What a week in technology and even for those not in technology – because as the saying goes (to paraphrase), if technology sneezes, everyone catches a cold. Start-up AI companies have launched new features and that has tanked some tech stocks, roiled labour markets and generally contributed to the noise levels and hype around AI.

The articles below cover some of the more recent announcements and the impact they have had. Not all are recent or cover this topic only, innovation and how it is managed is covered too.

That’s also an important consideration I am highlighting in this post. These two topics together are so intertwined. When a new technology comes along that is so seemingly disruptive and embeds itself so deeply in our lives, at work or otherwise, we have to think how to respond. With fear or innovation. You decide.

Fear factor: Claude Cowork, techies no work?

Posted on February 5. The launch of Claude Cowork by AI giant Anthropic triggered a shock selloff tsunami on Wednesday that rippled rapidly across the world, with global …

Alibaba’s cofounder Joe Tsai shares 2 traits good employees should have

Posted on February 5. Innovation can be hard when you’ve been around a while, but instilling these two values in employees can help, says Alibaba’s cofounder and chairman. “We’ve gone through periods where we stopped innovating, and we suffer from it as a large company,” Joe Tsai said in an interview at Stanford …

Openclaw just showed how fast your workforce can outrun your controls

Posted on February 5. Openclaw, a rapidly adopted open-source and autonomous personal AI assistant, is significantly increasing “Shadow AI” risk within organisations by …

The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them

Posted on January 28. It took Rebecca Yu seven days to vibe code her dining app. She was tired of the decision fatigue that comes from people in a group chat not being able to decide where to eat. Armed with determination, Claude, and ChatGPT, Yu decided to just build a dining app from scratch — one that would recommend …

How Startups can be AI Pilled

Posted on January 28. This week, Parth and I discussed what it actually takes to become “AI native” as a startup — and why many teams are learning slower than necessary …

Enterprise technology predictions: What’s coming in 2026 – SiliconANGLE

Posted on January 25. At the beginning of each year, as is our tradition, we team up with Enterprise Technology Research to dig through the latest data and craft 10 …

From Monday.com to Wix, AI upheaval rattles Israel’s software industry

Posted on January 25. In 2011, Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world’s most successful venture capital firms, wrote his famous essay “Why …

2.5 billion prompts later, there is still no system

Posted on January 12. AI prompts feel productive, but real AI success depends on systems thinking and design. ChatGPT users send around 2.5 billion prompts a day. Across all …

The great AI hype correction of 2025

Posted on December 15. Four ways to think about this year’s reckoning Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, …