Meet the new ‘reuse’ symbol, a spiraling cousin to the ‘recycling’ icon

Business 6/3 6:00A Elizabeth Segran

A global alliance of businesses, governments, and designers just unveiled a universal mark for reuse—and it could reshape how the world handles waste. The lights drop, the first chord detonates, and somewhere in a stadium packed with 60,000...

He designed a perfect logo for the New York Knicks 30+ years ago. They’re still using it today

Business 6/3 5:00A Hunter Schwarz

The designer of the Knicks logo reflects on what makes it so iconic. A lot has changed for the New York Knicks since the team last made it to the NBA Finals in 1999. From the length of the players shorts to the more than $1 billion in renovations...

Is there a case for performative empathy?

Business 6/2 11:08A Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Why leaders may want to consider it, according to science. Empathy has become one of the most appreciated and universal ingredients of work-related potential. Leadership books praise it. CEOs display it on LinkedIn. HR departments measure it,...

Trump’s $1.8 billion settlement fund is on shaky ground as GOP senators deliver swift backlash

Business 6/2 10:12A Associated Press

The fund could potentially go to Trump supporters who were involved in the January 6 insurrection. Senate Republicans will meet Tuesday to discuss next steps after the Justice Department said it would comply with a court order pausing the...

‘Shadow AI’ is real. Vanta wants to help manage it

Business 6/2 9:00A Harry McCracken

The trust management platform’s new agent is designed to reveal what’s really going on inside organizations as workers turn into builders. “Shadow IT”—people within companies using tech products without any explicit directive or authorization...

The DOJ used Palantir to build an app to help find criminals—and then shut it down

Business 6/1 9:33A Rebecca Heilweil

Internal emails show that DOJ moved to decommission SHIELD, a Palantir-built mobile app used by federal law enforcement to search identity and criminal records databases in the field. Recently uncovered documents show that the Department of...

Chip stocks shakeup: Arm soars, Intel falls as Nvidia and Microsoft announce new AI superchip for...

Business 6/1 7:07A Michael Grothaus

The chip industry is seeing major market movement this morning after Nvidia boss Jensen Huang announced a fresh foray into personal computers. Shares in Arm Holdings are soaring today after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a fresh foray into the...

Chipotle CEO Scott Boatwright finds his answers in the restaurants

Business 6/1 6:00A Stephanie Mehta

Boatwright installed a sign at Chipotle HQ to remind board members to think about frontline realities. Plus, fast food CEOs go viral. Hello and welcome to  Modern CEO ! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each...

How Austin’s sandlot baseball scene became a magnet for indie rockers, filmmakers, designers, and...

Business 6/1 5:00A Max Ufberg

If you build it, they will come. Kevin Morby arrived in Austin in mid-March to participate in a music showcase as part of South by Southwest, the city’s annual cacophony of industry obligations and branded “activations.” The Kansas City-based...

Kevin O’Leary believes his 10,000-acre data center can be ‘beautiful’

Business 5/31 5:00A Nate Berg

The ‘Shark Tank’ star’s Stratos data center project in Utah has spurred vocal opposition, but he says its design sets a new standard. If it ever gets built, the 7.5-gigawatt Stratos data center project in Utah would dwarf the artificial...

Why the hardest skills in leadership are the ones we’ve typically called soft

Business 5/29 8:25A Marcus Collins

Leaders undervalue ‘soft skills’ at their own peril. In the late 1960s, the U.S. Army made a distinction between the skills necessary for machinery operations and those used in service of people management. Hard skills, as the Army framed it,...

The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI

Business 5/29 5:00A Zeb Larson

For decades, software engineering has relied on something surprisingly fragile: veteran developers passing down institutional knowledge from person to person. As AI transforms how code gets written and maintained, that culture of inherited memory...

Minted spent two decades building an artist-led business. Now it’s experimenting with letting AI in

Business 5/29 5:00A Elizabeth Segran

The stationery store where people can buy original designs from artists is launching an experiment to allow customers to use AI to add custom elements to their orders. You ve found the wedding invitation of your dreams. The illustration is a...

How the Library of Congress packed 250 years of U.S. history into a vial the size of a quarter

Business 5/29 5:00A Hunter Schwarz

Using synthetic DNA, the LOC shrunk down handwritten lyrics to the ‘Star-Spangled Banner,’ a rendering of Abe Lincoln’s hand, and more historical documents. To save on space, the Library of Congress is packing what would otherwise be pages and...

How A24’s ‘Backrooms’ recreates the internet’s creepiest liminal space

Business 5/29 5:00A Grace Snelling

Production designer Danny Vermette built an unnerving recreation of an internet ‘backroom,’ featuring tunnels to nowhere, musty props, and 37,000 square feet of wallpaper. There’s a place that you’ve never actually set foot in, but your...