From ‘reinvention exhaustion’ to ‘friction absorption’: CEOs who built instant delivery are worn out

You tap your phone and a stranger appears at your door with your groceries. You click…

Should you treat AI agents as colleagues? Fortune 500 executives can’t settle the debate

The debate over how to integrate AI agents into the workplace has produced no shortage of…

The ‘Optimism Doctor’ says people can tolerate uncertainty — the AI angst is about something else

When Dr. Deepika Chopra took the stage at the Fortune COO Summit, she didn’t open with…

‘Stop building silos of excellence’: Peloton’s COO has a Navy playbook for supply chain chaos

The old corporate playbook said surge to meet demand. Charles Kirol says that playbook is dead.…

Southwest ditched free bags and MGM added all-inclusive perks: how the travel industry is reinventing itself to survive

If Spirit Airlines’ abrupt collapse sent a warning across the travel industry, it’s that resistance to…

Data center CEO is hoping for a skilled-trades revival in his lifetime—he’s recruiting couch-dwelling Gen Z with two weeks of vacation on day one

It’s a great time to be in the skilled trades. That’s according to Dan Peyovich, president…

U.S. Soccer is using AI to scout 70 million teenagers

For 30 years, American soccer has been the sport of the almost. Almost breaking through. Almost…

Anthropic’s office launched an AI-run vending machine. It had AI-run stores and cafes within a year

What started as a modest experiment at Anthropic’s San Francisco office has become one of the…

Okta’s President and COO says companies are in denial about the hardest part of the AI revolution: redesigning work itself

The President and COO of Okta has agents on his team. He’s named them—Leo, Sloan, Hank,…

6 years of jersey design, 4 years of prep, 4 weeks of games: Execs at U.S. Soccer and Nike know how much this World Cup means

With less than two weeks until kickoff, the 2026 World Cup—co-hosted by the U.S., Canada, and…

Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he’s hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a ‘vanity metric’

For months, the loudest voices in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—warned that…

‘Nobody’s safe’: Cognizant projected 90% of jobs would be disrupted by 2032—but we’re beyond it 6 years early

In 2023, Cognizant researchers made a prediction that, by their own admission, made people think they’d…