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Fast, faster, fastest.⁠ That's how Editor in Chief Brendan Vaughan prefaces his Editor's Note for the Fall 2026 issue of Fast Company.⁠ ⁠⁠ The issue's cover story featuring Walmart CEO John Furner reveals how the leader is rapidly deploying AI at scale, while managing some real employee anxiety. ⁠ Read the story before the issue hits newsstands: bit.ly/4gZFbBr
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Flock’s new safeguards show that the company concedes that design matters, but private settings cannot substitute for laws. f-st.co/hyU6FLe

Flock cameras have an architecture problem, not just bad users

Flock’s architecture turns local cameras into a cross-jurisdictional surveillance network accessible to agencies that never purchased the cameras.

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Once external monitoring is reduced, investors may demand a higher rate of return because they have less information about a company’s health. f-st.co/iXjkG5Y

Investors push back on SEC plan to release corporate earnings less frequently

In short, there’s a trade-off between the cost of capital and transparency.

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“Building Panda Restaurant Group for the past 50 years has been our American dream come true, and we are deeply committed to helping our associates achieve their own.” —Andrew Cherng f-st.co/LoGLrdy

Panda Express’s founders built a $7 billion empire. Now they’re helping 55,000 employees become...

For the founders, enabling their employees to achieve such a major milestone is critical to their mission. Here’s how they do it.

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“Building Panda Restaurant Group for the past 50 years has been our American dream come true, and we are deeply committed to helping our associates achieve their own.” —Andrew Cherng f-st.co/rltXliZ

Panda Express’s founders built a $7 billion empire. Now they’re helping 55,000 employees become...

For the founders, enabling their employees to achieve such a major milestone is critical to their mission. Here’s how they do it.

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A growing body of research highlights the negative effects of staying up late. f-st.co/lU168yD

How night owls can get better sleep—besides going to bed earlier

A growing body of research highlights the negative effects of staying up late.

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The people on the edges of your network can offer the fresh information and connections that lead to your next opportunity. f-st.co/fZ2UgjW

Your best career contacts could be the people you barely know

The people on the edges of your network can offer the fresh information and connections that lead to your next opportunity.

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Restricting after-hours email sounds like a simple solution to overstuffed inboxes and an infinite workday. But the real problem goes deeper and requires a different fix. f-st.co/vrmsWKB

Email boundaries don't work. Try this instead

Restricting after-hours email sounds like a simple solution to overstuffed inboxes and an infinite workday. But the real problem goes deeper and requires a different fix.

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Independent creative agencies have an advantage because their teams remain closer to clients. #FCImpactCouncil f-st.co/kAqn0YE

How small teams move the needle faster

The talent-led agency model keeps people, decisions, and responsibility closer to the work.

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Spoiler alert: John Wilson's debut feature documentary, "The History of Concrete," is not really about concrete. But the director of "How to With John Wilson" winds up reminding us why boring old concrete deserves our attention. f-st.co/MhP3xdx

The secret message of John Wilson’s debut feature documentary, 'The History of Concrete' 

The popular director refuses to wrestle with the world's most-used material but highlights our dangerous inattention to concrete.

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Your iPhone has a Siri AI kill switch. Here's how to use it. f-st.co/WsGb8ww

Your iPhone has a Siri AI kill switch. Here's how to use it

Apple's new AI chatbot, Siri AI, has powerful features, but not everyone will want them. How to disable it, and why some people might want to.

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Get ready to rewind time and uncover entire lost worlds right beneath your feet. f-st.co/yTmZNLQ

This eye-opening website is like Google Maps—with a time machine

Get ready to rewind time and uncover entire lost worlds right beneath your feet.

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AI has given fraudsters new tools to separate you from your money. But the basic strategies for dealing with a fraud are the same as ever. Protect yourself from scams by using this anti-scam checklist. f-st.co/KuIfyPa

This anti-scam checklist can protect you against the latest AI-enhanced frauds

Con artists have always used psychological tricks to rip off their victims, but AI is making scams trickier than ever. Here’s how to stay diligent.

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With the 2026 midterm elections approaching, the important question for voters is what protection a deepfake law actually provides. f-st.co/tLWk5WZ

How states’ laws are struggling to keep up with AI election deepfakes

These laws give states ways to respond to deception, but alone they can’t guarantee voters that what they’re watching is real.

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Why your CRM needs to be built around your customer rather than your org chart. @mavenagi @jc1 #FCImpactCouncil f-st.co/GIyvIL8

Your CRM was built backwards

AI agents are closing the gaps in the customer journey.

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AI providers need to provide accountability and rigor to get past the hype cycle. #FCImpactCouncil f-st.co/X6zXNtA

Look past AI’s hype cycle to understand what sticks

For AI to yield the most value, providers should provide the needed rigor and accountability.

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We all need to lean in and decide how we want AI to be part of our world, rather than leave those decisions to a small number of people. f-st.co/CV7fbHp

I’m an AI founder. Here’s the career advice I give my kids

We all need to lean in and decide how we want AI to be part of our world, rather than leave those decisions to a small number of people.

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From Dario Amodei’s push for stronger safeguards to Elon Musk’s federal ambitions for Grok, the industry’s policy priorities diverge quickly. f-st.co/AKIRys4

What AI’s biggest CEOs really want from Washington

From Dario Amodei’s push for stronger safeguards to Elon Musk’s federal ambitions for Grok, the industry’s policy priorities diverge quickly.

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Don't try to figure out how to tell them they're demoralizing the team. Instead, try these strategic questions. f-st.co/hJf27bK

What you should do if your boss keeps changing direction

Don't try to figure out how to tell them they're demoralizing the team. Instead, try these strategic questions.

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Saying 'yes' to every request is not the road to a promotion. f-st.co/94fVkEb

4 boundaries that will prevent people-pleasing from killing your career

Saying 'yes' to every request is not the road to a promotion.

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The key to using generative AI productively is creating “friction” by having it challenge your work (and vice versa), according to a professor at the University of Massachusetts. f-st.co/4xzOUMc

Asking AI to disagree with you may improve your work

The key to using generative AI productively is creating 'friction' by having it challenge your work (and vice versa), according to a professor at the University of Massachusetts.

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