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AI will infiltrate the industrial workforce in 2026—let’s apply it to training the next generation, not replacing them

A silent crisis is shaking the very foundations of modern society. Here’s how to turn it into a loud victory.

By Kriti SharmaJanuary 15, 2026
Using AI just to reduce costs is a woeful misuse of a transformative technology
By Nigel VazJanuary 15, 2026
powell
Forget the K-Shape: We have a barbell economy—and the middle class is buckling under the weight
By Katica RoyJanuary 14, 2026
engineer
China graduates 1.3 million engineers per year, versus just 130,000 in the U.S. We need AI to bridge the gap
By Paul Eremenko and Ashish SrivastavaJanuary 14, 2026
powell/trump
Is Powell’s Fed head independence dead? Trump outfoxes himself this time
By Jeffrey SonnenfeldJanuary 13, 2026
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whitmer
PoliticsTrump claims all the U.S. automakers are ‘doing great.’ Gretchen Whitmer says ‘this will only get worse without a serious shift’
By Isabella Volmert and The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2026
RetailChubbies cofounder Kyle Hency is back—his new startup Good Day just raised $7 million in seed funding
By Allie GarfinkleJanuary 15, 2026
Personal FinanceBest personal loans for excellent credit 2026: Low APRs and strong borrowing power
By Joseph HostetlerJanuary 15, 2026
machado
PoliticsVenezuela’s opposition leader says she gave her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump
By Will Weissert, Joey Cappelletti, Regina Garcia Cano and The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2026
newsom
Personal FinanceGavin Newsom literally started his career with funding from a billionaire, but he was also raised by a single mother with 3 jobs
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 15, 2026
newsom
Personal FinanceGavin Newsom’s anti-Zohran moment: the California billionaire tax that splits the Democratic Party down the middle
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 15, 2026
Health5 Best Home Saunas of 2026: Approved by Testers and Experts
By Christina SnyderJanuary 15, 2026
Big TechOracle struggles to attract workers to Nashville ‘world HQ’—even with a 2-million-square-foot office and Larry Ellison’s favorite restaurant
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJanuary 15, 2026
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paramount
CommentaryA cautionary Hollywood tale: the Ellisons’ lose-lose Paramount positioning
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen HenriquesJanuary 12, 2026
Walken
CommentaryMolson Coors CEO: We’re doing our part to solve society’s ‘occasion problem’ – and we’re getting some unexpected help
By Rahul GoyalJanuary 12, 2026
AsiaWhat global executives need to ask about China in 2026
By Joe Ngai and Jeongmin SeongJanuary 11, 2026
Justin Harlan
CommentaryI run one of America’s most successful remote work programs and the critics are right. Their solutions are all wrong, though
By Justin HarlanJanuary 11, 2026
Gene Ludwig
CommentaryMillions of Americans are grappling with years of declining economic wellbeing and affordability needs a rethink
By Gene Ludwig and Shannon MeyerJanuary 11, 2026
doctor
CommentaryFormer White House advisor on the real reason your health care costs are going up: Medicare’s doctor pay gap
By Tomas J. PhilipsonJanuary 9, 2026
sudhakar
CommentaryI’m the SolarWinds CEO. Here’s why a $4.4 billion move to go private was right for us
By Sudhakar RamakrishnaJanuary 8, 2026
Jerome Adams
CommentaryTrump’s former surgeon general: One year in, the war on vaccination is undoing the Trump administration’s health agenda
By Jerome AdamsJanuary 8, 2026
kappos
CommentaryThe Nobel Prize winners have a lesson for us all
By David J. KapposJanuary 8, 2026
Mark DesJardine
CommentaryWarner Bros. Discovery’s board isn’t choosing a deal — it’s avoiding one
By Mark DesJardineJanuary 8, 2026
A woman stands in front of a whiteboard speaking to a table of people.
CommentaryAI isn’t failing your company. Your operating model is
By Katerin Le FolcalvezJanuary 8, 2026
goodwin
CommentaryTesla’s vote wasn’t about pay. It was about who really runs the company
By Shane GoodwinJanuary 8, 2026
Jamie Dimon
CommentaryJamie Dimon’s bombshell on proxy advisory delivers a body blow to the firms he called ‘incompetent’
By Richard TorrenzanoJanuary 7, 2026
fraser
CommentaryThe 7 most overlooked CEOs in 2025—and the 5 to watch in 2026
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen HenriquesJanuary 7, 2026
christian klein
CommentaryThe most honest prediction for 2026: nobody knows what’s next
By Christian KleinJanuary 7, 2026
CES
CommentaryBeyond the CES hype: why home robots need the self-driving car playbook
By Jason CorsoJanuary 6, 2026
AsiaCountries must move beyond seeing AI as a race, where one side must beat the other
By Boris Babic and Brian WongJanuary 3, 2026
trump
Commentary5 takeaways on Venezuela in the aftermath of Maduro: A memo to CEOs
By Jeffrey SonnenfeldJanuary 3, 2026
Bhargava
CommentaryYou probably use the same password for 30 different websites. It’s time for a passkey. 
By Rishi BhargavaJanuary 3, 2026
Sweden
CommentaryMeet Sweden, the unicorn factory chasing America in the AI race
By Oscar TäckströmJanuary 3, 2026
Eric Simons
Commentary15 years after skipping college to launch 3 startups, I believe the taboo around questioning higher ed is holding an entire generation back
By Eric SimonsJanuary 2, 2026
MGI
CommentaryThe world is awash in wealth but starved for productivity—and that imbalance is distorting growth, debt, and opportunity. We need AI to come through
By Jan Mischke, Olivia White and Rebecca J. AndersonDecember 31, 2025
Zohran, Trump
CommentaryStrange political bedfellows not that strange in the season of the new nihilism
By Ian ChaffeeDecember 31, 2025
Moreland
CommentaryRetirement is changing. Here’s why companies need to change, too
By Mary MorelandDecember 31, 2025
worker
CommentaryErased: what 2025 revealed about America’s real economic risk
By Katica RoyDecember 31, 2025
Wesley Yin is a Professor of economics at UCLA in the Luskin School of Public Affairs and Anderson School of Management
CommentaryPrivatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the wrong way risks a second Great Recession
By Wesley YinDecember 30, 2025
TV
CommentaryTelevision is a state of mind: why user experience will define the next era of media
By Lin CherryDecember 30, 2025
Elon Musk
CommentaryCorporate board service isn’t charity. It’s risk capital
By Jane SadowskyDecember 30, 2025
India
CommentaryAI adoption at scale is hard. Just look at India, which processes about 20 billion transactions every month 
By Shankar Maruwada and Angela ChitkaraDecember 30, 2025
Sridhar Ramaswamy is CEO of Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company.
CommentarySnowflake CEO: Big Tech’s grip on AI will loosen in 2026 — plus 6 more predictions that will define the year
By Sridhar RamaswamyDecember 28, 2025
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Peter Thiel makes his biggest donation in years to help defeat California’s billionaire wealth taxAn image of a popular article
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 14, 2026
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Americans have been quietly plundering Greenland for over 100 years, since a Navy officer chipped fragments off the Cape York iron meteoriteAn image of a popular article
By Paul Bierman and The ConversationJanuary 14, 2026
Success
Despite a $45 million net worth, Big Bang Theory star still works tough, 16-hour days—he repeats one mantra when overwhelmedAn image of a popular article
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJanuary 15, 2026
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