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Pascal Yammine is CEO of Zilliant, a leader in price optimization and management software for business.Every company has a pricing strategy. Most believe they’re executing it, but the reality is messier.When executives think about pricing risk, they tend to focus on the headlines: an annual price increase, a tariff response or a competitive repositioning. Boards debate these decisions, but the real damage rarely comes from a single bad call. Instead, it arises from dozens of small, disconnected decisions that no one tracks until the margin is already gone.The Compounding ProblemHere’s a scenario I hear repeatedly from customers and prospects. A…
When I moved into a house in upstate New York after years of living in apartments, I decided to get an old-fashioned reel mower—the kind you push yourself, with no engine to help—for the lawn. The exercise seemed like a good idea at the time. But after spending hours each week covering my half-acre lot, I decided to test the other extreme: a robot mower guided by GPS. Husqvarna, the Sweden-based company that pioneered robo-mowers three decades ago, let me try out one of its latest versions, the Automower 410iq. Like other robotic mowers, it’s electric, avoiding the noise and…
One of the last remaining classic 80s mecha anime to be released outside of Japan is now finally here, and Heavy Metal L-Gaim doesn’t disappoint.First aired on television in Japan back in 1984, Heavy Metal L-Gaim was a Yoshiyuki Tomino mecha anime unlike the rest.Not only did it take a surprisingly gritty and detailed approach to its mecha, but it also featured a new kind of character design for the time and a very different type of story.All of this was because, for all intents and purposes, this was an anime that was created and conceived by Mamoru Nagano.This is…
The security measure millions rely on to protect their accounts may not be as foolproof as they think.The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning the public about a fast-spreading scam targeting users of popular Microsoft 365 products, including Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive. The scheme allows cybercriminals to capture Microsoft authentication tokens, bypassing multifactor authentication without needing a user’s password. At the center of the scheme is a hacking platform called Kali365. Unlike traditional phishing attacks that rely on stealing credentials, Kali365 targets OAuth device codes—digital keys that allow applications to access data without requiring a password—giving cybercriminals access to Microsoft 365 accounts and a wide range of…
AI can transform businesses, but real-world failures at companies including Air Canada, Zillow, Samsung, CNET and IBM show how quickly things can go wrong.Adobe StockAI is already reshaping business, but it is also exposing some very expensive weaknesses.For all the excitement around generative AI, automation and intelligent decision-making, the technology is only as good as the strategy, governance and human judgment behind it. When those things are missing, AI can damage customer trust, leak confidential data, create legal headaches and turn small errors into very large bills.Here are five real-world AI mistakes, and the lessons every business leader should take…
Are you heads down, cranking out work, staying late, and hitting deadlines? Have you consistently brought major projects in under budget, but no one seems to notice? Are you devoted to your employer, yet aren’t being promoted, and worse, your male peers are? You’re experiencing the classic visibility problem. And you’re not alone. Despite women earning the majority of college degrees, they receive fewer promotions than men do at every level. And the problem begins with the first step on the so-called ladder to becoming a manager. According to McKinsey and LeanIn.Org’s Women in the Workplace 2025 report, for every…
Being at the forefront of beauty technology has been one of my brand’s greatest superpowers since day one. It has been fundamental to how we disrupted the beauty industry, allowing us to scale expertise, accelerate innovation and move at exponential speed. From the very beginning, I had a clear vision: technology would be a cornerstone of my consumer-first business strategy. My mission has always been to democratise beauty, removing barriers to entry and meeting customers wherever they are. I wanted to give people what they wanted, where they wanted it, and when they wanted it—making expert beauty advice and personalised…
Nadella argues that a learning loop is more powerful than an LLM. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)Getty ImagesMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella just articulated something most enterprises miss about their own AI future: the real competition isn’t which model you pick. It’s whether your organization learns from what it builds.Here’s the concept. A learning loop is a system that gets better every time it’s used, not because you upgraded the software, but because the system captured what happened, learned from it, and improved. Think of a surgeon. Her first surgeries take eight hours each. By surgery 500, four hours. She didn’t get…
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 13: Josh Hokit reacts to the crowd during the UFC Freedom 250 ceremonial weigh-in at The Ellipse on June 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)Zuffa LLCJosh Hokit’s intentionally offensive show keeps rolling. The UFC heavyweight title contender scored a one-sided second-round TKO win over a listless Derrick Lewis at UFC Freedom 250 on Saturday night at the White House. Hokit’s win was huge for his career, but per usual, the brash and performative American used his post-fight interview to call out Alex Pereira and to insult former first lady Michelle Obama.After Hokit…
When designing the stage for the UFC fights that will take place on the White House lawn on Sunday, June 14, there was one nonnegotiable feature: Viewers had to be able to see the White House in all its glory. To find a stage that could host a mixed martial arts bout without obstructing the view of the “People’s House,” ESPN reports that the government turned to a design called “The Claw.” Created by the Belgium-based event-staging company Stageco, the tent that’s being used made its debut at the 2017 Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. An aerial view of the…