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Forty-five percent of American adults don’t know what their parents’ financial situation is, according to a 2024 survey by U.S. Bank. It might come as no surprise to many. The same survey found that, when talking to their parents, American adults were more comfortable discussing who they were voting for than their personal finances. 

The Industrial Revolution, for example, created jobs and made mass-produced goods widely available and affordable. It also contributed to global warming, child-labor exploitation, the rise of robber barons, and horrific factory conditions. The AI revolution may prove even more consequential, producing outcomes at both the positive and negative extremes that dwarf those of earlier technological…

It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote about how Apple’s reserved AI strategy is probably its best yet. By not hemorrhaging money on AI features and tools and by focusing on hardware rather than going all-in on AI, Apple positioned itself to come out ahead while its competitors beat and batter themselves to out-innovate…

In the dynamic landscape of small businesses, the promotion of high-performing employees into managerial roles is a common practice. Unfortunately, this approach often overlooks a critical factor: Most first-time supervisors are untrained for the challenges they face.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s analysis of nearly 500,000 earnings call transcripts between 2000 and 2025, C-suite leaders are spending more time on corporate earnings calls discussing productivity: The share of AI-related productivity sentences was 15.6% in Q4 of 2025, up from 1.5% in the same period in 2022, the year…

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Two-thirds of consumers are not confident with how companies use generative AI to interact with customers, a Pegasystems survey found.