Most thought leadership fails because it avoids industry tension, but the most influential perspectives emerge from unresolved problems, according to a Fast Company article by an onsemi executive. The…
Starbucks scrapped an AI inventory tool built by startup NomadGo across all 11,300 company-operated North American stores by 18 May, blindsiding the 30-person vendor and leading to layoffs. The tool, …
Visa Inc. is laying off about 2,600 workers, or 7% of its workforce, as CEO Ryan McInerney cited AI-driven efficiency gains and a need to reinvest in areas such as commercial and money-movement soluti…
OpenAI has programmed ChatGPT to refuse requests to mimic the style of well-known authors, following a $1.5 billion copyright infringement settlement against Anthropic and amid ongoing copyright lawsu…
Companies are making the greatest mistake in AI transformation by automating workflows they should eliminate, according to a Fast Company analysis. Leaders focus on speeding up legacy processes like i…
Thousands of shared Claude conversations and artifacts were indexed by Google searches earlier this month, exposing potentially private data including sexting chats and proprietary information, cybers…
A new Gallup survey shows that only 18% of 14- to 29-year-olds feel hopeful about AI in 2026, down from 27% in 2025, as Gen Z's distrust of the technology grows despite high usage. Fast Company report…
Macaire Montini, VP of People and Culture at HR platform HiBob, argues that companies should adopt 'wildflowering'—letting employees grow organically around their strengths rather than forcing them in…
Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, inadvertently read an AI-generated prompt left in his speech during a legislative address, sparking criticism on s…
Starbucks pulled the plug on its AI-powered Automated Counting inventory tool nine months after deploying it to all 11,300 company-operated cafés, after baristas reported the app miscounting items, in…
A former pastor, Scott Winters, is suing OpenAI in San Francisco County Superior Court, alleging that ChatGPT-4o gave him flawed medical advice that discouraged him from seeking treatment for symptoms…
Rocket CMO Jonathan Mildenhall is replacing the traditional marketing funnel with a strategy that serves both human audiences and AI machines, arguing that the old model fails to address the need for …
Solopreneurs should not hand over client-facing work, relationship-building, or original creative tasks to AI, according to a Fast Company contributor who runs a solo business. The author cites Stanfo…
Rushing AI tools into enterprise workflows is causing slowdowns and confusion, but this 'friction phase' is a predictable sign of successful organizational change, not failure, according to a CEO writ…
A U.S. federal judge approved a $1.5 billion AI copyright settlement requiring Anthropic to pay authors for using pirated books to train its Claude chatbot. The payout, approved by Judge Araceli Martí…
A new form of burnout is emerging as knowledge workers shift from being sole producers to operators supervising fleets of AI agents, according to an analysis by Fast Company. The cognitive cost of man…
The next frontier in enterprise AI is not the agent but the ontology—a formal model of a company's objects, relationships, and workflows—according to a Fast Company analysis. Palantir's Ontology platf…
NetApp is acquiring DataPelago, a startup that emerged from stealth in October 2024 with a Nucleus Universal Data Processing Engine (UDPE) that accelerates heterogeneous compute for data analytics and…
Using AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude comes with privacy, accuracy, and security risks that users should be aware of, according to a Fast Company guide. AI companies can use submitted data for t…
Media companies are blocking AI bots too broadly, missing the opportunity to selectively allow retrieval bots that drive AI-summary presence and authority, argues Fast Company. Publishers should treat…