Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

Anthropic, backed by Amazon and Google, is focusing on corporate customers rather than the mass market

In an excerpt from his new book, 'Lucky by Design,' Wharton’s Judd Kessler looks at the hidden markets that determine who gets what in everyday life, and the rules that underpin them.

Amazon is cutting jobs in an efficiency drive and Walmart says its headcount will stay flat as artificial intelligence disrupts some roles.

DM Good morning! What do you consider to be the differences, and demarcations of, and between: apathy, indifference, ambivalence, disinterest, inattention and overt absence of curiosity? Good morning! What a wonderfully nuanced question. These terms dance around each other in interesting ways, and understanding their distinctions requires us to look at both what's happening emotionally and what's happening cognitively in each state. Let me walk you through these one by one, a

Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon will increase spending in 2026; ‘Are we in a bubble?’ Quick Summary Silicon Valley’s largest companies plan to invest $400 billion in AI this year, with many indicating this is insufficient. Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon will increase 2026 spending; Google and Amazon shares rose, while Meta and Microsoft shares fell. Google’s CFO stated that AI inv estments are already generating billions of dollars in revenue for the company.

AI holds the power to accelerate innovation in R&D, but realizing its potential will demand that organizations rethink how they work and overcome the barriers to adoption.

Yascha Mounk and Geoffrey Hinton discuss how AI works—and why it’s a risk.

I was reminded of these new forces during a visit to Silicon Valley last week where major tech CEOs said the same thing: “Long term is now six months.”

There are 3,508 billionaires on the planet. U.S. dominate their collective wealth.

70% to 80% of organizational transformations fail, often due to poor leadership. Here’s what to avoid.

Your company’s ideal behavioral strengths are unique, and shouldn’t be borrowed or copied — not even from a high-performance enterprise.

By aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.

Jamie Dimon says it’s gone too far. Others are devising new measures, from hiding Wi-Fi passwords to installing the corporate equivalent of the swear jar .

Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into unwelcoming market Quick Summary Major employers including Amazon.com have announced significant white-collar job cuts. The surge in white-collar layoffs is partly driven by companies adopting AI to handle tasks previously done by employees. Opportunities for blue-collar and specialized workers are increasing.

Research from Wharton's Sonny Tambe finds that LLMs can make biased hiring decisions that traditional auditing methods might not be able to catch. KEY TAKEAWAYS LLMs trained on vast swaths of online data can absorb and replicate human biases. The direction of these biases is not always predictable. Policymakers and organizations need context-specific audits to understand how these models actually perform in the real world.

As Gen AI fast-tracks into budgets, processes, and training, executives need benchmarks, not anecdotes. Now in its third year, this unique, year-over-year, cross-sectional study shows where the common use cases are, where returns are emerging, and which people- and process-levers could convert mainstream use into durable ROI. The full report

CEOs face many strategic decisions. It’s often the trickiest ones that provide the greatest learning experiences.

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After years of whiplash over diversity policies, businesses remain caught between conflicting regulatory requirements, frustrated consumers and their employees.