Rich people are flooding dollar stores as Americans navigate a crushing affordability crisis
Those consumers, Sargent added, are “making smaller, more frequent trips to manage budgets, and they are cutting back on discretionary purchases.”Dollar Tree has also been forced to raise prices owing…
This Khosla Ventures–backed startup is using AI to personalize cancer care
Cancer is not a monolith. “We speak about cancer like it’s one disease, but it’s more like thousands of different diseases,” said Simone Korsgaard Jensen, founder and CEO of Radical Health.…
Should form always follow function? Architect Ole Scheeren isn’t sure: ‘We think of buildings as living organisms’
Two centuries later, that guiding principle of modern architecture is getting turned on its head–or at least placed on its side.“When form follows function architecture is limited to utilitarian problem…
Two months into the new fiscal year and the U.S. government is already spending more than $10 billion a week servicing national debt
The calendar year may have a few weeks left to tick off, but as far as the government’s budget is concerned, we’re in fiscal 2026. And in a matter of…
Bill Gates decries ‘significant reversal in child deaths’ as nearly 5 million kids will die before they turn 5 this year
Gates describes this “significant reversal in child deaths,” as something that should be “sobering” for anyone committed to scientific and human progress. The report warns that if funding cuts persist,…
How two leaders used design thinking and a focus on outcomes to transform two Fortune 500 giants
How do you get 400,000 employees at one of the world’s most storied blue chip tech companies to adopt design thinking as a tool to transform the culture of its…
How Anthropic grew—and what the $183 billion giant faces next
Anthropic’s numbers are astonishing—yes, even by AI standards. And the company is now reportedly looking at an IPO.It’s still early days, but Anthropic has reportedly tapped law firm Wilson Sonsini…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy may have BlackRock to thank for the 11% rise in Bitcoin
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) now owns just under 60% of all Bitcoins owned by ETFs, he said, bringing its total to 776,474.65 coins as of Dec. 1. Its Q4…
You don’t need to have fun at work—take it from NBA head coach Joe Mazzulla: ‘Fun is a cop-out sometimes when things aren’t going well’
You can watch Mazzulla’s candid response to the young reporter’s question below.source
CEOs are making the business case for AI—and dispelling talk of a bubble
With that in mind, a few themes emerged for me:With the notable exception of California Governor Gavin Newsom, nobody had a negative word to say about Trump, tariffs or much…
