Victoria’s Secret CEO rejected ‘woke-washing’ and endless sales cycles—and it’s paying off
One year ago, Victoria’s Secret was in free fall. Since spinning off from L Brands (now Bath & Body Works) in 2021, the stock had cratered from $57 to barely…
AI may already be adding hundreds of billions to the economy—without showing up in the data
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…The AI economy has a measurement gap…Anthropic files IPO paperwork…Meta bets on subscriptions and enterprise to monetize AI…and AI-generated fake citations…
Mounting evidence suggests remote work is behind the Gen Z hiring nightmare. Even the New York Fed thinks so
Just a few years ago, remote work was something like a matter of life or death. In the pandemic-stricken early years of the 2020s, most white-collar workers who fled to…
Chipotle COO calls hiring one of the ‘most painful processes’—so his AI bot ‘Ava Cado’ cut it from 12 days to 4
In high-turnover industries like fast casual food, recruiting workers can feel like a never-ending cycle of onboarding and offboarding. Even Chipotle—one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains in the country—isn’t immune.…
Should you treat AI agents as colleagues? Fortune 500 executives can’t settle the debate
The debate over how to integrate AI agents into the workplace has produced no shortage of frameworks, mandates, and org-chart overhauls. And this week at Fortune’s COO Summit, it produced…
U.S. Soccer is using AI to scout 70 million teenagers. The former consulting CEO running the federation calls it a ‘paradigm shift’ for the sport
For 30 years, American soccer has been the sport of the almost. Almost breaking through. Almost finding its footing. Almost fielding the team its passionate, fast-growing fan base deserves. The…
Anthropic’s office launched an AI-run vending machine. It evolved into AI-run stores and cafes within a year
What started as a modest experiment at Anthropic’s San Francisco office has become one of the more striking demonstrations of autonomous AI in the real world. Andon Labs installed an…
New jobs report shows 7.6 million jobs added in April as layoffs and people quitting their jobs both fell
U.S. job openings jumped in April as the labor market looked resilient despite economic uncertainty caused by the Iran war. U.S. employers posted 7.6 million job vacancies in April, the…