I’m very selective in the pieces I post here. I also limit to pieces published in the past 90 days. There is so much volume around AI and a lot of noise.

I hope you’ll find some solid signal here for your internal conversations.

Google Published 601 use cases for AI

Published April 10th, 2025

Published during their CloudNext event, they expanded their original 101 use cases by 6x.

see: https://cloud.google.com/transform/101-real-world-generative-ai-use-cases-from-industry-leaders

State of AI in 2025

Published April 7th, 2025

Stanford’s HAI released this report on AI in 2025. Tl;DR: the US is way out front, costs continue to fall, performance / capability going up, AGI is nigh? (or nigh'er than we thought?)

see: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report

AI’s Potential for Product Innovation

Published March 22nd, 2025

Ethan Mollick's team in cooperation with P&G (sample: n=776) investigated the innovation potentials for teams/individuals with and without AI as an augment. In summary… AI is a boost for individuals, matching basic human team performance. But teams with AI can generate outsized exceptional results.

see: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-cybernetic-teammate

Accenture’s “Making Reinvention Real with GenAI”

Published March 5th, 2025

Like the BCG report below, Deloitte reviewed 2,000 client projects with genAI and found that only 13% have found significant enterprise value yet.

Key enablers for those who do find value?

  1. lead with ‘value’ not the tech
  2. reinvent your ways-of-working
  3. build a secure digital core
  4. double-down on ‘responsible AI’

see: https://www.accenture.com/content/dam/accenture/final/industry/cross-industry/document/Making-Reinvention-Real-With-GenAI-TL.pdf#zoom=40

BCG’s “Closing the AI Impact Gap”