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In the Workplace
These AI-native companies have tiny staffs and fewer bosses. New ventures built with AI from the start offer a vision of how work might look elsewhere in the corporate world one day: a flatter structure with fewer co-workers where everyone is a player-coach.
AI knows what you did online. Now your employer does, too. AI is supercharging employers’ background checks, making it easier and cheaper to track workers’ online history with more depth than before, Callum Borchers writes.
Your conversation is being recorded—they all are. The days of interactions being private by default are gone. From AI notetakers to camera-equipped smartglasses, many professionals are increasingly accustomed to recording or being recorded in the name of productivity.
Management & Leadership
Meet the companies shelling out for top AI models. Frontier AI models the most advanced systems made by industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic—are growing more and more expensive. Some businesses are pumping the brakes on AI spending, but others are going all-in.
State of the Workforce
Not all 401(k) plans are created equal. Costco, for example, provides a surprisingly good savings formula for its hourly workers, offering longstanding employees 9% of their eligible salary as a nonelective contribution. Other companies give far beyond that, offering jealousy-inducing matches to attract top talent.
The startup insiders who stash huge sums in tax-subsidized retirement accounts. More than 1,000 Americans have racked up IRAs worth at least $25 million, aided by booms in both stock prices and startup formation.
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