Americans have never earned more or lived longer. Median household income hit $87,460 in 2025, the highest since the Census Bureau began tracking it in 1967, according to Census data released in September. Life expectancy reached 79 years in 2024, also a record. Yet money still can’t buy Americans a European lifespan. A Brown University
Anthropic has a new target for Claude adoption: people who run the factory floor. The company launched a new Claude for Manufacturers plugin on Thursday. It’s a cluster of add-ons that make the company’s AI tool better for quality engineers, technicians, and other workers who run production lines. Although it won’t directly operate equipment —
Nvidia just named longtime chief financial officer Colette Kress as its interim chief executive officer on Thursday following the resignation of embattled leader Jensen Huang. Kress, 59, wasn’t publicly positioned as Huang’s successor, and in a rare interview in 2022, Kress told Fortune that becoming a C-suite leader was never necessarily her career goal. Rather,
Autonomous weaponry capable of performing some of the roles of human soldiers could be key for smaller NATO militaries unable to match larger militaries in manpower. Maj. Sebastian Langvad, a Norwegian Army officer and lecturer at the Norwegian Military Academy, told Business Insider that advancing technology is increasingly eliminating the need for humans to perform
On the eve of a historic IPO for Silicon Valley’s investor community, the fragilities of venture are as clear as they’ve ever been to me. I’ve been thinking about this irony for days: Anthropic is set to go public as soon as next week (everything I’m hearing says “Jensen Huang’s affair be damned, all systems
New data sheds further light on Reddit’s search traffic woes. Reddit’s traffic dipped 13% in global visits from October 2025 to October 2026, according to analytics firm Similarweb. The decline traffic sent to Reddit from Google search has driven Reddit to go (mostly) logged-in-only. However, Reddit reported in a recent letter to shareholders that the
