Blockchain is being pulled between traditional finance and its decentralized ethos as the industry shifts to serve institutional products. Zac Williamson, co-founder of Aztec Labs, said early ...

It takes more than a drive for profits to build a successful business. Nicholas Pearce, clinical associate professor at Kellogg School of Management, says too many companies—and individuals—lack a ...

What is the purpose of light? How does light work? Why does light exist? This video explores the longstanding debate over whether light is composed of particles or waves. Albert Einstein demonstrated ...

How can we stay happy in an age gone mad? It often feels as though all is unstable at the moment. Uncertainty dominates the economy. Our politics and planet are a mess. Scientific experts and ...

The preparatory course at the heart of the recent surge in Army recruitment numbers will tighten its standards, although it was unclear if that meant it will produce fewer future soldiers. Potential ...

Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform. The move will likely affect WhatsApp-based assistants of companies like OpenAI ...

On its 20th anniversary, YouTube is venturing into an era of AI-generated video, and may never be the same. I had that shift in mind when I recently interviewed YouTube CEO Neal Mohan at his office at ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A young man, not quite 18, entered Williams College in the fall of ...

With the arrival of MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, Microsoft might be looking to put some distance between itself and OpenAI. Microsoft recently released its own large language models — the technology ...

It has become such common advice that few question it. But rather than inspirational, it can feel like a burden. How do I go about finding this and what if I never do? This is “purpose anxiety” — the ...

“Business has been forced to adjust itself to staggering acceleration in the rate of change,” observed McKinsey, a consultancy, in a promotional pamphlet it published in 1940. “What period in history ...

I define purpose as the quality around which you shape your life. It’s your reason for being or why you get up in the morning. Purpose influences goals, but it’s actually broader and deeper. Here’s ...