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- Former Coach CEO asks job candidates to rate EQ and quizzes applicants on 80 skills like style, street smarts, and integrity
Lew Frankfort, who helmed $5 billion luxury giant Coach for nearly 30 years, developed a three-part “immersive interviewing” tactic to “force a level of honesty” among job candidates.
- Meet the millennial Meta cofounder and his wife who are giving away $20 billion
The couple has donated more than $4 billion total, including more than $600 million in 2025 alone.
- Paperboy Ventures Launches Breakout CPG VC Fund, Expanding To Become A Joint Media-Funding Enterprise
Kyle Fitzpatrick launches unique CPG fund that blends media with fundraising
- Election Polls: Their Past, Present, And Future
A new report on the pre-election poll performance in 2024 and an interview with two seasoned veterans of Election Day polling describe problems and what lies ahead.
- Ring’s founder went from shoveling horse stalls to selling to Amazon for $1.15 billion and says work-life balance is a myth
Rejected from most Shark Tank investors—including Mark Cuban—Jamie Siminoff built Ring into a billion-dollar empire—one sleepless night at a time.
Technology
- The State of AI: Energy is king, and the US is falling behind
Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday, writers from both publications debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution and how it is reshaping global power. This week, Casey Crownhart, senior reporter for energy at MIT Technology Review and Pilita Clark, FT’s columnist,…
- The Running Man’s final trailer amps up the high-octane action
Get ready for what could be the "biggest underdog win in game show history."
- F1 in Brazil: That’s what generational talent looks like
Filled with passionate fans, the racetrack between the lakes is a favorite.
- Reimagining cybersecurity in the era of AI and quantum
AI and quantum technologies are dramatically reconfiguring how cybersecurity functions, redefining the speed and scale with which digital defenders and their adversaries can operate. The weaponization of AI tools for cyberattacks is already proving a worthy opponent to current defenses. From reconnaissance to ransomware, cybercriminals can automate attacks faster than ever before with AI. This…
- The Download: busting weather myths, and AI heart attack prediction
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory It was October 2024, and Hurricane Helene had just devastated the US Southeast. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia found an abstract…
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