According to Fortune, 2025 is seeing a surge in outsider CEO appointments, defying the traditional preference for internal candidates. Spencer Stuart research reveals that insiders and outsiders perform similarly on average, but outsiders bring higher volatility and potentially higher reward. This s
Predicting AI in media is getting harder, not easier. Last year’s forecasts mostly hit, but the real story is in the unexpected collisions between tech trends and hard realities.
According to a Business Insider report, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is driving a radical, urgent transformation centered on AI, mandating executives to commit or leave. The shift includes new weekly AI meetings for lower-level staff and major leadership changes, as the company tries to reinvent its
Microsoft is expanding its Copilot AI assistant to the classic Outlook for Windows app. The feature, which helps summarize meetings and pull info from emails, has been available elsewhere but is now coming to the desktop client many businesses still rely on.
OpenAI is bringing in former UK finance minister George Osborne to head a new initiative called “OpenAI for Countries.” The move signals a major strategic pivot towards selling AI infrastructure directly to national governments. It’s a high-stakes gamble on geopolitics.
OpenAI is negotiating a major investment from Amazon that could exceed $10 billion, according to a CNBC report. This comes after OpenAI restructured to gain more freedom to partner beyond Microsoft, its primary backer.
An Amazon executive is pushing back on a common AI narrative. He argues that junior employees, who are often most adept with new AI tools, are actually a critical asset companies shouldn’t lose.
European regulators have launched a new antitrust investigation into Google, focusing on its alleged use of scraped publisher content and YouTube videos to train its generative AI. The case centers on Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode features, which the Commission suspects were built using data col
Google is testing a new email-based productivity assistant called CC through Google Labs. Powered by Gemini, it connects to your Gmail, Drive, and Calendar to send a “Your Day Ahead” summary. But is another AI email what anyone really needs?
President Trump is launching a new program called the US Tech Force to recruit around 1,000 technology specialists from major companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google. These workers would serve in federal agencies for up to two years, with a focus on accelerating AI use and modernizing systems. The
