Table of Contents

• This Week

• Business Use Cases

• Things to Pay Attention to

This Week

Bottom Line Up Front

• Mark Cuban predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) will create the world's first trillionaire, who could be an individual harnessing AI in a unique way.

• Cuban believes this person could be "just one dude in the basement," indicating that AI's potential is vast and unpredictable.

• He encourages people to familiarize themselves with AI, citing its potential to greatly impact daily life and generate significant wealth, while also acknowledging the potential drawbacks and limitations of the technology.

Business Use Cases

Why is this important

• Microsoft's AI tool, MAI-DxO, outperformed a panel of 21 experienced physicians in diagnosing complex medical cases, achieving an 85.5% correct diagnosis rate.

• The tool, which is not yet available for clinical use, analyzes symptoms, poses questions, and recommends medical tests, while also optimizing costs to prevent unnecessary diagnostics.

• The new diagnostic performance benchmark was created using 304 recent cases documented by the New England Journal of Medicine, and the tool's performance was evaluated based on its ability to perform sequential diagnosis, a key aspect of real-world medical decision making.

• Microsoft plans to further develop the tool by testing it against more commonplace ailments and seeking regulatory approval before it can be deployed in healthcare practices, with the goal of automating routine tasks and assisting doctors, rather than replacing them.

Bottom Line Up Front

• OpenAI has signed a compute leasing deal with Oracle, accessing 4.5 gigawatts of data center power to support its artificial general intelligence (AGI) ambitions.

• The deal is part of Project Stargate, a $500 billion investment over four years, with Oracle building additional data centers in several US states to accommodate growing compute requirements.

• The partnership is expected to impact CIOs, with increased competition for AI infrastructure, higher costs, and longer wait times, requiring them to plan earlier and build stronger partnerships to ensure availability.

Bottom Line Up Front

• Amazon has deployed its 1 millionth robot in its operations, solidifying its position as the world's largest manufacturer and operator of mobile robotics.

• A new generative AI foundation model called DeepFleet will improve robot fleet travel efficiency by 10%, enabling faster delivery times and lower costs for customers.

• Over 700,000 Amazon employees have been upskilled through training programs, preparing the workforce for the future, as the company continues to innovate and combine robotics and AI for real-world impact.

AI Agents Go Full Autonomous: The Human-Free Workflow Revolution

Bottom Line Up Front

• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt considers AI a ticking time bomb and believes humans will no longer be at the top of the food chain, with AI surpassing humans in every capability.

• He warns that this technological revolution is happening much faster than understood, and systems are not ready for it, with significant changes coming in the next 18 months, including the potential for non-human entities to become integral parts of human life.

• China is dominating the space of artificial intelligence due to their different economic model, harder work, and cheaper products, and if the US doesn't get there first, they will lose their fundamental leverage.

Things to Pay Attention to

Bottom Line Up Front

• The unemployment rate for recent college graduates has reached a record high of 6.6% over the past 12 months, according to a report from Oxford Economics.

• The trend is tied to the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across multiple industries, replacing entry-level jobs once filled by recent graduates.

• Experts suggest that gaining AI-related skills can improve graduates' odds of finding employment in industries that are increasingly relying on automation and machine learning.

Bottom Line Up Front

• Microsoft will lay off up to 9,000 workers, affecting 4% of its global workforce, as it invests heavily in AI.

• The job cuts impact several divisions, including the Xbox unit, and have led to the cancellation of projects like Perfect Dark and Everwild.

• Microsoft is investing $80bn in data centers for AI and has faced challenges selling its AI assistant Copilot, while competition for AI talent intensifies among tech giants.

Bottom Line Up Front

• Researchers are adding hidden AI prompts to their papers to influence peer review and receive positive feedback.

• 17 papers with hidden prompts were found on arXiv, affiliated with institutions like Waseda University, KAIST, Columbia University, and the University of Washington.

• The prompts, often hidden in white text or small fonts, instruct AI reviewers to give positive reviews, with one professor defending their use as a counter against "lazy reviewers" who use AI.

Bottom Line Up Front

• Researchers at Helmholtz Munich have developed an AI model called Centaur, trained on over 10 million human decisions, which can simulate human behavior with striking accuracy.

• Centaur can predict human behavior in various situations and offers insights into human cognition, making it a potential tool for clinical research, healthcare, and social science.

• The model's developers, Dr. Marcel Binz and Dr. Eric Schulz, emphasize the importance of transparency, ethical use, and responsible application of such AI systems to advance our understanding of human cognition.

Bottom Line Up Front

• A new AI tool called STAR, developed at Columbia University Fertility Center by Dr. Zev Williams, has enabled a couple to conceive after 18 years of infertility.

• STAR uses high-powered imaging, microfluidics, and robotics to identify and isolate viable sperm cells in semen samples from men with azoospermia, a condition where there are little to no sperm cells.

• STAR scanned 8 million images in under an hour and found 44 sperm cells, human technicians found none after 2 days.

• The first successful embryo transfer using STAR resulted in a pregnancy, and the technology has the potential to help thousands more people struggling with infertility, particularly those with azoospermia.