A single AI-generated email can use as much water as a small bottle, and as data centres multiply in drought-prone regions, the convenience of asking a chatbot is starting to show up on other people's water bills.

Beyond Meat is moving into protein drinks as plant-based meat sales decline, conceding a premise the alternative protein industry built a decade on: imitation was never going to be the thing that won.

Corporate climate commitments rose 227% in 2026 while the carbon credits retired to back them fell 7%, a gap that is reshaping how net zero gets verified.

Fifty million people spent Valentine's Day 2026 with an AI companion. The business model behind that growth only works if the loneliness it addresses never fully resolves.