An Anthropic chart is everywhere: a huge blue area of theoretical capability, a small red area of actual usage. Except the blue comes from an opinion issued in 2023 about GPT-3.5, with a generous rounding rule, and the report itself concludes there is no measurable employment effect. Decoding a viral object that works like an advertisement.
In 1983 in Aspen, Steve Jobs described a machine that could answer in your place after your death. He announced a 50 to 100 year horizon. The architecture that made it possible arrived 34 years later. That gap explains what a corporate vision is actually for: cutting.
Over the past few weeks, I have had the opportunity to speak with several leaders about how organizations continue to innovate in increasingly unstable and
Imagine the scene. You apply for a job. A chatbot welcomes you to the company’s website. From 2 August 2026, it will have to inform
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
A tiny beak, a major linguistic slap A bird has just put humanity in linguistic distress. For centuries, we looked at animals as if they
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The stage begins before the stage Professional speaker’s secret: the audience sees 45 minutes of magic. It never sees the four hours of invisible plumbing.
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The day imitation becomes a compliment The day your competitors start copying you, send them an invoice for gratitude. Not because they have suddenly become
The day I confused visibility with impact Professional speaker secret: one of the most unsettling compliments after a keynote can sometimes be zero photos. When
An ocean vacuum. This is where we are The Lépine Competition has just rewarded an ocean vacuum. Yes, this is where we are. While some
We think we already live in the future By 2050, your children may laugh at your smartphone the way you laugh today at the fax
For the past two years, a lazy equation has been circulating in executive committees, tech conferences, and consultant slide decks: AI = automation = cost
When a court dismantles the perfect excuse A judge has just slapped down the great management fiction of 2026: “It’s AI, not us.” In a
Some images say more than an 80-page strategy report. A worker, wearing a helmet, bends over a gigantic tire and tries to inflate a truck
When Taylor Swift protects her digital double Taylor Swift is no longer protecting only songs, albums, tours, logos, or slogans. She has moved the issue
Your bad prompt may be a management problem Have you always had good managers? I have not. I have known brilliant managers. People capable of
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 paradox always starts with an oversimplified promise AI was supposed to change everything. It was supposed to accelerate teams, lighten workloads, improve decisions, increase