Business Innovation

The phrase “touch grass” has become the internet’s way of telling someone to log off and rejoin the real world. Erik Torenberg, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, thinks the phrase has it exactly backward—and that getting the philosophy...

Tech leaders are split on how AI will shake up the world of work. While some CEOs are staunch believers that a white-collar jobs Armageddon is imminent, others say it it will supercharge humans in their professional lives. Jensen...

There are two distinct AI anxieties spreading through the American economy right now, and they don’t speak the same language.On one side: founders and investors grappling with the vertigo of an era where execution timelines have collapsed almost overnight....

For Johanna Mercier, Gilead Sciences’ chief commercial and corporate affairs officer, leadership starts with a clear accounting of what sustains performance across a global role. In a job that rarely conforms to fixed hours, she focuses on her energy:...

Nevin Burmeister first downloaded Kalshi on July 8, just two days after his 18th birthday. In his home state of Indiana, the minimum age for sports betting is 21. But Burmeister could legally wager on sports on Kalshi starting...

The warning signs were there two decades ago—long before ChatGPT, long before anyone worried about a robot taking their job. Around 2005, something quietly shifted in the American labor market. College degrees kept multiplying. Good jobs did not.“This is...

The artificial intelligence debate has a framing problem, and one of America’s most prominent economists has an idea about how to fix it.“The first thing that people think about when they think about reducing work is unemployment,” Alex Tabarrok...

As a business founded in 1939, HP is no stranger to wartime turbulence and geopolitical volatility. But the recent conflicts and their resulting economic uncertainty pose challenges for every business. In this first installment of a new series, we check in with Neil...

The average American manager now oversees 12 direct reports, and the data suggest AI is both the cause and the justification for this quiet but seismic shift in how the U.S. workplace is organized. It is one of the...

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.As we break for Easter, real life increasingly feels like fiction. Who needs conspiracy theories, when America’s president acts as if...