The AI Transformation will kill the start-up as we know it.

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

Certainly the industry is transforming, however, the people and organizations falling into the trap of no longer reading and writing code only do so at their peril.

AI Becomes the UI: When business logic moves to the AI tier, dashboards fade, and agents become the interface

In 2025, the Innovation Office at ServiceNow underwent the first phase of its transformation to study and produce original, future-forward research and thought leadership around AI business transformation, the future of work, quantum, the future of industries, smart spaces, and prototype innovative possibilities never imagined on the ServiceNow platform.

Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

Will the AI IPO boom make S.F. richer, or wipe out what’s left of its middle class?

OPINION: Anthropic and OpenAI plan IPOs that make previous tech booms look tiny. If San Francisco wants to benefit, our leaders need far more urgency on housing, the editorial board writes.

I don't think AI will make your processes go faster

Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

3: Consulting the Record: AI Consistently Fails the Public - AI Now Institute

Amid the excitement over AI’s (speculative, hypothetical) potential, we have lost sight of the sobering reality of its present and recent past. AI is already intermediating critical social infrastructures, materially reshaping our institutions in ways that ratchet up inequality and concentrate power in the hands of the already powerful. It is consistently deployed in ways […]

OpenAI Calls for New Industrial Policy as AI Reshapes Economy and Governance

OpenAI’s policy paper argues that governments must adopt a new industrial policy to manage AI’s economic disruption.

Anything That Can Be Capitalized Eventually Gets Operationalized

A structural pattern has reshaped servers, labor, and software licenses. AI is now running the same playbook — simultaneously — on software production and human capital.

Separating AI’s Technological Problems From its Capitalism Problems

Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier say integrating a technology as disruptive as AI responsibly requires deep structural reforms.

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025

An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.

Business Models in the AI Era

MIT CISR anticipates that rapid advancements in AI will drive business model evolution over the next decade, and we propose that business models in the AI era will become increasingly outcome oriented and enabled by autonomous AI. In this briefing, we draw on our research from 2013 to 2025 involving 2,378 companies to describe how digital business models have developed over the last twelve years, and introduce a framework for AI-driven, real-time business models. We illustrate how companies have begun exploring these new business models with a case study of One New Zealand.

The AI Takeover Has Arrived

...but it looks completely different from what we imagined

The New Software Lifecycle

I co-wrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I'm not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ...

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.