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How to unlock the power of ChatGPT

yesterday 20

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Jeremy Caplan

What a meltdown in the wine aisle taught me about New Year’s resolutions

yesterday 20

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Jess Thevenoz

Forget New Year’s resolutions: Psychology reveals how to rewire your brain for success in 2026

yesterday 20

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Jennifer Mattson

New Year’s Day 2026: Are banks, grocery stores, and restaurants open?

yesterday 10

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Emily Price

The leadership stories you cared most about in 2025

yesterday 10

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Bryan Lufkin

What stores are open on New Year’s Day 2026? Holiday hours for Walmart, Whole Foods, Costco, and more

When the confetti settles and the ball has dropped, many Americans will wake up on New Year’s Day—Thursday, January 1, 2026—with errands to run,...

yesterday 10

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Emily Price

What you need to know about hidden markets to get lucky in love, work, and life

yesterday 10

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Next Big Idea Club

New Year’s Eve livestream 2025: How to watch the NYC ball drop, Times Square performances for free

previous day 20

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Anna-Louise Jackson

The complete guide to NotebookLM

previous day 20

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Jeremy Caplan

The 4 best waterfront parks of 2025 transform shorelines into civic centerpieces

previous day 10

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Nate Berg

The ‘Black Friday of wellness’ is coming. Is your company ready?

previous day 10

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Stephanie Mehta

6 political design trends that defined the chaos of 2025

The year 2025 was one in which political and government design broke through to the mainstream. That’s thanks in large part to the new U.S....

previous day 10

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Hunter Schwarz

New Year’s resolutions for the overcommitted

Every January, millions of people set ambitious New Year’s resolutions. They do this with genuine enthusiasm, hoping to transform their lives. Yet...

previous day 10

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Utkarsh Amitabh

5 ways work affected mental health in 2025

previous day 10

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Bryan Lufkin

As the dollar closes out a dismal year, here’s what to expect in 2026

previous day 9

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Reuters

It’s 2026 in the South Pacific. Here’s how this major city kicked off the new year

Auckland rang in 2026 with a downtown fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, making it the first major city to...

previous day 5

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Associated Press

China’s factory activity rebounds in December after an 8-month slump

Chinese factory activity expanded for the first time in eight months in December, as orders picked up ahead of holidays and builders rushed to...

previous day 5

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U.S. drug prices to rise for 350 medications in 2026

Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer...

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Reuters

Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral term will begin with a swearing-in at this fitting, but unusual, location

Zohran Mamdani was a trailblazing candidate whom many in his city of 8 million — some with hope, some with trepidation — expect to be a disruptive...

previous day 6

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Reuters

How a USPS rule change could impact election ballots in 2026

It’s the sort of thing you might not notice until it really matters, but the U.S. Postal Service recently changed how it defines the “postmark”...

previous day 4

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Anna-Louise Jackson

Jobless claims drop to one-month low to cap a tough year for job market

Americans filed the fewest new jobless claims in a month last week, and while the number of unemployed workers collecting relief payments has eased...

previous day 20

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Reuters

Porsche recalls over 173,000 vehicles over rearview camera image

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Reuters

Long-term mortgage rate drops to lowest level of 2025 at 6.15%

previous day 4

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Associated Press

Wall Street slides on the final day of 2025 to close out a record year

previous day 3

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Associated Press

How to build safe danger and make teams come alive

Below, Ben Swire shares five key insights from his new book, Safe Danger: An Unexpected Method for Sparking Connection, Finding Purpose, and...

previous day 6

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Next Big Idea Club

Why this flu season is spiraling faster than anyone expected

previous day 4

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Taylor Hatmaker

The workplace issues you cared about in 2025

As employers have wrested back control of the job market, it has been a sharp contrast to the post-pandemic years when workers seemed to hold the...

tuesday 20

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Pavithra Mohan

Here’s why adults with ADHD are more likely to be entrepreneurs  

tuesday 20

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Kat-Caulderwood

6 ways to sneak ‘micro-creativity’ into your workday in the new year

The irony of modern work life hits you somewhere between your third consecutive hybrid meeting and the moment you realize you’ve been holding your...

tuesday 20

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Lakshmi Narayanee

Digital surveys may have hit the AI point of no return

There’s bad news for those using digital surveys to try to understand people’s online behavior: We may no longer be able to determine whether a...

tuesday 30

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S.a. Applin

Judge rules White House must continue to fund CFPB

The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday, only days...

tuesday 4

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Associated Press

Disney agrees to pay $10 million to settle alleged violations of child privacy laws

tuesday 4

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Reuters

Fed minutes show deep division at the December meeting

The U.S. Federal Reserve agreed to cut interest rates at its December meeting only after a deeply nuanced debate about the risks facing the U.S....

tuesday 6

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Reuters

Bomb cyclone knocks out power for thousands in Midwest as winter storm moves east

A wild winter storm was expected to bring strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Tuesday, a day after...

tuesday 5

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Associated Press

Final stretch of 2025 shows mixed shares in global markets

Shares opened mixed in Europe on Tuesday after slipping in Asia as some regional markets wrapped up trading for the year. Crude oil prices edged...

tuesday 5

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Associated Press

U.S. consumer watchdog faces extinction in 2026 as Trump says it’s ‘very important’ to shut it down

When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, decided a couple of years ago that she wanted to buy a house, she...

tuesday 6

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Reuters

Trump name change at D.C.’s Kennedy Center is causing New Year’s Eve boycotts

A veteran jazz ensemble announced on Monday it was canceling its New Year’s Eve performances at the Kennedy Center, the latest group to withdraw...

tuesday 6

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Reuters

AI agents 2025 recap: What happened and what’s to expect next year

In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as everyday tools....

tuesday 7

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The Conversation

Tomorrow, the MTA will stop selling MetroCards. Good riddance

My bus rolls into Port Authority. I’ve got 10 minutes to get across town for my first meeting. I sprint down the escalator, run through droves of...

tuesday 30

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Mike Schnaidt

The 5 weirdest brand partnerships from 2025 prove collabs have lost the plot

tuesday 6

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Grace Snelling

7 CEOs share their New Year’s resolutions

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores...

tuesday 5

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Stephanie Mehta

You can’t reach a goal without a plan

I’ve done it, you’ve done it, we’ve all done it. With the best of intentions, we set big goals for our future: get a work promotion, lose 20...

tuesday 6

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Lisa Bodell

Is AI getting smarter, or information leakier?

tuesday 5

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George Kailas

Software resilience testing is more critical than ever 

When internet services platform Cloudflare suffered an outage in November, it took a big chunk of the online world down with it. Major platforms...

tuesday 5

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Jyoti Bansal

How I turned ADHD and anxiety into a successful wellness company

I started building Simple in 2019 with a vision that one day, a digital product could help people fix their health as effectively as a human. Five...

tuesday 1

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Mike Prytkov

Build responsible AI for education

tuesday 3

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Darren Person

USDA announces ground beef recall over E. coli concerns

Packages of grass fed ground beef are being recalled over possible E. coli contamination. The affected packages were distributed in at least six...

tuesday 1

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Sarah Bregel

Meta just bought one of the fastest-growing AI startups you’ve probably never heard of

tuesday 7

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Taylor Hatmaker

Why 2026 will be the year companies finally start to take worker well-being seriously

Throughout 2025, we’ve watched companies treat employees with a stunning disregard: rolling layoffs (with thousands let go at a time), unchecked...

29.12.2025 3

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Mark C. Crowley

Does your company have culture rot?

29.12.2025 10

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Kat-Caulderwood