Gossip
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on What’s Next: Highways, Airports, New Cities
Tekedra Mawakana, co-CEO of Waymo, speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 on Oct. 27, 2025 in San Francisco. Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Waymo, the self-driving company...
The Cost of Mistaking Plans for Strategy in an Uncertain Economy
Plans create comfort. Strategy creates coherence. That distinction matters now more than ever. Unsplash+ When 84 percent of executives say their organizations aren’t prepared for the next disruption, the...
At 85 Years Old, American Ballet Theatre Has Never Looked Better
Léa Fleytoux in Natalia Makarova’s The Kingdom of the Shades. Photo: Emma Zordan On the evening of Thursday, January 11, 1940, the curious audience at the Center Theatre in...
The Coming Dementia Crisis—and the Cost of Doing Nothing
Without federal action on prevention, care infrastructure and caregiver support, dementia could reshape the American economy. Unsplash+ It’s like watching a slow-moving meteor approach in plain sight. Everyone can...
In Times Square, Yvette Mayorga’s Candy-Pink Carriage Confronts the American Dream Beyond Its Sparkle
Yvette Mayorga’s Magic Grasshopper is on display in Times Square, Broadway Plaza between West 46th and 47th Street. Phoyo Michael Hull. Courtesy Times Square Arts Cuteness is often deployed...
Anthropic Strikes Major Compute Deal With Google, Echoing OpenAI’s Chip Alliances
Dario Amodei, a former OpenAI executive, founded Anthropic in 2021. Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot The latest sign of the A.I. industry’s unrelenting hunt for computing power...
Bezos Earth Fund Awards $30M to A.I. Climate and Nature Projects
Lauren Sánchez-Bezos, vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, calls A.I. a key tool for climate action. Kevin MazurGetty Images for Keri Researchers using A.I. to combat illegal fishing,...
Zheng Chongbin’s Dialogue With the Golden State
Side by side, Golden State (2024) and Turbulence (2024) strike a stunning dichotomy; both are abstracted landscapes, but while one appears composed of sunlight, the other is composed of...
Izumi Kato’s Hybrid Totemic Forms Trace Possible Paths of Ecological Survival
Izumi Kato, Untitled, 2025. Oil on canvas, 191.5 x 194.5 cm./75 3/8 x 76 9/16 in. Photo: Ringo Cheung ©2025 Izumi Kato, courtesy of the artist and Perrotin Japanese...
The Return of Slow Travel: Discover Iconic Cities Across the U.S. by Streetcar
A subsection of Gen Z longs for the days before cell phones and social media, even ditching high-tech devices for “dumb phones.” Grandmacore is rising in popularity among the...
