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Cyber Sovereignty at Risk: How Geopolitics Are Shaping Canada’s Digital Security
From ransomware to quantum disruption, Canada must take urgent steps to defend its institutions and build long-term cyber capacity. Observer Labs This Q&A is part of Observer’s Expert Insights series,...
Anthropic’s Claude Expands Into Industrial A.I. Through Major Partnership
Anthropic is founded and led by CEO Dario Amodei. JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images Anthropic, long known in Silicon Valley for its high-performance A.I. models and API ecosystem...
Inside the Trust Recession: What’s Driving the Crisis in Modern Leadership
From admitting what you don’t know to listening with real empathy, today’s leaders must rebuild trust one honest interaction at a time. Unsplash+ Trust. Without it, every relationship disintegrates...
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon to Retire After a 40-Year Career at the Retail Giant
Doug McMillon has worked at Walmart since 1984. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Doug McMillon, who has led Walmart for more than a decade and steered its transformation into...
HBO’s Crown Jewel Status Shapes the Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery
HBO delivers the legitimacy and value no rival can replicate. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Discovery There’s a particularly trenchant quote from HBO’s House of the Dragon that...
Jo Fish Confronts the Tension Between Flesh and Data in a World of Visual Saturation
Jo Fish’s “The Speed of a Trend” is at HdM Gallery in Beijing through November 22, 2025. Courtesy of Hdm Gallery New York-based artist Jo Fish navigates a fluid...
Job Hugging: The HR Buzzword That Reveals a Deeper Productivity Crisis
In an era of economic uncertainty, “job hugging” exposes how safety-seeking behavior can erode creativity, engagement and performance. Unsplash+ The term tree hugging has been around for decades. It...
One Fine Show: “Strange Realities, The Symbolist Imagination” at the Art Institute of Chicago
Gustaf Fjaestad, Moonlight, Örebro, 1897. Courtesy he Art Institute of Chicago Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New...
Cultural Memory and the Concept of Country in “Emily Kam Kngwarray” at Tate Modern
Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled (awely), 1994. From the NGA collection. © Emily Kam Kngwarry, Licensed by DACS 2025 Remarkably, Emily Kam Kngwarray only spent around eight years painting. Born...
The 10 Most Exciting Restaurants to Check Out in New York City for November
Ah, November. There’s a bite in the air; we’ve set the clocks back; the sun is now setting unnervingly early. But in better news, this heralds the start of...
