The AI Pulse

Issue #38 — 14th July 2025

Editor: Professor 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 EU has announced its General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice.

The most effective AI tools for research, writing, planning, and creativity.

Could AI be accelerating slowdown in the UK job market?

NVIDIA is the world’s first $4 trillion company.

What do you really learn when you use AI?

AI for Good

Government Transformation Magazine reports that the NHS has announced a 10-year plan to create a fully digital, patient-focused service.

According to The Guardian, robot surgery on humans could be trialled within a decade after success on pig organs .

Bias and Ethics

UKAuthority reports that the Ada Lovelace Institute has called for a parliamentary inquiry on the private sector's role in public sector AI.

A New Scientist article considers whether we will ever feel comfortable with AIs taking on important tasks.

The Atlantic believes that the AI industry is radicalizing with even more extreme rhetoric.

Cyber Security

The World Economic Forum (WEF) looks at what cyber leaders say about fighting phishing and fraud in the age of AI.

Infosecurity Magazine reports on where LLMs fall short in vulnerability discovery and exploitation and what to do about it.

Data & Decision Making

A Forbes article looks at how AI is reshaping decision-making and dismantling rigid hierarchies.

Toward Data Science offers its view on how to perform effective data cleaning for machine learning.

UKAuthority reports that the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched the Data for London Library platform to provide a definitive catalogue of place data for London.

CIO Magazine looks at how CIOs are tackling AI’s change management challenges.

Innovation & Collaboration

Nicholas Carr is against compression and the way AI reduces everything by removing subjectivity and nuance.

McKinsey’s latest report considers how organizations can overcome GenAI adoption challenges.

Ben Evan’s latest “AI eats the world” presentation is available with a comprehensive state-of-AI review.

Productivity & Efficiency

An article in CIO Magazine urges leaders to stop treating AI architecture like IT plumbing and consider it the basis for your AI strategy and competitive edge.

MIT Sloan review reports on the ‘productivity paradox’ of AI adoption in manufacturing firms .

Thanks to the AI boom, TechRepublic reports that NVIDIA is the world’s first $4 trillion company .

The UK Home Office has issued its Home Office 2030 Digital Strategy , which sets out how it will transform digital services with AI.

PWC looks at the economics of AI adoption for large companies and why scale matters.

Regulation and Compliance

The EU has announced its General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice. OpenAI has announced it will sign it.

A new paper by Jerry Fishenden in the Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art offers a detailed review of how governments have failed to deliver on digital transformtion promises and considers the challenges this brings as we enter the AI era.

Sustainability

TechRepublic reports on a new UNESCO report that small tweaks to AI models could cut energy use by 90% and calls for smarter, smaller, and more sustainable AI development.

User Experience

Fast Company explores the most effective AI tools for research, writing, planning, and creativity.

CNET looked at what you really learn when you use AI (and what you miss) by reviewing a recent study from MIT researchers.

Workforce & Skills

The Guardian asks whether AI is accelerating slowdown in the UK job market.

The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) has published a new report examining Europe’s AI talent equation to provide a comparative mapping of AI job vacancies and AI talent across European countries.

ComputerWeekly reports that the UK government has signed a deal with Google Cloud to upskill 100,000 civil servants in AI by 2030 and looks at the implications.

A McKinsey report considers how tech staff embrace AI much faster than managers do and how to overcome organizational blocks to improve this.

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