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Building a second-wave AI business
The first wave of AI is about efficiency. Fewer people, lower costs, faster processes. But efficiency has a ceiling. You can only cut costs so far, and someone will always promise to do it cheaper. The second wave is about creating value. New products, new markets, new business models, new customer experiences, and opportunities that were previously impossible. That is where AI becomes genuinely transformational. The biggest opportunity with AI is not doing the same things cheaper, but creating something people are willing to pay more for.
Challenge your leadership team to identify three new sources of value that AI makes possible. Not cost savings. New revenues, new capabilities or entirely new markets. Then test one.
The other scenario prompts you will find here:
The Productivity Trap: How Shadow AI Impacts Productivity, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk
Across North America and Europe, employees are adopting generative AI faster than many organizations can govern it.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-productivity-trap-how-shadow-ai-2777946/
Blueprinting The Data Highway: AI Architecture At Scale
Enterprises have poured billions into faster models, smarter agents and sharper algorithms. Think of these as high-performance vehicles with bigger engines, wider tires and better aerodynamics. However, most organizations are trying to drive them through an overgrown jungle of data silos, slow retrieval paths and ungoverned access with no bridges between cloud and edge.
An AI-cloned free tool is being dubbed the end of software
Earlier this month, a small team of developers used AI tools to create near-identical, free versions of two commonly used products: Microsoft Office, with programs such as Word and Excel, and Adobe Creative, which includes Photoshop.
AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now
More than half of senior leaders say they find it harder to evaluate employees’ work after adopting AI, according to a Nielsen survey of 1,700 directors and senior managers across seven countries
The AI Summit New York Identifies 10 Trends Shaping the Next Era of Enterprise AI
Multi-agents, governance, edge, sovereignty, and infrastructure economics.
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/ai-summit-york-identifies-10-144700157.html
Spatial Reasoning in AI Models, Taken Apart
Grid puzzles that people solve almost perfectly show where language and vision models still break
https://towardsdatascience.com/spatial-reasoning-in-ai-models-taken-apart/
Scientists Say AI Can Plant False Memories—and It’s Slowly Decaying Your Mind
Study after study shows that humans reliant on AI will misremember past events or even fabricate details completely.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a74183603/ai-false-memories/
