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ActivTrak CEO: What 120,620 workers reveal about AI maturity

ActivTrak’s Productivity Lab tracked 120,620 employees over three quarters and found something counterintuitive: the optimal level of AI adoption maturity for most employees may be somewhere in the middle between shallow AI usage and full automation.Most leaders I know are tempted to build their AI adoption strategy as if every employee should be an AI super user. Buy the most powerful tools, push everyone toward the deepest integration, maximize adoption maturity and assume productivity will skyrocket.

Fortune Archives: The end of an era at Google DeepMind

Seven months ago, Fortune’s Allie Garfinkle found DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis waxing philosophical about the vastness of the universe at London’s UCL Observatory, home of the 164-year-old Fry Telescope. Her fascinating Fortune cover profile portrayed Hassabis—Nobel laureate, founder of the AI drug-design company Isomorphic, and the man steering Google’s AI efforts with Gemini—as less of a corporate executive than a scientist-philosopher.

Exec at $27 billion tech giant HP hits back at Gen Z lazy label, saying they’re great at listening and building relationships

Just like generations of 20-somethings before them, Gen Zers are being criticized for failing to adapt to traditional workplace norms. Some bosses complain about a lack of office etiquette and the high expectations they bring with them, while a vocal cohort say the digital natives are bringing valuable skills and a fresh approach to work. George Brasher, SVP and managing director, North America for $27 billion tech giant HP, says that the Gen Z label of lacking interpersonal skills is a myth. Now, they’re driving massive business wins with their work ethic.

The skill BCG's North America boss thinks matters more in the AI era

Build a calm, realistic plan to recover from job loss and move toward your next role.

There isn't just one AI bubble, strategist says — there's a 'rolling sequence of bubbles' instead

The question of whether AI is a bubble is the wrong one, Dhaval Joshi argues. The right question is: which AI bubble is popping today?

Microsoft exec on Southern Europe’s big AI moment: skills — not technology — will determine who leads the region’s AI future

This is a conversation with Fortune Greece CEO Tasos Zachos, reprinted with permission.

Jimmy Wales: 'AI can generate answers. It still can't earn trust'

The man behind the world’s largest digital encyclopedia talks to Fortune Greece, republished with permission.

Can We Stop the Public 'Blasterbating', Actually?

It is now hard to take public transport without having to endure the sound of someone else’s smartphone speaker

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Malaysia profits from data centre boom

Southeast Asian country emerges as key AI hub in boost for its economy

Alibaba AI models hit 3 billion downloads, passing Meta, Google

Alibaba Group Holding’s open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months, eclipsing Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc. and domestic peers to become the world’s No. 1 artificial-intelligence model.

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."