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Fast Company @fastcompany.com · Nov 12

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Jennifer Mattson @jennifermattson.bsky.social · 2h

Shares of U.S. rare earth stocks rose after President Trump accused #China of strict export controls and threatened “massive increase of #tariffs” once again. However, the comments ended up triggering a market sell-off on Friday.

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Markets and crypto are down today. Why these stocks are an unusual exception

Trump spats with China over export controls of rare earth minerals, threatening ‘massive increase of tariffs’ and triggering a widespread market sell-off.

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Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 2h

The obvious reason why the latest brainrot phrase is driving non-Gen Alphas up the wall. f-st.co/am6d5oW

Heard kids saying '6-7'? It's so annoying that schools are banning it

The obvious reason why the latest brain rot phrase is driving non-Gen Alphas up the wall.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 4h

Accounting must treat culture, relationships & impact not as costs, but long-term value creators #FCImpactCouncil f-st.co/aGgO1It

Your Google ratings are ESG in action

But accounting still calls them expenses instead of value.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 5h

Move beyond the next best action for an AI-powered next best experience @tealium #FCImpactCouncil f-st.co/GphY1l0

The holy grail of modern marketing

Move beyond the next best action for an AI-powered next best experience

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 6h

A new study analyzed 1.4 million online images and videos, plus nine large language models trained on billions of words. Here's what it found. f-st.co/ADP3Wsk

AI has this harmful belief about women

A new study analyzed 1.4 million online images and videos, plus nine large language models trained on billions of words. Here’s what it found.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 8h

"Parental stress can erode a children’s sense of safety, making the world feel less predictable than it is." f-st.co/UyYiCHR

Your calm is contagious but so is your chaos

Micro-pauses and therapy apps can provide stress relief for parents to prevent transferring tension to their kids.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 11h

A new London sculpture depicts the complicated beauty of postpartum women. f-st.co/Kv9PDlM

A new London sculpture depicts the complicated beauty of postpartum women

To present a realistic portrayal of the postpartum experience, Frida commissioned a statue that captures scars and stretch marks.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 12h

My rides in Elon Musk’s supposedly autonomous ride-hailing cars still involved a human overseer in the driver’s seat—among other notable rough edges. f-st.co/IwiKirj

Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ service is no Waymo

My rides in Elon Musk’s supposedly autonomous ride-hailing cars still involved a human overseer in the driver’s seat—among other notable rough edges.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 13h

It's only one example of people trying to trick AI, which is being used more and more in hiring. f-st.co/ZtavrNi

Sweet revenge! How a job candidate used a flan recipe to expose an AI recruiter

It's only one example of people trying to trick AI, which is being used more and more in hiring.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 15h

Faster collaboration, smoother iteration, and a more natural creative flow—the hoped-for results of integrating Gemini 2.5 Flash into Figma’s design platform. f-st.co/qbOqSQo

Google and Figma partner in bid to remake real-time design with Gemini 2.5

Fast collaboration, smooth iteration, and a more natural creative flow could be the results of integrating Gemini 2.5 Flash into Figma’s platform.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 17h

A third party’s data failure now affects tens of thousands of Discord users. f-st.co/CM28IRD

This Discord feature you barely noticed could now be your biggest privacy risk

While Discord says its main platform wasn’t directly compromised, the incident raises serious privacy concerns.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 18h

La Niña has arrived, fueled by colder-than-normal Pacific ocean temperatures—and it could bring a lot of snow and severe storms. f-st.co/SgxRe4B

A foreboding weather pattern has emerged: Here’s what it means for winter

La Niña has arrived, fueled by colder-than-normal Pacific Ocean temperatures—and it could bring a lot of snow and severe storms.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 20h

The revelation came in a Federal Register document explaining the DOL's new rule in which it cut farmworker wages. f-st.co/NJtAtpv

Trump's Labor Department says Trump's mass deportations pose ‘immediate dangers’ to our food supply

The revelation came in a Federal Register document explaining the DOL's new rule that cuts farmworker wages.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 21h

"The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce on Wednesday as part of the ongoing government shutdown." f-st.co/vjbeFVr

IRS announces most operations are closed and nearly half of its workforce will be furloughed

Doreen Greenwald, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said taxpayers should expect backlogs and longer wait times.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 22h

The coming revolution may make the internet of today look clunky and dumb. f-st.co/Tlkml29

In the age of AI, websites will be transformed

The coming revolution may make the internet of today look clunky and dumb.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 23h

An employee's second gig may cause concerns about their productivity, but it's well worth your time to work with your employee and support them. f-st.co/zDR0nro

How to manage an employee with a second job or side gig

An employee's second gig may cause concerns about their productivity, but it's well worth your time to understand how to support them.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

Think diet soda is safer? A new study says both sugary and “sugar-free” sodas may harm your liver. f-st.co/ZkALqDk

This everyday drink could raise your liver disease risk by 60%

MASLD, once called fatty liver disease, affects millions — and your daily soda habit could make it worse.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

AI fluency among leaders isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s the difference between pilots that fizzle and initiatives that scale. f-st.co/LVZUBLN

How to figure out if an executive is AI fluent

AI fluency among leaders isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s the difference between pilots that fizzle and initiatives that scale.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

Building a tech startup? Forget Silicon Valley. Choose Stockholm instead. #FCImpactCouncil f-st.co/pnIjAOs

Why the world’s top talent should bet on Stockholm

Long a progressive country, the ecosystem and infrastructure are built for tech startups.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

The best leaders invite feedback, listen with curiosity, and ask questions until they truly understand. f-st.co/v9QD1JC

The fastest way CEOs can spot good (or bad) managers

Leaders need to face these seven brutal truths about leadership.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

"As the end of 2025 approaches, a viral TikTok trend is helping people achieve their wellness goals." f-st.co/mq4b94M

5 steps to meet your financial goals using TikTok’s ‘The Great Lock In’

Much like New Year's resolutions, the viral TikTok trend encourages people to focus on their wellness goals.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

Some vacationers are redefining food tourism by skipping the fancy restaurants for vending machine and convenience store eats, says this trend report. f-st.co/olJAe95

Travelers are finding food in unlikely places—on your next trip, look here

Some vacationers are redefining food tourism by skipping the fancy restaurants for vending machine and convenience store eats, says this trend report.

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

"I'm sitting here with my thousand-dollar watch and my $80 app and thinking, can we just get a family meeting and start getting along again?" f-st.co/lXmI3Bf

TikTok athletes are freaking out about the Strava versus Garmin lawsuit

"I'm sitting here with my thousand-dollar watch and my $80 app and thinking, can we just get a family meeting and start getting along again?"

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%, coming off its latest all-time high and its eighth gain in the last nine days. f-st.co/BZv4aRb

Stock market lulls as Tesla slides and Delta soars

Wall Street is taking a pause on Thursday as U.S. stocks and even the price of gold pull back from record highs following their torrid runs.

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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla is reportedly struggling to make the hands on its Optimus humanoid robot work, pushing back audacious targets to scale up production. So why not just... avoid humanoid design? My latest for @fastcompany.com explains why it's not as simple as that www.fastcompany.com/91418249/do-...

Do robots dream of perfect hands?

Why we're so obsessed with giving robots human digits.

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