Catégorie : Strategy

  • LukeW | The Receding Role of AI Chat

    LukeW | The Receding Role of AI Chat

    While chat interfaces to AI models aren’t going away anytime soon, the increasing capabilities of AI agents are making the concept of chatting back and forth with an AI model to get things done feel archaic. Let me first clarify that I don’t mean open-ended text fields where people declare their intent are going away.…

  • Google kills the checkout

    Why this is the beginning of the end for e-commerce as we know it. Google’s new agentic checkout isn’t just killing pages, it’s killing entire business models.Google introduced « Shop with AI mode ».You can now shop and buy without ever visiting a retailers website.This isn’t about payments.It’s about who owns the customer. And Wall Street noticed:…

  • Paul Smith’s 10 Tips On How To Build A Successful Brand That Lasts

    SHAUN JAMES COXAhead of the final round of the BFC/Vogue Fashion Fund selection process, Paul Smith invited the seven finalists to stop by his London studio to pick his brains on how best to prepare and what it takes to play the fashion long game. Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY, Grace Wales Bonner, Rosh Mahtani of Alighieri,…

  • US Marines AI Implementation Plan | Stuart Winter-Tear | 148 comments

    Huh. Turns out the best enterprise AI playbook I’ve read this year comes from the US Marines. And it’s one every organisation should study. While most companies are still tinkering with LLM demos or siloed innovation labs, the Marine Corps published a masterclass in how to implement AI at scale – with clarity, urgency, and…

  • How a Five-Person AI Team Is Powering Innovation at The New York Times: In Conversation with Zach Seward

    How a Five-Person AI Team Is Powering Innovation at The New York Times: In Conversation with Zach Seward

    Zach Seward speaks during a live recording of the Newsroom Robots podcast at the AI Leadership Summit in Detroit. (Credit: Nick Hagen) When The New York Times appointed Zach Seward as its first Editorial Director of AI Initiatives in late 2023, he stepped into the role just as the paper was making headlines—for suing OpenAI…

  • Neil Vogel on Google Zero

    The media business is about to enter AI mode. In the latest episode of The Rebooting Show, I speak with Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel. We spoke during the keynote session earlier this month at the Media Product Forum, which was a collaboration between The Rebooting and WordPress VIP. I appreciate that Neil is a…

  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift

    The head of Google discusses the next AI platform shift and how it could change how we use the internet forever. Today, I’m talking with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. We recorded this conversation in person after the Google I/O developer conference last week in what’s becoming a bit of a Decoder tradition. This…

  • Next-Gen Hospitality Tech: Agent-Powered and Adaptive

    We’ve come a long way. Hospitality tech entered the modern era. We’ve moved beyond monolithic systems and now build with API-first platforms, modular stacks, and composable frontends. Technology can finally support—not slow down—guest experience and hotel operations. With microservices and Kubernetes, we’re building systems that move at the speed of hospitality. But something is coming…

  • Ranking is becoming an illusion. The future of visibility is semantic… | Markus Franz | 24 comments

    Ranking is becoming an illusion. The future of visibility is semantic. Especially for journalism. Google no longer thinks in headlines. It thinks in conversations. Questions do not stand alone anymore. They emerge from context. And AI connects them. This is what Query Fan-Out means. Google’s AI breaks every search into a web of follow-up questions.…

  • Xavier Desaulles: ‘The aparthotel sector is growing faster than the traditional hotel one’

    Xavier Desaulles: ‘The aparthotel sector is growing faster than the traditional hotel one’

    What would you say about Adagio’s performance in 2024 and the first half of 2025? Xavier Desaulles: One word: rollercoaster. It’s no surprise, but I can confirm that we went into 2024 very confident, thinking that this year would be a continuation of 2023. This has not turned out to be the case. The first…