Why AI-obsessed companies should care about the aging workforce

Demographic reality is the one trend you cannot disrupt, downsize, or delay. [...]

Shopify is giving its engineers free rein on AI. Here’s why

COO Jess Hertz says the company is already seeing the payoff, with revenue growing 34% while head count stays flat, as Shopify races to become the infrastructure behind agentic shopping. [...]

The next enterprise AI frontier is the optimizable company

The hardest part of this transition may be cultural, not technical. Most companies don’t have the critical element: a formal model of themselves. [...]

AI scraping has become its own media business

A shadow industry of data middlemen is turning publishers’ work into fuel for AI agents—and forcing media companies to rethink what ‘outputs’ really mean [...]

If an obscure 1980s paradox is any guide, AI may be about to hit a huge tipping point

Is AI finally finding its economic groove? [...]

Small businesses should be a much bigger part of the ‘AI transformation’ conversation

Surveys show adoption is rising fast, but most small business owners are still scratching the surface of what AI can do for them. [...]

Cerebras stock nearly doubles on day one as AI chipmaker hits $100 billion — what it means for AI infrastructure

Cerebras Systems, the Silicon Valley chipmaker that built the world's largest commercial AI processor, erupted onto the Nasdaq on Wednesday, opening at $350 per share — nearly double its $185 I [...]

These AI bots want to help fans navigate World Cup host cities 

Tourism agencies are deploying custom AI tools they say can provide accurate and up-to-date data in multiple languages.  [...]

Pope blasts the use of AI in warfare, saying it’s leading to a ‘spiral of annihilation’

Pope Leo’s comments on AI were made in a speech at Rome’s La Sapienza University. [...]