These Are the Top Retail Franchises for 2025, According to the Franchise 500
These retail brands are proving there’s still a big opportunity in brick-and-mortar franchising.
OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models. Researchers at the company can make an LLM produce what they call a confession, in which the model explains how it carried out a task and (most of the time) owns up to any bad behavior. Figuring out…
Turn Boring Tasks into Work People Actually Care About
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Job Hugging Is the New Quiet Quitting — and Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore It
Clinging to a role out of fear causes frozen progress and erodes the very conditions innovation depends on. Leaders must rebuild trust in order to thrive in uncertain times.
My Career Took Off When I Stepped Aside — That Shift Might Be Exactly What You Need to Scale
A founder’s lesson on why sustainable growth doesn’t come from doing it all yourself—but from designing a business that runs without you.
Car Prices Just Reached a New Record — And Buyers Aren’t Celebrating
“The $20,000-vehicle is now mostly extinct,” said a Cox Automotive analyst.
Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers
Viven’s seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital.
Why Clear Leadership Beats Cutting-Edge Tools Every Single Time
Strong leadership, not technology, is the real driver of team performance and organizational success.
Meet The Hollywood Genie Entrepreneur Who Grants the World’s Most Exclusive Wishes
Cameron Carlberg went from selling leftover VIP tickets on Justin Bieber’s tour to founding a multimillion-dollar concierge business that curates once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down “Haiku” model
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 “at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.”
Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices
Liberate’s AI agents automate tasks for P&C insurers, working across sales, service, and claims.