People are reinventing themselves to adapt to the moderate job market, fears of layoffs, and AI. For some, that means a career pivot, whether to a new industry or to entrepreneurship. Reinvention can ...

The term TACO — “Trump always chickens out” — has become a popular, if not always reliable, method to forecast the next turn from the mercurial American president, who’s now overseeing a new stage in ...

I don’t usually get excited about dab pens. I respect the concept, obviously. Concentrates are already sticky, strong, and high-maintenance enough without also requiring a torch, a banger, a timer, ...

Allbirds is trading in sneakers for servers, selling its footwear brand as it races to reinvent itself as an AI company. The eco-friendly shoe company announced Wednesday that it is transitioning into ...

The onetime shoe brand that sold 2010s-era techno optimism in footwear form is jumping into the artificial-intelligence race. Sure, why not? Allbirds shares are going vertical Wednesday after the ...

Allbirds announced that it is pivoting from sustainable shoes to artificial intelligence. The company, valued at around $4 billion at its peak, sold its intellectual property and other assets two ...

Once a $4 billion apparel juggernaut, Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI, a “GPU-as-a-Service” company. Hey, if you can't beat ’em, join ’em. On April 7, Allbirds sent out a press release celebrating ...

SES AI is hoping for a new life after more than a decade in the battery manufacturing business. Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about how he sees the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...