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Most relationship advice focuses on what you give. New research suggests the more important question is what you receive, and it has nothing to do with grand gestures.gettyThere is a particular kind of loneliness that gets almost no airtime in relationship research: the loneliness of being with someone who doesn’t quite see you. Not someone cruel, not someone absent. Just someone for whom your specific texture — your ambitions, your contradictions, the version of yourself you are still working toward — doesn’t fully register. The relationship functions, but it doesn’t seem to fit.Psychology has spent decades studying what makes relationships…

When researchers founded Anthropic in 2021, they said the race to build powerful AI was moving too recklessly. They inserted detailed safety measures into their products and marketed their commitment to safety as the corporate quality that distinguished them from competitors—notably OpenAI, the rival company they had left. In March 2026 that reputation was tested when the Trump administration declared that Anthropic was a supply chain risk. The company had refused to remove built-in safeguards that prohibited domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons from products it had supplied to the Pentagon. President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to stop using…

Every human will, at least once, experience a “head spin.” Not many of us, however, will know the delicate and complex machinery that causes that experience.gettyThere is a structure nestled deep within your inner ear, roughly the size of an aspirin tablet, that has been doing essentially the same job for half a billion years. Long before there were humans, before there were mammals, before there were even land-dwelling vertebrates of any kind, something eerily similar to your vestibular system was humming away inside the skulls of ancient fish, helping them navigate a world of water. And that structure is…

Stretch out those jazz hands and dust off those tap shoes. It’s time for the 79th Tony Awards, which will take place tonight, Sunday, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Presented in partnership by the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League, the event celebrates excellence in Broadway theater. Here’s everything you need to know before you time-step your way to the television set. Where does the name “Tony” come from? The Tony Awards have been around since 1947. The event was named in honor of the late actress, producer, and director Antoinette Perry. During…

Good Smile Fest 2026 in Akihabara over this weekend.Ollie BarderIt’s been a while since I attended Good Smile Fest, and this year’s event certainly didn’t disappoint.Set across three floors, the ground floor covered mostly Nendoroids, with the second floor covering a lot of Hatsune Miku-related artwork.The third was the one I was interested in, though, as it covered all the mecha and had a big surprise in store.The current mecha workhorse for Good Smile Company is there Moderoid kits. They’ve made huge inroads into the model kit market by covering off very popular anime that competitors like Bandai Spirits and…

While sites like eBay can help you turn old gadgets into cash, they’re also kind of a hassle. You’ve got to create a listing with photos and a description, figure out a competitive sale price, and pay for shipping. Selling locally on Facebook Marketplace, meanwhile, means dealing with flaky buyers and awkward meetup locations. You’d be forgiven for just leaving your old phones or tablets in a drawer instead. Fortunately, there are easier ways to offload your used tech gear while still fetching fair prices in return. This tip originally appeared in the free Cool Tools newsletter from The Intelligence.…

Using AI to build AI is the latest hot topic.gettyIn today’s column, I examine the belief that AI will ultimately end up building AI for us, rather than software developers and engineers doing so. This point was heralded in a recent blog posting by Anthropic. The AI researchers at Anthropic assert that the method underlying this effort will most likely be based on recursive self-improvement (RSI).Let’s talk about it.This analysis of AI breakthroughs is part of my ongoing Forbes column coverage on the latest in AI, including identifying and explaining various impactful AI complexities (see the link here). Aiming For…

When I became a mother, I closed my office door. Not dramatically—no manifesto, no announcement. I just needed to get more work done in less time, and open doors invite conversations that consume minutes I no longer had. Before my daughter was born, I was a tenure-track business school professor who kept that door ajar as a matter of professional faith. Hallway talk is where ideas happen, where goodwill accumulates, where careers get built. After she arrived, with daycare pickup hardwired into my schedule, I became a practitioner of what I would later hear a research participant describe as “ruthless…

Science and education concept. AI (Artificial Intelligence).gettyThere’s an interesting book on AI about to come out, and if you’re looking for deep insights into how the technologies in play are impacting business, you might want to check it out. Satish Viswanathan has written “The Weight of Intelligence,” a weighty tome with a table of contents that looks like an indexed survey on LLMs in enterprise.Viswanathan has AI bonafides, as former Managing Director at Accenture, and MIT ties, with a history of working with our academic labs in Boston. Now he’s scrutinizing the landscape of AI, and coming up with some…

Most leaders approach layoffs as a messaging problem. What do we say? How do we say it? How do we avoid panic, legal risk, or reputational damage? But that framing misses what’s actually at stake. Layoffs are moments when employees decide whether leadership can still be trusted. And in 2026, that evaluation is nearly immediate. There’s no version of layoffs that feels good. But there’s a meaningful difference between a necessary business decision handled with clarity and care and an avoidable breach of trust created by how it’s done. The better question isn’t whether there’s a “right” way to lay…