Business Innovation

Good morning. Is Gen Z helping to create an economy of affection here in the U.S.? I first heard that term as a student at the University of Nairobi, when a classmate had to host a relative stranger in...

My last few articles are about how fear is driving so many aspects of business and the world we live in. This is an argument over how AI doomerism is impacting our world, our business, our governments...

For the past few months, Microsoft chief economic opportunity officer Aneesh Raman has been predicting the death of the traditional career ladder as AI reshapes the workplace. In its place, he envisions a “climbing wall,” where progress isn’t always...

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...