Through 2025, OpenAI operated across a portfolio of initiatives, launching Sora for video, new browsing surfaces, eCommerce extensions inside ChatGPT, even exploring hardware. That breadth earned brand awareness but scattered engineering focus at a moment when the competitive landscape was consolidating underneath them. Now, leadership is actively evaluating which projects to kill. The catalyst is Anthropic 's accelerating traction with developers and enterprise buyers. Loo

Picture your Tuesday morning, twelve months from now. You put on your glasses. Not a headset, but lightweight, ordinary-looking glasses. Before you’ve finished your coffee, a quiet overlay appears: three things your AI worked on overnight. A contract your agent redlined at 2 AM using the negotiation pattern from your last three deals. A brief assembled from this morning’s earnings calls, cross-referenced against your portfolio. And a flag: the procurement delay your colleague

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