Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

For decades, HR professionals were denied their "seat at the table" in company leadership. But during the COVID pandemic, it became abundantly clear that the C-suite could no longer ignore chief people officers, who guided companies through existential business challenges, including lockdowns, remote work, and the Great Resignation. Now, a quieter and more structural shift is underway. The seat remains, but the authority attached to it is moving elsewhere.

It feels like an episode of The Jetsons come to life, but the truth is that the AI boom has officially entered the physical world. Most of us interact with artificial intelligence through screens- Gemini drafts our emails, ChatGPT summarizes our docs-but behind the scenes, engineers are racing to give AI hands and feet. Robots already pack boxes in warehouses and make guacamole in fast-food kitchens. Soon, they will be washing dishes, taking care of pets, and performing your manicure.

Oracle Corp. plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion this year through a combination of debt and equity sales to build additional cloud infrastructure capacity, reflecting the scale of financing needed to feed AI's growth. The company is raising money to build additional capacity to meet the contracted demand from the company's largest cloud customers, including Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Nvidia Corp., OpenAI, TikTok Inc. and xAI Corp., the company said in a statement Sunday.

Traffic. Focusing on traffic obscures the purpose of AI answers: to satisfy a need on-site, not to generate clicks. AI-generated solutions do not typically include links to branded websites. Google's AI Overviews, for example, sometimes links product names to organic search listings. Thus visibility does not equate to traffic. A merchant's products could appear in an AI answer and receive no clicks.

DRAM contract prices are now expected to rise around 90 to 95 percent quarter-over-quarter. NAND flash similarly sees a huge jump, with expected prices ballooning by 55 to 60 percent compared to Q4 2025. Specifically, PC DRAM prices could more than double even from their elevated positions late last year. This will invariably result in overall price increases across all product categories, though varying in significance depending on component costs.

Daggr allows developers to define workflows programmatically in Python while automatically generating a visual canvas that exposes intermediate states, inputs, and outputs for each step in the pipeline. Daggr simplifies applied AI development by organizing workflows as directed graphs, allowing for independent inspection and re-execution of each node. This method enhances debugging and speeds up iteration by tackling the issue of slow and unclear experimentation,

Instead of paralyzing China's AI sector, these controls have promoted domestic self-reliance. With no choice but to develop indigenous workarounds and architectural innovations, Chinese businesses are decoupling AI progress from sheer hardware volume. U.S. policies have undoubtedly bought time, but they have also ushered in a parallel innovation ecosystem totally independent of Western influence.

OpenAI has released Open Responses, an open specification to standardize agentic AI workflows and reduce API fragmentation. Supported by partners like Hugging Face and Vercel and local inference providers, the spec introduces unified standards for agentic loops, reasoning visibility, and internal versus external tool execution. It aims to enable developers to easily switch between proprietary models and open-source models without rewriting integration code.

Cowork was introduced earlier this month as an agentic tool that builds on the capabilities of Claude Code, but is intended for a much broader audience than just developers. By adding plug-ins, Anthropic aims to improve practical usability. The plug-ins are designed to automate specific tasks within organizations. Examples include drafting marketing texts, checking legal documents for risks, or preparing answers to customer questions. According to Anthropic, standardizing these tasks allows teams to work more consistently and efficiently.

The opportunity is enormous: to reimagine work, unlock creativity, and expand what organizations and people can do. So is the pressure. In response, many organizations are rolling out tools and launching pilots. Some of this activity is necessary. Much of it, however, misses the deeper point. Too many leaders are asking: how will AI change us? The better question is: what kind of leadership will we build to guide AI?

If AI tools still feel inconsistent, slow, or hit-or-miss, the problem usually isn't the technology-it's how you're using it. trAInedup.ai focuses on the skill that actually determines results: prompt engineering. Instead of chasing new platforms, it teaches you how to get reliable, high-quality output from the AI tools you already rely on. Right now, the trAInedup.ai Basic Plan is available for a one-time payment of $79.99 (reg. $459), giving entrepreneurs lifetime access to practical, structured AI training.

A few years ago, engineering inside a company meant this:solve the problem that exists here. Even if the same problem had been solved elsewhere, we often didn't know.We didn't have access to that knowledge.We didn't have the tools.So we engineered our way through it. Engineering is always defined by the tools available and the impact they allow. And that's exactly why Generative AI changes things so fundamentally.

He then lowered his fists, extended his thumbs and little fingers, and moved them up and down by his chest, as though milking a cow. Finally, he laid the fingers of one hand flat on his chin and flexed his wrist forward. Hartwell, who has no hearing problems, had just used BSL, British Sign Language, to order his morning latte with normal milk at the deaf-run Dialogue Cafe, based at the University of East London.

Claude is a very powerful AI tool that works especially well for coding. It's possible to code entire applications or services in Claude. That's why Claude quickly becomes a very important tool in a product designer's toolkit. It allows us to move quickly and build not only fast interactive prototypes, but also code UI components ready for implementation. To make this guide more specific, I will use Claude to code a sign-up web form.