Practical AI skills insights
Sullivan & Cromwell apologized to a federal judge after a court filing contained 42 AI-generated errors: fabricated citations, misquoted statutes, authorities that don't exist. The opposing firm caught them. Here's what that means for anyone using AI for research, reports, or client-facing work.
When Anthropic updated Claude to Opus 4.7, real-world token usage jumped roughly 40% — with no pricing announcement. Here's what that means for any team running AI workflows at any scale.
Anthropic launched Claude Design this week — AI that makes prototypes, pitch decks, and marketing assets through conversation. Whether the output is useful depends entirely on the brief you write.
Atlassian will start training AI on Jira and Confluence data in August 2026. Most plans are opted in by default. Here's what that means for your team and what to actually do about it.
Stanford's 2026 AI Index found AI still fails roughly 40% of real workplace tasks. That number isn't a reason to use AI less — it's why the person who can catch those failures is worth more than the one who just generates output.
In one week: Codex connected to 90+ business tools, Claude Code Routines went plain-English, and nine AI agents outperformed human researchers at $22 an hour. Nobody has the playbook yet. Here's where to start.
Dario Amodei says 50% of white-collar jobs gone. Yann LeCun says 5–10%. Nobody knows the real number — but every data point agrees on one thing: demonstrated AI skill is replacing résumé prestige as the hiring filter.
Sam Altman published a 13-page policy document calling for a four-day workweek. You can disagree with every proposal in it and still need to run the audit it implies: which day of your current week disappears if the hours shrink?
The hours you spent last year sharpening prompts are worth less this year. The skill that separates effective AI users in spring 2026 is management: scoping the task, writing the guardrails, and choosing where to step back in.
Andrej Karpathy published a system that turns a folder of raw notes into a living, self-updating wiki — without writing a word of it himself. The practical version is closer than you think.
BCG analysed 165 million US jobs. Only 10 to 15 percent face elimination — but 50 to 55 percent are being substantially reshaped. Here is the conversation that data should trigger with your manager this month.
Anthropic's Cowork, Perplexity's Comet, and ChatGPT in CarPlay all launched within weeks. AI agents are no longer a developer concept. Here's how to actually use them.
Companies over-delegating cognitive work to AI are eroding the human skills that made them competitive. The risk isn't replacement. It's atrophy.
AI just passed human baselines on desktop tasks. The people building with it most still review every output. The skill that matters now isn't prompting — it's supervision.
The biggest gap in AI adoption isn't technical knowledge — it's the practical skill of knowing when and how to use AI effectively at work.
OpenAI killed Sora and redirected compute toward automated researchers. That's a capital allocation signal about which knowledge work skills survive. Three specific ones to invest in now.
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