Business
2026
Selling Fear to Job Seekers
How one careful Stanford paper about a single hiring tool got stripped of context, step by step, and repackaged as AI panic.
BusinessAmazon's Math: Cut 30,000, Hire 11,000
Employees gaming an AI-usage leaderboard exposed the crack in the demand story behind Big Tech's $700B capex
BusinessSilicon Valley Lines Up for Picks and Shovels
The hottest YC startups aren't building AI agents — they're building the testing, security, and audit layers underneath them.
BusinessSalesforce's $3.6B Fin Deal Wasn't About Technology
The real prize: 30,000 SMB customers and a GTM engine that works the moment you switch it on
BusinessOne Researcher Left With $650M; 138 Stayed in Tokyo
Sakana AI bets kaizen-style efficiency, not massive compute, can win the race to self-improving AI.
Business10,000 Signups a Day, But Revenue Won't Budge
The problem wasn't the email copy — it was who Railway was sending it to, and the fix was surprisingly simple.
BusinessWhy Apple Pays Google $1 Billion a Year
Distilling Gemini instead of building it: the strategy of betting on 2 billion pockets over benchmark crowns.
Business230,000 Births: The Number the UN Got Wrong
Fertility's turning point in country after country lines up not with economic crises, but with the year smartphones arrived
BusinessWhy Starbucks Pulled Its AI Out of 11,000 Stores
The vendor promised 99% accuracy. The field chose human hands instead.
BusinessFrom a Garage to $3.8 Trillion: Apple at 50
Three growth curves — economic, ecosystem, and creative — explain why the company's flywheel is so hard to break.
BusinessHow Rice Farming Rewired the Way We Think
A decade of evidence — from a Science cover study to a Starbucks chair experiment — links the crops our ancestors grew to how we behave today