How consumers plan to spend differently in 2026
Growing wealth inequality is reshaping consumer behavior. Experiences over goods, values over discounts, and AI shopping tools mark 2026's divide.
May 20, 2025

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15 stories for“spending behavior”
Growing wealth inequality is reshaping consumer behavior. Experiences over goods, values over discounts, and AI shopping tools mark 2026's divide.
May 20, 2025

As agents generate more implementation, review quality depends on keeping changes small, showing verification and protecting the human attention budget.
Jul 27, 2026

Gut health is real, personalized nutrition is trending, but collagen shots are on their way out. Here's what the $6.3T wellness economy reveals.
Jul 5, 2024

Record vehicle deliveries lifted Tesla’s revenue, but a surge in research spending shows how aggressively the carmaker is funding robotaxis, AI and Optimus.
Jul 23, 2026

Alphabet’s second quarter paired 24 percent revenue growth with an 82 percent cloud surge, offering its clearest evidence that the AI bill has customers.
Jul 23, 2026

NIST's agent initiative focuses on identity, authorization, interoperability and security. Those controls will determine whether autonomous tools can move from demos into trusted work.
Aug 2, 2026

Knitting, film photography, gardening and handwritten journals are growing because they replace restless scrolling with visible, satisfying progress.
Jul 27, 2026

Brazilcore is spreading through sport, music and streetwear, but its most compelling expression comes from local creativity rather than copied symbols.
Jul 27, 2026

The season's saturated purple works best as a decisive color block, not a costume. Here is how to wear it with denim, brown, grey and evening black.
Jul 27, 2026

The smartphone backlash isn't niche anymore. Dumbphones are making a comeback, and people are seriously considering it. Here's the data.
Dec 10, 2024

New usage research finds workers using AI for tasks once associated with other professions, especially where specialist help is scarce.
Jul 31, 2026

Goal-based, time-based, event-driven and proactive loops solve different problems. Choosing the wrong one creates noise, cost and fragile automation.
Jul 27, 2026

Ethereum's updated roadmap shows a network concentrating on scale, programmable accounts and long-horizon cryptographic security rather than a single headline upgrade.
Jul 25, 2026

Anthropic's new Opus model targets long-running coding and professional workflows with a 1-million-token context window, adaptive effort and the same API price as Opus 4.8.
Jul 24, 2026

Mail-in stool tests promise personalized nutrition insight, but the same sample sent to different labs can come back with conflicting advice.
Oct 3, 2025
