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The Doctor is in.
Imagine a world where an AI agent can explain your lab results, diagnoses, and medical records, and provide more accurate, personalized answers to questions about your symptoms and medication.
OpenAI launches 5.4 and improves GDPVal to 83%
The new version of ChatGPT brings a new round of sophistication to how it can be used in an organisational context including and improved ability to create and edit spreadsheets, presentations, and documents.
Scammers are working smarter, not harder with AI
The AI isn't creating new weaknesses in humans, it is widening existing ones.
Is AI coming for my job? Not yet, but it will, by stealth
Anthropic release a report on "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence" this week.
Your organisations dirty secret
Somewhere in your organisation is a PC running DOS, or a mainframe running a Cobol application.
Open AI recruits consulting firms.
Open AI announced this week that the "limiting factor for seeing value from AI in enterprises isn’t model intelligence, it’s how agents are built and run in their organizations."
Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
Have you ever been tempted to copy someone elses homework, rather than do the work yourself?
The price of ethics
This has been a big week for the discussion of ethics, AI and the Military.
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.