The Mandela Effect is when people vividly remember something differently from how it actually happened. The Streisand Effect is when someone takes great pains to suppress information, inadvertently drawing further attention to it. And after this week, a brand-new phenomenon will sit comf
America is grappling with a wealth inequality problem. The top 1% of U.S. earners control more wealth today than the nation’s entire middle class, according to U.S. Federal Reserve data. America’s middle class, which once represented a wide majority of U.S. adults, has steadily
There’s no shortage of newsletters out there. Nearly every publication has one these days, as do an army of high-profile writers. True, the medium’s shine has worn off a bit, but curious readers can still easily pick between thousands of missives on everything from
“Where do I even start?” says Bridget Todd, the creator and host of the podcast There are No Girls on the Internet. “It’s just been a real motherfucker. I feel like I’m still processing it all.”
In early July, Todd lost her mother Carolyn Todd, a renowned physician in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Carolyn’s death came just days after Todd’s father was rushed to the ICU after taking a fall at home. “We were all congregat
Rich Uncle Pennybags is getting a lot richer thanks to Monopoly Go! Forget collecting $200, the mobile sensation is pocketing a lot more than that these days.
On Hasbro’s second-quarter earnings call Thursday, the toymaker revealed that the mobile video game has grossed more than $3 billion in revenue since its launch on April 11, 2023. That makes Hasbro the top licenser of video games in the past year, the company says.
OpenAI’s long-rumored internet search tool is finally official.
The company said Thursday it’s alpha testing a prototype AI search tool, which will let users ask direct questions (including follow ups) and get direct answers based on web sources.
OpenAI says it’s partnered with publishers including News Corp. and The Atlantic for some of
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.
Meta’s AI mixed reality vision is coming together
Meta says it will put its Meta AI assistant in its
You’d be forgiven for assuming, based on business press coverage (cough), that, at any given point in time, there is a single, mega-disruptive technology that exerts a gravitational pull on any and all venture capital dollars. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, this would have been the internet and its nascent economy. In the late 2000s to 2010s, it was smartphone and SaaS apps. A few years ago, it was crypto, which, if the prognostications were correct, we would all currently be us
Meta’s Oversight Board says the social media company fell short in its response to a pair of high-profile explicit, AI-generated images of female public figures on its sites and is calling for the company to update its policies and make the language of those policies even more clear to users.
The decision, announced Thursday, comes after a three-mo
In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer,” Shor showed how, using a hypothetical quantum computer, you could efficiently solve certain types of mathematical problems that overwhelmed even the most powerful classical computer systems—eliminating many, many steps, and cutting the calculation time ex