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When temporary tariff structures were struck down earlier this year, e.l.f. Beauty received roughly $50 million in cost relief and used it to reverse price increases across 80% of its product lineup instead of keeping the extra margin. The following quarter, the company reported net sales up 36% to $479.4 million with profits roughly doubling.
The Bank of England said that if artificial intelligence fails to produce the productivity and growth improvements many investors expect, government bond prices could suffer another setback. The warning links AI performance to broader fiscal and market stability concerns.
Workplace experts note that job-hopping has shifted from a career red flag to a common tactic, with many workers deliberately taking roles they don't plan to stay in long-term. These positions may serve as bridges toward higher pay, faster advancement, a dream job, or simply to bide time through a personal or industry transition. Experts offer guidance on how to approach such roles effectively while still employed in them.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that business owners routinely set revenue and headcount targets without first clarifying what those numbers are meant to achieve personally. The piece proposes defining a 'Champagne Moment' — a concrete vision of success — and then calculating the income, wealth, time and freedom needed to reach it, before working backward to size the business accordingly. It cites a 2024 analysis by researcher Matthew Killingsworth showing happiness kept rising with income even among very wealthy people.
A contributor column for Entrepreneur argues that when company growth slows, founders should resist immediately trying new tactics like SEO, ads or pricing changes. Instead it advises diagnosing the root cause first, since growth analytics reveal where a funnel breaks down but not why. The piece recommends customer interviews to uncover the gap between expected and actual customer behavior before choosing a fix.
Cal AI, an AI nutrition app that estimates calories and macros from meal photos, was co-founded by Zach Yadegari at age 17 and grew to more than 15 million downloads and over $30 million in annual revenue. MyFitnessPal acquired the company in a deal that closed in December 2025. Yadegari is set to discuss the app's growth and his approach to capitalizing on it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Chinese President Xi Jinping landed at Joint Base Andrews and was greeted by President Trump ahead of a summit covering trade, AI and the Iran war, followed by a state dinner. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. and China agreed to extend their trade truce to January 10, while a Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesperson said the two sides discussed lowering tariffs. Separately, Treasury yields hit multiyear highs and U.S. stock futures fell after a down session on Wall Street.
Bessemer Venture Partners announced it has closed $5.75 billion across two new funds aimed at investing across the AI stack, splitting the capital into $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage deals and $4 billion for growth-stage startups. The firm says it has already deployed $3 billion into more than 260 AI-native companies since 2022, spanning compute, infrastructure, foundation models, dev tools and agentic technology.
Scientists used chemical vapor deposition to grow atomically aligned 1H-stacked bilayers of molybdenum disulfide, a two-dimensional semiconductor. Unlike conventional bilayer MoS2, which typically shifts to an indirect band gap, this stacking arrangement preserves a direct band gap and shows stronger light emission and valley polarization than standard bilayers, according to the study published in Nature.
Nature Index analysis covering 2016-2025 ranks the United States first and China second among the top 10 countries by research Share in regenerative medicine. The data also identifies institutions with the highest proportion of output devoted to the field, led by the University of Cincinnati, and highlights the strongest bilateral country collaborations in the area over the same period.
A survey by academic mentoring platform Nova Learning found that the share of middle and high school students naming Computer Science and AI as their top academic interest dropped from 42.3% in 2025 to 27.9% in 2026, while Engineering's share nearly doubled, rising from 11.9% to 23%, led largely by Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Separately, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported an 8.1% drop in undergraduate Computer and Information Science enrollment at four-year institutions, to about 606,000 students, even as Engineering enrollment grew.
Jeff Bezos has long attributed Amazon's rise from a small Seattle startup to a global corporate giant to a consistent two-word principle he says he repeated for three decades. He frames this mantra as the underlying operating philosophy that shaped Amazon's decisions and culture throughout its history.