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Published April 16, 2026 04:27PMOn April 10, my family and I sat around the kitchen table, eating tacos and watching a livestream of the four Artemis II astronauts return from their mission around the moon. When the capsule carrying them, which they’d named Integrity, splashed down off the San Diego coast, I felt tears form. And as NASA workers sent boats out to ensure everyone was safe and inflated the raft, “the front porch,” on which the Artemis II crew would sit when they exited, my husband, four-year-old son, one-year-old daughter, and I kept our eyes glued to my phone,…

How do you build a $1 billion direct-to-consumer business without relying on the traditional venture capital playbook? Forbes’ Alex York sits down with Levi Conlow, co-founder and CEO of Lectric eBikes, to unpack how his company became North America’s largest e-bike brand. Despite a shrinking post-boom market, supply chain friction, and looming tariffs, Lectric continues to grow profitably by focusing on operational leverage, aggressive component negotiations, and a radically different approach to customer service. Source link

Key Takeaways Sal Khan is launching the Khan TED Institute to offer a low-cost, AI-focused alternative to elite universities, starting with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied AI. The program aims to secure academic accreditation, open within 12 to 24 months and keep total tuition under $10,000. Big-name employers, including Google, Microsoft, McKinsey, Bain and Accenture, are involved as partners. Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan is teaming up with Google, Microsoft and McKinsey to offer students a new option for higher education.  Khan announced this week that he is launching the Khan TED Institute, a new joint venture with…

Election after election, Democratic strategist James Carville’s maxim, “It’s the economy, stupid!” has held true. But in coming political campaigns, candidates will encounter an especially virulent strain of economic anxiety—driven by artificial intelligence—that is proliferating among lower-wage, working Americans. AI’s advances are directly intersecting with Americans’ economic security. Candidates across parties, states, and offices will have to adapt to this new reality, quickly. New data show why. As AI reshapes the labor market and impacts individual economic prospects, these voters view it in increasingly dire terms. Merit America, the workforce development nonprofit that we co-lead, recently commissioned a national survey of more than 3,000 low-income Americans. The goal was to gauge their feelings about economic mobility, affordability,…

Key Takeaways Rema Serafi, the Vice Chair of Tax at KPMG, joined the Big Four accounting firm 30 years ago in an entry-level position. In her current role, she leads a team of more than 10,000 professionals across all tax disciplines. Serafi is the first woman to serve as KPMG’s Vice Chair of Tax, a milestone she doesn’t take lightly. About 30 years ago, Rema Serafi decided to travel to KPMG’s Boston office to interview for a job she didn’t expect to get. KPMG is one of the “Big Four” accounting firms alongside Deloitte, EY and PwC. It has more…

As tech’s titans sprint to build a sprawling web of data centers to power the AI boom, some cities and states are racing to stop them. Maine just became the first state to pass a ban on large data centers, sending a strong signal that many communities aren’t on board with an AI-powered future arriving quite so suddenly. Lawmakers in Maine passed a bill this week to block the construction of large data centers in the state until November 2027. In the meantime, the state plans to use the breathing room to evaluate how the massive, power-guzzling tech complexes might…

Key Takeaways Linda Clemons parlayed her innate communication talents into a successful business career. Her Clemons Method focuses on what goes unsaid — and the necessary context to understand it. She reveals why you should forget the ‘fake it till you make it’ approach and prioritize other tools. From a young age, nonverbal communication expert Linda Clemons had a high level of emotional intelligence. As a firstborn daughter (research suggests they often act as mediators in family dynamics), Clemons was eager to please and grew to understand body language intuitively. She could tell if someone’s words didn’t align with their…

The challenges with AI adoption have little to do with the technology itself. In the work environment, the hardest part is bringing together a new orchestration model that fully integrates AI tools while ensuring teams both adopt and master new behaviors to deliver tangible results. As Steve Lucas recently wrote in Fast Company, we have entered the era of the “AI natives and the AI nots.” This delta will become vividly apparent this year. At the center of the AI revolution: a fundamental reevaluation of organizational design. Roles are evolving because the skills, intelligence, and processes we have relied on…

Key Takeaways Vibe coding is the practice of using AI to write code on a user’s behalf using prompts in plain language. Affirm CEO Max Levchin said vibe coding is rapidly raising the bar for software quality, making it easier to replace clunky, generic tools and potentially putting some companies out of business. Meanwhile, he said businesses like DoorDash are “safe” because they depend on real-world logistics, integrations and relationships — not just an app. Max Levchin, PayPal cofounder and CEO of Affirm, isn’t worried about companies like DoorDash. In his view, businesses rooted in complex logistics and real-world operations are…

Over the past few years, words that once had no place in workplace conversations have slowly entered HR agendas: menstruation, endometriosis, perimenopause, menopause, breast cancer and—more slowly—male andropause or prostate cancer. These are not passing trends. They signal a deeper shift in how we understand work and the people who do it. For decades, work was designed around a fiction, that of the “neutral” worker, an abstract individual assumed to be fully available, consistent, rational, and unaffected by bodily constraints. But this neutrality was never real. As Caroline Criado Perez has shown in her brilliant book Invisible Women, many systems…