Fast Company

Data is increasingly available on almost every aspect of business: market research, sales, social media, financial metrics. But just because it’s available, should it be used for all decision-making? We asked our Fast Company Impact Council how they balance data-driven decision-making with their gut instinct. The answers may surprise you.

As AI continues to make its way into all avenues of life, more brands are taking a stance about whether they are for or against the technology—and Polaroid just revealed where it stands. In the camera maker’s latest international ad campaign, Polaroid is making the case for embracing an analog life with a series of billboards featuring ant

The oldest bridge in Paris has a new look. Veiling the 419-year-old structure with an inflatable envelope wrapped in canvas, the French street artist JR—often called the French Banksy—transformed the Pont Neuf in Paris, paying homage to the famed duo of artists, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The work, titled La Caverne du Pont Neuf, is on vie

Spinoza, never one for flattery, defined ambition as the immoderate desire to make others approve of what we love and hate—in essence, an insatiable craving for other people’s validation. Today, that sounds like a brutal takedown of one of our most celebrated virtues. Ambition has become a word we wear proudly, the engine of LinkedIn bios and

Oracle is spending big on AI, to the tune of $70 billion this year alone, in order to build data centers and AI-capable servers. But that AI expansion hasn’t come without a human cost. In its latest Form 10-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company revealed that it has cut tens of thousands of jobs over th

The archives of one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s most masterful architecture graduates, I.M. Pei, are heading back to the university. MIT has just acquired the full archive of Pei, who graduated from MIT’s Bachelor of Architecture program in 1940 and went on to design such notable buildings as Dallas City Hall, the glass

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called on AI companies to release information about the carbon pollution they create, along with the water and land used to power their operations.In an address at London Climate Action Week, Guterres proposed the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, arguing artificial intellig

Across Europe, a record-breaking heat wave has led to “red weather warnings,” thousands of school closures, and multiple deaths.  But alongside some news articles about this extreme heat are images of crowded beaches and people frolicking in fountains or lounging in parks. Those pictures fail to convey the danger of heat waves, climate