Technical teams were supposed to feel the benefits of AI first. They live inside the systems where it runs, and many of them are the ones building it. Access isn’t the barrier: Nearly every technical worker already has AI writing, coding, summarization, and copilot tools at their fingertips, and

Marketing teams love their AI, and who can blame them? Marketers report some of the highest AI impact of any professional function. Eighty-six percent say AI helps them feel more accomplished, and 88% say it makes ambiguous, difficult work easier to start, exactly the kind of work that fills

by Giles Douglas, CISO What if your biggest security risk isn’t malicious hackers but well-meaning employees trying to keep pace with modern work? Superhuman’s Human + Technology Experience Index found that nearly 75% of employees use unsanctioned tools at work, and 65% go looking for unofficial AI on

Most enterprise AI conversations happen about two steps removed from reality: in board decks and vendor pitches, where the story is always promising. Closer in—inside the actual workflows, budgets, and security decisions—the picture is more complicated: Spend is rising, adoption is uneven, and ROI is genuinely hard to

by Heather Breslow, Senior Director of Research at Superhuman There’s a well-documented pattern in psychology: The more we encounter something, the more we tend to like it. Songs grow on you. Faces you recognize feel more trustworthy. Familiar brands feel safer. When Pew Research identified familiarity as the

I've had a version of the AI-in-higher-ed conversation in a lot of different rooms. Each conversation tends to follow familiar beats—the anxiety, the cautious optimism, the question underneath every question: are we doing this right? When I had the opportunity to travel with the

When it comes to the promise of AI productivity, it's easy to feel two things at once: excitement about these tools’ potential…and a sense that we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. With AI's help, people can certainly do more and create more.

The theme of this year's ASU+GSV was the power of fusion. And honestly, it was the most accurate description I've seen of what's actually working in AI and higher education right now. Not AI in isolation or institutions waiting for the perfect playbook.

Today’s founders must face the same reality that the fundamental principles of building a company — what to build, who to hire, how to sell — are being rewritten in real time. At the same time, the hype cycle is in full swing. AI wrappers are raising rounds on thin moats.