Society & Culture
The Brewers won the World Series on about $129 million against the Dodgers' $396 million. A study of R&D budgets explains the pattern: a floor matters, the top does not.
Society & Culture
The University of Kentucky excused a humanist from using AI at work. The exemption is narrower than it sounds, and its test was built for the draft.
Leadership
Microsoft's new buyout pays everyone by the same formula, set by tenure and level. Research on past buyouts, and the airline seat auction, show why that decides who leaves.
Economy
Apollo's chief economist says AI has paid off for the Mag 7 and not for the S&P 493. Factories in the 1890s had the same problem with electricity, and the fix wasn't patience.
Leadership
Accenture now funds $29 a month of Claude per person and sends the rest to project codes. That looks like a cut. It reads more like AI moving from overhead to a cost of the work.
Working Out Loud
Epic told the team on its delayed Disney shooter there would be no more hand-written code. The Pentagon required Ada for new software in 1987, watched programs ignore the waivers, and in 1997 switched to judging the engineering plan instead.
Working Out Loud
Andy Burnham called the UK's plan to curb non-competes a Bosman ruling for innovation. After Bosman, football contracts got longer. The fix only works if notice periods are capped too.
Business
The $25 billion IT export target is $15 billion of IT exports plus telecom and digitalisation. Reaching $15 billion by 2030 needs about 34% growth a year; Pakistan is growing at 17 to 20%.
Leadership
MongoDB answered every question after its CEO left for Meta, and the stock still fell 17%. Reassurance that costs nothing to give can't answer the question a sudden exit raises.
Business
From 1 October Microsoft charges 5% more for annual CSP software billed monthly, and calls it a cost of capital uplift. Treated as the loan it is, that comes to about 11% a year. Whether to pay it depends on what money costs you.
Engineering
Every public agent incident so far ends with the tool, the platform, the operator and the agent each blamed, each partly right. Teaching hospitals settled this before the patient arrives. What that means for agent runs.
Healthtech
A randomised trial put two ambient AI scribes head to head. One cut documentation time, one cut none, and both made the work feel better. Relief and throughput are not the same purchase.