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The archetypal high-growth founder isn’t a 20-year-old prodigy in a garage. A US…
A Census-linked study of 2.7 million US founders found that exceptional employment growth was associated with middle age, with relevant industry experience offering the clearest clue as to why.
A Columbia team estimated about 240,000 plastic particles per litre across three…
A new imaging method estimated about 240,000 micro- and nanoplastic particles per litre across three bottled-water brands, with an estimated mass around 10 nanograms per litre. Regulation remains partial and health effects are unresolved.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation retains voting control of Novo Nordisk and awarded DKK…
The Foundation is obliged to maintain a controlling interest and held 77.3% of votes at the end of 2025. Cross-foundation asset rankings are not directly comparable.
AI’s first visible employment shock may be hitting the bottom rung of the career…
Updated payroll data point to a widening early-career employment gap in AI-exposed work, driven more by reduced hiring than by layoffs.
Between May and December 2025, the share of American students from middle school…
A RAND survey found rapid growth in students’ homework AI use alongside rising concern about critical thinking and a fragmented school policy landscape.
See’s says it maintained its ingredient standards during Second World War…
See’s own history says it kept using butter, cream and sugar and made less candy during rationing. That first-party account does not document universal competitor substitution or prove later loyalty.
Cursor went from $100 million in annualized revenue to $2 billion in just 13…
Cursor’s reported revenue run rate multiplied twentyfold in 13 months, but the headline figure leaves accounting, margins and durability unresolved.
While most food publishers spent 2025 panicking about Google’s AI Overviews eating…
As Google's AI erases publisher traffic, one food blog discovered that the platform everyone abandoned still has an appetite for their work.
SoftBank is putting $200 million into the excavator-automation startup Gravis…
Gravis says its retrofit kits deliver "up to a 30% boost" against peak manual operation. It also told Inc. the machines have delivered "about 30 percent on multiple projects" against human-operated equipment. The specialist Inc. asked wants to know what was measured.
In January 2026, the largest human–AI creativity comparison yet tested language…
GPT-4 beat the human average on a large divergent-association benchmark, but the upper half of the 100,000-person sample still outscored every model tested, revealing a very different human–AI creativity story in the tail.
Can the planet only be saved by moving beyond capitalism? We map the strongest…
Whether growth itself is the enemy or merely how we pursue it will reshape climate action for decades to come.