Business Innovation

In July, Accenture published guidance for companies alarmed by their AI bills. Avoid blanket usage cuts, it said. Don’t tell employees to use less AI. Route work to the cheapest model that does the job. It also noted that...

As a teenager, David Durman would read works by Enlightenment philosopher David Hume and the Stoics. Their ideas led him to adopt the Humanist faith, a nontheist system he said centers human well-being and flourishing, which he’s kept for...

Prime Minister Mark Carney called Canada “the most European of non-European countries” early in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now, he’s hosting European leaders to pursue an unprecedented alliance, but the proposed EU “associate member” designation faces resistance...

Etsy’s new CEO is fighting a flood of AI-generated junk with a surprising weapon: more AI.When Etsy launched in 2005, the arts and crafts marketplace quickly won a cultlike devotion from sellers and buyers alike for its “keeping commerce...

Another week, another emirate—and another big AI play. Hello this week from Dubai, where I’ve been attending the third Dubai AI festival in downtown Dubai that ran across Monday and Tuesday. The event brought together more than 20,000 participants from...

Tesla’s newly unveiled Roadster is a reminder that America can still produce breakthroughs that capture the world’s imagination. The car can accelerate from zero-60 in less than a second and perform feats that once belonged in science fiction. The engineering...

Morgan Chittum here. It seems like everyone in Silicon Valley wants to back the next big winner in AI coding. Robinhood Ventures is betting there’s room for more than one.OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cognition’s Devin...

“Look at this sweatshirt,” Thomas Frank says in a video interview from his study in Bethesda, Md. He pulls at his maroon hoodie, which he’d just picked up from a thrift store the other day. The badge on his...

I have avoided writing this piece for a year. Every dinner, every board meeting, every family holiday, every reporter, every friend of a friend at every party has asked me some version of the same question. Is AI going...

With artificial intelligence capabilities continuing to expand, universities now face complex, urgent questions about how to navigate increasing challenges, as well as new opportunities. Much attention is now directed toward this, including an MIT report on AI and education published...