Shopify is giving its engineers free rein on AI. Here’s why

COO Jess Hertz says the company is already seeing the payoff, with revenue growing 34% while head count stays flat, as Shopify races to become the infrastructure behind agentic shopping. [...]

How the Kansas Department of Labor has implemented AI to make it easier to file for unemployment

Amber Shultz, secretary of Labor, has led technological change at the agency—making it easier for employees to assist more people. [...]

How this Buffalo-based bank is using tech as a competitive edge

Michael Wisler, M&T Bank’s CIO, has transformed the regional bank’s operations by bringing tech teams in-house and finding ways to make AI work for customers. [...]

How E.l.f. Beauty is building AI into its community management

Ekta Chopra, the company’s chief technology and AI officer, helped launch ‘E.l.fluencer,’ a program that lets community managers use AI to respond more quickly to every query the company gets on [...]

How AWS has embraced AI agents—for itself and its clients

Ruba Borno, the head of AWS’s Global Specialists and Partners organization, helps AWS customers bring AI to their operations. And she runs her team the same way. [...]

Jason Isbell’s Suno lawsuit takes aim beyond AI copyright

The lawsuit takes an unusual approach, arguing that the AI music company exploited musicians’ identities rather than simply infringing their copyrights. [...]

Apple Intelligence was firmly in the background at WWDC 2025 as iPad finally had its chance to shine

Hardly a mention of Siri, either [...]

Five Eyes alliance warns frontier AI cyber threats are ‘months’ away

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge offensive hacking, and that the window to prepare for it is [...]

AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge lau [...]