How AI Is Changing What Good Governance Looks Like

As AI accelerates how decisions are formed, boards must strengthen governance by understanding how decisions are developed, not just what is presented.

Apprenticeships Are The Workforce Solution We Need—Can We Finally Scale Them?

Apprenticeship has game-changing potential for today’s turbulent economy. Here’s how to reach the Administration’s goal of 1 million apprentices and beyond.

Denis Brovarnyy: Tech education that starts where theory ends
Denis Brovarnyy: Tech education that starts where theory ends

The gap between finishing a course and actually being useful on a team, Denis Brovarnyy has seen it from both sides. And in an era where AI is reshaping every technical role, that gap is getting more expensive to ignore. Companies are no longer experim…

Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.
Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.

Summary: Meta is cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its workforce) beginning 20 May, cancelling 6,000 open roles, and planning additional cuts for H2 2026. The layoffs, announced via an internal memo from HR head Janelle Gale, are structural…

Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US workers in first-ever buyout programme amid $80B AI spending push
Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US workers in first-ever buyout programme amid $80B AI spending push

Summary: Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to approximately 7% of its US workforce (~8,750 of 125,000 employees) in the first such programme in its 51-year history, using a “Rule of 70” formula (age + years of service). The offer, disclosed by…

Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands
Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands

In short: Accenture Ventures has invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform provides a unified AI intelligence layer across 40+ robots from different manufacturers including FANUC, Flexiv, and Ghost Robotics. The deal extends Accenture’s physica…

Stanford’s annual AI report finds a widening gap between AI insiders and everyone else
Stanford’s annual AI report finds a widening gap between AI insiders and everyone else

The 2026 AI Index from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI documents a deepening disconnect between expert optimism and public anxiety. Gen Z anger about AI is rising fast. Employment in AI-exposed fields among younger workers is already declini…

The future of work includes better water: why offices are rethinking hydration
The future of work includes better water: why offices are rethinking hydration

Dehydration is unfortunately a pretty common issue for people of all ages. Some studies suggest that as many as 75% of Americans could be chronically dehydrated at any given moment. It’s easy to fall short of your body’s daily water intake needs if you…

Are You Learning At Work — Or Just Using AI To Get Answers?

As AI reshapes the workplace, early career professionals need more than technical skills. Here’s how to build human value that sets you apart from AI.

Vibe coding is flooding Apple’s App Store, and Apple is fighting back
Vibe coding is flooding Apple’s App Store, and Apple is fighting back

In short: AI-powered “vibe coding” tools have driven an 84% jump in new app submissions to Apple’s App Store in a single quarter, according to reporting by The Information, the largest surge in a decade. The flood is straining Apple’s review infrastruc…