AI in business

Cisco and UBS say becoming AI-native means redesigning work

Becoming AI-native is not a matter of adding agents to the tools a company already uses. At a discussion hosted by Next Endeavor in Mountain View on September 14–15, Cisco’s Denise Lee and UBS’s Joe Cordeira described a deeper shift: redesigning work around AI while keeping people in the process. Their examples point to a gap between building capable systems and changing how people actually work.

2026-10-14

Meta drops AI usage from reviews while pushing its Hatch agent

Meta has quietly taken AI usage out of the way it rates its own employees. New performance-review rules drop references to criteria such as "AI usage" and to AI-native status, replacing them with a looser formulation: the required results can be achieved with AI or by other means. Engineers across the company were told Meta will not use AI adoption dashboards or token counts to assess…

2026-09-19

Jotform's founder makes the case for AI-native startups

The founder of Jotform, who started the company two decades ago when AI still sounded like a technology from the future, has laid out five things he would do differently if he launched it today. His argument is not that founders should adopt AI tools faster. It is that the company itself — how work moves through it, who it hires, how fast it ships — should be assembled around human-AI…

2026-09-19