IKEA handed almost half of its customer requests to its AI Billie without cutting a single one of those 8,500 jobs. By training them as remote design advisors, the retailer created over a billion euros in sales. A look at a decision that replaces tasks and amplifies people.
The layoff spreadsheet just took a statistical slap in the face. For months, the dominant narrative has been almost comfortably simple: artificial intelligence arrives, white-collar
Japan is not just aging. It is accelerating the future. Japan may have just invented the next productivity revolution: the economy without enough humans. While
What if the utopia was not universal basic income, but the company without humans? On one side, some people want to tax artificial intelligence. Tax
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For the past two years, a lazy equation has been circulating in executive committees, tech conferences, and consultant slide decks: AI = automation = cost
Two scenes, one signal In Tokyo, a robot lifts a suitcase. In Pujaut, another one enters the vineyards. Two images. Two continents. Two economies. Two
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For months, we were sold the same disaster movie. AI arrives.Jobs collapse.Humans watch the machine steal their chair. Except the story is subtler. And much
The most dangerous employee is not the lazy one The line often attributed to Bill Gates about choosing a “lazy” person for a hard job