The AI Pulse

Issue #27 — 7th April 2025

Editor: Alan Brown

Welcome to the latest edition of The AI Pulse for Digital Leaders. An expertly curated collection of essential articles, commentaries, and news stories from reputable sources. Do you know anyone who might be interested in AI Pulse. Have some news or looking to partner? Just get in touch at: [email protected]

Highlights in this edition include:

UK law enforcement are inadequately equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime .

How to build an AI roadmap .

Are we creating too many AI models ?

A detailed set of predictions for AI in 2027 .

Why the UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties .

AI for Good

ZDNET reports that Anthropic has launched Claude for Education, an AI to help students think critically.

The Verge believes that OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting over college students with free AI as they competing for who becomes the next generation’s default AI tool.

OpenAI has announced “OpenAI Academy” aimed at providing the knowledge and skills to apply AI effectively .

The Guardian reports on comments from experts that ‘Ridiculous’ cuts to AI cancer technology funding in England could cost lives .

Bias and Ethics

The Financial Times reports that a new UK scheme includes an AI tool to mark homework and public records may be also monetised as part of National Data Library.

Evident has released its “Responsible AI Report” describing emerging best practices for Responsible AI deployment in banking.

An article in The Guardian outlines a report from the Tony Blair Institute that states the UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties.

Cyber Security

The UK government has set out the scope and ambition of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill for the first time, aiming to safeguard UK economy and secure long-term growth.

A report from the Alan Turing Institute concludes that UK law enforcement inadequately equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.

According to MIT Technology Review, cyberattacks by AI agents are coming as agents make it easier and cheaper for criminals to hack systems at scale.

Data & Decision Making

Towards Data Science has provided an excellent review of the technology stack behind GenAI to find out what makes today’s AI work.

The latest 2025 Thales Digital Trust Index surveyed 14,000 people and when asked which sector they trusted with their personal data, none exceeded 50% approval .

Innovation & Collaboration

A group of researchers from 20 universities and AI labs have released a 264-page technical survey on the next evolution of LLMs. TLDR: Its complicated…

As reported by MIT Technology Review, Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as it comes up with a response, revealing key new insights into how the technology works.

A team of AI experts has produced a detailed set of predictions for AI in 2027.

Productivity & Efficiency

Gartner provides a overview of how to build an AI roadmap.

The Economist asks if China and America are racing to develop the best AI, who is ahead in using it ?

Towards Data Science looks at how AI is revolutionizing ERP.

VentureBeat reports that OpenAI is making a major shift to release an open-weight language model as a move away from proprietary approaches.

ZDNET report on Gartner’s prediction that global spending on GenAI will surge by more than 75% this year compared with 2024.

Regulation and Compliance

TechRepublic outlines a new report from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) involving researchers at Harvard, MIT, IBM & Microsoft on how AI can be used safely.

A new paper from UCL’s Bartlett Centre analyses the economic impact of digital infrastructure, proposing a public value measurement framework.

A call for “copyright-aware AI” from Tim O’Reilly after describing his short conversation with Sam Altman about OpenAI accessing O’Reilly’s books to train their LLMs.

Sustainability

With so many LLMs already available, InfoWorld asks are we creating too many AI models?

A Forbes article describes how the path to sustainable AI requires balancing innovation and strategic planning .

User Experience

The Pew Research Center examines the use of AI in daily life, comparing public and experts views on the use of AI and their control over AI’s role in their lives.

Workforce & Skills

VentureBeat looks at Gartner’s forecast that GenAI spending will exceed $644B in 2025 and asks what it means for enterprise IT leaders.

A Forbes article looks at “the great skill shift” being driven by AI.

According to ComputerWeekly, the UN has warned of an economic productivity crash due to AI job losses.

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