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Microsoft  just launched Copilot Cowork today. It turns your intent into coordinated action across Outlook, Teams, Excel, and the rest of Microsoft 365. You describe the outcome. Cowork builds the plan, executes in the background, checks in at key moments, and waits for your approval before applying changes. I called this months ago.  Satya Nadella  has been deeply invested in this direction. He's personally overseeing AI product development, running weekly sessions with Micr

$250 billion was just pledged to make frontier AI available to a billion people. Not in Silicon Valley. Not in London or Brussels. In India, a country with a median age of 28, the largest young workforce on the planet, and an entrepreneurial culture that turned a national digital identity system into the world’s most advanced payments infrastructure in under a decade. I’ve written about India’s triple advantage for the AI era. What happens when human ingenuity at that scale

A few months ago I wrote about how “image concerns” were quietly suppressing AI adoption. (In this video, RamBOT, my digital twin, unpacks what that means for organizations.) People will underuse tools that improve performance if they fear it signals lower competence, less effort, or weaker expertise. This week, Harvard Business Review published “How AI Damages Work Relationships—and Where It Can Actually Help.” It surfaces a complementary dynamic. → AI can increase output bu

I spoke at an event last night and the conversations that followed stayed with me. The questions from the next generation of professionals in the room were sharp, open, and honestly refreshing. They are already figuring out how to use AI to do things that weren't possible before. They are not waiting for permission. That's exactly the mindset this moment demands. Because none of this is easy. Expanding what AI makes possible takes real intellectual work, courage, and a willin

EY leaders recently noted that “inexperience” is a junior consultant’s biggest advantage in the age of AI. Junior consultants arrive without assumptions, a blank sheet of paper that lets them challenge how work gets done. EY’s right — but the “inexperience advantage” isn’t about age. It’s about mindset. Anyone, whether junior or senior, who approaches work from first principles and leans into AI has asymmetric advantage. A 25-year old or a 25-year veteran who genuinely que

Last week I shared Claude's capabilties in Excel. But can it do slides? Short answer: yes. And it's worth your attention. I recorded a quick video of Claude in PowerPoint to review recent insights on IBM ×  Anthropic  COBOL update.  You can see Claude in PPT putting it onto a slide and editing it live.  What you'll see is Claude working inside PowerPoint, reading my template suggestions, and building native editable slides. Not static images. Real shapes, real charts, real di

OpenAI  just signed multiyear "Frontier Alliance" deals with  McKinsey & Company ,  Boston Consulting Group (BCG) ,  Accenture , and  Capgemini  to deploy its Frontier AI agent platform into the enterprise. Yes, OpenAI is attempting to capture the enterprise market where  Anthropic  has a lead and  Google  and  Microsoft  have an edge. And yes, the timing of these deals plays favorably with OpenAI's upcoming IPO. But zoom out. →  Accenture  is now a flagship implementation pa

When was the last time you fundamentally updated how you think? The old model was to treat learning like a software update. Install once and run on for a decade. The model works when industries move at human speed.  It doesn't work in today's reality, when the clock is exponential. The leaders I see navigating this moment well share a quiet habit. They keep returning to where the future is being researched, tested, and built, long before it hits the market. They "go back to s

How many of your employees would say AI is relevant to their job? How many have the skills that matter? How much have you invested in getting them there? Walmart made what I believe is the boldest AI workforce move of the year. Not a product launch, not a platform announcement, but a commitment to train all 1.6 million of its employees on AI fundamentals, for FREE. The training will be delivered through Google’s new AI Professional Certificate . This includes frontline asso