Y Combinator startup LemonLime offered job interviews to candidates who got a tattoo at a party, with co-founder Jordan Zietz saying the company wants employees 'just as crazy as we are.' Seven people…
Fast Company and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) launched the first Design Pricing Transparency Project to help freelance designers determine fair rates amid AI disruptions. The project,…
The AI industry has abandoned two of its most valuable ideas—durable object orientation and reinforcement learning—not because they failed but because architectural shifts and incentive changes pushed…
A coalition led by Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta published a letter on July 24 urging Washington to avoid premature restrictions on downloadable AI models, with signatories doubling to 50 within a day t…
Fast Company identifies four 'AI types' for solopreneurs—Builder, Curious, Skeptic, and Resister—based on their default approach to artificial intelligence, and advises each on how to make intentional…
Microsoft stock rose while Meta stock fell after both reported quarterly earnings, as investors showed impatience with AI spending. Microsoft posted Q4 2026 revenue of $90 billion, up 18%, and adjuste…
CMOs must become AI orchestration leaders who prioritize workflow integration over tool selection, according to a Fast Company analysis. The Lippincott and Bloomberg Media CMO Outlook 2026 highlights …
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan was locked out of his Microsoft email account in May 2025 after the Trump administration sanctioned him, illustrating how cloud infrastru…
An AI-powered thermal camera system called WhaleSpotter is being piloted on a San Francisco Bay ferry and on Angel Island to detect gray whales and alert crews to avoid collisions, after 21 whales die…
A growing pressure to build personal brands, driven partly by AI making basic competence easier to commoditize, is reshaping careers, with 67% of Gen Z adults deeming a strong personal brand important…
A new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that generative AI boosts creativity only for workers with strong metacognitive skills. Researchers randomly assigned 250 employees to …
A new ZipRecruiter survey of over 1,000 recruiters and hiring leaders found that nearly 35% said AI will increase headcount at their company in the near future, while only 16% said they were actively …
AI startup Orchid faced backlash after a viral video showed its personal assistant texting a boyfriend to remind him of a forgotten anniversary and then booking a dinner and flowers, with critics accu…
Agentic AI systems such as Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT 5.6 can find and exploit vulnerabilities far faster than human hackers, prompting the U.S. government to limit public release of these mo…
Job candidates are embedding hidden AI prompt injections in their resumes to game automated hiring systems, a practice Stanford postdoctoral scholar Ya'el Courtney encountered while hiring a lab techn…
Fiverr International shares plunged over 20% on Wednesday after the freelance marketplace reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $97.78 million, missing analyst estimates of $100.38 million, and earn…
Daydream, an AI-powered fashion search platform, today launches Powered by Daydream, embedding natural-language search into brand websites. Staud, Alice + Olivia, Couper, Cult Mia, and Hampden Clothin…
South Korea's Kospi stock index fell 6% on Wednesday, down over 32% in the last month, driven by investor jitters over AI chipmakers SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics. SK Hynix closed over 9.6% down af…
A self-driving truck builder argues that AI should not be used to automate entire companies, because unlike a truck, a company has no fixed destination and its value comes from human collaboration. Th…
Most thought leadership fails because it avoids industry tension, but the most influential perspectives emerge from unresolved problems, according to a Fast Company article by an onsemi executive. The…