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  • Boss Class 1. Fat layer of humans
    Jan 31 2026

    Can AI do my job? How should employees and bosses be using the technology right now? And how should all of us prepare for the future?


    Andrew Palmer returns for a third season of Boss Class. This time it’s all about AI. In the first episode, he starts introducing AI into his daily work routines, and receives a nasty shock.


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    In this episode, Andrew asks Claude, a generative AI programme, to write his management column for him. You can find Andrew’s column here and Claude’s version here.


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    36 min
  • Democracy on ICE? The mood turns in America
    Jan 30 2026

    On the streets of Minneapolis, in polls and in the halls of Congress, disapproval of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is mounting. Democrats won a near-term battle on funding—for now—but a wider war awaits. Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, appears to be positioning his daughter ever more visibly as his successor. And remembering Mark Tully, a veteran BBC correspondent in India.


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    27 min
  • Interview: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI
    Jan 29 2026

    A conversation about the potential and limits of AI agents with the co-founder of Sierra, an agentic customer-service company. Bret Taylor, who is also the chairman of OpenAI, tells Andrew Palmer about the imperfections of the technology, the competition between model-makers and vendors, and how he uses AI to manage.


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    34 min
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