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The announcement of a new AI model or feature fills me with a mixture of anticipation and dread. I’m excited to see what “new thing” I might be able to do, but I also know that some of my existing processes and systems might break as a result.

fastcompany 23h ago 43°

Apple’s HomeView is nearly a decade late. That might not matter

Apple thinks you might want a screen in your kitchen or bedroom. It’s nearly a decade late to the party, with its $299 HomeView, announced on October 13, arriving nine years after Amazon unveiled the Echo Show, and eight after Google came out with its own Home Hub.

fastcompany 48h ago 41°

Silicon Valley responds to Trump’s hands-off approach to AI regulation at Tech Week

Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI agents meddling with everything from U.S. government websites to healthcare data, the nation now finds itself further from governing AI systems than it was a few years...

fastcompany 19h ago 34°

IMF boosts this year’s global economy growth outlook, but warns of risks from AI and debt

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slightly upgraded its outlook for the world economy for this year, while warning of growing risks from rising debt, including the financial frenzy around artificial intelligence.The IMF says it expects the global economy to grow at a 3.1% pace this year. That’s up from its July forecast for 3.0% growth and well below the 3.5% expansion in 2025. Growth in 2027 should rebound to 3.4%, it said in its latest Economic Outlook.The...

fastcompany 26h ago 33°

Character.ai has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it moves to sell assets to Disney

Controversial chatbot platform Character.ai is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the wake of mounting legal challenges and runaway operating costs, the four-year-old startup said in a surprise announcement on Monday.

fastcompany 24h ago 33°

Getty Images was worth $4.8 billion just 4 years ago. Now it’s filing for bankruptcy

Getty Images is filing for bankruptcy and plans to go private, the company announced on Monday.A release says that the company plans to begin the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the weeks ahead and undergo massive restructuring, which will ultimately see complete control and ownership of the company in the hands of the Getty family, as well as Koch Equity Development.

fastcompany 24h ago 33°

I let an AI assistant shop for me and the reviewers got nothing

There’s a new kind of AI in town, and it’s all about you. Which is to say you, personally—these are the new personal AI assistants that go by names like Muse, Dots, and Grok Bot, and they’re ready to dismantle much of the friction in your life. Need to research a trip, book a restaurant, or choose between healthcare plans? With the right context, they can handle it all for you, complete with a smile on their mascot-like avatars.

fastcompany 9h ago 31°

What to do when your employees are hiding their AI use

I’ve been having a lot of conversations with industry leaders lately about the prevalence of so-called “shadow AI.” They’re worried about the risks of unapproved AI tools at work, and most come to me wanting to know how to rein in their employees. But that’s looking at the problem backwards.

fastcompany 20h ago 30°

3 leadership lessons from AI-powered companies

Even as AI investment rises, many organizations don’t see the returns they expected. They might see small improvements by deploying AI tools into existing structures. But true success means thinking beyond the technology alone, reinventing tomorrow’s workflows, and putting AI to work for people. Our research shows only 5% of organizations are redesigning work, while others are optimizing what already exists.

fastcompany 47h ago 29°

When AI runs the company, what exactly is leadership for?

For quite some time in the already long series of articles I’ve been writing on what is and what should be corporate AI, I have been discussing concepts such as agents, working with ontologies and world models that represent the company, connecting them with management tools such as ERPs or CRMs, and basically, learning to optimize a company to the limit. However, now that we are talking, as Mustafa Suleyman says, about AI wiping out most white collar jobs in the next 12...

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