Arianna Huffington

Right now, 75% of Americans are anxious and afraid about AI. People are even bringing their concerns into their therapy sessions, sorting through everything from how AI impacts their jobs to more existential fears about humanity’s future. These concerns are real. But they’re only part of the story. To go deeper, I sat down with @DanielaAmodei. As president of @AnthropicAI, she is a unique figure in AI.

A powerful reframe. What habit will you start with?

At @Founders_Forum, Bloomberg's @EenaRuffini moderated our panel on “The Brave New World of Preventive Health and Peak Performance” with Dorothy Kilroy, Chief Commercial Officer of @ouraring, @HjalmarNilsonne, CEO of @Neko, and @DaphneKoller, CEO of @insitro. We explored questions at the heart of preventive health: With so much of the conversation focused on making AI more capable, are we investing enough in making humans more capable? Where does AI health hype end and reality begin? And with more health data available to us than ever, how do we know our numbers without being overwhelmed by them? There was one important through line: as we address big questions, the key is starting small. With preventive health and peak performance, the incremental is monumental. What matters is what we do consistently, not what we do occasionally.

For @nytimes, Callie Holtermann asked members of Gen Z what it's like to look for a job right now, and one feeling came up again and again: it's like staring into a void. Applications disappearing without a reply. Interviews conducted by chatbots. Rejections arriving two minutes after applicants hit submit. As one person summed up what so many are feeling: “Could someone please just give me a chance?” I know what rejection feels like. My second book was rejected by 37 publishers. By rejection 25, I had run out of money, and I remember walking, depressed, down St James Street in London and seeing a Barclays Bank. I walked in and, armed with nothing but a lot of Greek chutzpah, asked to speak to the manager and asked for a loan. Even though I had no assets, the banker, whose name was Ian Bell, gave me one. It changed my life, because it meant I could keep things together for another 13 rejections. And then finally I got an acceptance. So many of today’s applicants are describing a search where the human never appears. How can we find our humanity, our shared connection, around these tough moments? To everyone who has experienced rejection — and at some point, we all do — what’s your advice for Gen Z job-seekers? I’ll be reading and responding in the comments. Read the piece here: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

Is it rude when someone takes out their phone in a meeting and starts scrolling? Maybe. But it’s also feedback. It could be a sign that the meeting is boring. I love this take from @bingfish, co-founder of @EA and co-author, with his daughter Chloe Gordon, of Everybody Wins: What Games Teach Us About Making Products People Love. As someone who believes in asking “do we really need this meeting?” (and if the answer is yes, “can we make it 15 minutes instead of 30?”), I love Bing’s way of thinking. We’ve all been in meetings that lack a “wow” factor. Bing’s suggestion is to get creative. Try things out. Stand up, walk out of the room, and walk back in 30 seconds later and start over. And give yourself permission to ask: “If this wasn’t a business meeting, how would you uplevel this?” As he told @thrive's Erica Eliot, most people don’t even think they have the “right” to make meetings better. What’s one way you can uplevel your meetings?

I don't agree with Elmo on everything, but this is sage, science-backed advice.

As we marvel at AI’s recursive self-improvement, we can’t lose sight of the recursive self-improvement built into our humanity: our fundamental drive to grow, learn, improve and evolve. In my latest On My Mind newsletter, I share my interview with @AnthropicAI president @DanielaAmodei about why it’s essential to keep investing in humans and not placing all our bets on the machines. Plus, AI’s wake-up call for universities, two new books I love, a look at the new podcast trend you might not have noticed: prayer, and more. Read more here: linkedin.com/pulse/recursive…

Great joining Sonia Gardner and Marc Lasry at Avenue Capital’s annual global investor conference to talk about leadership and the need to elevate our daily behaviors (food, movement, sleep, stress management, connection) to improve our health, productivity and happiness.

I’m a menace at dinner parties because I always ask: "Do you know your numbers?" Thank you @doliver8 for this @USATODAY piece about knowing our key health numbers, why simplicity matters in the age of the quantified self, and how the Thrive 5 Health Test from @Labcorp can help us turn our awareness into action. usatoday.com/story/life/heal…

Thank you @katiecouric and Katie Couric Media for featuring my interview with @DanielaAmodei and carrying the conversation forward. We covered topics around relationships, health, wisdom, and whether AI, unlike social media, can nurture our better angels. And I’m still laughing about Daniela’s answer to my question, “What does your five-year-old think you do all day?” Link: katiecouric.com/health/arian…

Great to be at @paleycenter with @cantabusa. So many amazing memories, so much I owe to @Cambridge_Uni. Loved speaking with Professor Deborah Prentice, the first woman vice-chancellor, and two amazing alumna, @blythemasters and Sukanya Rajaratnam.

Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a busy man. He's a cardiologist, a professor at @TuftsMedSchool, and just wrote a new book, "Food as Medicine." So what does he do to stay nourished? Listen as he tells Tess Bredesen, our cognitive nutrition director, about a few easy recipes and Microsteps he personally uses on his busiest of days. Learn more in his new book, "Food Is Medicine": us.macmillan.com/books/97812…

The people who make work better rarely get credit. It's why we built Thrive Moments. Everybody Wins, his new book with Chloe Gordon, is out today. amazon.com/Everybody-Wins-Ma…

There’s nothing better than beginning a new collaboration with an organization that shares our vision and sense of possibility. Last week, we celebrated the start of our work together, bringing @bswhealth’s clinical expertise and @thrive’s behavior-change science together to help people turn healthy intentions into lasting habits. We share a belief that opportunities to support health don’t end when a patient leaves the doctor’s office. Health is shaped between visits, in everyday moments around food, movement, sleep, stress management, and connection. We’re grateful to the Baylor Scott & White leaders whose commitment is helping bring this work to life. Together, our teams are focused on creating meaningful daily support for customers.

Thanks to @nicvillalpando at the Austin American @Statesman for spotlighting our partnership with @bswhealth, the largest not-for-profit health system in Texas. As CEO Pete McCanna says, "Our customers' health is shaped by thousands of daily health and well-being decisions made outside the walls of our clinics and hospitals in between medical appointments.” Together, we are combining Baylor Scott & White's clinical expertise with @thrive's behavior change science to help people turn healthy intentions into sustainable habits. Because health is also what happens between doctor visits. statesman.com/news/healthcar…