CorporateStrategy

As Stripe and Advent enter deep negotiations to acquire PayPal for fifty-three billion dollars, we examine the ultimate corporate exit strategy: simply ceasing to exist.

Microsoft's quiet transition to its own in-house AI models in Excel and Outlook reveals a grand corporate truth: superintelligence is lovely, but a cheaper electric bill is even better.

As Bolt pivots to an AI-first strategy while simultaneously forgetting to pay its cloud bills, we examine the rise of the AI Alibi and the whimsical absurdity of paying staff in future-dated lottery tickets.

FedEx has decided that its 400,000 employees should probably understand what a neural network is, preferably before the next shift starts.

OpenAI signals a shift from silicon oracle to corporate clerk as it preps for a year-end IPO and a new life as a productivity tool.

Atlassian decides that 1,600 humans are a small price to pay for a slightly more articulate Jira.

A look at the recursive management style of xAI and the curious decision to treat a coding assistant like a multi-stage orbital vehicle.

Jack Dorsey has decided that 4,000 of his employees are, in fact, better represented by a very sophisticated series of spreadsheets.