You probably know a woman supporting an unemployed man. Maybe you’ve been that woman. What used to be an embarrassing secret has quietly become a macroeconomic data point, and now the Federal Reserve has the receipts. As of early 2026, women held more payroll jobs than men in the United States. This has happened twice
Private firms will host US doctoral students in a scheme announced by the US National Science Foundation.Credit: Getty The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has kicked off a sweeping effort to deepen the ties between PhD students and industry. The pilot programme will provide participants with hands-on industry research experience and funding from universities, companies
When 18-year-old Damarion Spann saw a flyer on Instagram calling for a mass gathering on a beach near downtown Chicago, she immediately wanted to go. Thousands of people joined him that night in the arena, playing music and dancing. The cultural trend of so-called teen power grabs has emerged across the United States in recent
As the costs of AI continue to rise, companies are looking for ways to reduce them. The most recent example is Microsoft, which has reportedly begun implementing a cost-saving strategy by relying less on software from OpenAI and Anthropic and instead implementing its own internal models. In fact, when it comes to two of its