Who Will Brief The Board?
More layoffs of non-tech management, and other AI Headlines for Boards and Brands
The news today that Big Tech continues to shed jobs is a timely lead-in to my recent post on Board-level awareness of GenAI. Trading non-technical management for more engineers, data centers, and speed-to-market makes sense, but also, it leaves the Board with even fewer partners in Management to translate the progress of a company’s AI journey.
On to today’s AI headlines and research for Boards and Brand Leaders. Happy scrolling and have a good weekend.
AI in Business and Professional Services
AI in Professional Services: Finding the Perfect Balance. DB Services
Balancing AI Efficiency with Human Judgment in M&A Due Diligence. www.koleyjessen.com
Transforming banking: AI innovations reshaping the industry. Fintech News
AI in business intelligence: Caveat emptor. AI News
As Execs Eye AI for Fraud Detection, Deloitte Predicts Billions in Savings. Carrier Management
10 AI Use Cases in Private Equity. Medium
How AI can help you finally demolish your business's mounting technical debt. ZDNET
AI Agents Are Changing The Way Businesses Connect With Customers In 2025. Forbes
Your Observability Platform Has a Blind Spot: Don't Risk Your Operations on Bolt-on Incident Response Modules. PagerDuty
Why Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach believes the future of payments is in the hands of consumers. Fortune
Demystifying AI: Turn complexity into clarity. Fintech News
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AI in Recruitment and the Workplace
Use of AI in Recruitment and Hiring - Considerations for EU and US Companies. www.gtlaw.com
Gen AI use at work saps our motivation even as it boosts productivity, new research shows. ZDNET
LastPass can now monitor employees' rogue reliance on shadow SaaS. ZDNET
Would You Hire For This Role If AI Could Do The First Draft?. Forbes
Why Microsoft is cutting roles despite strong earnings. AI News
What does a Technical Lead do?. Discussion of the roles and…. Medium
AI Regulation and Policy
Ministers block Lords bid to make AI firms declare use of copyrighted content. the Guardian
(A)Identify Yourself: State Bills Would Require Notification When Interacting with AI. www.mayerbrown.com
House budget bill would put 10-year pause on state AI regulation. Route Fifty
California v Colorado: How two states leading AI legislation are approaching it differently. Route Fifty
AI Agents In Focus: Technical and Policy Considerations. Center for Democracy and Technology
FDA AI deployment: Innovation vs oversight in drug regulation. AI News
Publishers Tackle AI Scraping-It's Not Going Well. A Media Operator
NY lawmakers ask House GOP not to block AI regulations. City & State NY
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AI Development and Technology
Future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says • The Register. www.theregister.com
AI #116: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Don't Worry About the Vase
Recent Advances in Machine Learning: Efficiency, Interpretability, and Robustness. DEV Community
AI can spontaneously develop human-like communication, study finds. the Guardian
PwC Releases Executive Guide on Agentic AI: A Strategic Blueprint for Deploying Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems in the Enterprise. MarkTechPost
AI agents bring big risks and rewards for daring early adopters, says Forrester. ZDNET
AI in Specific Industries/Applications
Transforming Not-for-Profit Board Governance With Artificial Intelligence. ACCESSWIRE Newsroom
NY Times revisits Nobel Prize winner’s prediction AI will render radiologists obsolete. Radiology Business
AI reduces CT lung cancer screening workload by nearly 80%. Health Imaging
Meet ‘Ask Indiana,’ state government’s new AI chatbot. Route Fifty
What GenAI Tools Can and Can’t Do for Presentations. MIT Sloan Management Review
Generative AI and LLMs
ChatGPT Diminishes Idea Diversity in Brainstorming, Study Finds. slashdot.org
Ideation with Generative AI-in Consumer Research and Beyond. OUP Academic
New Google Cloud certification in generative AI. Google Cloud Blog
Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing. TechCrunch
Me Being ChatGPT's Therapist : CuriousSagi via Superhuman www.reddit.com
Weeks after Amazon's Alexa+ AI launch, a mystery: Where are the users?. ETTelecom.com
AI in Marketing and Advertising
How Strong Marketing Operations can Boost ROI. www.conveyormg.com
Former Google, MNTN Execs Raise $5.5M to Help Brands Build TV Ads With AI. www.adweek.com
Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes, and marketing assets. TechCrunch
Amid Tight Budgets and Industry Gloom, Publicis Wants To Make Cannes Count For Clients. www.adweek.com
AI Commentary and Research
Artificial Sweeteners: The Dangers of Sycophantic AI. Tech Policy Press
Research Shows Leaders Are Optimistic About AI. The Horizons Tracker
Ethan Mollick. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. Sage Journals
Despite AI challenges, CEOs say they are doubling down on investments. CIO Dive
How human connection drives innovation in the age of AI. Biz School Pubs
AI and User Experience
The first-ever UX Study of Google’s AI Overviews: The Data We've All Been Waiting For. www.growth-memo.com
Most users only read top third of Google AI Overviews. PPC Land
AI Events and Training
Buy one ticket at $210 savings, get the second at 50% off at Sessions: AI. TechCrunch
NC TECH hosts an AI-focused State of Tech EXPO. WRAL TechWire