How AI’s New Power Brokers Are Reshaping Your Industry — And Why Companies Paying Them More Than VPs Are Buying the Future The job posting that redefined Silicon Valley compensation in April 2023: $335,000 base salary for a “prompt engineer.” Not a CEO. Not a CTO. A role that had been invented just months beforeRead more
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Four decisions that will determine whether AI becomes your competitive advantage or your expensive mistake The AI conversation has fundamentally changed over the past six months. Boards that used to ask “Should we be investing in AI?” are now asking much harder questions: “What exactly are we getting for the millions we’ve already spent?”Read more
The LinkedIn CEO just told Gen Z that Ivy League degrees don’t matter anymore. Zuckerberg and Buffett are nodding along. “What matters now,” they say, “is adaptability, curiosity, AI skills.” I recently wrote about how companies are cutting entry-level roles by the thousands in “The AI Layoff Bet Most Companies Will Lose.” Now these sameRead more
I’ve spent twenty years advising Fortune 500 companies through every kind of transformation you can imagine. Digital. Cloud. Agile. What’s happening right now with AI and jobs is different, and we need to talk about it without the usual corporate BS. In July 2025 alone, over 10,000 jobs disappeared specifically because companies decided AIRead more
The scientific controversy that’s dividing the AI research community Here’s a statistic that should stop you in your tracks: AI models that supposedly “think” through complex problems actually give up trying when those problems get too hard. Not because they lack computing power, but because they seem to lose interest. Wait, what? ThisRead more
Sales reps spend 2 hours per day actually selling. Two hours. The other six disappear into CRM updates, lead research, and administrative busywork that a smart intern could automate. If your account executive earns $100,000 annually, you’re paying $75,000 for glorified data entry. Companies take an average of 17 hours to respond to webRead more
A Fortune 500 retail company recently discovered their AI had autonomously adjusted pricing across 40,000 products and reallocated $50 million in media spend over three weeks. The marketing team was focused on quarterly planning. The AI decisions generated 15% higher return on ad spend than the previous quarter. The marketing leadership team had noRead more
Stanford’s SyntheMol platform generated designs and synthesis pathways for six novel antibiotics in under nine hours. Traditional pharmaceutical companies have explored only 0.0000001% of possible drug molecules across their entire history. Meanwhile, AI-driven platforms achieve 80-90% success rates in Phase I trials while traditional drug development suffers 90% failure rates despite $83 billion inRead more
Google’s AI diagnosed lung cancer with 94.4% accuracy on 6,716 National Lung Cancer Screening Trial cases, outperforming all six radiologists with absolute reductions of 11% in false positives and 5% in false negatives. Patient actors consistently rated AI diagnostic conversations higher than human physicians on measures including empathy and trustworthiness. Yes, AI was ratedRead more
The insurance industry is undergoing the most fundamental transformation since actuarial science was invented. Companies that execute AI implementation across core functions will dominate their markets. Those that don’t will become cautionary tales. Right now, while most insurers debate AI strategy in boardrooms, a small group of leaders are compressing underwriting cycles from weeksRead more