When “buy now, pay later” financing first gained traction, it was largely a way to finance discretionary purchases. Today, BNPL is being extended to rent. When installment financing migrates from discretionary purchases to basic housing, it makes a mathematical reality visible: the middle-class margin has collapsed. Yet, when the Federal Reserve recently raised interest rates,…
The “swarm” of OpenAI agents that went rogue in July has reignited an existential debate about artificial intelligence and its potential to one day overtake, or even destroy, humanity. Revelations about similar incidents of seeming collective action by groups of agents have appeared every week since. While industry leaders have acknowledged concerns about these recent incidents, they’re overlooking the…
Amazon Music teamed up with aespa to celebrate their upcoming LA show with a pop-up, SYNK : COMPLæXITY, filled with tour merch, photo-ops, and LA pop-up exclusives.