Almost every plan to lower food prices ends up putting the government in one of two businesses, either running a grocery store, as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is now doing, or telling grocery stores what to charge. A new proposal from the Kitchen Table Project does neither, which is why I’ve spent more time
The best new television I’m watching isn’t on HBO or Netflix. It’s on Instagram. Flipping through channels — ahem, I mean, scrolling through my Instagram feed — I’ve found myself tuning into episodes of a new generation of sitcoms. There’s “Brooklyn Coffee Shop,” where two deadpan baristas face stereotypical New York City customers. Then there’s
One little white lie at a time, some of the world’s biggest businesses are being undone by bad consumer data, and they don’t know it yet. Now that new tools like synthetic audiences are being thrown into the mix, the boardroom faces a novel problem. Let’s start at the beginning. It doesn’t take a genius
While data centers were taking it on the chin in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the people building them were playing pickleball at a conference in Virginia. And they weren’t exactly reacting constructively to the news. “Suddenly we have protesters and people saying four-letter words about us,” Jeff Wabik, the chief technology officer at DC BLOX, a
So you’ve heard of the trend quiet quitting, and its sister, loud quitting—but now workers are doing the complete opposite: “loud working.” Instead of doing the bare minimum to get by or turning their anger on their employers, they’re pouring all their energy into making their work more visible. Think of the colleague who posts
AI agents can, in theory, book your vacation for you, but that doesn’t mean it’s happening much yet. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he’s not worried about AI agents like Meta’s Muse or Instinct AI taking traffic, citing a low number of agent bookings so far. “We’re not seeing a lot of traffic, and even
