Despite repeated warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence, users have become increasingly reliant on AI chatbots—particularly those offering companionship. Yet despite chatbots’ utility for tasks like answering quick queries or offering brief advice, their benefits might not be outweighing the costs.

If a company wants to reduce its carbon footprint, it may buy carbon credits issued by Verra, the world’s largest carbon crediting program. Those credits could be for projects like renewable energy or forest restoration, letting a company claim the environmental benefits from a newly built wind farm or trees planted on once-cleared land.

Entertainment companies everywhere are now acknowledging that they have to operate based upon two clocks. One of them is an alarm clock—the premiere you clear your night for, the finale you go to great lengths to avoid spoilers for, and the release that causes you to refresh the page at midnight in order to listen or watch. The other is the clock that you fail to realize is ticking—the scrolling that takes up 40 minutes between two things you actually intended to do, the podcast playing in the background as you cook, and the feed that flows like a faucet. Let’s refer to the first as the appointment clock and the second as the ambient clock.

There’s a gender gap in generative AI use. According to research published by Harvard Business School, women adopt artificial intelligence at lower rates than men. Many have interpreted that statistic as hesitation. But what if adoption rates are the wrong measure?

Man, I’ve been waiting to write this one for a while. 

T.J. Maxx closed two of its most recognizable stores earlier this year.

As the prices of memory and components soar, affording a new computer is becoming more and more challenging for some people. Average computer prices are expected to increase by as much as 20% before year’s end.

Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI. The U.S. was not among them.

Aaron Braun had decided to play the long game with his Dunkin’ Rewards points. For five years, his employer, an IT company that kept him on the road, covered his coffee and breakfast via a company card linked to his Dunkin’ account, so he never bothered to redeem his points. In the Dunkin’ app, every purchase inches a progress bar further to the right, unlocking the first reward at 150 points, then topping out at 900. “My bar has been full forever,” Braun jokes.

For years, we have believed that flexibility is the key to survival for working parents.

If there are two things Donald Trump loves more than anything in life, it’s participating in elaborate signing ceremonies and artificial intelligence—sorry, superintelligence. And on September 29, the U.S. president combined both loves with the launch of a new executive order, titled “Streamlining Access to Government Services Through America.gov,” which sets up a new front door through which confused citizens can try to navigate the complexities of the federal government.

Is coffee actually good for you?

To celebrate AI right now almost feels dangerous, because of the widespread and increasingly intense backlash against it. I myself have written about the dangers of AI, not least in these pages, so I understand the anti-AI sentiment. But we must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Although intelligence is one of the most consistent and important predictors of real-life success, the connection is by no means perfect. This explains why we all know people who we consider “smart” in a traditional sense (e.g., knowledgeable, bookish, geeky, and mathematically sharp), but who seem to malfunction in everyday life. In fact, decades of scientific research show that intellectual and emotional intelligence are only marginally related, so the ability to function well in interpersonal or social situations is not necessarily a strength for individuals known for admirable mental horsepower or abstract reasoning capacity.

Self-reliance is a virtue that is drilled into most of us from an early age. After all, most of the work you’re asked to do in school from kindergarten onward through college is done individually. Group work is done sparingly. When a student does ask for help, teachers are reluctant to give answers away. They often answer cagily at best, and so many students will stop asking for assistance.

With a new school year underway, kids everywhere are saying “cheese” for school picture day—but some penny-pinching parents are cutting photographers out of the equation.

It seems that every other day a new frontier model has made its way somewhere it shouldn’t—so much so that it’s now a meme.

Hundreds more layoffs just hit Disney, as workers had been anticipating. 

OpenAI just announced a new suite of AI agents called “dots,” and they look like something you might find in an animated kids show. 

American workers spend an average of $6,736 each year just to show up at the office, according to a recent study by resume-building platform Resume.io.