7 "Essential" Enterprise AI News Items for Week March 10-14
Do you know all of these? Are you staying current?
Competitive advantage in the Age of AI requires you and your team to stay current. Yes, it’s difficult.
We are here to help. Here are enterprise AI articles that our AI analysts rated “Essential” from last week.
What leaders should know about ‘bring your own AI - MIT Sloan Management Review
Rating rationale: This article examines the growing trend of employees bringing their own AI tools into the workplace and the implications for enterprise security and efficiency. Analysts emphasized the need for AI governance strategies to manage risks while still enabling productivity gains.
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value - McKinsey
Rating rationale: McKinsey’s report provides an in-depth analysis of how organizations are adapting to AI, focusing on centralized governance strategies while maintaining decentralized innovation. The discussion highlighted how AI adoption is accelerating at the executive level, with a particular emphasis on balancing risk and governance with innovation.
The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication
Rating rationale: Sakana AI’s 'AI Scientist' has successfully produced a peer-reviewed scientific paper, passing a blind review process without human alteration. This milestone signals a major advancement in AI-driven research, reinforcing predictions that AI will soon handle a significant portion of high-level cognitive work, with profound implications for industries reliant on expert knowledge production.
Rating rationale: A case study from AWS highlights how CreditAI reduced financial analysis costs by 75% while boosting engagement by 250%, demonstrating AI’s transformative impact on regulated industries. The comprehensive technical and business insights make this a must-read for AI leaders navigating enterprise AI adoption, particularly in financial services.
America Is Missing the New Labor Economy and is behind China in AI+ Physical Robots - SemiAnalysis
Rating rationale: SemiAnalysis provides an in-depth analysis of how robotics and AI are forming a new industrial cluster, arguing that the U.S. is lagging behind China in this crucial area. This article is essential because it highlights the intersection of automation, national economic strategy, and AI-driven intelligence, outlining how the fusion of robotics and AI is poised to redefine global labor dynamics.
OpenAI’s New Tools for Building Agents - Open AI
Rating rationale: OpenAI has announced a suite of new tools for building AI agents, including an agent SDK, observability tools, and built-in web search, file search, and computation capabilities. The key takeaway is that OpenAI is making a major push into agentic AI, reinforcing its dominance in the market with a streamlined, developer-friendly framework that integrates multiple functionalities without unnecessary complexity.
Rating rationale: Manus AI developed by a Chinese start-up, is a new general AI agent that integrates capabilities such as deep research, multi-browser control, and code execution into a seamless system. Analysts noted that while it builds on existing AI automation tools, its ability to perform complex multi-step tasks in an agentic workflow makes it a must-know development for AI leaders.
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I’ve been raving about OpenAI Deep Research product for weeks — put in a prompt, wait 10 minutes and get a 15 page research paper will full citations. Now it’s available in the $20/mo. This is great example of AI agents acting without human-in-the-loop today with an in-production GenAI application — simply stunning.
Register here for this massive AI Summit at MIT Apr 15. Tickets are free. Dr. John Sviokla and I are both speaking.
Sponsor or attend our 3rd Annual conference, GAI World 2025, celebrating and learning from corporate leaders IN PRODUCTION with GenAI applications. Our conference is Sep 29-30 in Boston (we sold out the last 2 years). More info here
GAI World occurs Sep 29-30 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston
This conference focus on celebrating and learning from companies in-production with enterprise GenAI
Audience titles; Board member, CEO, SVP Digital, Chief Innovation Office, CTO, CDO, and AI team leads
800 attendees, 120 speakers, 60 case studies, 15 AI startups, 30 exhibitors
The conference includes multiple networking events including a Women in AI breakfast and a Celebrating Black Pioneers lunch
What highlight video and all the energy from our 2024 sold out conference here.
Speakers from the 2024 conference. The speakers for GAI World 2025 will be of similar quality
Shikhar Ghosh, Professor, Harvard Business School
Sheila Jordan, SVP Chief Digital Technology Officer, Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON)
Melissa Smith, CEO, WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Dr. Thomas Kingsley, Professor of Medicine & Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic
Kjersten Margaret Moody, Global Chief Data Officer, Prudential (NYSE: PRU)
Bill Fandrich, EVP and CTO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Jean Olive, CIO, John Hancock, division of Manulife Financial Corp (NYSE: MFC)
Karen Stroup, Chief Digital Officer, WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Andy Fanning, VP Global Head of AI, Evernorth Health Services/ The Cigna Group (NYE:CI)
Sandeep Sacheti, ex-EVP CIO, Wolters Kluwer
Badri Raghavan, VP AI/ML, ResMed (NYSE: RMD)
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi, Chief Investment Officer for Global Equities, UBS
Sri Elaprolu, Director, GenAI Innovation Center, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Igor Jablokov, CEO, Pryon
Ramesh Raskar, Professor and Director Media Lab, MIT
Jose Pedro Almeida, named World’s Top 70 Health AI leaders
Ishita Anil, Partnerships, Cohere
Yasmina Benkhoui, Senior Manager, NVIDIA
Randy Bean, Senior Advisor, Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Pete Blackshaw, CEO, BrandRank.AI
Christopher Broone, Group VP of Life Sciences, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL)
Pat Condo, CEO, Seekr
Tom Davenport, Professor, Babson College
Pankaj Dugar, SVP GTM North America, AI21
David Edelman, Professor, Harvard Business School
Jeffrey Rayport, Professor, Harvard Business School
Preethi Ramesh, Director of Data Science, Takeda
Toby Eduardo Redshaw, CEO, Verus Advisory
Andy Roberts, AI Architect, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Janett Kennedy Haas, SVP, Forbes Research & Insights
Usama Fayyad, Exec. Dir,, Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University
Vinay Gidwaney, Chief Product Officer, OneDigital
Ian Roberton, Director Technology/AI, American Securities
Nina Lee Grooms, Board Member, Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Yvonne Hao, State of MA Secretary of Economic Development
Chip Hazard, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
Scott Kirsner, CEO at InnoLead & Boston Globe Columnist
Matt Lewis, Global Medical Analytics and AI Officer, Inizio Health
Suzanne Livingston, VP, Sustainability Software, IBM
Rizwan Mallal, COO, Quantum Gears
Erik Oken, Chairman, MidOcean Partners
Mary Purk, Executive Director of AI, Wharton Business School
Tom Ryden, Executive Director, MassRobotics
Pieter Schouten, Chief Innovation Officer, Ensemble Health Partners
Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
Ted Shelton, COO, Inflection AI
Dan Slagen, Chief Marketing Officer, Tomorrow.io
John Spottiswood, COO, Jerry
Anne Stemlar, MD Knowledge and Innovation, Goodwin
Katie Trauth Taylor, CEO Narrative
Dr. Ryan Vega, Chief Health Officer, Vantiq
Jud Welle, Partner, Goodwin
John Werner, Founder, Imagination in Action
Liran Zvibel, CEO, WEKA
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Onward,
Paul
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