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The highest-value human capabilities (EPOCH: Empathy, Presence, Opinion, Creativity, Hope) often reside outside traditional “technical” or “AI-adjacent” roles: think nurses, social workers, teachers, journalists, and artists. Yet these are precisely the people whose skills make organizations more resilient to AI disruption.
AI excels at decision-making based on data, but fails in contexts requiring ethical tradeoffs, subjective beliefs, and decisions that defy prevailing data (e.g. civil rights, major market bets). The Opinion capability, judgment, ethics, principle-based decisions, will define effective leadership in AI-heavy organizations.
Sources: Ideas Made to Matter
Top News
1. Mistral AI has launched Magistral, its first reasoning model, and Mistral Compute, a sovereign, fully customizable AI infrastructure platform.
2. Meta’s V-JEPA 2 is a video-trained world model that enables physical reasoning, prediction, and zero-shot robot planning.
3. ByteDance has launched Seedance 1.0, a fast, high-quality AI video generation model while Google’s new Veo 3 Fast AI video generator produces 720p videos over twice as quickly as before.
4. OpenAI introduced the o3-pro model, which excels in science, coding, and education.
5. Microsoft has launched Copilot Vision with Highlights in the U.S., enabling Windows users to opt-in for real-time AI assistance that can see on-screen content.
Additional Insights
1. Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI (MIT Technology Review)
Amsterdam’s ambitious attempt to build a fair AI system, Smart Check, to detect welfare fraud revealed the deep complexities of using algorithms in sensitive social programs. Despite following best practices in responsible AI—consulting experts, excluding sensitive variables, and auditing for bias—the system initially displayed significant biases, flagging non-Dutch nationals and men disproportionately. After adjustments, further biases emerged in live testing, affecting Dutch nationals, women, and applicants with children, ultimately leading the city to abandon the project. Critics argue that while AI was held to a high standard, the traditional human-led system it replaced remains equally biased but less scrutinized. The experiment highlights unresolved tensions around defining fairness, the limits of technical fixes, and whether AI should be used at all for decisions deeply impacting vulnerable populations.
2. The Gentle Singularity (Sam Altman)
Humanity has already passed the event horizon of the AI singularity, with systems like GPT-4 outperforming humans in many cognitive tasks, yet daily life still feels surprisingly normal. The most difficult breakthroughs are behind us, and AI is now accelerating its own development, potentially compressing decades of scientific progress into mere months. As robots capable of building more robots and datacenters emerge, intelligence may soon become as abundant — and as cheap — as electricity. While some jobs will disappear, society’s ability to adapt may allow for new, deeply satisfying roles to emerge, much as happened after the industrial revolution. Ultimately, if alignment challenges are solved, we may enter a world where superintelligence is cheap, broadly distributed, and where even “idea people” can easily turn ambitious visions into reality.
3. Vibe teaming: How human-human-AI collaboration could disrupt knowledge work for the world’s toughest challenges (Brookings)
The working paper introduces vibe teaming, a novel model of human-human-AI collaboration aimed at enhancing knowledge work, particularly for addressing complex global challenges like extreme poverty. Rather than replacing human expertise, vibe teaming uses AI to transcribe conversations, generate initial drafts, and synthesize knowledge, thereby freeing humans to focus on deeper analysis, strategy, and creative problem-solving. Their case study demonstrates how this approach can rapidly produce a coherent poverty eradication strategy by combining expert input with AI-assisted drafting and iterative team reviews. The authors emphasize that while vibe teaming boosts productivity and collective intelligence, it requires careful oversight to mitigate risks such as bias, data privacy concerns, and potential cognitive overreliance on AI. Ultimately, vibe teaming exemplifies a shift from task automation to building resilient, collaborative systems where AI acts as a teammate embedded from the start.
4. The AI-Powered Marketer (Board of Innovation)
Marketing is undergoing a major transformation as AI moves from automating tasks to becoming a strategic growth engine, requiring CMOs to lead with both business acumen and AI fluency. While many companies currently use AI for efficiency (e.g., content generation, media buying, and predictive analytics), the true potential lies in adopting AI-powered decision-making, scenario simulation, and continuous market sensing. Successful AI adoption demands overcoming challenges such as siloed initiatives, skill gaps, ethical concerns, and unclear ROI by implementing centralized governance, upskilling teams, and aligning AI efforts with business goals. The most advanced marketing models now operate as perpetual loops, where AI continuously adapts strategies, personalizes customer experiences, and dynamically allocates resources in real time. Ultimately, companies that fully integrate AI into their core strategy will gain a lasting competitive edge, while others risk falling behind in an AI-native marketing landscape.
5. Framing the Invisible: How AI Narratives Shape Strategic Decision-Making (California Management Review)
The article explores how narratives around AI deeply influence strategic decision-making, particularly for leaders without technical expertise who rely on simplified frameworks to understand complex AI systems. It introduces a 2×2 typology based on whether AI is seen as a threat or opportunity and whether it’s framed as a tool or anthropomorphic agent, resulting in four narratives: Augmenter, Ally, Weapon, and Monster. Each narrative shapes policies, public trust, learning behaviors, ethics, governance models, and organizational adaptability in distinct ways, from fostering innovation to inciting fear or regulatory caution. The authors argue that narrative literacy is essential for organizations to navigate AI responsibly, encouraging education that helps stakeholders critically engage with prevailing AI stories. Ultimately, they emphasize that how AI is framed may be as consequential as its technical development, with narratives playing a pivotal role in shaping AI’s societal trajectory.
6. The future of customer experience: Embracing agentic AI (McKinsey)
As companies move beyond initial experimentation with generative AI, the focus is shifting toward agentic AI, which enables goal-driven, real-time decision-making and action, transforming operations and customer experiences. Successful implementation requires close collaboration between CIOs and COOs, aligning technology with business outcomes, and embedding AI into core workflows rather than treating it as a standalone tool. Early adopters are seeing measurable benefits in areas like reduced handle times and improved first contact resolution, but most companies still struggle to scale due to challenges in data quality, system integration, and undocumented operational knowledge. A key enabler for the future will be reskilling and restructuring workforces to blend human and AI capabilities, creating new roles like customer journey architects and human-in-the-loop supervisors. Ultimately, while agentic AI offers immense potential, companies must take a phased, disciplined approach—starting small, demonstrating ROI, and ensuring cultural and organizational readiness to realize long-term value.
Innovation Radar
1. AI Model Releases and Advancements
Mistral AI has launched Magistral, its first reasoning model designed for transparent, multilingual, domain-specific problem-solving, with open-source and enterprise versions capable of precise, traceable, and fast multi-step logic across various industries and languages (Mistral).
Meta’s V-JEPA 2 is a video-trained world model that enables state-of-the-art physical reasoning, prediction, and zero-shot robot planning, supported by three new benchmarks to evaluate AI understanding of the physical world (Meta).
ByteDance has launched Seedance 1.0, a fast, high-quality AI video generation model that outperforms competitors like Google’s Veo 3 in prompt accuracy, motion quality, and image sharpness, and is set to be integrated into ByteDance’s own platforms for both professional and consumer use (The Decoder).
OpenAI expanded model options for Custom GPTs, enhanced Project features with improved memory, voice mode, file uploads, and chat sharing for Plus, Pro, and Team users, while also launching the highly reliable o3-pro model, which excels in science, coding, and education but currently lacks image generation (OpenAI).
2. AI Tools and Features
Mistral AI has launched Mistral Compute, a sovereign, fully customizable AI infrastructure platform offering private, scalable access to frontier AI capabilities—complete with GPUs, orchestration, and tools—aimed at empowering nations, companies, and research labs worldwide to build and control their own AI stacks independently of major US and Chinese providers (Mistral).
Google Labs has launched Portraits, an experimental AI coaching tool that uses Gemini to simulate conversations with trusted experts like Kim Scott, offering personalized guidance based on their authentic content and expertise (Google). Google Gemini now offers “scheduled actions” for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, enabling the assistant to perform tasks like daily calendar summaries or post-event recaps at specified times (The Verge).
The UK government is using Extract, an AI tool powered by Google’s Gemini model, to rapidly digitize and analyze old, complex planning documents—transforming handwritten notes and blurry maps into structured data in seconds—so councils can speed up housing and infrastructure planning decisions and reduce administrative burdens (Google). Google’s new Veo 3 Fast AI video generator produces 720p videos over twice as quickly as before, allowing Gemini Pro and Flow Pro users to create more affordable, rapid, and iterative video content (MSN).
Microsoft Photos for Windows 11 now features AI-powered Relight for advanced lighting adjustments and improved natural language search, with additional support for Entra ID users on Copilot+ PCs (Microsoft). Microsoft has launched Copilot Vision with Highlights in the U.S., enabling Windows users to opt-in for real-time AI assistance that can see on-screen content, analyze multiple apps, offer step-by-step guidance, and provide contextual insights across tasks (Microsoft).
At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled several AI-powered features like Visual Intelligence for image analysis, AI-driven Workout Buddy, live translation in Messages and FaceTime, call screening, poll suggestions in Messages, AI-powered Shortcuts, context-aware Spotlight, and offline Foundation Models for developers (TechCrunch).
The Browser Company has launched Dia, its new AI-first browser in beta, featuring an integrated chatbot that handles searches, summarizes files, uses browsing history for context, and allows customizable coding shortcuts—all aiming to simplify AI use directly within the browser interface (TechCrunch).
3. AI for Science and Medicine
Ether0, a novel AI system trained on extensive chemistry Q&A and chain-of-thought reasoning, outperforms larger models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-R1 in molecular design tasks while using significantly less data, offering unprecedented transparency and efficiency for scientific applications like drug discovery (MSN).
Los Alamos, Meta, and Berkeley Lab have released Open Molecules 2025, a massive public dataset of over 100 million molecular simulations using density functional theory, enabling machine learning models to achieve quantum chemistry-level accuracy for breakthroughs in fields like drug discovery, materials science, and energy (Phys Org).
An open AI model called Ark+ leverages diverse expert-annotated chest X-ray data and cyclic knowledge accumulation to outperform existing models in accurately diagnosing both common and rare lung diseases, while remaining adaptable, privacy-preserving, and openly accessible for global clinical use and research (Nature).
4. Other
BYD has introduced record-breaking five-minute megawatt EV charging technology in China, surpassing global competitors by integrating its own cars, chargers, and batteries, and setting the stage for rapid, affordable EV adoption (IEEE Spectrum).
IBM has unveiled its plan for Starling, a fully error-corrected quantum computing system expected by 2029, marking a shift from focusing on individual qubits to scalable functional compute units, enabled by advances like new chip architectures, low-crosstalk designs, specialized error-correcting codes, and real-time classical decoding, paving the way toward practical large-scale quantum computing (Ars Technica).
Researchers developed CURBy, a quantum random-number generator combining entangled photons and classical cryptography to produce publicly verifiable, tamper-proof random numbers, enhancing security and trust in critical applications (Nature).
HP has unveiled the HP Dimension, the first 3D video conferencing system using Google Beam technology, priced at $24,999 and requiring a separate Google Beam cloud license, offering life-like 3D meetings without headsets but primarily targeting enterprise customers (Ars Technica).
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