๐Ÿ’ผ Business & Startups

July 5th, 2026

Today's top 2 stories, curated by Daily Direct.

Fortune

The CEO using AI to double revenue with 1,000 fewer hires: โ€˜Nobodyโ€™s going to replace the last mileโ€™

A CEO is leveraging AI to scale revenue without scaling headcount, crediting the technology with enabling dramatic efficiency gains across his organization. But Werzyn is candid about the limits: a recent conversation with Claude ended in a hallucination, a reminder that human judgment remains essential at the critical final step. The strategy isn't AI instead of people โ€” it's AI until the point where only people will do.

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Fortune

Appleโ€™s next CEO will oversee a $4 trillion tech giant, but isnโ€™t on LinkedIn. Can todayโ€™s leaders still skip social media?

Tim Cook's potential successor will inherit one of the world's most valuable companies โ€” and a growing expectation that top executives perform their leadership as much as they practice it. Social media has become an unofficial requirement for modern CEOs, offering direct access to stakeholders and a personal brand that can shape company perception. But a new generation of executives is pushing back, questioning whether constant visibility enhances leadership or simply distracts from it.

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