Launching an AI pilot is easy compared with running it reliably at scale. In McKinsey's 2026 global survey, only 37% of respondents said AI had improved their company's earnings, the same as a year earlier, even though eight in ten credited it with other benefits.
Elon Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every child in the United States. The pledge follows Anthropic's announcement of a public benefit fund, and other tech moguls have also funded savings accounts for children.
Drawing on the history of technological change, from telephone switchboards to personal computers, CNBC argues that AI's spread is likely to hit women's employment harder than men's.
Employees sometimes use AI without permission to get around ill-suited tools. This opinion piece suggests such unofficial uses mainly reveal what makes their work needlessly complicated.
AI agents are increasingly using Link, Stripe's payment service, to shop on behalf of their users, Upstarts Media reports. Stripe has not disclosed any figures.
CNBC's morning briefing notes that investors are buying on Monday even as fears persist that the worst for AI stocks is not over.