Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella proclaimed a “new paradigm” on Tuesday in a keynote at the company’s Build conference in San Francisco. He was talking about the advent of agentic AI, but for anyone who has followed Nadella’s company closely…
If Spirit Airlines’ abrupt collapse sent a warning across the travel industry, it’s that resistance to change can carry real consequences. That reality is now shaping decisions at companies where long-standing business models are being reworked in response to shifting…
It’s a great time to be in the skilled trades. That’s according to Dan Peyovich, president and CEO of Dycom Industries, who says surging demand for the infrastructure behind AI—from fiber networks to data centers—is colliding with a persistent shortage…
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…The AI economy has a measurement gap…Anthropic files IPO paperwork…Meta bets on subscriptions and enterprise to monetize AI…and AI-generated fake citations are infiltrating scientific literature. When it comes to measuring the…
One year ago, Victoria’s Secret was in free fall. Since spinning off from L Brands (now Bath & Body Works) in 2021, the stock had cratered from $57 to barely $20 a share on a good day. Once the arbiter…
Just a few years ago, remote work was something like a matter of life or death. In the pandemic-stricken early years of the 2020s, most white-collar workers who fled to the country or even changed their living situations counted their…
The debate over how to integrate AI agents into the workplace has produced no shortage of frameworks, mandates, and org-chart overhauls. And this week at Fortune’s COO Summit, it produced something rarer: complete, 180-degree disagreement between two executives who have…
What started as a modest experiment at Anthropic’s San Francisco office has become one of the more striking demonstrations of autonomous AI in the real world. Andon Labs installed an AI-operated vending machine at the AI safety company’s headquarters roughly…
U.S. job openings jumped in April as the labor market looked resilient despite economic uncertainty caused by the Iran war. U.S. employers posted 7.6 million job vacancies in April, the Labor Department reported Tuesday, up from 6.9 million in March and…
Summer jobs have been teenagers’ rite of passage for generations—from scooping ice cream and babysitting, to lifeguarding and bagging groceries. But as a hiring freeze has taken over the labor market, high schoolers are feeling the chill. So far 2026…