Miro CEO says companies must redesign work around AI, not bolt it on
Miro CEO says companies must redesign work around AI, not bolt it on

Miro co-founder and chief executive Andrey Khusid says adding AI to existing teams and processes will not deliver its full productivity gains. Companies need to redesign how work happens from the ground up, he said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin o…

‘When everyone’s responsible, no one is’: the AI champion problem
‘When everyone’s responsible, no one is’: the AI champion problem

Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champion’s time. A month later,…

At a private AI retreat, the vendor told us the tool won’t save you
At a private AI retreat, the vendor told us the tool won’t save you

Grady Sokaras, Zapier’s head of sales, opened a session at the company’s private AI retreat with a line about the kind of product Zapier sells. “A tool is never the solution,” Sokaras said. A company that buys the product and expects a transformation g…

Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports
Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports

Apple’s new chief executive, John Ternus, is reshaping the company to release products more often and cut layers of management, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Ternus, 51, took over on 1 September after Tim Cook’s 15 years in the job. Apple declined to …

Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses
Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses

Meta has launched a division to sell its AI tools to businesses, Mark Zuckerberg said on X on Monday. MongoDB chief executive Chirantan “CJ” Desai will run it. “Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform,” Zuc…

Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him
Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him

Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on leave. The board includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL, Sarah Perez reported …

Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says
Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says

Deutsche Telekom is replacing the automated phone menus on its customer service lines with AI agents, chief AI officer Kartik Sheth said. The share of customer interactions that never reach a human grows by one or two percentage points every month, he …

UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it
UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it

“Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,” UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines said on Wednesday. Dines used his keynote at FUSION, UiPath’s annu…

Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000
Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000

Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar …

Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.
Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come …