AI Leadership Weekly

Top Stories

Microsoft Announces Copilot Studio
At Microsoft Ignite 2024, happening in November, Microsoft will showcase their new Copilot Studio. It will allow you to create and customise AI agents, dedicated to your own business tasks. They will also be releasing new autonomous assistants to help with sales, service, finance, and supply chain teams.

AMD Launches new AI Chips
Chip maker AMD launches their new AI-focussed Instinct MI325X chip. This is meant as a competitor to Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell chips, with the hopes that AMD can gain some of the datacentre market share currently dominated by Nvidia.

Celebrities Unite Against AI
Over 10,000 people working in the creative industry—including notable celebrities like Björn Ulvaeus, Julianne Moore, and Thom Yorke—have signed a statement claiming that the unlicensed use of their work in training AI models is a "major, unjust threat" to their livelihoods. Numerous authors, including Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, are already suing OpenAI, with threats of more to come.

In Brief

• Anthropic introduces Computer Use to interact with your PC

• Former OpenAI CTO fundraising for new AI startup

• ByteDance fires intern for planting malicious code into AI models

Market Trends

AI Use in the Workplace
Gallup released survey results regarding AI use and sentiment in the workplace, including how often AI is used in particular roles, and the ways in which AI tools and agents are being used. (Spoiler: it’s largely for idea generation and automation.)

How Daily Generative AI Users are Driving Change in Business
PwC outlines four big ways employees are benefitting from the daily use of generative AI tools. They also reveal that less than 30% of respondents use AI on a weekly basis, so here’s why you might want to try and boost that number.

AI Helping to Combat Billions in Fraud
The US Treasury Department has been using machine learning to, amongst other things, analyse cheque data to spot fraud. In fiscal year 2024 alone, the Treasury Department claims to have prevented and recovered over $4 billion worth of fraud (a six-fold increase from the previous year).

Tools and Resources

Video of Claude AI’s Computer use to find the perfect sunset tasks
This demo showcases how Computer use capabilities can automate the search for ideal sunset viewing conditions by AI accessing your screen, browse the web and create a calendar event.

Claude Computer Use
Watch Claude Computer Use fill out a vendor request form after first searching a CRM for details.

Ideogram Canvas
This is a creative/ideas board where you can post your ideas and create images. Its big hook is the ability to ‘infill’ and ‘create’ regions of the images that you post, and even match sample text styles.

Recommended Reading

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman’s mind-bending guide that reveals why your gut instincts sometimes brilliantly save the day and other times spectacularly backfire - perfect for leaders who want to master both their snap judgments and strategic thinking.

Managing the Risks of Generative AI
In their HBR article, Kathy Baxter and Yoav Schlesinger outline how leaders must balance generative AI innovation with responsibility by focusing on five key pillars: accuracy, safety, honesty, empowerment, and sustainability - backed by robust data practices and human oversight.

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