Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. adults – including about half of those 18 to 29 – are part of an online community.At a time of growing concern over fraying social cohesion and loneliness, digital spaces have emerged as vital community hubs for millions of Americans. A national study released in October 2026 by the Pew Research Center through the Pew-Knight Initiative, titled *Online Community and Connection in America*, reveals that 36 percent of U.S. adults are active members of at least one online community. Drawing on a survey of 9,750 adults via t...

Disney's filing describes an AI character that asks for your favorite memory, answers with a matching one it invented, and then sings you a song about it.An interactive character talks with a person on a screen, drawing on personal memories and AI models to compose a custom performance.What Disney's memory-swapping AI character doesEver told someone about a day at the beach, and had them answer with a beach story of their own? Suddenly you feel like you have something in common.Disney's patent tries to build that feeling into an AI character...

The company reported a third-quarter profit of $3.71 billion, up from $2.9 billion in the same period last year. American Express plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce, affecting roughly 3,800 roles, to reduce layers and speed up decision making.The credit-card company raised its full-year profit outlook after reporting higher third-quarter profit and revenue as customer spending increased.American Express reported a third-quarter profit of $3.71 billion, up from $2.9 billion a year earlier.American Express plans to cut about 5% of i...

Factory and Cognition's public fight pulled their investors in with them. Across coding AI, backing rival startups is standard practice, and the shared investors' stakes are far from even.The Factory-Cognition fight is also an investor fight.Factory says it fired a board adviser for sharing information with Cognition. He says he resigned, denies sharing anything, and has since joined Cognition as chief revenue officer. Then the backers weighed in, publicly and on opposite sides.Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois are partners at Khosla Ventures, w...

The company says it will offer a link to airports in Houston, Dallas, and Austin. It cites an inviting regulatory environment and support from local officials.Texans navigating the congested highways of Dallas, Houston, and Austin have already grown accustomed to the persistent hum of commercial delivery drones overhead. Now, the skies above the Lone Star State are preparing to welcome another fixture of next-generation aviation: electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxis designed to bypass gridlocked arterial interstates entire...

While subscriber additions have been going steady again, Netflix's revenue growth is slowing. In 2026 to-date, revenue was up 13.7 percent year-over-year, compared with 15.9 percent for the full year 2025 and 27.6 percent as recently as 2019. As Netflix has been adding subscribers in lower-priced markets and has seen more people sign-up for cheaper ad-supported tiers, revenue from subscriptions slowed. Despite ad-supported subscriptions meaning that Netflix could earn more through ads to make up for cheaper membership prices, this concept re...

Fitting a computer into a pair of glasses creates an awkward design problem: the electronics need room, but the result still has to belong on someone’s face. Povilas Grigas approaches that tension without pretending it can disappear. His Glasses concept gives the hardware a deliberately different silhouette, treating smart eyewear as its own design category rather than ordinary frames with a technological secret. I like that starting point.Developed for his 2024 design BA thesis, the mixed-reality concept imagines an alternative to being te...

Running Shoes Lead U.S. Sportswear Search Surge as Running Culture Drives Market Momentum.New RETAILBOSS data reveals running footwear dominating digital consumer interest heading into late 2026, significantly outperforming rival athletic wear categories.Running gear has firmly established itself as the primary growth engine behind sportswear demand in the United States, according to recent search momentum data published by RETAILBOSS Insights.Driven by evolving consumer lifestyles and a surge in community-led athletics, Running Shoes secure...

AI—the most consequential technology of our lifetimes.No technology has ever disrupted as quickly or as broadly as AI has. The market capitalization of the world’s 10 most valuable public companies far outpaces the rest of the market, and 9 of them are focused on AI.Last year’s agenda (where’s the ROI, where should we pilot) has given way to more difficult challenges: How will we fund the buildout, integrate AI more rapidly, and preserve IP? And how will industry structure and regulation evolve to facilitate innovation, competitiveness,...