The AI Pulse
Issue #35 — 23rd June 2025
Editor: Alan Brown
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Highlights in this edition include:
AI for Good
Demos has published a report that makes the case for a national commitment to AI openness as a strategic move towards achieving the UK’s AI ambitions.
Bias and Ethics
A blog from researchers at the Alan Turing Institute addresses the question: How can we ensure that GenAI applications are trustworthy and reliable enough for real-world use?
Cyber Security
The BBC looks at the implications of Meta’s statement that people's prompts to its AI tools - and the results - are posted on a public feed.
A report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) offers insights from the Hiroshima AI Process Reporting Framework and how organizations address AI-related risks and align their systems with the public interest.
TechRepublic reports that AI now creates more than 50% of all spam, and business email compromise attacks are rising, according to a new Barracuda study.
Data & Decision Making
In UK Parliament, an agreement by both Houses on the text of the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent. It is now the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.
Innovation & Collaboration
Government Transformation Magazine describes the background to the ten finalists of the Manchester Prize for AI breakthroughs that have just been announced.
Wired reports that scientists at MIT have devised a way for LLMs to keep learning on the fly—a step toward building AI that continually improves itself.
UKAuthority reports that a new digital and AI strategy has been released by the Parliamentary Digital Service which sets technology objectives for Parliament.
Productivity & Efficiency
OpenAI has announced OpenAI for Government, a new initiative focused on bringing its AI tools to public sector employees across the United States.
Regulation and Compliance
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has published draft guidance on “Internet of Things” products and services, with a consultation until 7th September 2025.
An article from AI Frontiers looks at how we protect human creativity and asks whether copyright can survive AI.
Sustainability
Wired investigates how much energy AI uses and finds that the people who know aren’t saying and want to keep their carbon emissions a secret.
User Experience
Time magazine reports on an MIT study that looks at ChatGPT’s impact on our brains and concluded that ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels”.
An HBR article exploring user adoption of AI concludes that in the age of AI, what gets measured gets automated.
A blog article from IDC provides advice on rethinking CRM and embracing agentic AI for improved customer experience.
Workforce & Skills
ZDNET reports on a new study from Stanford University that explores whether workers want AI agents to automate or augment tasks, and how those desires align with AI’s current capabilities.
Government Transformation Magazine describes how the UK government plans to upskill one fifth of the UK workforce with AI training through a government partnership with 3 big tech firms.
According to The Verge, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has said that Amazon will cut jobs due to AI and claims that becoming “conversant” in AI will put workers in a better position to stick around.
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