Articles/Future of Work
The “AI-First” rise will define business winners through 2030
About the authorAnthony Batt has been running an AI-first frontier product for the past year at CO/AI. With extensive experience as a technology and product executive, Batt has founded and worked for several venture-backed startups, giving him firsthand insight into the transformative impact of AI on business operations and strategy. In the rapidly evolving business landscape of 2025, we've reached what Microsoft's Work Trend Index explicitly identifies as "the year the Frontier Firm is born." This isn't simply an evolution in business technology—it represents a fundamental reinvention of organizational structure, talent strategy, and operational capabilities. Having analyzed the latest research...
read May 3, 2025Vibe coding: The term that finally captured our AI reality
The moment the movement got its name It's February 2nd, 2025. I'm sitting in busy lunch spot in Los Angeles, sipping coffee, when my phone flashes with a Twitter notifications. I almost ignore it—another day, another viral tech thread—but something catches my eye. Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, has just posted: "There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding,' where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." I pause, read it again. He continues: "I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really...
read Apr 10, 2025AI enters the real world
The Pentagon just handed Scale AI a multimillion-dollar contract for "Thunderforge," an artificial intelligence program designed to enhance military planning and operations. This partnership, involving tech giants like Microsoft and Anduril, represents a growing trend of AI companies collaborating with defense departments. The integration of commercial AI into national security infrastructure signals a shift toward AI-powered warfare that raises both strategic advantages and ethical questions. This development reflects a broader pattern emerging across the AI landscape: the technology is moving beyond research labs and tech companies into institutions, regions, and applications that will transform how societies themselves function. Education evolves to...
read Mar 28, 2025Quantum Computer in the impressionist style: AI’s creative economy takes shape
The fusion of artificial intelligence with creative tools has entered a critical phase. Beyond technical capabilities, the evolution now centers on how these technologies integrate with human creativity and audience preferences. Recent developments show companies strengthening their positions in specific creative domains while behavioral research reveals unexpected contradictions in how people value AI-generated content. Image generation capabilities mature OpenAI has taken a significant step by integrating image generation directly into GPT-4o, moving beyond artistic experimentation toward practical applications. This shift represents an important evolution in AI's creative utility, from novelty to necessity. The integrated system excels at text rendering and handles...
read Feb 25, 2025Just discovered XENA: A AI game-changer for E-commerce sellers!
We just came across something that's got us seriously excited about the future of e-commerce. Let me tell you about XENA Intelligence, an AI platform that's working to game-change how we sell across Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify. What caught our attention first is their XENA 360 dashboard features. We can imagine having a team of AI assistances cranking forecasts for your inventory needs and optimizing your ad spending - all in one place! This may mean no more late-night spreadsheet crunching or panic-ordering inventory. But here's what really blew our mind: Their Foresight tool creates SEO-optimized listings in minutes (goodbye,...
read Feb 24, 2025What Andrew Ng says about AI Agents
AI Agents Key Points Andrew Ng, a leading AI expert, defines AI Agents as autonomous systems capable of understanding natural language, learning from their experiences, and performing a wide range of tasks on behalf of users. He views them as a revolutionary interface for interacting with technology, making it more intuitive by allowing users to simply tell the agent what they want, rather than relying on traditional methods like coding or clicking buttons. Ng emphasizes their ability to handle both simple and complex tasks, such as booking flights or assisting with creative work, and predicts they will transform how we...
read Oct 28, 2024AI’s 5-Year Growth & Why Every Business Model Could Be About to Change
Anthropic CEO's Radical Prediction: The Next Wave of AI Won't Take Decades to Transform Business—It Could Happen Before 2030 When Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, they set an audacious mission: "A computer on every desk and in every home." At the time, it seemed absurdly ambitious. Today, we carry computers far more powerful than those early PCs in our pockets. Now, the artificial intelligence industry stands at a similar inflection point. But according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the transformation ahead could make the PC revolution look like a minor prelude. In a sweeping new essay,...
read Oct 16, 2024The Tipping Point of Creativity: How Adobe’s AI Revolution is Reshaping the Creative Landscape
In the summer of 1450, Johannes Gutenberg's printing press sparked a revolution that would forever change the way information was shared and consumed. Today, I think we stand at the precipice of a similar transformation, but instead of movable type, our revolution is powered by pixels and algorithms. Adobe's recent announcements at MAX 2024 aren't just incremental updates to existing software; they represent a fundamental shift in how we approach the creative process. It's a shift so profound that it might just be the tipping point for a new era of digital creativity. Consider, for a moment, the humble photograph....
read Jul 24, 2024AI and Human Thought Part 3: The Human-AI Relationship
We began this series by examining several ways in which Large Language Models (LLMs) can be leveraged to enhance or diminish human thought processes, highlighting the importance of AI literacy as a mechanism that enables effective and responsible AI use. In our second post, we widened our perspective and explored more unknown territory, envisioning a world where AI is omnipresent, namely in terms of its impacts on human thought and experience—here, we ironed out the distinction between technologies of necessity and convenience and demonstrated the criticality of AI literacy as a skill that allows us to determine to what degree...
read Jul 24, 2024Investing in Innovation: How AI Literacy Fuels Opportunities in the Future of Work (Part 3)
AI is Just Another Tool In the first essay of this series, we demonstrated the importance of individual AI literacy and presented evidence in favor of three positive trends concerning AI and the future of work: AI will facilitate the creation of new jobs. Businesses are increasingly prioritizing AI skills. AI is more likely to augment rather than automate human labor. In our second essay, we went one step further, emphasizing the role of collective AI literacy in shaping a future that promotes shared economic prosperity. Current trends may indicate a positive outlook for the future of work and AI,...
read Jul 23, 2024Otto’s Tabular AI: A Promising Approach to AI-Assisted Research
As an AI technology advisor constantly evaluating new AI software, I've just watched a product demo that has me genuinely excited. Otto has unveiled a new product that offers "a new way to interact and work with AI Agents - using tables!" This innovative approach could be a game-changer in how we conduct AI-assisted research and data analysis. A Familiar Interface with Powerful AI Capabilities For years, I've been configuring Google Sheets and more recently using ChatGPT to create AI agent-like workflows within Google Sheets, but Otto seems to be taking this concept to an entirely new level. Their implementation...
read Jul 18, 2024AI and Human Thought Part 2: Omnipresent AI
In our previous post on this topic, we examined a relatively narrow yet related sub-domain: how humans can leverage large language models (LLMs) to enhance (or diminish) the way we think. We chose to focus on LLMs because of their popularity, versatility, accessibility, and ease of use, not because we believe that other forms of AI are somehow less useful or inferior, especially in consideration of ongoing generative AI (genAI) advancements, and the increasing notoriety of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures. In other words, the vast majority of people can find some value in leveraging LLMs in their daily lives, regardless of...
read Jul 12, 2024Why the Future of Democracy As We Know It Depends on AI Literacy
A Story of the Future Let’s begin with a story of the future. It’s the year 2050. Over the last two decades, widespread automation has replaced much of the working class, especially in the agricultural, transportation, and manufacturing sectors, leading to a dramatic increase in global poverty and unemployment rates. Natural resources, particularly those used to power modern digital technologies and infrastructures, have reached unprecedented scarcity levels. Disinformation has become virtually indistinguishable from truthful information, inspiring numerous orchestrated and successful attempts at mass manipulation, indoctrination, and coercion. Criminal syndicates have become fully digitalized, executing frequent, advanced, and virtually undetectable cyber...
read Jul 12, 2024AI and Human Thought Part 1: LLMs and the Nature of Thought
What is AI thinking? What is thinking? For centuries, humanity’s brightest minds have attempted to provide a concrete answer to this question, and in doing so, have revealed—sometimes inadvertently—the deeply complex, interconnected, multifaceted, and mysterious nature of human cognition. Despite this mystery and the ongoing questions of what constitutes human consciousness, perception, and creativity, humanity has maintained a fascination with building machines that can think as humans do. Current state-of-the-art AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, though they would easily pass a Turing test—an admittedly poor measure of whether machines can think like humans—and display capabilities surpassing those of...
read Jul 9, 2024Unlocking Opportunity: AI Literacy and the Evolution of Work (Part 1)
Uncertainty and Opportunity At every stage of major technological advancement in human history, from the agricultural to the industrial revolution, humans have had to re-imagine what their future will look like. Novel technologies can redefine the socio-economic fabric of our world, creating new sources of value, meaning, and opportunity alongside unprecedented risks and widespread uncertainty. According to Connor Wright, Partnerships Manager at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, “Technology is born in a certain time, out of a certain context, by a certain person for a certain purpose.” However, most technologies are neither good nor bad—it's how they're used that defines...
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