4 Ways to Build Influence at Work Without Waiting for a Promotion
After two decades and twelve corporate roles, one executive learned that influence — not authority — is what actually gets cross-functional teams to follow your lead.
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly “superhuman” systems, while a separate faction, led by policy organizations…
TopTechTrends
The 3 Questions That Make Every Email Campaign More Profitable
The real reason your email campaigns underperform isn’t the copy — it’s a bloated, unverified contact list you’ve never cleaned up.
SEO Isn’t Dead — But Winning Search Now Requires a New Playbook
It’s clear, provocative and directly addresses the concern many marketers have while setting up the article’s argument about GEO.
5 Customer Frustrations That Stores Still Haven’t Solved (But Desperately Need To)
Independent retailers can’t afford to leave shoppers frustrated and disappointed. Luckily, they have more tools than ever to avoid that fate.
You Can’t Scale a People-Based Business by Burning Through People. Here’s a Better Strategy
As market pressures drive companies to achieve growth at all costs, frontline teams are feeling the consequences. Here’s how leaders can scale without compromising their workforce.
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies
Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media
The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.
The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data…
Your Biggest AI Cost Isn’t the Technology — It’s the Hidden Debt Quietly Draining Your Budget
Hidden AI technical debt is quietly eroding ROI and making every new AI investment more expensive.