Retailers are hiring selectively for a record holiday season. Marketing professor Savannah Shi says flexible, targeted staffing helps them protect margins while price-sensitive shoppers wait for deals.

The Markkula Center’s Brian Patrick Green says Anthropic’s choice of a lab-connected auditor is better than no oversight, but true independence may require “watching the watchers.”

Pope Leo XIV’s open handling of his cancer surgery reflects American-style best practices, says Julie Hanlon Rubio of the Jesuit School of Theology.

After backlash, Meta narrowed business terms that let it scrape sites for AI training. Law School professor Eric Goldman says the revision is still vague and overbroad, noting that it doesn’t commit Meta to honoring robots.txt.