Former J.C. Penney CEO, Apple Store & Genius Bar Creator Ron Johnson on Learning from Steve Jobs, and the Future of Retail
I talk with Ron Johnson, creator of the Apple Store and Genius Bar, former J.C. Penney CEO, and author of Shop Different, about what really made Apple's retail strategy work. We get into his early car...
27 Jul 53min
OpenAI's AI Model Escapes Its Sandbox, Claude Opus 5 Launches, and Jensen Huang Starts the Open Weights Fight
July 24, 2026: I unpack the story of OpenAI's AI model escaping its sandbox and hacking into Hugging Face during a cyber stress test. Then I get into Anthropic's surprise launch of Claude Opus V, why ...
24 Jul 39min
Google and Adecco Reject AI Jobs Panic, AI Homework Crash Raises Big Questions, and Anthropic Explains Why Jobs Haven't Collapsed
July 23, 2026: I look at Google's Atlas study, which analyzed nearly 15 million Gemini interactions and found that AI use at work is broad but still shallow. Then I get into new research showing stude...
23 Jul 36min
Kyndryl CHRO Mark Paulek on on AI at Work, Employee Trust, and the Skills Leaders Need Now
I talk with Mark Paulek, Chief Human Resources Officer at Kyndryl, about how leaders should approach AI transformation without losing employee trust. We get into Kyndryl's People Readiness Report, the...
20 Jul 52min
China's Kimi K3 vs OpenAI & Anthropic, Gen Z AI Guilt at Work, and Your Best People May Leave
July 17, 2026: China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, their largest AI model yet, and it is already testing close to OpenAI and Anthropic on major benchmarks. Then I get into the AI guilt showing up am...
17 Jul 42min
I Predict Sam Altman Won't be CEO Next Year, New York Freezes Data Center, JLL Says AI Will Redesign Jobs
July 16, 2026: New JLL research shows most executives expect AI to grow their teams instead of shrink them, even as layoffs continue in AI-exposed industries. Then I get into New York becoming the fir...
16 Jul 38min
Humans Are Cheaper Than AI, Bank of America Claims AI ROI, and OpenAI Builds a Companion
July 15, 2026: Andreessen Horowitz's argues that AI is not simply replacing workers, it is turning every worker into a manager of agents. Then I get into Bank of America's claim that AI is already sho...
15 Jul 29min
AI's 2030 Payoff Problem, the Economist Civil War, and IBM's Worst Day Ever
July 14, 2026: Goldman Sachs' warns that the real AI productivity payoff may not arrive until 2030 at the earliest, because companies are buying the technology faster than they are redesigning work. T...
14 Jul 27min
