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The Cage That Leaked: Why the Summer's Two AI Containment Failures By OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not the Same Story
In July 2026, at two of the most capable artificial-intelligence laboratories in the world, a boundary meant to contain their models during internal safety testing failed, and in both cases the models reached real systems on the open internet. It would be easy to file the two events as a single story: two labs, one summer, the same lesson. That reading would be a mistake, and understanding the difference between the two events is the most useful thing an executive can take fr
Aug 47 min read
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Machine-Readability is the New Bottom Line
A recent headline from the World Economic Forum suggests AI Agents are a $236 billion economy in the making . Soon, humans may become the minority online, replaced by autonomous agents negotiating, buying, and selling on our behalf. While we’ve spent the last few years chasing AI productivity, efficiency is useless if you're invisible. The real strategic prize is the Identity Dividend: transforming your organization from a collection of documents and web pages into a machine-
Jan 214 min read
How Leaders Will Use AI as a Strategic Peer in 2026
For the past few years, we’ve treated AI like a high-speed encyclopedia or a glorified intern, useful for answering questions, drafting emails, or summarizing long PDFs. We called it "Prompt Engineering," but in reality, it was just a more sophisticated form of Q&A. In 2026, we predict the end of the 'Ask and Receive' era. Forward-thinking leaders will move beyond AI as a high-speed utility and will instead engage it as a strategic adversary. This shift is a direct response t
Jan 24 min read
15 Lessons from a Transformative Year
In 2025, artificial intelligence evolved from a promising experiment into the backbone of modern infrastructure. As execution gained incredible momentum and information became more accessible than ever, traditional leadership roles underwent a powerful transformation. Rather than sticking to old scripts, leaders embraced a new era of agility and insight, discovering fresh patterns through real-world experience. Here are 15 lessons from this year that empower leaders to thrive
Dec 26, 20254 min read
The Two Waves AI Transformation
The conversation around AI often stalls at a simple question: "Will it replace us?" Research by Severin Sorensen suggests this binary is misleading. Instead, we are entering a two-wave transformation that moves from the digital desk to the physical world. For business leaders and executive coaches, understanding these waves is the difference between proactive growth and sudden obsolescence. Wave 1: The Cognitive Evolution (2024–2030) We are currently in the first wave, drive
Dec 23, 20254 min read
Bloom’s Taxonomy for AI Capability
Your customer service team wants to “use AI.” But what does that actually mean? Do they need a system that can recall product specifications? Interpret customer sentiment across thousands of interactions? Or, generate tailored resolution strategies in real time? \Without a shared framework to describe levels of AI capability, organizations struggle to match business needs with the right technical solutions. The result is often misalignment: either investing in systems more so
Dec 17, 20254 min read
50 AI Use Cases To Architect for Advantage in 2026
The companies pulling ahead aren't running more AI projects. They're running different ones. They've moved from isolated point solutions to integrated systems where AI agents decide, execute, and learn. Consider a supply chain disruption. The lagging approach: AI flags the risk, sends an alert, waits for human intervention. The leading approach: AI detects the anomaly, assesses alternative suppliers, recalculates routes, simulates financial impacts, drafts stakeholder communi
Dec 12, 20254 min read
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