The $10 trillion reason to rethink your RTO strategy

Low employee engagement is a widespread problem that is having a profound and costly impact on workplaces. According to Gallup, the analytics and advisory company, low engagement resulted in approximately $10 trillion in lost productivity last year. That’s the...

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Who wants to buy NYC’s last MetroCard vending machine?

Who wants to buy NYC’s last MetroCard vending machine?

The last of New York City Transit’s MetroCard machines are being auctioned off to the highest bidders. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority stopped selling and refilling MetroCards at the end 2025 and retired its vending machines after that. On August 5, the...

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With AI, we’re all the sorcerer’s apprentice

Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. On August 4, the U.K.’s AI Security Institute (AISI) issued a report on the disturbing behavior it had detected while testing two of the latest frontier AI models. Faced with solving a cybersecurity challenge,...

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How Prediction Market Platforms Changed Crypto Trading

Crypto trading once forced almost every market view through a token price. Traders bought spot assets, opened perpetual futures, or moved into stablecoins when they expected a policy decision, court ruling, election result, protocol launch, or economic release to move...

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Top Kubernetes-Native Inference Servers Ranked (2026)

Your shipping needs are more than one model on Kubernetes. Embeddings, reranking, something to extract, a guardrail, and a generative model to mix it all together. You might be shopping for a serving layer underneath all of that without hiring a dedicated platform...

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Why Trading Intuition Never Gets Better

A firefighter walks into a burning building, feels something wrong about the floor, and pulls his crew out. The floor collapses thirty seconds later. He can't explain how he knew. That story is true, and it's most of the reason people believe in gut instinct. It's...

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How to Run ONNX Transformer Models on iOS With Swift

IntroductionArtificial Intelligence has become one of the most influential technologies in modern software development. From chatbots and recommendation systems to sentiment analysis and intelligent search, machine learning models are now expected features in many...

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Axis Robotics Secures $12 Million Seed Funding

Axis Robotics, a Physical AI data company founded in 2025, has raised $12 million in seed funding to scale its Compounding Data Engine. The round was led by Hack VC and included Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.The...

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How Memecoins Took Over Robinhood Chain

A Blockchain Built for Finance, Adopted Through Memecoins When Robinhood unveiled its blockchain in July 2026, the vision was to build an infrastructure for tokenized real world assets, tokenized stocks, and on chain finance. As crypto has shown time and time again,...

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How to Debug 403 Errors When Scraping Websites

A 403 Forbidden error means the server understood your scraping request but refused to authorize access. To debug it, check headers, cookies, sessions, IP reputation, rate limits, JavaScript challenges, robots rules, and request patterns. Most 403 errors can be...

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Nodexo Crosses 50 Verified GPUs on Bittensor

Nodexo, a decentralized compute network operating as Bittensor subnet 106, announced Friday that it has crossed 50 verified GPUs online. The network spans seven GPU classes across six countries, including consumer-grade RTX 4090s and high-end NVIDIA H200s, with 99.9...

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Designing an XP System for Real-Life Skills

Designing an XP System for Real-Life Skills

Check out the previous entry in the series:Can a new iOS developer ship an app in two monthsIn case you still decide to skip on reading arguably one of the best literary articles ever written, let me just remind you that Levely is an RPG inspired focus-timer app in...

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Benchmarking Cheap LLMs for Production Agent Traces

Benchmarking Cheap LLMs for Production Agent Traces

We run one LLM call on every agent trace we ingest: it reduces the trace to a short, searchable digest. Because it runs on every trace from every customer, it is the most frequent LLM call we make, and its cost is the one that grows fastest with our usage. So we...

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When AI Automation Measures the Wrong Thing

You called your bank last week, or your airline, or your phone company. And somewhere in the first thirty seconds you did the thing everybody does. You pressed zero. Or you said “operator.” Or you said “representative” a little louder than you meant to.Hold onto that...

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Token Debt Is the New Technical Debt

Token Debt Is the New Technical Debt

In almost twenty-five years in development I have watched the economics of software change: we paid for servers, then for compute, then for requests and data.In 2020, after the GPT-3 API launched, we started paying per token, and the token became a unit of billing. In...

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Fastest HR Systems to Implement in 2026

Fastest HR Systems to Implement in 2026

BambooHR is often reported to get a small team up and running in around two weeks. A Workday rollout for the same headcount is measured in months, sometimes closer to a year and a half. Same category of software, wildly different timelines, and that gap is exactly...

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