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American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Z less cognitively capable than their parents.

By Sasha RogelbergMarch 1, 2026
Slack cofounder Stewart Butterfield
Slack cofounder says workers and CEOs can get stuck doing ‘fake’ work like pre-meetings and slide shows
By Emma BurleighMarch 1, 2026
Young dejected worker on phone
USAA CEO says Gen Z ‘are not going to be as well off’ as boomers and Gen Xers—they need to take ownership of their success, he urges
By Emma BurleighMarch 1, 2026
An older man wears an American flag.
Your grandparents are the reason the U.S. isn’t in a recession right now. That won’t last forever
By Eleanor PringleMarch 1, 2026
Gamers celebrating
Meet the Gen Z college students who turned Excel into a competitive esport—they’re competing in spreadsheet challenges and it’s helping them land jobs
By Preston ForeFebruary 28, 2026
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EnergyDow futures plunge nearly 400 points as U.S. attack on Iran sends oil prices soaring, while Trump warns more American casualties are likely
By Jason Ma and Amanda GerutMarch 1, 2026
Middle EastThis American tourist stranded in Dubai due to Iran’s bombardment doesn’t think she’ll be back — ‘the universe was trying to tell us something’
By Brian Melley and The Associated PressMarch 1, 2026
AsiaAt least 22 people killed and more than 120 injured in Pakistan after Iran supporters try to storm U.S. Consulate
By The Associated PressMarch 1, 2026
Middle EastUAE stock markets to close for two days amid Iran strikes
By Sherif Tarek, Omar Tamo, Farah Elbahrawy and BloombergMarch 1, 2026
A veiled Iranian woman holds her cellphone displaying a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
CybersecurityCyber retaliation from Iran is a problem for U.S. companies — ‘It’s in the hands of a 19-year-old hacker in a Telegram room,’ ex-NSA operative says
By Amanda GerutMarch 1, 2026
Middle EastTrump says he plans to speak with Iran’s new leadership as military reveals B-2 stealth bomber attack on ballistic missile facilities
By Matthew Lee, David Klepper and The Associated PressMarch 1, 2026
basketball player celebrates on the court
EconomyNBA star’s partnership with a prediction market raises new questions for a troubled sports betting landscape
By Carlos GarciaMarch 1, 2026
PoliticsSuspect in Texas shooting that FBI is investigating as potential terrorism wore ‘Property of Allah’ clothing and Iranian flag emblem
By Jack Myer, Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, John Seewer and The Associated PressMarch 1, 2026
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Workplace CultureHow two leaders used design thinking and a focus on outcomes to transform two Fortune 500 giants
By Christina PantinDecember 4, 2025
SuccessScott Galloway got mostly B’s and C’s in high school, never studied for the SAT, and had to try twice to get into UCLA. Now he’s worth $150 million
By Sydney LakeDecember 3, 2025
AIMicrosoft AI’s design head wants her team to be AI-native by the end of the fiscal year
By Angelica AngDecember 3, 2025
Two college students sit in somber
SuccessGen Z grads in the U.K. are earning 30% less than millennials did—new data shows the degree payoff is collapsing
By Preston ForeDecember 3, 2025
Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei
AIHow Anthropic’s safety first approach won over big business—and how its own engineers are using its Claude AI
By Jeremy KahnDecember 2, 2025
Big TechInstagram CEO calls staff back to the office 5 days a week to build a ‘winning culture’—while canceling every recurring meeting
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezDecember 2, 2025
layoffs
EconomyWhat CEOs say about AI and what they mean about layoffs and job cuts: Goldman Sachs peels the onion
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 2, 2025
Man working on laptop puts hand on face
SuccessHarvard MBA grads are landing jobs paying $184K—but a record number are still ditching the corporate world and choosing entrepreneurship instead
By Preston ForeDecember 2, 2025
Ayesha and Stephen Curry (L) and Arndrea Waters King and Martin Luther King III (R), who are behind Eat.Play.Learn and Realize the Dream, respectively.
CommentaryWhy time is becoming the new currency of giving
By Arndrea Waters King and Ayesha CurryDecember 2, 2025
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
SuccessAs AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’
By Emma BurleighDecember 2, 2025
Elizabeth Kelly
CommentaryAt Anthropic, we believe that AI can increase nonprofit capacity. And we’ve worked with over 100 organizations so far on getting it right
By Elizabeth KellyDecember 2, 2025
AIMore than 1,000 Amazon employees sign open letter warning the company’s AI ‘will do staggering damage to democracy, our jobs, and the earth’
By Nino PaoliDecember 2, 2025
Elon Musk
SuccessForget the four-day workweek, Elon Musk predicts you won’t have to work at all in ‘less than 20 years’
By Jessica CoacciDecember 1, 2025
AIHow upcoming business leaders are using AI to prep for high-stakes deal negotiations—and everyday interactions 
By Sage LazzaroDecember 1, 2025
Person at a desk being interviewed for a job
SuccessThis IBM exec asks job candidates whether they think we are in an AI bubble as a make-or-break interview test—and there’s no right or wrong answer
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 1, 2025
college
CommentaryColleges risk getting it backwards on AI and they may be hurting Gen Z job searchers
By Sarah HoffmanDecember 1, 2025
SuccessEven college graduates no longer think a degree is worth the cost as the once-safe path to the American Dream is now seen as a risky venture
By Jason MaNovember 30, 2025
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Politics‘You’re going to be screaming into the void. You’re going to be useless’: 21-year-old aspiring journalist reveals Gen Z hatred, apathy about media
By David Bauder and The Associated PressNovember 30, 2025
Awaneesh Verma, Senior Director of Product, Real Time Communication
Big TechThe man behind Google Meet was raised in between cultures and languages. He sees the ‘beauty of technology’ making that a thing of the past
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 30, 2025
Harvard professor Arthur Brooks clutches his hands while sitting in a chair
C-SuiteHarvard professor says leaders have a responsibility to be happy at work because it can affect your stock price
By Dave SmithNovember 30, 2025
EconomyLab-grown diamonds are crushing this African economy that was built on natural stones
By Sello Motseta, Farai Mutsaka and The Associated PressNovember 29, 2025
Scott D. Anthony is a clinical professor of strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
CommentaryI left consulting to begin teaching at Dartmouth right before the release of ChatGPT. Disruption is always messy—and there’s always a twist
By Scott D. AnthonyNovember 29, 2025
AsiaNintendo’s secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades
By Nicholas GordonNovember 28, 2025
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EconomyFord workers told their CEO ‘none of the young people want to work here.’ So Jim Farley took a page out of the founder’s playbook
By Sasha RogelbergNovember 28, 2025
Jeannie Tarkenton
SuccessBillionaire MacKenzie Scott once needed her college roommate’s help with a $1,000 loan: ‘That’s just what you do for friends’
By James Pollard and The Associated PressNovember 28, 2025
SuccessThis ‘boring’ job that millennials and boomers abandoned is the hottest seasonal job on the market—and it’s Gen Z’s path to a six-figure career
By Orianna Rosa RoyleNovember 28, 2025
InnovationChina warns of bubble risks in booming humanoid robots arena
By BloombergNovember 28, 2025
Photo of Jerome Powell
EconomyThe labor market feels so awful right now because companies are doing everything bar announcing mass layoffs, says the Fed
By Eleanor PringleNovember 27, 2025
Sam Altman smiles against a pink background
AIMIT report: AI can already replace nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce
By Dave SmithNovember 27, 2025
Gustas Germanavicius
SuccessFrom college dropout to Ironman CEO in 7 years, this Gen Z founder found ‘no pain, no gain’ from a trip to China and the Shaolin monks
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 27, 2025
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