From customer operations and service design to governance, automation and employee experience, leaders across the community are describing growing pressure to “just do AI” — often without the organizational readiness, operational clarity or human-centered architecture required to make it successful.

It’s not easy to raise capital as a founder. Sixty-four percent of female founders still describe their gender as having held them back or as an obstacle, according to a new report from the pre-seed fund January Ventures. And yet, for the first time since this report began in 2019, men and women founders are equally as optimistic about fundraising. A longtime “gender pessimism” gap has closed.

Celebrities are learning the hard way that the AI discourse is toxic.

Reshma Saujani had the attention of the room. Executives, investors and advocates packed in a Midtown Manhattan office on a Wednesday morning. This is the kind of crowd that had spent the past year losing sleep over artificial intelligence, tariffs and supply chains.

As artificial intelligence, or AI, becomes more integrated into our daily lives, a study from Harvard University suggests women are using it significantly less in the workplace than men, which may have professional consequences.

Research shows the gender gap holds across all regions, sectors, and occupations.

The AI revolution isn't ahead of us; it's here. But, for a technology that's been heralded as the future, it risks bringing with it problems from the past.