billion since the war began. That…
In the late 1950s, Omar Knedlik, a Dairy Queen franchise operator in Kansas, built a frozen beverage machine with parts from an automobile air conditioner. In 1966, 7-Eleven licensed his invention for one of America’s favorite gas station treats: the Slurpee. Sixty years later, Knedlik’s legacy lives on, but with a flavor combination that would likely blow his mind. To celebrate the Slurpee’s diamond anniversary, 7-Eleven released a special birthday flavor: Mountain Dew Confetti Chill. The limited edition flavor—which 7-Eleven describes as a “zesty lemon cake treat in frozen drink form”—is available now through August 29. [Photo: 7-Eleven] To dew…
Even compared to most CEOs of AI companies, Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei is known for making jaw-dropping predictions. In his October 2024 essay “Machines of Loving Grace,” he made one of his most famous: “AI-enabled biology and medicine will allow us to compress the progress that human biologists would have achieved over the next 50-100 years into 5-10 years.” He called the effect the “compressed 21st century.” On June 30, at an Anthropic event in San Francisco called “The Briefing: AI for Science,” Amodei didn’t declare that AI’s impact on biology and other sciences had unleashed that effect,…
As a startup founder, I understand the impulse to reduce risk wherever possible. After all, you’ve already embarked on an uncertain journey by building a brand from the ground up. Why add further precarity to the equation? Don’t you want to get some sleep at night? It’s easy to see why many companies are wary of entering product categories that are experiencing major instability, whether because of regulatory pressure or consumer distrust. Faced with this kind of chaos, founders have a choice: They can either wait for the category to calm down, or they can work to rebuild trust in…
When creating a more senior position or needing to fill a current one, leaders need to decide where to go for that talent. On one hand, promoting from within rewards loyal employees who may be interested in moving up and gaining new responsibilities. On the other hand, they may not have the capabilities or experience to fill that role. Hire them when they’re not ready, and they could fail, harming your business and causing management challenges. Don’t hire them, and you could experience other management issues: They may feel hurt that an external hire was brought in for a role…
The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love.And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean woman named Ella. On a typical shift, he said, he chatted with more than 100 people across dozens of profiles at the same time, as supervisors prowled among the desks with electric batons.In just a month, Koorimannil targeted some 50,000 victims from at least 17 countries, according to records he smuggled out to The Associated Press. His “clients” included a widowed tailor…