What’s the must-have holiday gift this year?
What’s the must-have holiday gift this year? Tickle-Me Elmo, Furby, AirPods?
Nope. For business executives, the top wish-list item is clear: cutting-edge AI agents.
Agents are quickly picking up momentum as the killer apps of GenAI.? While this feels faddish, our view is this is the next generation of enterprise AI and will have significant implications.??
In recent months we’ve witnessed a Cambrian explosion in AI agent development, with practical use cases rapidly materializing in customer service, IT operations, sales and marketing, content moderation, and cybersecurity.
These developments highlight the critical need for executives to integrate AI agents into their business strategies. The impact will be profound, reshaping employment as workers adapt to collaborate with—or risk being replaced by—these new robotic “colleagues.”
1. What are AI agents, and why are they now so pervasive??
Agentic AI is the latest phase in the evolution of generative AI models; they can autonomously complete tasks and even mimic the behavior of humans. Check out the latest AI news.
2. How agents will transform the future of work.??
AI agents are already reengineering software development, business processes and customer experiences. Here's what you need to know. Read the full story.
3. Salesforce’s “hard pivot” to AI agents pays off with an 11% stock surge
But now the company must hustle to actually sell the product. Find the latest business news.
4. The arrival of superintelligence will be “more intense than people think”: Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO: Soon “there will be shockingly capable [AI] models, widely available, used for everything.” Read the AI exclusive.
5. ? 25% of enterprises using AI will deploy AI agents by 2025
A Deloitte report makes several notable predictions about next year's generative AI landscape in business. Find the entire article.
6. Google CEO: AI development is finally slowing down
“The low-hanging fruit is gone.” See the full report.
7. What do we know about the economics of AI?
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth.?He thinks the economic impact of AI will be meaningful, but in the short-term it is overblown. See the latest out of MIT.
8. Blame AI for your grueling job interview
Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one. Read the entire article.
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9. OECD:? GenAI is affecting jobs previously thought safe from automation
Automation in the past mainly affected industrial jobs in rural areas. GenAI, on the other hand, is expected to affect more highly skilled workers and big cities where these workers are often based. Find the exclusive story here.
10. ? OpenAI launches full o1 model with image uploads and analysis, debuts ChatGPT Pro
o1 successfully solved 83% of problems in the International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam, a sharp improvement from GPT-4o’s 13% success rate. Read the latest business article.
11. Tool of the Week: Supermaven
The fastest copilot.
12. How Alex Karp turned Palentir into the West’s AI arms dealer
The way Palantir’s CEO sees it, the AI race is about no less than the future of liberal democracy. See the full story here.
13. Should AI be blamed for layoffs in tech?
Or is the recent spate of layoffs simply a correction for the overhiring of the last decade? Read the latest AI news.
14. What’s the path for Intel now??
Can the fallen star become relevant in the newly AI-centric industry? Find the full story here.
15. Stanford: US dominates world AI rankings
America holds a large and growing lead, with notable machine learning models,?more private capital invested in AI,and more published responsible AI research than any other country. Read the rankings here.
16. And one more thing…
Is AI any good at choosing gifts?
Now here’s a great use case: removing the stress of finding gifts for family and friends at the holidays. Check it out.
OK.? See you all next week.