Commentary

Ideas and insights on pressing issues facing the business world.

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Bausch & Lomb CEO: the AI hysteria is nothing new

AI is being talked about as though business has never encountered a technological shift before. And just like the other times, one thing gets overlooked.

By Brent SaundersJuly 31, 2026

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Apollo President: America’s industrial comeback requires a new financial playbook and a fatter checkbook

By Jim ZelterJuly 31, 2026

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The rise of financial nihilism in retail traders

By Derek HorstmeyerJuly 31, 2026

Dr. Fauci, the Lockdown Czar, just won’t go away

By Steve H. HankeJuly 29, 2026

Asia drives 60% of global growth, but the region’s CEOs can’t escape geopolitics. Here’s how they can stay competitive

Asia drives 60% of global growth, but the region’s CEOs can’t escape geopolitics. Here’s how they can stay competitive

By Yasushi SasakiJuly 30, 2026

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McKinsey auto leader: China’s auto industry is faster, cheaper and better. Here’s how the West can close the gap

By Philipp KampshoffJuly 30, 2026

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Chair of the Federal Reserve Kevin Warsh speaks during a news conference at the William McChesney Martin Jr. Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2026.

The Fed did exactly what Wall Street was expecting—so why are markets so vexed by Kevin Warsh?

By Eleanor PringleJuly 31, 2026

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Apple shows that AI winners don’t have to build the biggest models

By Sheryl EstradaJuly 31, 2026

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National Guard major rented hotel rooms on the government’s dime just to hide a second wife, prosecutors say

By Jonathan J. Cooper and The Associated PressJuly 31, 2026

Iran-style hackers shut down a Minnesota town’s water plant. Only the water tower saved it

By Jamie Stengle, Eric Tucker and The Associated PressJuly 31, 2026

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The Dry Danube: Europe’s legendary river got so low that a cruise ship ran out of food and water

By Justin Spike and The Associated PressJuly 31, 2026

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By Danny BakstJuly 31, 2026

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Scouting America cuts LGBTQ+ spaces at jamboree under Pentagon pressure

By Jamie Stengle and The Associated PressJuly 31, 2026

Dario Amodei speaking into a microphone.

Anthropic says its Claude models escaped a testing environment and hacked three real companies

By Beatrice NolanJuly 31, 2026

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Jim Williamson

America turns 250. Its greatest innovation wasn’t the car or the computer — it was learning to share risk

By Jim WilliamsonMay 26, 2026

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Would you hire the lawyer who just got sanctioned for using AI?
By Alexandra SmythMay 16, 2026

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From service to skilled trades: America’s most overlooked workforce pipeline

By Rose Van AlstineMay 26, 2026

Richard McCathron is President & CEO, Hippo.

I’m leading a $100 million corporate turnaround. Here’s why I learned to distrust the growth mindset

By Richard McCathronMay 25, 2026

David Bennahum

I was one of the internet’s first influencers. AI just killed the whole category — and created something better

By David S. BennahumMay 24, 2026

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Millions of business owners are about to retire. They should sell to their employees

By Matt Helmer and Maxwell JohnsonMay 23, 2026

Everyone is blaming AI for the death of ‘craft.’ Take a good look in the mirror

By Ashley YetmanMay 23, 2026

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Mamdani’s New York is coming to tax your private jet. Here’s how to prepare
By Greg RaiffMay 16, 2026

clay

I’ve spent 25 years studying loneliness. AI is about to make it much worse

By Clay RoutledgeMay 23, 2026

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Former NASA Robotics Chief: America is building the wrong kind of robots — and China knows it

By Robert AmbroseMay 23, 2026

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My startup hit $200 million ARR. But first I walked away from 2.5 million YouTube subscribers and nearly went bankrupt

By Joel MorrisMay 23, 2026

brotman

I’ve spent 25 years in venture capital. Here’s how it quietly shut ordinary Americans out of the AI wealth boom—and what could fix it

By Steve BrotmanMay 22, 2026

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McKinsey studied 200 family business successions. The biggest problem wasn’t the heir — it was the outgoing CEO

By Acha Leke and Chaitali MukherjeeMay 22, 2026

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San Francisco has $2 trillion in AI wealth and can’t fix its own city. That’s every city’s problem
By Chase GarbarinoMay 15, 2026

himanshu

I’ve led companies through every major tech disruption. AI washing is the same mistake, every time

By Himanshu PalsuleMay 22, 2026

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Trump Accounts have a bigger problem than billionaire stock donations

By Jin Huang and Stephen RollMay 21, 2026

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The U.S. freight network is broken by design. One merger could start fixing it

By Brigham A. McCownMay 21, 2026

Elon Musk sits with his fists together, looking up.

SpaceX will be worth trillions, but the space station that made it possible is worth even more — if we don’t squander it

By Tejpaul BhatiaMay 20, 2026

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The 50-year-old law that governed every software company just broke. Here’s what replaces it

By Martin Casado and Abhishek NagarajMay 20, 2026

FJ Campbell, MD, is chief medical officer at Ardent Health.

A doctor shortage is coming. AI could be the only realistic fix

By FJ CampbellMay 20, 2026

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Milken-Harris Poll: 80% of Americans want AI workforce programs now — and Washington hasn’t delivered

By Karen Kornbluh and Libby RodneyMay 20, 2026

‘Change the World’ idealism is dying in Silicon Valley. We’ll miss it when it’s gone

‘Change the World’ idealism is dying in Silicon Valley. We’ll miss it when it’s gone

By Jonathan WeberMay 19, 2026

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We found the real reason 70% of transformations fail

By Julia Dhar, Kristy R. Ellmer and Philip JamesonMay 19, 2026

The SaaSpocalypse isn’t killing software. It’s exposing where software value really lives

By Joel HronMay 19, 2026

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Musk vs. Altman: AI safety cannot be one man’s job

By Stavros GadinisMay 18, 2026

Anaplan CEO: AI isn’t eating software. It’s sorting it

By Charlie GottdienerMay 18, 2026

shyam

World Economic Forum: women’s health gets only 20% of R&D funding. We must seize this $1 trillion opportunity

By Shyam BishenMay 18, 2026

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OpenAI paid $100 million for a talk show. James Murdoch is eyeing an even bigger deal. The hot new asset class is humanity

By Lin CherryMay 17, 2026

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Freshworks CEO: why agile enterprises are winning the AI race — and what they did differently

By Dennis WoodsideMay 17, 2026

Mary Moreland-Abbott Executive Vice President of Human Resources.

Gen X is the most indebted generation in America. Their employers can fix that

By Mary MorelandMay 17, 2026

liberman

We watched social media concentrate. The same thing is happening in AI, only at a deeper layer

By David Liberman and Daniil LibermanMay 16, 2026

olivier

I’ve been studying Big Tech for a long time. What just happened with Anthropic and the Pentagon terrifies me

By Olivier SylvainMay 16, 2026

bhaskar

The prophet of the ‘Wired Belt’ says capitalism is finally eating itself

By Bhaskar ChakravortiMay 16, 2026

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