Quantitative futurist Amy Webb discussed AI automation, fake expertise, and vulnerable industries in a Fast Company interview, citing an incident where an AI mistakenly sent 10,000 emails.…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, released a commercial created by Mother London that juxtaposes tough questions about AI trust, job loss, and societal impact with optimistic visions of the tec…
PepsiCo is using AI-powered digital twins to simulate and optimize manufacturing facilities in the virtual world before construction, accelerating innovation and improving efficiency while reducing ri…
As artificial intelligence automates knowledge work, judgment intelligence—the ability to evaluate, select, and refine ideas—is becoming the most critical workplace skill, according to a Fast Company …
IBM shares plunged more than 23% after the company warned that its Q2 2026 revenue will fall short of expectations due to customers redirecting spending toward AI data center hardware. CEO Arvind Kris…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday imposing a one-year moratorium on construction permits for hyperscale data centers that use at least 50 megawatts of power, mak…
Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of trade secret theft centered on Apple's proprietary metal-fini…
A new article from Wonder Tools outlines five tactics for using AI to sharpen thinking rather than outsourcing it, including using AI as an intellectual sparring partner and employing voice AI tools f…
Shelly Xu Design (SXD), a 15-person startup, has closed an oversubscribed $4.5 million pre-seed round led by Initialized Capital to scale its AI software that eliminates cut-and-sew fabric waste by re…
A Fast Company opinion piece argues that four directed disciplines—curiosity, optimism, courage, and gratitude—are choices anyone can master to fulfill their purpose, especially in the age of artifici…
Governing AI learning loops requires a corporate world model, not just humans, policies, or dashboards, argues a Fast Company analysis. The shift from prompts to loops means AI systems now create beha…
Users on social media are falsely claiming that a photo of Senator Mitch McConnell released by his team is AI-generated, with AI tools like Grok incorrectly labeling the real image as fake. The skepti…
Caleb Carr, CEO of Chang Robotics, argues that the U.S. manufacturing sector must shift from Factory 4.0's efficiency focus to Factory 5.0, which prioritizes human well-being, sustainability, and resi…
A new study by 21st Century Brand, using Semrush data, finds that AI systems recommend brands based on signal quality rather than marketing spend, with 50% of web users now searching via LLMs and AI-q…
SK Hynix American depository shares fell 8.9% on Monday, days after the company's record-breaking $26.5 billion U.S. IPO, as analysts raised concerns about valuation and cyclical demand for high-bandw…
A new Verasight survey of 1,690 adults found that 69% of Americans support forcing AI companies to transfer half their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund, and 89% support requiring AI firms to di…
Influencer Husk, known for tricking ChatGPT into making errors, proved OpenAI's new GPT-Live voice model still fails at basic tasks by getting it to incorrectly claim there are only two E's in "sevent…
Professionals who treat AI as a replacement for thinking risk making themselves redundant, while those who use it strategically can amplify their value, according to experts including Sarah Smith, Chi…
A Fast Company survey of 34 CEOs, including leaders of Rocket Companies, Accenture Song, Caldecott Music Group, American Express, and Anduril, reveals that agentic AI is transforming business by think…
Project Sidewalk, an online crowdsourcing platform founded in 2012 by University of Washington computer science professor Jon Froehlich, uses AI and volunteer labelers to catalog sidewalk issues like …