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Amrit Tietz, creative director and cofounder of motherhood-focused media company Spread the Jelly, has been named to Fast Company's Best Dressed in Business list for 2026. Tietz says her personal style rejects rigid workplace dress norms and is instead shaped by playful, free-spirited inspiration—including outfit ideas borrowed from her young daughter.
Figure skater Alysa Liu, an Olympic champion, has been included in Fast Company's Best Dressed in Business list for 2026. Liu recalls that as a child she wore practical black leggings and long-sleeve shirts for training, since she was homeschooled and had little need for other clothing.
Best Buy is offering a free pair of Pixel Buds 2A in hazel to customers who preorder any qualifying Googlebook laptop through October 25th, 2026. Models from Acer, Lenovo, Asus, HP, and Dell are eligible, with some units shipping as early as October 5th, 2026. The cheapest option, the Acer Googlebook 14, starts at $899 with an Intel Core 5 Ultra chip, 16GB of memory, and 512GB of storage.
Best Buy and Amazon are selling the black Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, numeric keypad and function keys for $169.99, a $30 cut from its usual price, through September 22nd, 2026. The keyboard supports Touch ID on Apple silicon Macs running macOS 15.1 or later, and connects via a woven USB-C cable or Bluetooth.
Best Buy is offering a limited-time deal on Lenovo's Yoga Slim 7X, a 14-inch laptop with a 2K OLED touchscreen, Snapdragon X2 Elite 12-core processor, 16GB RAM, and 1TB storage, for $1,000. The deal undercuts comparable Windows machines like Microsoft's Surface Laptop, which costs significantly more for less storage.
Best Buy is selling the Asus ROG Strix G18, an 18-inch gaming laptop with an Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD, for $2,699.99, down $600 from its $3,299.99 list price. The machine features a 240Hz IPS display, RGB lighting, tool-less access for upgrades, and Thunderbolt 5 connectivity.
Planet Labs, which runs the world's largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites, has been named No. 4 on Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 list. The company generates over 3 terabytes of high-resolution imagery daily, used by governments, researchers and media to track environmental and security threats. Its recognition stems from an in-house approach called 'Agile Aerospace,' used to build satellite systems including Pelican and Owl.
Chipotle developed a High-Efficiency Equipment Package after frontline workers flagged that slow prep and grilling were hurting throughput and consistency. The package, built through rapid R&D iteration and in-restaurant testing, includes a three-pan rice cooker, dual-sided plancha griddle, high-capacity chip fryer, and produce slicer, cutting prep time by hours per restaurant daily. The innovation helped land Chipotle the No. 2 spot on a Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 list.
Anthropic has been ranked No. 1 on Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 list, with recognition tied partly to Claude Code, a tool originally built internally for engineers to test AI models and assist with coding. The tool spread organically inside the company before Anthropic released it publicly in early 2025, later evolving into the broader Claude Cowork product launched in early 2026.
Fast Company released its Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 list, highlighting seven companies in the technology and science category chosen by its judges. Three of the seven winners are based in the Bay Area, underscoring the region's continued concentration of innovative employers.
Fast Company has released its 2026 Best Workplaces for Innovators list, recognizing nine companies with 50 or fewer employees for category honors. Judges evaluated these small firms specifically on how well they cultivate cultures that encourage innovation among staff.
Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 program singled out eight companies that depend heavily on skilled tradespeople for their category honors. Judges evaluated how these firms foster innovation specifically among workers in skilled-labor roles rather than traditional office or tech positions.