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How upcoming business leaders are using AI to prep for high-stakes deal negotiations—and everyday interactions 

Students at American University’s Kogod School of Business are learning how to use AI to sharpen the way they negotiate everything from job offers...

01.12.2025 10

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

The creator of an AI therapy app shut it down after deciding it’s too dangerous. Here’s why he thinks AI chatbots aren’t safe for mental health

Joe Braidwood started Yara AI to democratize access to mental health services. But he grew increasingly concerned about AI technology's suitability...

28.11.2025 10

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

Why Genpact has an Agentic AI Officer and why she dislikes the term ‘human in the loop’

Jinsook Han says that AI agents, even more so than generative AI, have the power to truly make a difference for the company and its customers.

14.11.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

‘Our chapters will work for any enterprise’: Honeywell’s AI chiefs share the strategies that helped the firm mature its AI efforts

The company’s “six-chapter framework” includes sections for sales effectiveness and for everyday workflows, keeping the focus on use cases that...

07.10.2025 10

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

How Visa wove AI into every facet of the company by approaching it as both a science and an art

Visa, which is one of the top-ranked companies on the Fortune AIQ 50 list, made its first big AI investment a decade ago.

07.10.2025 10

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

Why Zocdoc made one of its founders CAIO: ‘You have a little bit more political capital’

“I have a responsibility to AI-ify the rest of the organization.”

03.09.2025 10

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

Agentic AI is the technology’s new frontier, and CAIOs are toiling to get agents implemented correctly

“There’s a ton of confusion in the marketplace with our clients on, ‘What is an AI agent? What am I deploying?’”

03.09.2025 10

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

Maturing AI, business impact, and agents galore: How the CAIO role has evolved over the past year

“A year ago, my focus was on proving that autonomous AI decision-making systems could exist. Today, it’s about delivery and scale.”

03.09.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

AI isn’t just entering law offices—it’s challenging the entire legal playbook

“I find it incredibly exciting. Terrifying for sure. Risky, no question. But really exciting,” one lawyer told Fortune.

23.07.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

How a bulldozer, crane, and excavator rental company is using AI to save 3,000 hours per week

“Giving contractors the ability to make better decisions gives them a competitive advantage.”

23.07.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

AI is already touching nearly every corner of the medical field

Some universities are already incorporating AI training into their medical school courses.

23.07.2025 10

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

AI is changing how employees train—and starting to reduce how much training they need

As workers focus on acquiring AI skills, AI is emerging as a useful tool to hone other important job skills.

11.06.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

AI is helping blue-collar workers do more with less as labor shortages are projected to worsen 

Office workers aren’t the only ones incorporating AI tools into their daily routines.

11.06.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

Companies are overhauling their hiring processes to screen candidates for AI skills—and attitudes

Company leaders and professionals in the hiring space say they’re now specifically considering candidates’ proficiency with AI tools and sometimes...

11.06.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

‘AI fatigue’ is settling in as companies’ proofs of concept increasingly fail. Here’s how to prevent it 

Along with the excitement about the possibilities of generative AI is a great deal of pressure for leaders and employees participating in projects.

11.06.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

A new wildfire prediction AI model shows why data rules

Europe's leading weather forecaster ECMWF shows that adding additional data improves wildfire predictions, and that data trumps AI model complexity.

03.04.2025 10

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro

OpenAI and Microsoft add new image generation and AI agent features—and showcase their platform advantage

The new features are impressive—and in a world of intense AI competition, distribution counts too

27.03.2025 20

Fortune

Sage Lazzaro