AI Weekly News Update: 03/24/2025

AI Strategist News: Navigating the transformative world of AI for your business

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Layla Hecker
March 24, 2025

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This Week’s News

AI's Impact on National GDP and AI Strategies

  • AI is a general-purpose technology that will have a significant impact on every country's GDP in the coming years, making it essential for nations to develop their own AI strategies

Business Use Cases

How Software Engineers Actually Use AI

We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. The results amazed and disturbed us.

www.wired.com/story/how-software-engineers-coders-actually-use-ai

‘Gradually then suddenly’: Is AI job displacement following this pattern?

Many technological shifts have coincided with economic downturns. Will 2025 be the year AI not only augments jobs but starts to replace them?

venturebeat.com/ai/gradually-then-suddenly-is-ai-job-displacement-following-this-pattern

Siemens Healthineers inks $560M imaging and AI deal with Canadian government

Providers in Canada's fourth most-populous province are seeking help in diagnosing cancer cases earlier while reducing long wait times. 

radiologybusiness.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-economics/siemens-healthineers-inks-560m-imaging-and-ai-deal-canadian-government

Tools I’ve found

Epiphany | Voice-to-Action

The fastest, most frictionless way to capture your ideas with voice and create actions with them in tools like Notion, Asana, Todoist, Clickup, Todoist, Obsidian, and more.

epiphanyvoice.io

Granola — The AI Notepad for people in back-to-back meetings

Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome

www.granola.ai

GROWL | Your Personal Boxing & Fitness Coach - Powered with AI and Immersive Gaming

Discover GROWL: the smart boxing bag blending cardio, strength, and gaming. Experience an immersive home boxing coach and step up your performance.

www.joingrowl.com

Scientific Breakthroughs

Nearly 100% of cancer identified by new AI, easily outperforming doctors

In what's expected to soon be commonplace, artificial intelligence is being harnessed to pick up signs of cancer more accurately than the trained human eye. This latest AI model has a near 100% success rate and serves as a clear sign of things to come.

newatlas.com/cancer/ai-cancer-diagnostic

How AI is transforming medicine — Harvard Gazette

Artificial intelligence is up to the challenge of reducing human suffering, Harvard Medical School experts say. Are we?

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/how-ai-is-transforming-medicine-healthcare

Funding

AI chip startup FuriosaAI reportedly turns down $800M acquisition offer from Meta | TechCrunch

FuriosaAI, a South Korean startup that makes chips for AI applications, has rejected an $810 million acquisition offer from Meta.

techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/ai-chip-startup-furiosaai-reportedly-turns-down-800m-acquisition-offer-from-meta

Miscellaneous

Thinking About Thinking—How AI Reshapes Cognition

What if cognition isn’t the pinnacle of intelligence but a temporary scaffolding that's dissolving as AI reveals new, fluid architectures of thought?

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202503/thinking-about-thinking-how-ai-reshapes-cognition