Louisiana just got its first-ever blizzard warning
Louisiana isn’t known for extreme cold weather—but that changed Tuesday, when the National Weather Service issued its first-ever blizzard warning for much of the state. The potentially...
View ArticleIs Elon Musk a government employee? Here’s why it matters
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, but when it comes to his work with the federal government, his status is a lot less clear. While he’s firmly in charge of Donald Trump’s...
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Trump just rebranded the U.S. Digital Service as ‘DOGE’
President Donald Trump has brought the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to life—simply by renaming an existing government agency. The U.S. Digital Service (USDS) is now known as DOGE, due to...
View ArticleIt’s time to create a domestic supply chain for critical battery materials
The topic of critical materials and where they are sourced is at a pivotal point in the world of lithium-ion batteries. The United States’ challenges around developing a domestic supply chain for...
View Article3 steps to tell your brand story when nobody knows your name
You’ve invested your time, energy, and resources into building your company. Now you’re met with the new challenge of building your brand, telling your story, and gaining traction within your industry...
View ArticleI don’t need a court case to tell me Google is a monopoly
As an e-commerce entrepreneur, I loathe Google. I know all too intimately after spending $2 million advertising on Google, that Google—yes, beloved Google—is in fact a monopoly. In 2020, the same year...
View ArticleA better way to treat youth mental health
After founding my pediatric mental health care company in 2021, one of our first patients was a child who’d been referred to us from the emergency room (ER) after a deeply troubling experience in the...
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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 phones are—you guessed it—all-in on AI
Here’s a surprising statistic Samsung uses to explain the overwhelming AI focus in its new Galaxy S25 phones: According to customer surveys, AI features are the second-largest factor in peoples’...
View Article‘TikTok, we mean business’: MrBeast is bidding for the beleaguered app
“Okay fine, I’ll buy TikTok so it doesn’t get banned,” MrBeast posted on X on January 13. Turns out, he wasn’t kidding. Jimmy Donaldson, better known to his 347 million YouTube subscribers as MrBeast,...
View ArticleByteDance releases new AI reasoning model in a bid to challenge OpenAI
TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s latest reasoning model products, as a global race intensified to create...
View ArticleTrump rescinds Biden’s executive order on AI safety, as promised
Hours after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump made a symbolic mark on the future of artificial intelligence by repealing former President Joe Biden’s guardrails for the...
View ArticleOpenAI says India court can’t hear case on alleged copyright breach
OpenAI has told an Indian court that any order to remove training data powering its ChatGPT service would be inconsistent with its legal obligations in the United States, according to a recent filing...
View ArticleNFL tells New England Patriots that team can’t have Bluesky account
The NFL directed the New England Patriots to delete the team’s Bluesky account, Fred Kirsch, the team’s VP of content, said on a January 16 episode of the Patriots Unfiltered podcast. While the team...
View ArticleTrump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht
President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the drug marketplace Silk Road who is revered by many cryptocurrency enthusiasts and Libertarians. “I just called the mother of Ross...
View ArticleWisconsin man charged with arson of congressman’s office over TikTok ban
Prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman’s office because he was upset with the federal TikTok ban with multiple counts on Wednesday, including...
View ArticleHow Trump is escalating his campaign against DEI programs
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his campaign against diversity programs on Tuesday by pressuring the private sector to join the initiative and telling government employees in offices...
View ArticleCan cheaper hot dogs and beer save baseball? Why MLB teams are leaning into...
The days of paying 20 bucks for a beer and hot dog at sports stadiums may be heading into their final inning. The Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday released a “value menu” of cheaper stadium food and...
View ArticleWhy new Starbucks restroom policy is getting mixed reactions
Starbucks’s decision to restrict its restrooms to paying customers has flushed out a wider problem: a patchwork of restroom policies that has left Americans confused and divided over who gets to use...
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Content to commerce: MeatEater’s path to $100 million success
Steven Rinella is a busy man. As the founder and on-air face of MeatEater, a weekly reality-TV show, he oversees an ever-expanding empire of content and commerce focused on an outdoor lifestyle. But...
View ArticleProcter & Gamble considers price hikes to offset possible Trump tariffs
U.S. consumer goods maker Procter & Gamble will again look to hike prices on its household basics such as Tide detergent if President Donald Trump imposes new tariffs that increase the cost of...
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