AI Productivity Agents Signal the Start of the Agent Era
We are going to see an explosion of AI agents in 2026. One early signal arrived quietly this week when Google Labs introduced CC, an experimental AI productivity agent built with Gemini. At first glance, CC looks like another assistant that summarizes your inbox and calendar. But the more interesting signal is not what it […]
China’s Childbirth Subsidies Reveal a Crisis of Confidence
If there was any doubt about whether China is worried about its demographic cliff, that doubt is gone. China’s childbirth subsidies will soon cover all out-of-pocket childbirth costs nationwide. On the surface, the policy sounds generous. Childbirth can be expensive, and removing that burden may help some families on the margin. But affordability is not […]
AI Weather Prediction Shows How Real AI Value Is Created
There is no shortage of debate about whether AI can create meaningful impact at scale. In many domains, results still feel incremental or uneven. But one area where progress is becoming increasingly clear is AI weather prediction. New research highlighted by Nature points to a promising shift in how extreme weather events could be forecast […]
AI Strategy vs AI Adoption: Why Frontier Workers Matter More Than Tools
Many organizations say they have an AI strategy. In practice, what they often have is an AI access policy. Tools are available, licenses are purchased, and usage is technically allowed. But value creation remains uneven. Recent data from OpenAI’s State of Enterprise AI report reinforces what many executives are starting to notice internally. A small […]
AI Qualitative Research at Scale Is Finally Possible
One of the most interesting AI research tools released this year did not focus on coding, image generation, or productivity shortcuts. Instead, Anthropic introduced a system aimed at AI qualitative research, something far more difficult to scale. Anthropic Interviewer is designed to plan, conduct, and analyze thousands of structured interviews. It does not just ask […]
AI Fluency and the New Labor Market Reality
The new McKinsey report I wrote about yesterday shows how quickly the labor market is shifting. Mentions of AI fluency in job postings grew nearly sevenfold in two years and outpaced every other skill in US job ads. It is clear that AI capability has become a baseline job requirement almost overnight. But there is […]
People, Agents and Robots Are The Future of the Workforce
If you want to understand how AI will shape the future of the workforce, start with job postings. Employers are already telling us exactly where work is headed. A new report from McKinsey dropped the unsurprising headline that “the workforce of the future will be a partnership of people, agents, and robots.” If the last […]
AI Agent Classification: A New Leadership Skill for the Enterprise
I spent time over the weekend reviewing the World Economic Forum’s new “AI Agents in Action” paper, and it crystallized a pattern I have been seeing in conversations with executive teams. Most AI conversations inside companies are still too tool centric, not responsibility centric. We talk about deploying agents as if they are software, but […]
Synthetic Data Is the Fuel for the Next Generation of AI Models
Synthetic data is becoming one of the most important building blocks of enterprise AI. As organizations accelerate their use of large language models and machine learning systems, they face a new challenge. They are running out of high quality, safe, and diverse training data. Traditional datasets are expensive to curate, slow to access, and often […]
AI Medical Imaging: How Spectral AI Is Transforming Wound Care
AI medical imaging is entering a new phase of adoption, expanding well beyond radiology into wound care, oncology, cardiovascular diagnostics, emergency medicine, and real time clinical decision support. Hospitals are transitioning from traditional visual assessment toward imaging systems that capture deeper spectral data, analyze patterns at scale, and provide predictive insights no clinician could detect […]