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Americans are ditching ultra-processed snacks for an ancient fruit that's exploding in popularity

One of human history's oldest-cultivated foods is having a moment as more people reach for healthier alternatives to ultra-processed foods. Sales of dates in the U.S. were up 33% in 2025, a founding member of organic California-grown date company Joolies California Superfruit told Food52.com. Those numbers are expected to grow significantly, Fortune Business Insights reported.

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Harry's and Coterie owner Mammoth Brands has ambitions to be the next CPG giant

Mammoth Brands wants to take on traditional consumer packaged goods companies, armed with a portfolio of disruptors in the personal and baby care categories that have won over consumers and retailers alike. For the last decade, upstarts like those owned by Mammoth have challenged the relevance and longstanding dominance of legacy giants like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Kimberly-Clark. The trend has also played out across packaged food and beverage companies, like Poppi and Olipop taking...

McLaren CEO Zak Brown Still Gets FOMO About Racing Cars

When Zak Brown joined McLaren a decade ago, the future CEO wasn’t exactly signing on to a winning enterprise: Once a Formula One juggernaut, the team had slumped into irrelevance on the race track—with an internal financial crisis to match. Ten years later, the McLaren turnaround story is well known among millions of F1 fans around the world, and clear even to racing novices like me.

AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?

Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how that would happen.  Well, it’s been 18 months since that conversation, and you’re going to hear Harvey say that AI is now “omnipresent” in music production. And Harvey knows what he’s talking about — he is himself a legendary...

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers In the summer of 2025, an Epic Games layoff cut a worker who was a terminally ill father. According to the most-discussed account of the episode, his family lost his life insurance along with the job.

Policy on the AI Exponential

Policy on the AI Exponential In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits. It takes him a full day simply to say hello to another tree, so getting him and his peers to act fast enough is nearly impossible.