This startup raised $34 million to make micro dramas starring AI actors — and let fans interact with them
StoReel's founders, from left: Rui Zhang, Angela Yu, and Shipeng Fan. StoReelBeijing-based StoReel raised $34 million to build out its...
The Lines, the Prices, the Anxiety: Can Air Travel Get Any Worse?
War is raging in the Middle East, passengers are waiting in four-hour security lines, airfares are spiking and, now, a...
Right-wing activist orders fake ballots to prove fraud — and ends up convicted
Conservative activist Harry Wait said he ordered ballots in the names of prominent local politicians four years ago to expose...
When a Narcissist Goes to War
If you can set aside both the unconstitutionality and the immorality of President Trump’s unprovoked war on Iran and focus...
Mozart Wouldn’t Be Mozart Without These Three Objects
“Salzburg is no place for my talent,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once wrote of his Austrian hometown. In fact, his family...
Her whimsical sand art feeds off an endless sense of childlike wonder
The artist who goes only by the mononym Naoshi is a master at spinning tiny grains of sand into something...
Bombs Won’t Set Women Free
On the morning of March 2, three days into the American-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran, Yanar Mohammed, a 65-year-old women’s...
What Happened After a U.S. Warship Hit an Iranian Mine in 1988
On a hazy afternoon in the Persian Gulf nearly 40 years ago, the captain of a U.S. Navy frigate summoned...
The youngest-ever female Fortune 500 CEO is reinventing the largest Medicaid insurer amid funding cuts and rising costs
In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady profiles Centene CEO Sarah London. The big leadership story: CFOs plan AI-related layoffs—but not...
A startup lawyer vibe-coded an AI version of himself
Gabe Stern's AI avatar. SynthesiaSynthesia sells software that helps businesses make videos with digital avatars.The company's general counsel recently used...
