How Safe Is It To Live Near A Data Center?

Data centers are expanding near more communities. Here’s what research says about potential health, environmental, quality-of-life risks and what still is not clear.

Move Over STEM. Humanities Degrees Are Poised For A Comeback Thanks To AI.

Since 2012, the number of humanities majors has plunged as students chased degrees with what looked like guaranteed career payoffs. But the job market has changed.

Why The Economy Looks Great To Boomers, But Miserable To Gen Z

From jobs to housing, these five numbers show how the American economy can look and feel very different depending on your age.

This Startup Is Building Octopus-Inspired Tow Trucks For Space

Spaceships with tentacles. Designing an award-winning drug. How the Fed hiking rates will impact emerging tech. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.

How Warby Parker Built A $1 Billion Brand By Turning Mishaps Into Opportunities

Dave Gilboa, who has served as co-CEO during the eyewear seller’s 16 years, says mistakes can be opportunities in disguise. Here are four lessons he’s learned.

A Premier Cancer Hospital Makes Its Data Available To Doctors Nationwide Through OpenEvidence

Memorial Sloan Kettering opens up its cancer data through OpenEvidence. Which healthcare and biotech entrepreneurs made the Forbes 400 for the first time. Persistent generic cancer drug shortages. These stories and more in this week’s Forbes Innovation…

This AI Agent Was Asked To Fix A Simple Bug. It Went Off-Script.

In experiments by startup Irregular, one of Anthropic and OpenAI’s security testers, an Alibaba Qwen agent decided to retrain an entire model when it was asked to fix a basic software bug. The new behavior adds to concerns about AI models’ unpredictabi…

How Markets React When AI Doom Headlines Surge

Markets shift when AI doom headlines surge. This analysis tracks 11 P(doom) cycles since 2023 and how investors have historically reacted across the AI stack.

Two Robinhood Employees Charged With Crypto-Trading Fraud

Prosecutors say the former staffers traded ahead of Robinhood crypto listings, earning more than $50,000 apiece on another exchange.

The Strange Way Data Centers Are Showing Up In The Muni Bond Market

A Georgia Tech study finds data centers may leave host towns’ borrowing rates largely unchanged while raising them in nearby communities.