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How Leaders Build an AI-First Cost Advantage
AI has entered the “prove it” stage. KEY TAKEAWAYS Most companies are failing to realize meaningful returns from AI investments. Leaders use AI to build a cost advantage by: Embedding AI into end-to-end process and operating model redesign instead of treating it as a standalone initiative. Focusing on a few high-impact use cases, building strong data and tech foundations, and prioritizing workflow reinvention. Most value comes from changing how work gets done, not from AI its
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Apr 21 min read
3 signs your company is using AI incorrectly
From the electric motor to modern AI, history shows the same pattern: productivity only rises when organizations reinvent how work happens.
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Apr 21 min read
Young People Are Falling Behind, but Not Because of AI
The case that AI is already stealing young people’s jobs is based on a statistical mirage.
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Apr 21 min read
AI may revive old-school tradecraft even as it transforms intelligence work
As electronic messages get harder to trust, human meetings will become more important than ever, a former CIA agent argues.
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Apr 11 min read
A Game Plan for the AI Boom
Ten years ago, AlphaGo trounced human competitors—and its legacy is still present in today’s most advanced bots.Ten years ago, AlphaGo trounced human competitors—and its legacy is still present in today’s most advanced bots. Excerpt: "Likewise, employees, managers, students, professors—really all of us—are always learning and learning by failing, or at least we should be. That is useful and worth preserving in plain economic terms . Nobody becomes world-class at anything wit
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Apr 11 min read
Is Your AI System Ethical? Try This Assessment
THE PROSOCIAL AI INDEX OFFERS BUSINESS leaders a practical, auditable way to assess whether their AI systems are genuinely good, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.
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Apr 11 min read
How to Find Leaders Early Using Neuroscience and AI
NEW RESEARCH REVEALS HOW ORGANIZATIONS CANidentify potential leaders based on cognitive and behavioral signals instead of relying on formal experience.
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Apr 11 min read
Photos: Counting Down to the Launch of Artemis II
NASA’s Artemis II—the first mission to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years—is scheduled to launch on April 1, 2026. The 10-day journey will take four astronauts around the moon and back, testing NASA’s new launch system before future missions to the lunar surface.
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Apr 11 min read
3 ways to prove you’re human online
As AI overwhelms the web, we will need a way to distinguish people from machines.
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Mar 311 min read
Are Bots Replacing Workers? These Skeptics Aren’t So Sure
It’s trendy to cite artificial intelligence when cutting jobs, but the reality is more complicated
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Mar 311 min read
How Working in America Became So Joyless
The loss of small perks and rise of AI have conspired to strip work of all fun; ‘It feels like a funeral in the office right now.’
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Mar 311 min read
America’s HR Leaders Say We’re Thinking About AI Agents All Wrong
Chief people officers at large companies push back on the assumption AI agents should be managed the same as human workers. Quick Summary IBM’s chief human resources officer stated treating AI agents as people hinders getting full value from the technology. IBM’s Nickle LaMoreaux said the biggest value from AI comes from integrating it into enterprise workflows. Box co-founder Aaron Levie said accountability for AI actions must remain with humans, as agents cannot be held lia
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Mar 301 min read
Side Quests Lead to Big Wins
Some of the most successful products have been discovered through surprises.
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Mar 301 min read
Top ‘I told you so’ moments in the history of science
The public needs to know that scientists sometimes fail—and, in fact, failure is important.
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Mar 301 min read
Will This ‘Miracle’ Battery Finally Change Your Mind About EVs?
Will This ‘Miracle’ Battery Finally Change Your Mind About EVs?
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Mar 281 min read
The Playbook That Elon Musk Relies On to Make His Wild Ideas Work
The entrepreneur is sticking with his tried-and-true formula to build a giant chip factory
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Mar 281 min read
The 2,000-Year-Old Cement Battery That Could Reduce Our Reliance on Fossil Fuel
Thermal batteries, such as the one being developed by Cache Energy, store heat instead of electricity, and can be recharged and discharged over and over
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Mar 281 min read
The Decade long Feud Shaping the Future of AI
Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology Quick Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have a deep rivalry, recently seen in a clash over Pentagon AI deals. Dario Amodei and co-founders left OpenAI in late 2020 due to concerns about AI safety and internal power struggles. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly attacked OpenAI, likening rivals to tobacco companies
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Mar 281 min read
The Very Powerful Men Who Think Introspection Is Dumb
For some of America’s tech oligarchs, looking inward seems to be a waste of time better spent moving fast and breaking things.
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Mar 281 min read
Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones
Ukrainian drones have made artillery and armored vehicles look obsolete. Why is the world still buying them?
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Mar 271 min read
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