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Strengthening the Talent Pipeline for the Future of Work with the CHRO of FM | Robin Benoit
A massive wave of retirements known as "Peak 65" is creating a serious crisis for organizations as decades of institutional knowledge begin to walk o…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Zuckerberg Admits Meta's Layoffs Are About AI Costs, Not AI Replacing Workers
May 1, 2026: Mark Zuckerberg admits in an all-hands meeting that Meta's 8,000 layoffs aren't because AI is replacing workers — they're because AI inf…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
AI Wiped a Database in 9 Seconds, Candidates Are Rejecting AI Interviews, and Citi Builds an Agentic OS
April 30, 2026: A Claude-powered AI coding agent wipes a company's entire production database and all backups in nine seconds — then produces a writt…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The 4-Day Workweek: Why the Business Case Doesn't Hold Up and Won't Anytime Soon
April 29, 2026: Bill Gates is predicting a 2-day workweek. Jamie Dimon says 3.5. Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, says 5 days is over. Fortune just ampli…
3 weeks ago
Amazon Killed the Job Interview, OpenAI Is Missing Its Targets, and AI Still Costs More Than Your Employees
April 28, 2026: The AI productivity promise is running into reality — and today's numbers don't lie. Amazon just launched an AI system that conducts …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Why Most Companies Collapse Under Change | Susan Davies, CHRO of Markel
It feels like we are on a fast treadmill because technology and AI are changing work so quickly. It is hard to stay ahead when old ways of doing thin…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
College Hiring is Back, Meta & Microsoft Cut Headcount, & Tokenmaxxing is the New Trend
April 24, 2026:
The Wall Street Journal reports entry-level hiring is rebounding — but IBM's HR chief says AI can already do almost everything thos…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
GPT-5.5 is Live, Law Firm Uses AI That Hallucinates, & Communities Revolt Against Data Centers
April 23, 2026: OpenAI released GPT-5.5 today — its second major model in six weeks. But while the software accelerates, the physical infrastructure …
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Empathetic Excellence: Why Competence, Merit, and Empathy Are the Only Formula For Keeping Your Best People
April 22, 2026: What does it actually take to build an organization where people perform at their best? In this episode, I'm breaking down what I cal…
4 weeks ago
BlackRock Rebuilds Work Around AI Squads, Meta Tracks Employee Keystrokes, Amazon Bets $33B on Anthropic
April 21, 2026: Amazon commits $33 billion total to Anthropic in a landmark deal securing 5 gigawatts of compute — the equivalent of five nuclear pow…
4 weeks, 1 day ago