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Will monitoring AI adoption improve leadership selection?
The team at Accenture think so. The Financial Times has reported that the firm plans to use, the use of AI, in its selection of leaders.
2026 AI in Professional Services Report
The recent report by Thomson Reuters into how AI is being used in Professional Services is unsurprising. GenAI is normalising across legal, tax, risk, and government, with 2026 being the point where it becomes mainstream.
AI is changing the way we speak
Language evolves through usage, and is influenced by popular culture and social proof, so it should be unsurprising that our unscripted language is being biased by AI.
Do you know when you are talking to a bot?
More and more, when you ring an organisation, an AI agent is answering your call. You might think you could spot them, with their not-quite human cadence and tone, but these days it is much much harder.
Is AI destroying our Institutions.
A team at Boston University has given the blueprint for how AI is destroying our institutions.
AI job displacement
Researchers at Brookings have been looking deeper into the ability of the US population to adapt to the inevitable AI displacement. It is fascinating reading.
Are we cognitively surrendering to AI?
A fascinating paper by the team at the Wharton Behavioural Lab, on how our brains are being shaped by the accessibility of AI.
Keeping a Tomato Plant Alive
This is one of those wholesome, expensive as as test, but very scalable uses of AI.
Claude Sabotage Risk Report
If your child was to come home with a school report that read something along the lines of ...
How does AI impact human relationships
A team at Princeton have set about researching how the use of AI Companion Chatbots impacts human relationships.
Onboard your 'Agents' like your people.
Imagine a world where you can onboard your AI agents, just like your people, with the right policies, guardrails, permissions and performance reviews.
Creating new materials (the physical kind)
MIT researchers in the field of Materials Science and Engineering have been using AI to create libraries of theoretical materials that could help solve all kinds of problems.
Is your LLM your new competitor?
If you are a software company, selling for example legal services, investing heavily in AI solutions, then there is a good chance that you woke up with a headache yesterday and the sense that your market might disappear overnight.
An Essay from Dario
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published 'The Adolescence of Technology,” an essay that lays out what he sees as the biggest dangers of AI, from bioterrorism and autonomous weapons to mass job loss and AI-powered dictatorships.
Is AI coming for your job?
Microsoft published research in December, highlighted the Top 40 jobs they thought were are risk of being replaced by AI.
Wikipedia licenses its content
On Jan 15, Wikipedia's owner confirmed that it has agreed licensing arrangements with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon. It had previously agreed licensing with Google back in 2022, along with Perplexity and Mistral AI.
Anthropic create an incubator lab
In January, Anthropic (Claude) announced the opening of their incubator lab 'a team focused on incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude’s capabilities.'
A network for AI Agents
Imagine what would happen if AI agents created their own Reddit and started chatting to each other, creating subforums and building communities with common beliefs.
The Widening AI Value Gap
Back in September, BCG published their 'The Widening AI Value Gap' report, to highlight what the winners and losers in the race to be AI native were doing, what was working and what wasn't.