What We Learned This Week | 8-24-25
State of AI in 2025, How Cloud Leaders are Shaping Agents, How Google is using AI, How AI is diff than other Tech Waves, and more...
Hope you are enjoying whatever is left in summer. Below are some of the articles and podcasts which caught my attention past week. As always, welcome your feedback and ideas.
Articles
State of AI in Business 2025 | MIT | This report got lot of buzz over the internet past week - why only 5% of integrated AI pilots are extracting value?
AI Won't Kill Software, It'll Catapult It | Dharmesh Shah | AI is not going to kill the software industry, it's going to kill software companies that don't adapt to the change.
Building the agent economy: How cloud leaders are shaping AI’s next frontier | CBInsights | The top 3 cloud providers globally are racing to support AI agents and the companies enabling them.
We must build AI for people; not to be a person | Mustafa Suleyman | Seemingly Conscious AI is Coming.
14 ways Googlers use AI to work smarter | Google | See how Googlers are using tools like Gemini and Imagen to save time, spark new ideas and build more helpful products.
Podcasts/Videos
Demis Hassabis on shipping momentum, better evals and world models | Google | Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, about the evolution from game-playing AI to today's thinking models.
How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? | Acquired | Is AI just better software? Or something completely different that requires a new paradigm to understand?
How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Sourcery | With $6B+ in AUM, 8VC has taken a different approach to venture capital: instead of just funding startups, they also build them.
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization | a16z | The AI hardware race is heating up, and NVIDIA is still far ahead. What will it take to close the gap?
White Collar Jobs, Hyperscalers, AI Coding, Open vs Closed, Agents, and more | Matthew Berman | Latest in AI from AWS CEO.
Reinventing The World With Agentic AI | Bernard Marr | How companies can embrace this AI revolution while fostering creativity, the future of work where humans become "sherpas" guiding AI agents, and why the next decade will bring more technological transformation than we've seen in the past 50 years.
A Book We are Reading in August
Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication | Andrew Brodsky | The essential guide for when (and how best) to use virtual communication tools, from video to instant messaging and everything in between.
A Quote We Are Pondering This Week
"The math is simple: if you do what everyone does, you get what everyone gets. If you want different results, you have to diverge.”
Upcoming Interesting Data & AI Conferences
Northeast Utilities Credit and Collections | 9/10 - 9/12 | Atlantic City, NJ
T&D World | 9/23 - 9/25 | Phoenix, AZ
Boston AI Week 2025 | 9/29 - 10/3 | Boston
CDAO Fall 2025 | 10/22 - 10/23 | Boston
UA Week 2025 | 10/28-10/30 | Austin
AWS re:invent 2025 | 12/1-12/5 | Vegas
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