Social media has stopped churning out megastars, and it’s remaking the creator economy
Victoria Sirakova/Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BIIt's getting harder for social media creators to become global superstars.Apps like TikTok and Instagram are...
Why Jimmy Lai’s Sentencing in Hong Kong Strikes Fear in Taiwan
When a Hong Kong court handed media tycoon and pro-democracy leader Jimmy Lai a two-decade jail term on national security...
Student injured, another arrested in shooting at Wootton High in Maryland
A 16-year-old male student was shot inside Wootton High School in suburban Maryland on Monday afternoon, and police have arrested...
Panicked about losing GPT-4o, some ChatGPT users are building DIY versions. A psychologist explains why ‘feel-good hormones’ make it hard to let go
Passionate AI fans saved an overly agreeable ChatGPT model from the trash bin once, but now OpenAI is determined to...
Asia’s young, tech-savvy population will power the region’s growth: AIIB chief investment officer Kim-See Lim
Asia remains the world’s fastest-growing region—and its momentum shows little sign of slowing. According to 2025 McKinsey estimates, the region...
Zillow just dealt a big blow to Compass — but it may be too little too late
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BISearch for a home on Compass.com, the website of America's largest real estate brokerage, and you'll find...
Americans’ optimism for their future took a hit last year, poll finds
The number of Americans who anticipate they will have “high-quality lives” in five years’ time has dropped to a nearly...
Squirrel chews through electrical wires, sparking inferno that destroyed Florida family’s home: ‘Starting over from scratch’
A pesky squirrel turned a Florida family’s life upside down after the critter chewed through electrical wiring, sparking a fire...
The Trump administration is touting approvals for oil-exporting hubs in the Gulf of Mexico—but no one seems to want to build them
The Trump administration touted the new licensing on Feb. 3 of the Texas GulfLink project—a crude oil-exporting terminal proposed in...
A Desperate Father, a Troubled Son and Death in a 5-Star Hotel
John T. McGowan had hoped that sitting in a periodontist’s chair in Ridgefield, Conn., for a three-hour root canal would...
