The AI Pulse

Issue #37 — 7th July 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:

The hidden labour that makes AI work .

The EU's landmark rules on AI will be rolled out as planned .

Whose job is safe from AI ?

Amazon has deployed its 1 millionth robot .

Is Europe ready for the EU Data Act ?

The ins and outs of AI-ready data centers .

AI for Good

A report by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy examines how AI could transform public services in the UK for the better, but also risks damaging public trust if not introduced responsibly.

The Economist explores the ways AI is helping to design proteins from scratch through its use in treating diseases, testing drugs, and boosting crop yields.

The Data Scientist looks at the ways AI can help solve key challenges in water management .

As users turn to chatbots for emotional needs, WIRED asks what a healthy AI companion would look like .

Bias and Ethics

MIT Technology Review considers how India will face up to the structural challenges and the nation’s many languages to develop foundational AI models.

In a new report, Kenneth Payne asks if LLMs can be strategic and puts them to the test with some old-school game theory.

An IE Business School blog explains why AI may be enhancing legal efficiency, but communication, empathy, and negotiation will remain essential for lawyers.

The BBC explores the growing need to pay people to fix the errors created when AI is used to generate websites.

Rest of the World provides an extract from the book “AI Con” that explores the hidden labour that makes AI work.

A BRAID landscape study provides a detailed examination and conceptual mapping of what is meant by ‘responsible AI’.

Cyber Security

The Guardian reports on a recent study that shows more than 25% of UK businesses have been hit by cyber-attacks in the last year, largely as a result of AI.

An article released by the US Army examines the deep implications of GenAI for the military sector and how it will influence defence strategy.

An article from European Security & Defence looks at the real challenges of using AI at sea.

Data & Decision Making

An article in Forbes looks at rethinking leadership in an age of AI to make smarter, faster decisions.

The Data Scientist explores how the emergence of GenAI is transforming the data science profession as data scientists shift to prompt engineering, model oversight, and strategic decision-making.

The Economist believes that China is building an entire empire on data, and considers what this might mean for its citizens and the rest of the world.

Innovation & Collaboration

A report from the King’s Fund on getting the NHS and social care ready for AI has highlighted how infrastructure challenges could stand in the way of the NHS fully harnessing the potential of AI.

Towards Data Science considers how software engineering is changing in the LLM Era.

The Guardian reports that UK Minister Peter Kyle has called for new leadership at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for AI, to place a greater focus on defence and national security.

A blogpost from Microsoft claims that Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) correctly diagnoses up to 85% of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) case proceedings, a rate more than four times higher than a group of experienced physicians.

Productivity & Efficiency

A report from the think-tank Social Market Foundation (SMF) explores how the UK public sector can be equipped to effectively use open source AI models.

MIT Technology Review is worried that the hype about AI agents is getting ahead of reality and explains why this matters.

HBR examines the strategies companies employ for investing in AI and how they should approach the decision to build, buy, blend, or partner.

TechCrunch reports that Amazon has deployed its 1 millionth robot .

Regulation and Compliance

Reuters reports that the EU's landmark rules on AI will be rolled out as planned, dismissing calls from some companies and countries for a pause.

A report from Arthur Little asks if Europe is ready for the EU Data Act.

MIT Technology Review considers what comes next for AI copyright lawsuits in light of recent rulings for Meta and Anthropic.

Sustainability

MIT News summarises the discussions at MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research symposium looking at how AI is both a problem and a solution for clean energy transition.

A special report jointly from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World examines the ins and outs of AI-ready data centers.

TechCrunch reports that Google’s data center energy use has doubled in the last 4 years.

User Experience

The Register provides insights from recent research at a Chinese utility's call center, describing how they struggled when trying to use an AI assistant and were forced to make manual fixes.

ZDNET asks if AI subscriptions are worth it, and based on a recent survey concludes that most people don’t think so.

Workforce & Skills

The Financial Times considers whose job is safe from AI?

ZDNET reports that Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy has said that AI will replace human workers while creating more 'interesting' jobs instead.

The BBC reports that Microsoft is to cut up to 9,000 more jobs as it invests in AI

According to TechRepublic, Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff has claimed that AI does 30-50% of the company’s work today.

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