Joanna Gaines says she and Chip lost sight of Magnolia’s purpose. 1 decision helped them find it...

Business 10/2 7:30A Inc.

After spending nearly 25 years building Magnolia, Joanna and Chip Gaines made a crucial decision. Leadership experts say it was the right move. Every founder is subject to burnout , even the founders of a massive lifestyle, retail, and media brand .

Independent candidates are making their independence their biggest brand asset

Business 10/2 5:30A Hunter Schwarz

In the run-up to this year’s midterms, these candidates aren’t being shy about their lack of major-party affiliation. In fact, they’re designing it directly into their logos. The Democratic and Republican parties both have brand problems, so...

Du/er is redesigning the winter jean from the yarn up

Business 10/1 5:00A Elizabeth Segran

These cozy, stretchy jeans have a fleece-like interior. Just don’t call them jeggings. If you live in a place with a cold winter, dressing for work in the middle of January is more complicated than it seems.

Heated Rivalry was an overnight hit. Its creators and network worked overtime to make that happen

Business 10/1 4:00A David Salazar

An oral history of how the show’s producers, encouraged by Crave and Bell Media leadership, took the story from the page to screen in 18 months. Once it became an instant hit, Heated Rivalry ’s success may have seemed preordained. Based on a...

Trump’s AI Force could make AI’s risks worse. Here’s what to do instead

Business 9/30 4:30A The Conversation

An American AI Force would hand China’s leadership every reason to create its own. Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement...

America gets a chatbot

Business 9/29 1:22P Hunter Schwarz

Designed by the National Design Studio, America.gov’s new chatbot wants to reduce government complexity to a prompt box. The federal government has a chatbot.

13,000 bottles of blood pressure medication are being recalled nationwide: What to look out for

Business 9/29 7:27A Michael Grothaus

An FDA enforcement report this month designated the recall a Class II, but it did not specify where the pills were distributed. Blood pressure medication is one of the most common types of medicines in use in the United States.

Rosetta Stone wants to reinvent language learning for the smartphone era

Business 9/28 6:00A Steven Melendez

The 34-year-old company is overhauling its flagship product with a mobile-first design, AI-powered conversations, and more customizable lessons. Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone has long taken advantage of technological advances to deliver language...

eBay’s CEO finds ideas through constant feedback

Business 9/28 6:00A Stephanie Mehta

Jamie Iannone fuels innovation with customer feedback—plus the three questions he asked company leaders before he took the job. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week...

Our brains are overstimulated, and cities aren’t helping

Business 9/28 5:00A Julia Gendin

Small urban design choices can help preserve—not exhaust—human attention. You are standing at a crosswalk. The light is red. A bus roars past you a little too closely. Your phone buzzes with a BOGO offer from Starbucks. A billboard changes from a...

How a character from ‘The Addams Family’ is shaping the future of robotics

Business 9/28 5:00A Jesus Diaz

Researchers from ETH Zurich designed a walking robotic hand. Robotic hands usually come bolted to the wrist of a mechanical arm, waiting for their humanoid owners to move them over to whatever knob or valve needs turning. However, at ETH Zürich’s...

MoMA explores the useful beauty of information design

Business 9/27 6:00A Rachel Kurzius

The museum’s first-ever exhibition dedicated to the field includes works by a climatologist, The New York Times, and more. When people post infographics on their Instagram accounts, they’re sharing information and facts about the world with their...

This MIT spinout designed an artificial reef to save shrinking beaches

Business 9/25 5:30A Adele Peters

To fight erosion, Coastal Assembly’s reef works with nature instead of against it. Until recently, a beach on a tiny island in the Maldives was eroding away. The usual solution would be to dredge sand to try to replace what was lost—but that...

Top 10 business books to read this fall

Business 9/25 3:00A Next Big Idea Club

From working better with AI to knowing when to quit. The workplace is changing fast, and the old playbook isn’t keeping up. This fall’s best business books rethink some of our most basic assumptions about leadership, ambition, teamwork, and...

Trump wants to push the militarization of the White House ballroom with this addition, but it won’t...

Business 9/23 12:00P Associated Press

Trump is envisioning a drone port atop the ballroom. President Donald Trump s AI -fueled vision for a drone port he intends to install atop the new White House ballroom includes missile-bearing unmanned aerial vehicles and gun-toting troops,...