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Analysis
IBM’s AI Skills Study Exposes a Workforce Design Gap
A global survey puts judgment, accountability and invisible AI work at the center of the workforce conversation.
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Workplace, leadership, operations and the changing design of organizations.
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Analysis
AI Is Removing Friction—and Flooding Public Services
AI can help more people complete difficult applications and complaints, but it also exposes how much service capacity depended on abandonment and administrative friction.
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Rapid News Brief
OpenAI Adds Paul Christiano to Its Foundation Board
The alignment researcher will join the nonprofit board and its safety committee while observing the operating company’s board without a vote.
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Developing
Bending Spoons Will Buy Miro for $1.36 Billion
The all-cash deal values the collaboration platform at a fraction of its pandemic-era peak and extends Bending Spoons’ rapid consolidation of mature software brands.
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Analysis
Wipro Says AI Freed the Capacity of 20,000 Workers. It Redeployed Them.
Wipro says AI has created productivity gains equivalent to 20,000 employees while the company redeploys workers into new roles—a glimpse at what large-scale human-AI work may actually look like.
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Analysis
The AI Copilot Is Leaving the Office for the Job Site
NavigateAI is testing whether real-time guidance, scoping and quality control can make AI useful to workers building physical infrastructure.
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News Brief
John Ternus Takes Over as Apple CEO From Tim Cook
Apple’s planned leadership handoff became official Sept. 1, placing longtime hardware chief John Ternus in the CEO role as Tim Cook moved to executive chairman.
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Analysis
AI Companies’ Cyber Letter Puts Operators on Notice
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and security vendors issued a collective-defense framework aimed at companies, governments and frontier labs.
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News Brief
Rivian CFO Claire McDonough Will Leave Oct. 30
The electric-vehicle maker has begun a search for a permanent successor and says the departure is not tied to a disagreement.
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Developing
NSW Moves to Rethink Take-Home Assessments as AI Use Spreads
New South Wales officials are asking whether unsupervised take-home work can still reliably measure student learning in the age of generative AI.