The AI Pulse

Issue #34 — 16th June 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:

Digital Leaders offer four key actions to take following the UK Spending Review

Can India be an AI winner ?

A CIO wants to grow the tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents .

Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI .

How London has built the world’s best legal AI ecosystem .

12 famous AI disasters and what we can learn from them .

AI for Good

MIT Technology Review looks inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI.

The Data Scientist explores how AI is optimizing emergency dispatch and response in EMS Operations.

The UK Government describes how it is using AI to reduce planning delays in building 1.5 million new homes .

Bias and Ethics

Toward Data Science offers a personal view on how to stay sane in the turbulent world of AI.

VentureBeat reports on how AI is forcing organizations to re-examine their purpose — why they exist and how to operate effectively.

Wired reports on how the “discover” feature on Meta’s AI platform includes user queries containing medical, legal and other sensitive data.

Cyber Security

ZDNET outlines details from an OpenAI report on how global threat actors are weaponizing AI.

TechRepublic offers advice on how to defend your business against AI-driven cyber threats.

Data & Decision Making

ZDNET looks at the challenges of building trust in AI and offers a decision maker’s AI playbook.

HBR considers how leading boards and decision makers are using AI .

Innovation & Collaboration

The UK Government Spending Review 2025 heavily features AI and digital technology investments. TechUK looks at what this means for the tech industry.

Entrepreneur Magazine explores how London has built the world’s best legal AI ecosystem.

A CIO magazine article reviews 12 famous AI disasters and what we can learn from them.

An article from O’Reilly reports on their discussions with AI guru Fei-Fei Li on what comes after the LLM — Human-Centered AI.

The Guardian reports on a study that shows how advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in the face of complex problems.

Productivity & Efficiency

The Economist article looks at AI deployment in India and asks can India be an AI winner?

A new scientific report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) looks at how GenAI could significantly boost innovation and productivity across key sectors in the EU .

Regulation and Compliance

Digital Leaders offer four key actions to take following the UK Spending Review.

The New Statesman wonders whether the UK government is moving too slowly on AI regulation and believes it’s time for boldness and agility.

UKAuthority reports that the UK Department for Education has published its guidance on the use of AI in schools.

Sustainability

The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has released new procurement guidelines to help governments and other authorities reduce the energy and water consumption.

User Experience

A Forbes article looks at what Coca-Cola learned from using GenAI in a public campaign inviting public collaboration.

MIT News considers how users really judge AI and concludes that most people evaluate AI based on its perceived capability and their need for personalization.

McKinsey believes that the future of customer experience is embracing agentic AI.

InfoWorld believes that the AI platform wars will be won on the developer experience.

Workforce & Skills

The Law Gazette reports on a legal tech suppliers warning that the AI revolution will obliterate billable hour model.

The Register reports on a CIO who wants to grow the tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents.

An HBR article examines the way management roles are being redefined by AI.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) reports on how AI is driving more collaboration on skills intelligence to personalize skills training and optimize learning.

The Guardian reports that all civil servants in England and Wales are to get AI training as part of its goal to optimize public services for the age of AI.

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