A one-person company owner works at an industrial park designated for OPC businesses in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, on March 25. GENG YUHE/FOR CHINA DAILY As artificial intelligence tools become cheaper, smarter and easier to use, they are helping more Chinese entrepreneurs turn personal expertise and online followings into one-person companies (OPCs), building lean businesses powered…
1. Who has access to the new AI bottom bar? The AI bottom bar and the AI Inbox (in beta) for Google AI Ultra customers as of May 2026. The ‘Help Me Write’ enhancements (which will be upgraded) will be sent to AI Plus, Pro, and Workspace Business users. 2. What is happening with the…
AI PCs vs. traditional PCs: How AI-ready hardware is changing work For decades, office PCs have been judged by familiar measures: processor speed, battery life, storage, and how smoothly they handle everyday work like documents, spreadsheets, and file management. But as AI becomes more useful in everyday work and demand grows for on-device AI tools,…
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in coding is shifting the role of software development, but measuring lines of code is no longer a valid measure of developer productivity, a survey by AI software delivery platform Harness has found. The poll of 700 software developers and managers across the US, the UK, India, France…
Anthropic said that Claude for Small Business includes 15 ready-made agentic workflows designed for finance, operations, sales, marketing, HR, and customer service. It also comes with 15 built-in skills focused on common tasks that many small business owners struggle to manage daily. Claude for Small Business is said to work with popular platforms such as…
One of the sharpest examples for me came during a live payment infrastructure migration. On paper, that kind of work sounds like exactly the sort of thing AI should make easier. There were endpoints to draft, webhook handlers to write, payload mappings to compare, status flows to normalize and repetitive integration code that any modern…
Browser-based AI tools can streamline workflows, making it much easier for employees to summarize documents, draft content and streamline daily tasks. However, without clear safeguards, sensitive company information can be exposed through prompts, file uploads or integrations employees may not fully understand. And since many of these tools are easy to access outside traditional IT…
The episode is not merely a Silicon Valley curiosity. For HR leaders who are currently designing, implementing, or being asked to justify AI adoption programs — which is to say, most of them — it is a live demonstration of a failure mode that is easy to build and hard to reverse. What Amazon Built,…
By Daniel Lewis, Global CEO, LegalOn. Law firm AI is constrained by incentives that resist productivity. In-house legal operates in a model designed to reward it. Vast sums are being invested in AI products that aim to enhance legal efficiency, precision, and productivity by automating labor-intensive tasks. While individual lawyers are increasingly comfortable using these…
Malaysia’s enterprise AI readiness gap stems from fragmented data. AI deployment depends more on governed data than model choice. Malaysia’s plan to become a regional data and AI hub by 2030 is raising questions about whether enterprises have the data systems needed to deploy AI beyond pilots. Cecily Ng, Vice President and General Manager of…
