Meta’s new AI tool turns anyone into a type designer

Business 4/1 5:00A Hunter Schwarz

Now you can design your own text styles using AI prompts. Meta is making font design as easy as writing a prompt with its newest AI tool.

How AI-powered echolocation is giving small drones night vision

Business 4/1 5:00A The Conversation

Small aerial robots designed to navigate in the dark like bats are very useful for search and rescue. To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and I developed an ultrasound-based...

Yes, it’s possible to lead without dominating. Here’s how

Business 4/1 4:57A Sally Netherwood

What is Graceful Power and how do you practice it? Modern leadership is defined by paradox.

Your trash can is ugly. Caraway wants to fix that

Business 3/31 5:00A Elizabeth Segran

It’s the first Caraway product that isn’t about cooking—and it signals something much bigger about where the brand is headed. The modern kitchen has become a canvas for self-expression, a place where consumers obsess over aesthetics and materials...

Apple at 50: The tech giant’s best, worst, and weirdest ideas

Business 3/31 5:00A Mark Sullivan

Over five decades, Apple has built some of the most influential tech ever made—and some genuinely strange flops. These are the highs, lows, and oddities. Founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple officially incorporated on April 1, 1976. The...

How Paris redesigned itself to be a city of bikes—not cars

Business 3/31 3:00A Adele Peters

Over the last 12 years, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo fundamentally reshaped the City of Lights. As she leaves office, this is the story of how she reclaimed the city’s public spaces from cars, covered the city with trees, and made it a cycling...

Are you micromanaging yourself out of a job?

Business 3/31 1:00A Samantha Wasserman

Three questions to ask before your team packs up and you get packaged out. There is a particular kind of leadership failure that occurs when a leader transitions into a new high stakes role. It’s tricky at first, because it doesn’t look like...

What Gen Z can teach us about commanding respect in the workplace

Business 3/30 12:00P Anna-Louise Jackson

At SXSW, three Gen Z founders told Fast Company some of the lessons they’ve learned in launching and leading companies. Gen Z founders may not have spent as much time in the workplace when they started their companies as some older founders. But...

Social media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ moment may have finally arrived

Business 3/30 10:58A Chris Morris

Landmark cases challenge long-held legal protections and push companies toward stricter safeguards for younger users. A pair of landmark court cases found Meta and YouTube guilty last week of harming young users by designing algorithms that were...

As the U.S. cripples Cuba with a blockade, Trump gives a Russian oil tanker access

Business 3/30 9:59A Associated Press

According to experts, Russia’s oil shipment could be enough to meet Cuba’s daily demand for about 10 days. President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he has no problem with a Russian oil tanker off the coast of Cuba delivering relief to the...

How KitchenAid updated its legendary kitchen mixer without sacrificing its design

Business 3/30 9:05A Nate Berg

The Artisan Plus Stand Mixer from KitchenAid adds new functionality without tarnishing a signature silhouette. The silhouette could not change.

How architects design airports to handle superlong security lines

Business 3/29 5:00A Nate Berg

Airports are designed for big crowds, but hours-long queues can’t be solved through architecture alone. The historically long security lines currently snaking through U.S. airports are the painful result of extreme circumstances. Callouts,...

Women aren’t opting out of work. Workplaces are pushing them out

Business 3/28 1:00A Krystal Duarte

Caregiving strain is quietly reshaping who stays, who leaves, and who advances. Yet, most companies still treat it as a private issue instead of a business-critical one. Companies often assume that when mid-career women step back from leadership...

I met my AI twin—and now I’m in an existential crisis

Business 3/26 7:00A Grace Snelling

Sentience is a new AI company billed as ‘the digital version of you, but with perfect memory.’ I put that to the test. Before I ever met Sam Kececi, I had already interviewed him on his career, his use of AI , and his thoughts on data privacy. In...

Kizik’s next big step is a slip-on running shoe

Business 3/26 7:00A Grace Snelling

The brand is expanding to its first-ever sports-based shoe. When it was founded in 2017, the shoe brand Kizik was on a mission to bring hands-free shoe technology into the mainstream. It’s now taking two big steps to further that goal. Kizik s...