Disney's new parks boss outlines investment strategy, with superfans at the fore

Artist concept art of the yeti animatronic from Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida.

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It's not every day that a live crowd goes wild for an animatronic yeti.

AI Companies Are Buying—And Destroying—Antique Books. Here’s Why.

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Authors, archivists, historians and bibliophiles have launched an online war against tech giants and artificial intelligence developers after an increasing mountain of evidence shows they’re buying rare and antique books en masse and feeding them to large language models—only to slice off their spines and destroy the original print copies in the process.

Google is paying millions of dollars for troves of old Spirit Airlines data. Here's why.

Google's next big AI model could end up using troves of old data from Spirit Airlines.

Google successfully bid $10 million for troves of corporate data from Spirit Airlines, the budget airline that went under earlier this year, according to Chapter 11 bankruptcy court filings. A spokesperson from Google told Business Insider that this data from Spirit Airlines "can be helpful in improving our products and AI models."

Luigi Mangione’s State Murder Trial Postponed After Federal Plea

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Luigi Mangione will not go to trial in state court next month as previously scheduled, a New York judge ruled Monday, postponing the trial after he separately pleaded guilty in federal court—which his lawyers argue means his state charges should now be thrown out.

Council Post: The AI Paradox: How To Unlock Productivity Without Burning Out Your Team

Khadim Batti, Cofounder and CEO of Whatfix, a leading digital adoption platform.

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As AI transforms the modern workplace, it promises unprecedented productivity. Yet underneath the glowing case studies lies a quiet crisis, which is AI fatigue. Many employees feel overwhelmed by the sheer velocity and volume of new tools. When someone uses AI only in an assisted way, requiring constant prompting without an agentic framework, the technology fails to give the right output, triggering a frustrating cycle of back-and-forth, wasted effort and rising burnout. Recent research from Boston Consulting Group and the University of California found that the mental strain of AI adoption carries "significant costs" for organizations.

The Cost Of DOGE: America’s Environmental Intelligence Is Going Stale

When Brian Ritchie takes his 53-foot charter fishing boat into the cold, choppy waters of the Cook Inlet near Homer, Alaska, carrying a dozen or more anglers hoping to catch Pacific halibut, he’s paying extra attention to weather conditions. That’s because an automated National Weather Service station that provided detailed local wind reports is offline and won’t be operational until at least November.

Retailers face a big challenge this fall: figure out what 'value' means for shoppers

Retailers face a big challenge this fall: figure out what 'value' means for shoppers

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Russia targets Danube port after one of Ukraine’s largest aerial attacks of the war

A firefighting helicopter prepares to drop a load of water during a fire at Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries' logistics complex near the town of Podolsk, outside Moscow on August 16, 2026.

The hottest AI models aren’t the ones developers actually use

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I went all in on AI and burned out. It was exhausting, and something had to change.

I believe AI will change the world for the better.

I work in B2B marketing, and my job is to stay up to date on what's happening in the world of tech and AI. Outside work, I've self-published a children's book about AI, host my own podcast about how AI is affecting our professional and personal lives, and organize events for women curious about AI.