Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump administration pressures them for cuts, according to data provided exclusively by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.
The number of price increases for 2026 is up from the same point last year, when drugmakers unveiled plans for raises on more than 250 drugs. The median of this year’s price hikes is around 4% in line with 2025.
The increases do not reflect any rebates to pharmacy benefit managers and other discounts.
DRUGMAKERS ALSO CUT SOME PRICES
Drugmakers also plan to cut the list prices on around nine drugs. That includes a more than 40% cut for Boehringer Ingelheim’s diabetes drug Jardiance and three related treatments.
Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly, which sell Jardiance together, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the reason for the price cuts.
Jardiance is among the 10 drugs for which the U.S. government negotiated a lower price for the Medicare program for people aged 65 and older in 2026. Under those negotiations, Boehringer and Lilly slashed the Jardiance price by two-thirds.
U.S. patients currently pay by far the most for prescription medicines, often nearly three times more than in other developed nations, and Trump has been pressuring drugmakers to lower their prices to what patients pay in similarly wealthy nations.
The increases on 350 medicines come even as Trump has struck deals with 14 drugmakers on prices of some of their medicines for the government’s Medicaid program for low-income Americans and for cash payers. Pfizer, Sanofi, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis and GSK are among those companies and also plan to raise prices on some drugs on January 1.
“These deals are being announced as transformative when, in fact, they really just nibble around the margins in terms of what is really driving high prices for prescription drugs in the U.S.,” said Dr. Benjamin Rome, a health policy researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Rome said the companies seem to be maximizing prices while negotiating discounts behind the scenes with health and drug insurers and then setting yet another price for direct-to-consumer cash-pay sales.
An HHS spokesman declined to comment.
KEEPING UP WITH INFLATION
Pfizer announced the most list price hikes, on around 80 different drugs including cancer drug Ibrance, migraine pill Nurtec, and COVID treatment Paxlovid, as well as some administered in hospitals such as morphine and hydromorphone.
Most of Pfizer’s increases are below 10%, except for a 15% hike of COVID vaccine Comirnaty, while some of its relatively inexpensive hospital drugs saw more than four-fold increases.
Pfizer said in a statement it had adjusted the average list price of its innovative medicines and vaccines for 2026 below the overall rate of inflation.
“The modest increase is necessary to support investments that allow us to continue to discover and deliver new medicines as well as address increased costs throughout our business,” the company said.
Larger U.S. drug price increases were once far more common. Drugmakers have scaled them back due to criticism from lawmakers and new government policies, such as penalizing companies that charge Medicare program prices that rise faster than inflation.
European drugmaker GSK plans to increase prices on around 20 drugs and vaccines from 2% to 8.9%. The drugmaker said it is committed to reasonable prices and the hikes are needed to support scientific innovation.
Sanofi and Novartis did not respond to requests for comment.
More price hikes and cuts can be expected in early January, which is historically the biggest month for drugmakers to raise prices.
3 Axis is a consulting firm that works with pharmacist groups, health plans and some pharmaceutical industry-related groups on drug pricing and supply chain issues. It is a related entity to, and shares staff with, drug pricing non-profit 46brooklyn.
Michael Erman, Reuters
Zohran Mamdani was a trailblazing candidate whom many in his city of 8 million some with hope, some with trepidation expect to be a disruptive New York mayor.
The democratic socialist’s plans for his first day in office on Thursday nod to his politics and priorities, without straying far from his predecessors with a sober official midnight oath-taking followed by a more celebratory ceremony in the afternoon.
New York law spells out that four-year mayoral terms start on the January 1 after elections. To avoid any ambiguity about who’s in charge of America’s most populous city, it has become a tradition to hold a small midnight swearing-in.
Mamdani has chosen as the site of his midnight oath the Old City Hall subway stop, which was decommissioned in the middle of the previous century and is accessible only a few times a year through guided tours.
The subway site, according to Mamdanis transition team, reflects his “commitment to the working people who keep our city running every day.”
Mamdani, a 34-year-old former state lawmaker, promised a freeze on rents and free buses and childcare, building a campaign around affordability issues that some have seen as a path forward for his Democratic Party around the country ahead of midterm elections.
Mamdani inspired a record-breaking turnout of more than 2 million voters and took 50 percent, nearly 10 points ahead of Andrew Cuomo running as an independent and well ahead of Republican Curtis Sliwa.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who was among Mamdani’s earliest prominent backers, was to administer the midnight oath to Mamdani. During the first administration of President Donald Trump, James began investigating his business practices in New York, resulting in a judge finding in 2024 that Trump fraudulently overstated his net worth to dupe lenders. The Trump administration has targeted James during his second term, accusing her of mortgage fraud.
Grant Reeher, a Syracuse University political science professor, said the role James was to play in the inauguration sent a message to core supporters that Mamdani is “going to be independent of the president.
INAUGURATION OF A NEW ERA
The Uganda-born Mamdani, who will be New York City’s first Muslim mayor, has been a sharp critic of Trump on issues such as immigration and said his differences with the president were numerous after a warm White House meeting.
But being sworn in by the state attorney general may say more about Mamdani’s political alliances than rivalries. In 2014 Bill de Blasio, whom Mamdani regards as the best New York City mayor of his lifetime, was sworn in privately by then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the start of the first of his two terms.
Senator Bernie Sanders, a progressive, Brooklyn-born Vermont senator whom Mamdani calls his inspiration, presided over de Blasio’s public inauguration ceremony in 2018 and will play a similar role for Mamdani. Liberal Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is also on the inauguration ceremony agenda.
Plans for Mamdani’s public inauguration include a ceremony on City Hall’s steps and a program of music and speeches in front of 4,000 guests gathered in City Hall Plaza. In addition, tens of thousands of people will be able to watch a livestream of what Mamdani’s team has dubbed the Inauguration of a New Era in free viewing areas set up along Broadway.
Mamdani raised $2.6 million for the transition and celebrations from nearly 30,000 contributors, more than other mayors on record in this century, both by the total and single donations, according to official campaign data that presents disclosures of inaugural expenses beginning with Michael Bloomberg’s first term in 2001.
Sami Zaman, the owner of Astoria’s low-key Afghan restaurant Sami’s Kabab House, where Astoria resident Mamdani filmed a campaign video with Sanders, was on the inaugural committee alongside filmmakers, writers and activists.
After becoming mayor, Mamdani will move from his one-bedroom Astoria apartment, protected from sharp price hikes by the city rent-stabilization program, to Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City mayors on Manhattan’s upscale Upper East Side.
Bankers and others in New York, the nation’s financial capital, had expressed concern about Mamdani but since his election they have explored how to work with him. The city has had another mayor associated with democratic socialism, David Dinkins. Dinkins did not make much of his association with the Democratic Socialists of America. During his 1990-1993 term he overcame budget deficits and persuaded private businesses to remain in New York, according to city archivists.
Maria Tsvetkova, Reuters
Auckland rang in 2026 with a downtown fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, making it the first major city to greet the new year at a celebration dampened by rain.South Pacific countries are the first to bid farewell to 2025. Clocks strike midnight in Auckland, a population of 1.7 million, 18 hours before the famous ball drops in New York’s Times Square.The five-minute display involved 3,500 fireworks launched from various floors of the 240-meter (787-foot) Sky Tower. Smaller community events were canceled across New Zealand’s North Island on Wednesday due to forecasts of rain and possible thunderstorms.
Australia plans defiant celebration after country’s worst mass shooting
Australia’s east coast welcomes 2026 two hours after New Zealand, but in Sydney, the country’s largest city, celebrations will be held under the pall of Australia’s worst mass shooting in almost 30 years. Two gunmen targeted a Hannukah celebration at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, killing 15 and wounding 40.A heavy police presence monitored the thousands who thronged to the downtown waterfront on Wednesday to watch a fireworks show centered on the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Many officers openly carried rapid-fire rifles, in a first for the annual event.An hour before midnight, the massacre victims will be commemorated with one minute of silence while images of a menorah are projected on the bridge pylons. The crowd has been invited to show their solidarity with Australia’s Jewish community by shining their phone torches across the harbor.New South Wales Premier Chris Minns urged Sydney residents not to stay away through fear, saying extremists would interpret smaller crowds at New Year’s Eve festivities as a victory.“We can’t be in a situation where this horrible, criminal, terrorist event changes the way we live in our beautiful city,” Minns told reporters on Wednesday.“We have to show defiance in the face of this terrible crime and say that we’re not going to be cowered by this kind of terrorism,” he added.
Indonesia and Hong Kong hold subdued events
In Indonesia, one of Australia’s nearest neighbors, cities scaled back New Year’s Eve festivities as a gesture of solidarity with communities devastated by catastrophic floods and landslides that struck parts of Sumatra island a month ago, claiming more than 1,100 lives.The capital, Jakarta, will not ring in 2026 with its usual fanfare, choosing instead subdued celebrations with a calm and reflective program centered on prayers for victims, city Gov. Pramono Anung said last week.Makassar Mayor Munafri Arifuddin urged residents of one of Indonesia’s largest cities to forgo parties altogether, calling for prayer and reflection instead. “Empathy and restraint are more meaningful than fireworks and crowds,” he said.Concerts and fireworks on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali have been canceled and replaced with a cultural arts event featuring 65 groups performing traditional dances.Hong Kong, too, will ring in 2026 without the usual spectacular and colorful explosions in the sky over its iconic Victoria Harbor, after a massive fire in November killed at least 161 people.The city’s tourism board will instead host a music show featuring soft rock duo Air Supply and other singers in Central, a business district. The facades of eight landmarks will turn into giant countdown clocks presenting a three-minute light show at midnight.Many parts of Asia welcome the new year by observing age-old traditions.In Japan, crowds will gather at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo for a bell striking at midnight. In the South Korean capital Seoul, a bell tolling and countdown ceremony will be held at the Bosingak Pavilion.
China’s Xi renews threats against Taiwan
Chinese President Xi Jinping in a New Year’s Eve address broadcast by state media hailed his country’s technological progress in areas such as artificial intelligence and semiconductors while renewing threats against Taiwan, which it claims as part of its sovereign territory.“We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait share a bond of blood and kinship,” he said. “The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable.” China this week launched large-scale military drills around the island.
Berliners celebrate in snow
Tourists and Berliners alike marked the end of 2025 by enjoying snowfall, taking selfies and making snowmen in front of the German capital’s cathedral and the iconic Brandenburg Gate. The famous Berlin TV Tower was nearly invisible thanks to the falling flakes and fog.
Associated Press writers around the world contributed to this report.
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CEOs deal with many challenges, but apparently their overall health and fitness isnt among them. Some 93% of CEOs surveyed by corporate wellness platform Wellhub rate their overall well-being as excellent or good.
In contrast, the same study, released earlier this year, finds that only 63% of employees are equally satisfied with their well-being.
The wellness conundrum
Wellness is complex, and its expensive, says Cesar Carvalho, founder and CEO of Wellhub, which offers fitness and wellness benefits to employers. Thanks to their status and income, Carvalho notes, CEOs generally have the wherewithal to focus on their health and fitness.
You can push meetings around, cancel meetings, reschedule stuff, he says, noting that he is able to start his day after getting his kids on their school bus.
But, he notes, CEOs take for granted that other people also have that same flexibility, which may explain another CEO-employee well-being gap: Nearly all C-level executives surveyed by Deloitte believe employees credit leadership with prioritizing worker well-being. However, survey data shows that less than two-thirds of employees believe executives care about it, and fewer than six in 10 say their company embeds well-being into company culture.
The problems this disconnect creates are huge, Carvalho says. Employees will leave companies if they feel management doesnt care about their health, for example. On the flip side, companies that prioritize employee health and fitness tend to outperform the broader market.
Wellness in the new year
Not surprisingly, Carvalho thinks the new year is an opportune time for executives to make wellness affordable and accessible for employees, calling the Monday after New Years Dayin this case, January 5the Black Friday of wellness. He says that companies launching wellness benefits in January see adoption at rates five times higher than companies introducing such benefits at other points in the year.
Beyond offering benefits, including reimbursing classes, therapy, and gym memberships, CEOs can play a role in closing the executive-employee wellness gap by creating a culture where employees feel comfortable talking about their well-being. That means sharing aspects of their own wellness journey, too. When CEOs share their examples and their stories, theyre showing [employees] that well-being is not a perk; its a business imperative, Carvalho says.
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The year 2025 was one in which political and government design broke through to the mainstream. That’s thanks in large part to the new U.S. president, who fancies himself something of a designer-in-chief.
“I consider myself an important designer,” President Donald Trump said an October White House dinner to raise money for his planned ballroom. Of outside designers, he said, “boy, the things they can recommend are horrible.”
That doesn’t mean political design in 2025 was all Trump. Though his administration and allies used design to help push his agenda, protesters, politicians, and other political actors also developed a new visual language this year for a new political era.
Here are six defining political design trends of 2025.
[Source Photo: Jackpine Dynamic Branding]
1. Nationalism is on the rise, and worn on the sleeve
Trump took office promising to expand U.S. territory, and that sentiment showed up early this year in merchandise. Trump’s campaign store sold a $43 mock-up of his “Gulf of America Day, 2025” executive order while his joint fundraising committees sold “Gulf of America!” and “Make Greenland Great Again” tees.
[Image: courtesy Dada Projects]
Up north, Canadians responded to Trump’s trade war and threats to make the country a 51st state with national pride of their own. The premier of Ontario wore a “Canada Is Not for Sale” hat and Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney leaned into patriotism for the visual identity and messaging of his winning 2025 campaign. Trump’s tariffs have also inspired a new generation of nation-of-origin “Made In” labels from Canada and Denmark.
2. Trump anti-design is now MAGA McBling
Trump’s second-term administration brand is more intentional and designed to look more distinct. Trump updated his official portrait for his second term not once, but twice. (The newest iteration doesn’t use a U.S. flag in the backdrop, as is standard for public official portraits.)
[Illustration: FC]
His administration also changed its typefaces. Merriweather, the serif font of his first term that the January 6 committee used during its investigation into the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, is out. Instrument, a tall, open-source serif that’s on-trend among tech and consumer brands that use the font to look modern yet retro, is in. One of its designers, Jordan Egstad, told Bloomberg, “Using a freely available and open-source font to promote exclusionary policies is deeply ironic.”
The administration’s brand was most memorably executed in the high-low staging of his speech at the McDonald’s Impact Summit in November. The slogan “The Golden Age” appeared in large, yellow Instrument Serif type at the top of a blue backdrop which was placed directly behind the president. The backdrop also featured a repeat pattern of yellow McDonald’s arches.
The ultimate visual effect was a brand mash-up created by combining the official serif of the state with the logo of a giant multinational corporationand it put our McBling era reality star president very much in his element.
[Source Images: Mathias Weil/Adobe Stock, Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images]
At the White House, Trump has also used a script font common on wedding invitations (which could in theory read as “fancy” to the untrained eye) to label the exterior facade of the Oval Office and “The Presidential Walk of Fame,” a presidential portrait exhibit designed as partisan ragebait.
3. Serifs are insimply because they’ve become another political pawn
While there’s no such thing as a Republican fonteven Trump’s campaign logos used sans-serif typefacesTrump’s administration seems somewhat partial to serif typefaces, or fonts with the small feet on their letterforms.
[Illustration: FC]
The State Department said this month it was switching fonts to the serif Times New Roman, a typeface developed for print newspapers that it previously used, rather than Calibri, a typeface developed for digital screen reading.
Calibri was made State’s default font during then-President Joe Biden’s administration because it’s easier to read, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized it as wasteful and like a diversity initiative, turning typography into yet another battle in the culture wars.
4. Government design gets a new focal point: the President
Trump is working to put his stamp on government literally by having his name and likeness installed on buildings, which may be illegal. Lettering with Trump’s name has already gone up at the U.S. Institute of Peace and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
[Photos: Alex Kent/Bloomberg/Getty Images, Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images, Harold Mendoza/Unsplash]
Trump’s image also appeared on the facades of multiple federal buildings, including the department of Labor, Department of Agriculture, and Health and Human Services, at a reported taxpayer cost of $50,000. His face is also on annual passes for the National Park Service (NPS), which experienced budget cuts under his administration. And though he opposed legislation signed into law by former President Joe Biden that funded an Amtrak project in Washington state, Trump’s name went up on signage at the work site anyway.
[Source Images: Mathias Weil/Adobe Stock, Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images]
Even though U.S. law prohibits a president from appearing on U.S. currency until two years after their death, Trump allies are also pushing to put his face on a coin next year, and some believe there’s a loophole.
The new National Design Studio (NDS) headed by Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia has also worked on projects like “Trump Card” immigration visas and “Trump Accounts,” or tax-deferred savings accounts for kids.
5. Protesters adopt a more urgent, and diffuse, design language
Trump’s second term lacked a big opening protest a la the 2017 Women’s March, but demonstrations against Trump and his administration in 2025 soon developed their own visual language.
Early protests focused their criticism on Elon Musk after Trump tasked him with running the short-lived DOGE, while No Kings protests brought the Revolutionary War aesthetic to the left after being popular on the right since the Obama-era Tea Party.
[Photo: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images]
In Portland, protesters dressed up in inflatable animal costumes to play up the nonviolent nature of their demonstrations while in Boston, protesters used historic buildings to project vintage type to tie their protest against Trump to American history. For the first Sun Day, a day of climate action in September, the designers of the logo left it half unfinished so participants can engage in the act of finishing it themselves.
In 2025, pussyhats and “protest is the new brunch” signs feel like ancient history, and protesters have turned to more urgent messages to stand against Trump’s expansion of presidential power. Protest signs at some Tesla dealerships before Musk left DOGE used the image of him saluting at Trump’s inauguration against him, and “No Kings” protests challenged opposition to the administration into some of the largest single-day protests in U.S. history with a logo of a crown with an X through it. Brunch can wait.
6. Zohran signals a new era of Democratic design: colorfully optimistic
Not since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 2018 campaign for a New York U.S. House seat has a political brand captured the public imagination like New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s.
[Images: Zohran for NYC]
The ubiquitous “Zohran for New York” logo and visual identity didn’t use any blue, the standard color in Democratic Party design, and the quirky letterform of its bespoke typography matched the warm tone of his in-person moments and social video strategy.
Hand-drawn by designer Aneesh Bhoopathy and inspired by lettering from city signage and Bollywood movie posters, the logo felt authentic and New York, and it captured the excitement of Mamdani’s come-from-behind campaign. This wasn’t a campaign designed to look like politics as usual, and Mamdani used type creatively to reinforce his campaign message, like “freeze the rent.”
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo responded to Mamdani’s surprise Democratic primary win by rebranding to a logo and message that emphasized his experience, but New Yorkers who recalled his time as governor didn’t want more.
As Democrats look to Election Day 2026, the Mamdani brand and communications strategy is an example of how to campaign in a new landscape in part shaped by the biggest political design trends of 2025.
There are two sorts of people in this world: Those who think it sounds like fun to brave the elements for hours on end to watch the ball drop at midnight in Times Square on New Years Eve, and then there’s the rest of us.
Its become a time-honored tradition for millions of people to crowd into a few blocks of New York to celebrate a new year, and some new features await revelers this year. A larger ball will be dropped in the annual countdown to midnight, weighing in at 12,000-plus pounds and adorned with 5,200 crystals and LED lights. And theres some special red, white, and blue confetti among the nearly three tons to celebrate the countrys 250th anniversary.
But with temperatures in New York forecasted to be near-freezing, many people will be perfectly happy to take in the festivities in their cozies at home. As an added bonus: You may catch one of those memorable and meme-worthy moments from a boozed-up host or performer.
Performers this year run the gamut of musical genres and generations, from Chappell Roan to Diana Ross and Jason Aldean to 50 Cent.
While channel surfers can easily switch between various programming, the festivities are as easy to stream if you’ve cut the cord. Weve rounded up some of the options to ring in the new year at home.
TIMES SQUARE WEBCAST
If you want a commercial-free way to feel like you’re in the thick of things, the free live stream from the organization that puts on the annual ceremony may be your best bet. The Times Square Alliance begins live streaming at 6 p.m. ET for the ball lighting and continues throughout the evening.
This years stream will feature backstage access and interviews with some of the performers and other celebrities who will be in Times Square throughout the night. You can check out more details about the stream and a full schedule here.
While you can live stream from a browser, at TimesSquareNYC.org, the same feed will also be available on the organization’s YouTube channel. If you’re more captivated by the ball drop than anything else, then head to TimesSquareBall.net ahead of time for some live cams of the ball before it’s dropped and gather some fun facts to delight your fellow New Year’s Eve revelers.
NYE COVERAGE ON CABLE OR BROADCAST TV
If you’re nostalgic for the days when Dick Clark helped you cross that threshold from one year to the next, his spirit lives on in many ways. Most major television networks have some sort of coverage planned for the festivities, from New York and beyond.
ABC: Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest begins at 8 p.m. ET. While Seacrest will be helming much of the evening’s broadcast from New York, he’ll get an assist from Chance the Rapper in Chicago and Rob Gronkowski and Julianne Hough in Las Vegas. You can also stream everything on your favorite platform or at ABC.com.
CBS: New Years Eve Live: Nashvilles Big Bash, hosted by Bert Kreischer and HARDY begins at 8 p.m. ET. Instead of the ball in Times Square, you’ll be treated to the Nashville Music Note Drop on this network, along with a lineup of country music artists scheduled to perform throughout the evening. As with previous years, you can also stream this event on Paramount+.
CNN: New Years Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen begins at 8 p.m. ET. If you want to make a day of it, you can tune into CNN throughout the day for around-the-world coverage before the boozy duo kicks things off in the evening from Times Square. You can expect to hear a lot of hyping about the networks new streaming subscription platform, where you can catch all the action in addition to its apps.
Fox: Jimmy Faillas All-American New Years Bash begins at 11 p.m. ET. There are hour-by-hour specials beginning at 9 p.m. ET but they mostly focus on a retrospective of the past year rather than a concert of sorts. The programming will also be available to stream online.
NBC: A Toast to 2025! hosted by Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager begins at 10:30 p.m. ET. After bowing out of New Year’s Eve coverage last year, the network is back this year with a two-hour event that reunites this duo. You can also stream this event through the Peacock app.
PBS: From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026. If youre not feeling woozy from the night before, you can tune into something a bit more highbrow on New Year’s Day with the annual concert from the Vienna Philharmonic at 8 p.m. ET. This event will also be available via streaming online or the PBS app.
In cities across North America, the best and most exciting public spaces can increasingly be found near the water. Park spaces on and along seashores and riverfronts are in a kind of renaissance right now, with large and small cities alike opening major waterfront parks over the past few years.
2025 was especially active. Cities brought big, ambitious park designs to the water’s edge, adding valuable recreation space, ecological services, and engines for urban regeneration.
Here are four of the best waterfront parks that opened in 2025.
[Photo: Randall Phillip Williams/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus]
Seattle’s Waterfront Park
More than 15 years in the works, Seattle’s new park is a true reconnection of the city with its water. Once separated from downtown Seattle by the double-decker Alaskan Way Viaduct highway, the waterfront has been painfully and expensively restitched into the city after traffic was rerouted into a $3.35 billion tunnel and the surface level reconfigured as a boulevard.
The park is a 1.2-mile long linear space along Elliott Bay with tendrils that spread perpendicularly into the city grid. It also connects tourist attractions like Pike Place Market, the Seattle Aquarium, and Pioneer Square with historic docks, new playgrounds, and a bicycle and pedestrian lane that wraps around the bay.
After being officially open for just over a month, the park won one of the most prestigious prizes in urban parks. It stands to rewrite how the city interacts with and embraces its scenic shore.
[Photo: Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker/courtesy Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates]
Toronto’s Biidaasige Park
What was once an industrial wasteland immediately adjacent to downtown Toronto has been carefully transformed into a re-naturalized waterfront park that’s laying the foundation for a dramatic urban redevelopment.
The first phase of the nearly 100-acre Biidaasige Park opened in 2025 and has undone more than a century of environmental damage. Industrial development in the area led to a large-scale filling project, turning the mouth of the adjacent Don River and its surrounding wetlands into a channelized outpouring surrounded by concrete.
A design by the landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates tore out much of that concrete and allowed the river to reclaim its historic course, while building a new island where much of the park’s recreation amenities now stand. The team designed the park and the re-naturalized wetland to prevent flooding that has increasingly affected the area.
The $1.4 billion project persevered through several delays since its origins in 2007, but is now becoming one of the city’s most used public spaces. Next, the city will build out more park space, as will an urban element of the project. Soon there will be upwards of 15,000 people living on the island, adding to the park’s already substantial user base.
[Photo: Battery Park City Authority]
New York’s Wagner Park
The terraced walkways and broad grassy field on the recently rebuilt Wagner Park at the tip of Lower Manhattan are low-key feats of urban flood protection.
The park’s site has been engineered by AECOM to double as an 18-foot-tall flood wall, protecting the edge of New York City from storm surges and rising sea levels. Most people probably won’t realize that the park now sits 10 feet higher than it once did, thanks to elegantly sloping walkways that climb up from the water to a grassy peak.
Hiding beneath that grass is another part of the park’s flood protection: a 63,000-gallon stormwater cistern that can hold the onrush of rainwater during a big storm before slowly releasing it into the city’s system once the heaviest rains have passed.
While the park’s flood protection elements are what make it a model to follow, it’s also a space designed for people to use. A new community space and pavilion make room for events, and a native garden brings additional green space to a dense part of the city. With front row views of the Statue of Liberty, the site’s natural attraction can now outweigh its natural risk.
[Photo: Nadir Ali for Detroit Riverfront Conservancy]
Detroit’s Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park
Covering 22 acres and connecting a key stretch of a 5.5-mile continuous walkway along the Detroit River, the new $80 million Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park fills several important gaps in Detroit.
Running along a downtown-adjacent stretch of the river that has seen increased investment in its once contaminated edges, the park adds more space to a growing riverfront walk, while also adding to a 27-mile trail loop that runs through the city. The park also brings recreational space to a part of the city where quality public open space is lacking.
Also designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park turned a lackluster industrial-site-turned-grass-field into a regional destination, with world-class playgrounds and recreational facilities, and a unique natural water element that redirects flows from the river to create a rare water habitat that urban visitors can experience up close.
Filling a crucial missing piece of Detroit’s Riverwalk, the park is situated with sparkling views of the city’s downtown and its two international bridges, and was designed for both active and passive uses, and intended to draw crowds from across the region and across the age spectrum.
“We wanted the park to have things in it that the range of members of a family would need to have to go to the park and spend some serious time there,” Van Valkenburgh told Fast Company ahead of the park’s opening. Luring crowds and solving urban problems, this space will serve as a precedent other waterfront parks look to follow.
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Pick a purpose. Start a new notebook for a work project or a learning goal. Examples: I created a notebook to organize materials for the new online bilingual MA program were developing at the CUNY Newmark Grad School of Journalism where I work. I also set up a notebook to learn more about Gustav Mahler, a composer I revere. I have numerous others for work and personal projects.
Find sources for your notebook. NotebookLM recently added a search panel to help you discover high-quality sources. You decide which, if any, of the suggested materials to add to your notebook. The Fast Research is quick and focused, unlike a generic Google search that returns hundreds of results, some of which have gamed the search engine system.
Fast Research surfaces 10 or so documents related to your topic in less than 30 seconds. You can ask it to find sources within your Google Drive, or from the Web.
The Deep Research prompt option in the same panel will more slowly gather many more sources.
Tip: make your query as specific as possible to surface relevant, useful sources. Heres an example of a concise, precise query I used.
Add your own materials. Upload files up to 200 MB and 500,000 words into your notebook. You can add:
Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets
PDFs, images (including photos of your handwritten notes), and Microsoft Word documents
YouTube links and audio, image, or video files (it extracts the transcript)
Website URLs (it extracts the text)
No other AI tool Ive used lets you compile as many different kinds of materials in a centralized AI workspace thats easy to explore and build with.
Free accounts can create up to 100 notebooks, with 50 sources in each. On a free plan, you may run into limits when creating multimedia materials. You can run free 10 Deep Research queries a month. Students in the U.S. 18 or older can get pro access for free.
Pro accounts, which cost $20/month as part of Google AI Pro, can host 500 notebooks with 300 sources in each. They can run 20 Deep Research queries a day.
Collaborate and share
NotebookLM now lets you collaborate as you would with Google Docs. You can choose to invite people as viewers or editors. Give them a full view of your sources and notes, or limit their access to the search/chat interface.
You can also publish notebooks publicly. Here are some examples:
Trends in health, wealth and happiness by Our World in Data
How to build a life, from The Atlantic
Shakespeares Complete Plays
Parenting Advice for the Digital Age, by Jacqueline Nesi, PhD of Techno Sapiens
Earnings Reports for the Worlds 50 Biggest Companies
Secrets of the Super Agers by Eric Topol
Explore your materials
As you add materials, NotebookLM analyzes them and suggests relevant questions. After I uploaded biographical material about Mahler, it suggested search queries based on the source documents about why he converted to Catholicism and what poetry collections inspired him. You can also ask any question on your mind or type in any kind of traditional search query.
NotebookLM uses natural language processing to make sense of your documents. When you type in a query, the system understands what youre looking for. When I queried about the death of Mahlers loved ones, I didnt have to mention their names or even their relationship to him NotebookLM understood what I was asking. These exploratory searches are more powerful than old-fashioned keyword searches, which only work if an exact word combination appears in your document. NotebookLM makes it easy to run abstract queries as well, searching for moments of anger or surprise.
Tip: target specific sources. You can use the checkboxes next to each source to limit your search to particular documents. This precision is handy when you want to search within a specific report or compare information across just two or three key documents.
Visualize information
Use the Studio tab to create shareable reports, slides, graphics, and multimedia out of your notebook material. Unlike other AI tools, NotebookLMs creations are grounded in your source documents they dont pull from the Web or generic training data. Because they draw only from your source material, the creations will change as you add more to your notebook, or if you mark only a subset of sources to be used.
Create a mind map first to get an overview of the topics covered in a notebook. Then create the following elements to understand and share your material.
Infographics
Create polished visual summaries. Choose whether you want a landscape, portrait, or square image, and how simple or detailed it should be. Then type in an optional custom prompt to guide the design. You can include instructions about your preferred color palette, target audience, illustration style, and the kinds of numbers or facts to prioritize.
I generated this infographic with NotebookLM
A caveat: NotebookLM consistently produces clean, readable text. Its mostly accurate, but Ive encountered occasional errors. Heres an example: Mahlers age of death is wrong at the bottom of this NotebookLM infographic.
Slide decks
NotebookLMs newest capability generating slide decks continues to surprise me. When I ask it to make slides summing up notebook material it comes up with outstanding results, like this slide deck about Mahler.
You can choose between detailed standalone slides, or simpler TED-style presenter slides meant to accompany a verbal presentation. As with the infographic tool, you can just press the slide deck button to let NotebookLM decide what to generate. But youll get something more relevant to you if you write a prompt to guide the visual style and subject matter focus. The slides include a small NotebookLM watermark in the bottom right corner.
Below is an example of a slide deck about NotebookLM I created with NotebookLM.
A caveat: In my testing, the slides have been clean and visually engaging. Theyre not perfect, though. A deck about our new bilingual journalism program, for example, included misleading AI-generated images of our faculty members.
Video overviews
Create a video summary of the material in your notebook. Think of it as an AI-narrated slide show. Fortunately, theres no talking avatar. I like how these videos include facts, examples, quotes, and images pulled directly from your source documents.
Choose between a brief video (1-2 minutes) or a longer explainer (often six to 10 minutes). You cant specify the exact length. Tailor the approach to your viewers with a prompt. You can even specify a specific audience, whether board members of a charity youre presenting to, or grandchildren new to your subject matter.
Videos can take five to 10 minutes to generate. Free accounts can generate only a few videos, slide decks, or infographics per notebook before hitting a usage limit. When your video or other creation is ready, you can download and share it, or view it within your notebook.
Heres a video overview of NotebookLM I created with NotebookLM
Podcasts
NotebookLMs audio overviews became Internet famous for their remarkably human-sounding conversations. When I played a clip for a group of students when this feature launched, they didnt realize the speakers werent human.
Example: Heres a new Deep Dive audio piece I generated about NotebookLM for this post.
You can write a brief or detailed prompt to guide the style of the audio, and you can choose from multiple formats.
After a few minutes, the audio file is ready for you to download and share.
Tip: add an AI-generated label to this kind of audio or any other material you create with NotebookLM. That way people will know where it came from and wont assume you created each detail from scratch.
You can generate audio pieces from a subset of your documents or your full collection of sources. Here are the four kinds of audio you can generate, with an example of each:
Debate. Heres an audio debate I prompted NotebookLM to create about which of its features are most useful.
Critique. Heres a critique of NotebookLM I generated from 19 sources I added.
Brief summary. Heres a 90-second audio overview.
Deep dive. Heres a deep dive NotebookLM explainer.
You can now customize the audio overviews you generate with NotebookLM
Text reports
In addition to multimedia, you can generate custom reports. The reports tend to be around 2,000 to 3,000 words, or six to 12 pages. Here are example reports generated by NotebookLM: an advanced guide to NotebookLM and a guide to integrating NotebookLM in a newsroom.
Ive found the dozens of reports Ive generated to be thorough enough to be useful for reference or learning. They also help point to sources worth exploring further. Try prompting NotebookLM to create the following kinds of reports:
Timelines: Organize chronological information
FAQs: Common questions and answers about your topic
Explainers: Break down complex concepts
Teaching guides: Useful if youre an educator or lead workshops
Student handbooks: Supplemental resources
Critiques: Analysis of weaknesses or limitations in your sources
Debate reports: Multiple perspectives on controversial topics
Flashcards and quizzes
When learning something new, create flashcards or quizzes with multiple-choice questions to test yourself.
Describe your level of understanding (e.g. Im new to this, or Im a professional in this field, but Im new to this framework,).
Choose whether you want small or large numer of questions or flashcards.
Specify concepts you want the quiz or flashcards to focus on.
You can also ask NotebookLM to focus on a particular source, like a certain link, PDF, or video youve uploaded. Example: Check out my NotebookLM flashcards.
5 Projects to Try
1. Organize a work project
Each time you add a file, NotebookLM summarizes it. Its full text is then searchable with citations, so you know youre not getting AI hallucinations. To assemble a useful notebook, gather relevant documents, including:
Plans, internal reports, or project memos
Links to relevant sites
Meeting recordings or transcripts
Important emails copied and pasted or saved as PDFs or docs
Background reports, company manuals, or competitive research
Use your project notebook to:
Create summary reports or timelines to onboard new team members
Draft slide decks for internal meetings
Make infographics to visually summarize complex processes or workflows
Quickly find relevant quotes, stats, anecdotes, or examples
Refresh your memory when returning to the project later on
2. Plan a trip
I create travel notebooks to help me find relevant family activities and ideas for outings. Ive done this before with Perplexity and other AI platforms, but I like the way NotebookLM lets me gather so many different kinds of inputs: links, videos, articles, and local guideseverything I might want to reference when planning weekend activities or hosting visitors. You can find these kinds of resources with a Google or Perplexity search, or do the whole process within NotebookLM.
For travel planning, compile these materials:
Historical and cultural information
Entertainment guides and reviews
Restaurant recommendations
Local blog posts, event listings, or links to top attractions
Then ask NotebookLM to generate:
Itineraries
FAQs about your destination
Recommendations based on your budget or other constraints
Slide decks or infographics to share with your travel companions
Flashcards for learning key phrases if youre traveling abroad
Quiz games to play at the airport while waiting in line
3. Learn something
Heres a meta use-case: I created a notebook about NotebookLM to help me learn about its nooks and crannies. (Try the quiz about NotebookLM it created for me.) I made another one about deliberative dialogue to learn more about tactics for encouraging civil discourse between people who violently disagree.
NotebookLM generated this detailed infographic based on 19 sources
To build a learning notebook:
Upload relevant YouTube videos, articles, and course materials.
Use the Add Sources panel to add docs from your Google Drive or the Web.
Generate mind maps, quizzes, and flashcards to test your understanding.
Create audio guides to learn while exercising, cleaning, or commuting.
Prompt for timelines, FAQs, explainers, infographics, and slide decks tailored to your knowledge level and learning goals.
Tip: break large documents into smaller pieces
NotebookLM uses retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for search. That keeps it grounded in your material and avoids hallucination. But it also means that when asked to quickly search gigantic documents, NotebookLM may have the capacity to scour only a subset of your source material.
To avoid searches that miss important material, consider breaking enormous documents into smaller pieces and narrowing your searches to specific sources or more precise subjects.
4. Compile reference guides
Build notebooks to help you handle recurring tasks.
Grant writing. Compile successful applications, guidelines, or evaluation criteria.
Social posts. Gather style guides, brand guidelines, and examples of past posts that have worked well for you or competitors.
Technical documentation. Assemble specs, organizational rules, or industry best practices.
Customer research. Add past surveys, interview transcripts, analytics reports, or testimonials. Tip: as a first step, strip names and emails from surveys or interviews to protect respondents privacy.
5. Manage home projects
Create notebooks for life outside of work. NotebookLM is great for this because unlike other AI tools, it lets you input so many different kinds of sources with huge file sizes, whether you have videos, audio files, PDFs, your own handwritten notes, links to various sites, or Google Drive files.
Recipe collections and guides to various cooking techniques
Home improvement projects with how-to articles and product reviews
Hobby research for woodworking, guitar, photography, or gardening
Why NotebookLM stands out
Unlike AI assistants designed around an open-ended chat box, NotebookLM is structured around a more familiar paradigm: a searchable notebook. The closest parallels are Claude Projects or ChatGPT Projects, which allow you to organize documents in a folder that can inform AI queries on those services. Perplexity Spaces is also useful for organizing related search threads. But none of those can generate NotebookLMs full range of outputs, and each draws on its own training data as well as your sources.
NotebookLMs citation system means you can trust its search results, because you can see the cited section in your original document. And its unique in being able to generate everything from audio and video to reports, slides and infographics from your source materials.
Note: Citations arent provided within infographics, slide decks, video or audio overviews. If there are tidbits from those you want to trace back to a source, summarize the fact or detail in question in NotebookLMs explore tab the chat window to ask for a citation.
The free tier is powerful enough for most people. And it keeps improving, adding significant new capabilities every couple of months.
The bottom line: if I were forced to recommend a single AI tool for many different kinds of readers, Id pick NotebookLM.
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps.
Nearly all corporate workers face mental health challenges at work. And in 2025, unprecedented, lightning-fast developments in AI, unending widespread layoffs and broader political turmoil roiled workers emotional well-being.
Many workers have been left burned out, anxious, and filled with dread. But its not all badin some corners of the workforce, each seismic disruption this year brought with it discourse around the problem, as well as some leaders and workers staying committed to safeguarding mental health in the face of constant change.
Here are five ways workplace trends affected our mental health this year.
Layoff dread and fatigue
Perhaps the dominant headline in 2025 when it comes to the workforce was the story of layoffs. As we close out the year, over 1.1 million Americans have lost their jobs, though the actual number could be even much higher. The government and tech sectors were especially hit hardparticularly by cuts from Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and redundancies that (may or may not) be due to AI, respectively. But major industries across the board have been affected, as 2025 tallied the most layoffs since the pandemic in 2020.
These seemingly unending, so-called forever layoffs have wrecked workers mental health: losing work is one of the most traumatic experiences someone can experience, and can even lead to physical illness. More than a third of leaders say they feel mentally unprepared to deal with leadership responsibilities in this environment. Plus, living amid constant uncertainty is bad for efficiency (and a companys bottom line) as it struggles to survive. In 2026, firms need to handle layoffs compassionately, leaders need to keep team morale up, and higher-ups need to ensure their workplaces are ones conducive to good mental health.
Riding the AI wave
In 2025, AI moved at breakneck speed from a vague abstraction to the typical worker to something very real, being used every day in 88% of businesses, according to McKinsey, fundamentally changing the way business is done. Workers have reported feeling overwhelmed and as though theyre already behind: a LinkedIn survey found that 40% of workers feel like they cant keep up with the pace of AI development, and public opinion polls uncover a quite negative, worrisome view of AI.
But its not all bad. The meteoric rise of the game-changing technology has also seen a rise in curiosity in workers, as well as a willingness to learn and to adapt. AI has also started playing a prominent role in mental health support for many: a third of Gen Z says theyve confided in chatbots over humans, leading to growing concern among some commentators and experts.
Emotional intelligence matters. A lot.
But despite the rise of the proverbial robot overlord, a lot of workplace discussion in 2025 revolved around the importance of emotional intelligence. With so much economic and political upheaval around the world, workers bring that anxiety and distress into their professional lives, necessitating the importance of emotional intelligence (among leaders especially) in the workplace: it helps us manage triggers, sustain relationships, and develop coping strategies.
Luckily, there are many ways to improve emotional intelligence: learning how to embrace and regulate your emotions, staying present and prioritizing experiences over things, and discovering ways to tap into your empathy and self-awareness. Itll improve your mental health (and the mental health of those around you, too).
Workplaces remain toxic
Despite increased interest in emotional intelligence, companies continue to lay people off en masse over Zoom or email, work-life balance at many places is worse than ever (with some firms pushing for 72-hour weeks), and narcissism thats baked into company structure runs rampant. Not to mention DEI safeguards continue to be stripped and tougher immigration policies in the US have led to more brain drain for companies and abrupt uncertainty for foreign workers lives and livelihoods. Eighty percent of workers said their workplace was toxic this yearan increase from 64% in 2024, according to Monster.
While many of these issues are systemic and macro, intertwined with broader political and economic forces, there are still things individual workers cn try to do to remain emotionally and mentally safer in toxic workplaces in 2026 to address at least some of these problems. Psychologists say folks can get better at spotting a toxic person from a mile away, for example, and figuring out how to best engage HR if need be. But the onus is on leaders to set the tone and enact meaningful changeespecially as forces like AI just keep disrupting work culture more and more.
Workers prioritizing their well-being above all
But despite all the challenges, mental health awareness at work continues to rise, and progress has been made in some areas. New data shows that, while not perfect or always effective, most employers offer mental health care and benefits like therapy to their workers. A push for more neurodiversity-friendly workplaces has also gotten stronger and more visible, and inclusivity-minded leaders remain more committed to DEI than ever.
Plus, more workers seem to prioritize their mental health over the rat race. More are rejecting rise-and-grind culture; Gen Z is especially turning to solopreneurship and side gigs over inflexible full-time work and opting out of the climb toward fancy titles. New data also showed that more workers are willing to quit if their bosses dont allow hybrid or remote work. In the end, prioritizing mindfulness and staying in the present, as well as relishing simple joys, remains a proven way to stay emotionally solid . . . especially when the world around you feels anything but.
Every January, millions of people set ambitious New Years resolutions. They do this with genuine enthusiasm, hoping to transform their lives. Yet research indicates that by January 8th, just one week into the year, a quarter of these resolutions have already failed. By the end of the year, most individuals return to their familiar patterns, and the promises they made to themselves are often abandoned. My life doesn’t permit me the luxury of being part of that statistic.
I operate at the intersection of three distinct and demanding identities: a PhD scholar at Oxford researching outer space financing, the founder of a career advancement platform called Network Capital, and a father to a one-year-old. This combination creates a specific set of constraints. I do not have the luxury of surplus time, nor do I have the capacity for wasted effort.
New Year’s resolutions fail not because of a lack of intention or ambition. The problem is that behavioral change is tough when you are already maximizing your cognitive load. Standard resolutions set us up for failure by demanding too much, too fast, without a realistic road map for execution.
Fortunately, there is a clearer path. By viewing personal change through the analytical lens of a founder and a researcher, I have shifted my focus away from resolutions entirely. Instead, I rely on operational protocols.
The Resource Constraints of Willpower
The first critical realization is that willpower is a finite resource. In the business world, we understand that a company cannot scale solely on the heroic efforts of a founder; it requires scalable systems. The same logic applies to personal performance. When I have been awake since the early morning hours with a child, my reserve of willpower is depleted by midday. If a resolution depends on my feeling motivated to write or exercise, I will likely fail.
Consequently, I have adopted the concept of marginal gains.
Popularized by James Clear in Atomic Habits, this approach rejects the requirement for massive, immediate overhauls. Instead of attempting to change everything simultaneously, the focus shifts to becoming just one percent better each day. Psychologist Amy Cuddy refers to this as “self-nudging,” which involves setting small, manageable goals rather than overwhelming ones.
In the context of my PhD, I do not resolve to finish an entire chapter in a sitting. I commit to writing one clear paragraph per day. For my physical health, I do not commit to an hourlong workout. I commit to five minutes of movement. In my role as a father, I do not aim for perfection. I commit to an hour of undivided interaction with my daughter.
These smaller commitments work because they are sustainable even during periods of high stress. They compound over time, creating a trajectory of success that relies on consistency rather than intensity.
Engineering the Environment
As a founder, I spend considerable time optimizing workflows to reduce friction. I realized I needed to apply this same logic to my daily life. Strategies that rely on memory or discipline are fragile; strategies that rely on environmental design are robust.
Multitasking behavioral change is generally ineffective. To manage the conflicting demands of fatherhood, academic research, and business leadership, I must engineer my environment to force focus. The cost of context switching is high; it takes significant time to refocus after an interruption.
When I am in a specific location on campus, I am a researcher. In that space, I do not check corporate communication channels. When I enter my home, I place my phone in a separate room. This simple environmental constraint ensures that I am present for my child. I make the correct choice, the default choice, by removing the option for distraction.
The Data-Driven Review
The final component of this approach is drawn from Tim Ferriss. Rather than looking forward with vague aspirations, I conduct a “Past Year Review.” This process is analytical and grounded in actual performance data.
I create two columns labeled “Positive” and “Negative.” I then review my calendar from the previous year, week by week. I note the people, activities, and commitments that produced the strongest results in each category.
As a student and founder, this audit provides necessary clarity. I often find that certain recurring meetings drain energy without adding value to the company. I find that specific research areas were intellectually interesting but irrelevant to my thesis. Conversely, I see that specific, consistent blocks of time with my family provided the highest return on emotional investment.
Once the data is collected, I apply the 80/20 principle. I identify which 20% of activities in the positive column produced the most significant results. Then, I take immediate action. I schedule more of those experiences into the calendar for the upcoming year immediately. Simultaneously, I create a “Not-to-Do” list derived from the negative column. This acts as a filter. It allows me to remove obligations that do not serve my family, my degree, or my company.
The Path Forward
Whether you are balancing a portfolio of careers, raising a family, or pursuing a degree, the principle remains consistent. Sustainable change does not result from a burst of enthusiasm in January. It results from small, consistent actions aligned with your actual capacity and values.
We often assume that to achieve significant goals, such as building a company or earning a doctorate, we need to be rigid with ourselves. We believe we need punishing resolutions. However, when you are already operating under pressure, rigidity leads to breaking points.
This year, I am not making a resolution to be a better father, a smarter student, or a more successful founder. I am simply building a system that facilitates those outcomes. I am optimizing for the one micro-improvement a day. I am trusting the protocol.
Progress creates the fuel we lack. We secure the future by optimizing the present moment. For the overcommitted, this protocol offers a necessary operating system. It changes the goal from overnight transformation to sustainable high performance.
