The AI industry is incredibly dynamic when it comes to investment, and lately not a week goes by without an announcement in the race to raise the most money in this frantic quest for capital. Nvidia ...

For this new article in the “Business stories” series, and after seeing how Boeing’s setbacks are in no way a problem of expertise but rather of corporate culture (Boeing: a culture and a slogan can ...

In recent months, reports on the state of AI have been piling up, each heralding a major disruption in the way businesses work, make decisions, and create value. Two publications by major strategy ...

Eliyahu Goldratt, although trained as a physicist, had a profound impact on industrial management with books such as The Goal (1984) and The Haystack Syndrome (1990). His contribution is based on the ...

There is much debate about the ability of AI players to ever become profitable, and this is anything but a trivial question. After all, what is the point of investing in a technology if its players ...

The idea of envisioning a world where we “text” tokens didn’t come out of nowhere. It stems from a convergence of factors: generative AI is alternately presented as a promise of productivity, ...

At first, it seemed like a great idea. Instant messaging to reduce email overload, AI to speed up writing, automation to save a few minutes on low-value tasks. Each of these tools was a rational ...

James Reason is a British psychologist and a world-renowned expert on human error, safety, and organizational accidents. He is best known for his “Swiss cheese” model, which shows that an accident ...

On May 21, OpenAI announced the acquisition of iO, the AI hardware startup founded by Jony Ive, for $6.5 billion. The all-stock deal, which requires no cash outlay for OpenAI, which already owned 23% ...

I’ve often written that AI doesn’t benefit from economies of scale, something that seemed fairly intuitive to me, since once software is developed, serving an additional user costs relatively little, ...

In pediatric cardiac surgery, the risk doesn’t end when the operation is over, but only once the patient has been transferred to the intensive care unit. At Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, ...

AI poses a question to businesses that isn’t really all that new: what do we do with productivity gains when they materialize? We can capture it immediately in the form of cost savings by reducing ...