How Productivity & AI combine to boost daily work. Track Copilot, Notion AI, Grammarly, and workflow automation—plus tips, reviews, and rollout stories from real teams. Learn when these tools help, how to measure gains, and how to roll out safely.
1,600 small and midsize business leaders say they want AI, yet many admit they are not ready to deploy it. That tension sits at the heart of the SAS pitch today: anchor AI in governance and real decisions, not just demos. The company is backing that with a new sports deal, a global readiness report, […]
On April 13, 2026, Stanford HAI published “Inside the AI Index: 12 Takeaways from the 2026 Report,” a brisk summary that says the field has hit breakthrough capabilities while raising hard questions about costs and accountability. The piece, by Shana Lynch, frames the AI Index 2026 as a story of rapid capability gains paired with […]
“Should I Turn Off the Internet?” is the newest Deep Questions episode on Apple Podcasts, where Cal Newport interviews journalism professor Chris Moody about life in a cabin with no internet, television, or cellular signal. According to the show’s Apple Podcasts listing, Newport’s series carries a 4.8 rating from 1.3K reviews and focuses on how […]
Nicholas Bloom of Stanford and Josh Lerner of Harvard co-direct the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship initiative. On its program page, the NBER says the group studies “firm-level and economy-wide forces that determine productivity,” with emphasis on innovation, patenting, entrepreneurship, and the formation of new firms. The same page now highlights […]
Where SAS Viya Copilot fits in daily work SAS says a global survey of 1,600 small and midsize business leaders shows a gap between AI ambition and action. That is the setup for SAS Viya Copilot, a conversational tool the company positions inside the data and AI life cycle. The pitch is straightforward: bring chat-style […]
As of July 2026, Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) is spotlighting two moves in plain sight: a research tool called PsychAdapter and a policy brief on real-time oversight in hospitals. The first promises finer control over how AI talks. The second pushes for continuous checks on algorithms that read medical images. Taken together, […]
Deep Questions with Cal Newport holds a 4.8 rating from 1.3K reviews on Apple Podcasts. The latest episode, titled “Can I Be a Digital Minimalist in 2026? | Monday Advice,” asks whether advice from his 2019 playbook still works amid TikTok and ChatGPT, according to the show’s listing on Apple Podcasts. On the Deep Questions […]
Google is positioning the Gemini Spark agent as a persistent helper that works in the background even when your phone and laptop are off. The company’s product page describes a system that can run scheduled routines, learn reusable “skills” from your content, and request approval before high‑impact steps. It’s coming soon, but the shape of […]
On June 27, 2026, the Harvard Business Review Ideas & Advice front page clustered AI stories around one theme: the human bottleneck. Headlines warned that AI is loading up the middle, that managers are struggling to keep pace, and that one growing risk is “letting AI think for you.” The message is blunt. Tools are […]
