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Layoffs 2025: Tech and government hardest hit as more than 1 million job losses announced so far this year
More than 1 million workers in America have been laid off so far in 2025, according to the latest tally of announced job cuts from the executive outplacement firm...
A leader’s role in fostering AI superpowers
Since the launch of ChatGPT three years ago, almost everyone has used Artificial Intelligence in some fashion to help with their work and the world collectively believes AI holds...
Why small businesses must go narrow (extremely narrow) to survive
A few blocks from my home sits a small Japanese grocery store that has been in the neighborhood for years. It’s the kind of place that once felt irreplaceable—carefully...
Why are U.S. mass killings in 2025 the lowest since 2006?
A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006,...
Prada seals $1.4 billion deal to purchase fashion rival Versace
The Prada Group closed the purchase of Milan fashion rival Versace in a $1.375 billion cash deal that puts the fashion house known for its sexy silhouettes under the...
5 tips from financial experts to finish 2025 strong
As 2025 winds down, here are some moves to help you finish the year strong financially. Morningstar’s director of personal finance and retirement planning, Christine Benz, discusses strategies.This interview...
Scrubs brand Figs launches nonprofit to help ‘awesome human’ healthcare workers thrive
To Trina Spear, cofounder and CEO of medical apparel brand Figs, change for the healthcare industry has to start with a focus on healthcare workers.  “We believe if you...
Still waiting for Spotify Wrapped? Amazon Music just dropped its 2025 Delivered: Here’s how to see your year-in-review
Amazon Music just dropped its 2025 Delivered, an annual recap of your most streamed songs, artists, podcasts, and audiobooks, and the platform’s answer to the popular Spotify Wrapped. Here’s...
These 9 skincare brands are standing out with buzzy products—and armies of influencers
Over the past year, these nine beauty and skincare brands on the list of 2025 Brands That Matter found innovative ways to make customers see their inner beauty. Some...
Has NTT sparked the long-awaited quantum-computing revolution?
For the past decade, quantum computing has struggled to balance promise and practicality. While the world’s most advanced systems remain engineering marvels, they’re bedeviled by the same flaw: the...
MIT drug hunters are using AI to design completely new antibiotics
Inside a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology late last year, scientists gave an AI system a new task: designing entirely new molecules for potential antibiotics from scratch....
Why companies hire back people they just laid off 
Many of us have heard of “boomerang employees”—someone who leaves a company and later returns—but there’s a newer version showing up in the workplace: the layoff boomerang. Maybe you’ve...