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The Return of the Guild: Why AI Could Resurrect Medieval Career Paths

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The question arrives with clockwork predictability after every keynote I deliver: "If AI is eliminating entry-level positions, how do we develop tomorrow's senior executives?" Parents at the Newhouse school ask the same question with barely concealed panic. Fortune 500 CEOs frame it more diplomatically, but everyone sees the trend, the traditional corporate ladder is quickly losing its bottom rungs? Continue Reading →

AI Math

There's a meme that's been circulating around the interweb this week. I like the simplicity of this meme, but there are far more than three probable futures. Continue Reading →

Perplexity Will Pay Publishers

Perplexity is launching a $5/month subscription service called Comet Plus, and it comes with a payout model for publishers. When a user asks a question (and Perplexity pulls from licensed news content), the publisher gets paid. The company is setting aside $42.5 million for the first phase and says 80% of Comet Plus revenue will go to participating publishers, including revenue from higher-tier plans that bundle the feature for free. Continue Reading →

Winning the Race to the End State

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Your AI platform sends a notification that says, “I have detected an anomaly in Market 26. Recent weather events have resulted in supply chain issues that must be addressed. I have adjusted our marketing investments and re-routed supply logistics. I will report back in 14 days with results and next steps.” Who gets this notification? The CMO? The CFO? The CEO? The board? The investors? Let's explore. Continue Reading →

Will You Believe Your AI Assistant Is Alive?

Mustafa Suleyman says “seemingly conscious AI” is coming – and soon. In his latest essay, the DeepMind and Inflection co-founder warns that language models will display empathy, personality, memory, autonomy, and self-referential awareness so convincingly that many people will believe they're sentient. They won’t be. But they’ll act like it. Continue Reading →

Claude Code Gets Serious About Enterprise

Anthropic just announced that Claude Code, its command-line coding assistant, is now bundled with Team and Enterprise plans. The announcement includes the predictable enterprise features: administrative controls, usage analytics, spend limits, and a new Compliance API for audit trails. Continue Reading →

Meta Adds AI Voice Translation to Reels and Everyone’s Suddenly Fluent

Meta rolled out AI voice translation for Reels on Instagram and Facebook. The tool dubs spoken audio between English and Spanish, preserves the creator’s voice, and can optionally lip-sync to match mouth movements. Translated reels are labeled and surfaced in a viewer’s preferred language. The feature is rolling out globally where Meta AI is available. Continue Reading →

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