Last summer, Alexander McKinnon was always feeling tired. “I would lie on the couch at 2 in the afternoon and fall asleep,” he says. The founder of a biotech startup in Boston, he initially thought it was the byproduct of a demanding job, but as time passed, his exhaustion didn’t subside. By September his doctor had run a blood test and found his “super fatigue” was tied to low levels of t...

AI doesn’t see the internet the same way human shoppers do, meaning retailers need to adapt as more consumers turn to AI to find products or even make purchases.Businesses from Walmart to luxury fashion labels are reconsidering everything from their web design to online advertising as they try to catch the eye of AI and not just humans.Many fashion e-commerce sites contain elements that can tr...

One of the key challenges the world is facing in the coming decades is the gradual and largely irreversible shift towards older populations. According to the United Nations Population Division, the number of people aged 65 and older, currently estimated at 857 million, is expected to nearly double over the next two and a half decades, reaching 1.58 billion in 2050. The share of the global popul...

When most people think of Dyson, vacuum cleaners and air purifiers probably come to mind. But Dyson has also ventured into the world of agriculture, bringing its signature innovation to strawberry farming. It might seem strange and unrelated to their original business, but James Dyson himself thinks it’s a natural fit, since “growing things is like making things.” The company is focusing on...

At a pristine, multimillion-dollar lab on the Manhattan waterfront, just down the street from a men’s homeless shelter and the medical examiner’s office, a slice of summer plum is being converted into fragrance code. This is the work of Osmo, a fragrance tech startup claiming to build artificial olfactory intelligence. Osmo has parlayed this innovation into offering turnkey fragrance compound...

The price of concentrated solar power declined by 54% since 2014 and solar photovoltaic (PV) declined by 75%.Concentrated solar power, which uses mirrors to produce concentrated sunlight, stood at a $53 billion market in 2023.Wind power is at least 60% less expensive than in 2014, driven by larger generating capacity and technical advancements improving installation costs.Renewable energy is ge...

Design thinking, the notion that anyone can solve problems like a designer with the right method and mindset, was a mainstay of corporate America from the 2000s into the 2010s. In recent years, though, the ideology’s effectiveness has been called into question, and it has become one of the most divisive topics in the field.Now it looks like corporations have started sidestepping the term compl...

The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025, developed in collaboration with Frontiers, highlights 10 innovations with the potential to reshape industries and societies.Structural battery composites, advanced nuclear technologies, and collaborative sensing stood among the top emerging technologies of 2025, based on data from the World Economic Forum's annual report.Additionally, engineered living...

An AI Ran a Vending Machine for a Month and Proved It Couldn’t Handle Passive Income. Anthropic tried testing Claude’s entrepreneurial spirit. Then came the weird existential crisis.What happens when you let an AI run a very small business? That’s the question Anthropic set out to answer with a recent experiment. The company behind Claude AI set out to monitor how Claude Sonnet 3.7 would per...