A purchasing manager at a wholesale distribution company makes hundreds of decisions every week which involves many different data sets and departments. Reorder this SKU or wait? Approve this customer's credit extension? Switch suppliers on this product line? Adjust pricing on a slow-moving category? And now with the rise of machine learning many of these decisions will be automated.
Artificial intelligence is moving quickly in the enterprise, from experimentation to everyday use. Organizations are deploying copilots, agents, and predictive systems across finance, supply chains, human resources, and customer operations. By the end of 2025, half of companies used AI in at least three business functions, according to a recent survey. But as AI becomes…
A year or two ago, using advanced AI models felt expensive enough that you had to think twice before asking anything. Today, using those same models feels cheap enough that you don’t even notice the cost. This isn’t just because “technology improved” in a vague sense. There are specific reasons behind it, and it comes […]
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Design has traditionally required multiple roles working in sequence: a strategist to define the problem, a designer to shape the solution, and a developer to build it. This means coordinating timelines, aligning opinions, and going through rounds of iteration before anything tangible is created. Claude Design removes much of this friction by turning ideas directly […]
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Turns out not everyone wants to live in the future that AI companies are building. People from all walks of life are speaking out against rising electricity bills from data centers, disappearing jobs, chatbots’ impact on teen mental health, the military’s use of AI, and copyright infringement—among other concerns. This anti-AI movement is taking shape…
Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce behind an API, and charge for every drop. China’s leading AI labs are playing a different game: They ship models as downloadable “open-weight” packages. This lets developers adapt the models and run them on their own hardware to build products without negotiating a…
AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery as a justification for their existence: If the technology eventually cures cancer and solves climate change, then all the carbon emissions and slop videos will have been well worth it. Already, LLMs can assist scientists in all sorts of ways. They can point people to…
When people say AI will speed up drug development or fear that it will bring about mass layoffs, what they have in mind—whether they know it or not—are AI agents. ChatGPT made large language models a mass consumer product. But to change the world, AI needs to do more than just talk back: It needs…
I was recently invited to join an app that would pay me cryptocurrency to film myself doing tasks like putting food into a bowl, microwaving it, and then taking it out. Another website suggested I try a new game in which I’d remotely control a robotic arm in Shenzhen, China, as it completed puzzles and…
For years, experts have warned that deepfakes—AI-generated videos, images, or audio recordings of people doing or saying things they haven’t actually done in real life—could be deployed in malicious ways. These dangers are now here. Improvements in deepfake technology, and the widespread availability of easy-to-use and cheap (or free) generative models, have made it easier…