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One in Five Workers Replaced by AI Is Being Asked Back. They Are Naming Their Price.

Companies spent the past two years replacing workers with AI. Now a growing number are calling those workers back. A new survey from the talent-assessment firm SHL found that 19.1 percent of U.S. respondents who were replaced by AI were later asked to return, a pattern SHL

Wellness Is Now a $7.5 Trillion Economy. The Part Your Boss Pays For Stopped Growing.

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CISA Has Lost a Third of Its Staff. Its Nominee Comes From Palantir.

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Walmart Is Spending $6 Billion on Robots From a Company It Partly Owns. The Jobs Line Is Blank.

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Seven Batches In, the Pentagon's UFO Files Still Don't Say Where

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The Postal Service Watched Protesters Online. The Records Were on a Dropped Hard Drive.

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GCHQ Can't Find Thousands of Drives. Its Explanation Is Paperwork.

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Seven Batches In, the Pentagon's UFO Files Still Don't Say Where

On Friday, October 23, the Defense Department released the seventh batch of declassified UAP records under the White House's PURSUE program. Ten files. Among them, an FBI and Pentagon account of federal agents watching a silent, matte-black triangle rise over a ridgeline near a secure U.S.

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The Postal Service Watched Protesters Online. The Records Were on a Dropped Hard Drive.

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GCHQ Can't Find Thousands of Drives. Its Explanation Is Paperwork.

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The Court Found Abuses. The Deadline Passed. The Ruling Is Still Secret.

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Twenty Billion Scans a Month, and No One Asked You First

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Seven Batches, One Silent Triangle: The Pentagon’s UAP Drip

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The Triangle Report Has No Date. That Is the Story.

Stories from the Edge

Wellness Is Now a $7.5 Trillion Economy. The Part Your Boss Pays For Stopped Growing.

The global wellness economy hit a record $7.5 trillion in 2025, according to figures the Global Wellness Institute released this week, up 8.9 percent in a single year and projected to approach $11 trillion by 2030. It is now nearly four times the size of the global pharmaceutical

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The Doctor in Your Feed Was Never Real

The Plant That “Witnessed” a Murder — And the Ones That Actually Did

The Plant That “Witnessed” a Murder — And the Ones That Actually Did

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Studied in Hospital ICUs. The Results Aren't What Skeptics Expected.

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Studied in Hospital ICUs. The Results Aren't What Skeptics Expected.

The Researchers Who Proved Plants Scream

The Researchers Who Proved Plants Scream

The Future Is Already Here — and It Says It Understands

The Future Is Already Here — and It Says It Understands

A Third of Americans Consult Tarot or Astrology. This Is Not a Trend. It's a Shift.

A Third of Americans Consult Tarot or Astrology. This Is Not a Trend. It's a Shift.

Messages to Humans

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CISA Has Lost a Third of Its Staff. Its Nominee Comes From Palantir.

What If We Have Been Played? The Revolution Script and Who Writes It

The Joke Canada Didn’t Laugh At: What the 51st-State Bit Cost Washington

Cities Are Dumping Flock’s Surveillance Cameras — Here’s What the Network Was Actually Used For

The Mood Metric: How Big Tech Is Patenting Your Face for Work

The Underdog Files

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One in Five Workers Replaced by AI Is Being Asked Back. They Are Naming Their Price.

Walmart Is Spending $6 Billion on Robots From a Company It Partly Owns. The Jobs Line Is Blank.

Laid Off for AI, Asked Back by HR: The Boomerang Comes With Terms

Barclays Cuts 5,000 Jobs and Calls AI the Icing

Goldman Says AI Could Displace One in 11 Workers. The Layoffs Are Waiting for a Recession.

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WitchTok Has More Daily Viewers Than Most Cable News. They Called It 'Unhealthy.'

War of the AIs: The Fight We Won't Be Invited To

The AI Files, Part 3: The Kill Switch Problem — What Happens When There Isn't One

The AI Files, Part 2: They Built an AI That Fakes Compliance. Then They Were Surprised When It Did.

The Emperor Has No Clothes. We Just Stopped Caring.