The LEAP Guide goes FREE next week!

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What's new on this edition:

• Insights from 300+ companies baked in

• 13-step framework that gets smarter with each cycle

• Free platform access at leap.guide

• Hundreds of improvements with new graphics and clearer explanations

The best part? Your innovation process literally improves itself. Each LEAP cycle builds on the last.

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In today's lineup:

Robots

• Top Bites: This week's AI intel

• 3 Gen AI wins for humans

• AI adoption soars, workplace gaps widen

• Cobot vs Copilot showdown

People

• Khosla's healthcare revolution from scarcity to AI care

Love

• Where good ideas go to die

• Transformative reads: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Reading time: 5 min. 

Top bites ⚡

• Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble

• US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch China diversions

• Humain to launch Allam, first Saudi-developed Arabic AI model

• Inside the Biden Administration's gamble to freeze China’s AI future

• New Gemma 3 270M, the compact model for hyper-efficient AI

• China, No. 2 in global computing power, accelerates AI build-out

AI adoption accelerates while workplace gaps widen

Survey data reveals 84% of AI users increased usage this year, yet 29% of employees pay for their own workplace AI tools without employer knowledge. Half receive little to no training despite 83% of companies encouraging AI use.

Traditional change management's 70% failure rate proves catastrophic for AI integration. It’s like navigating a hurricane with a paper map while the storm reshapes the landscape in real-time.

What leaders must know

• Workers are solving productivity challenges independently while leadership and corporate strategy lags behind.

• XperiencOps and similar AI automation startups are eliminating "human middleware" roles, with companies like Broadcom seeing significant cost savings through automated IT lifecycle management.

• Big Tech's infrastructure race intensifies as Google commits $9 billion to Oklahoma data centers while Apple hires 12,000 R&D employees for AI development

Success requires abandoning rigid change management for agile, feedback-driven approaches. What will be your move when your team starts to feel concerned about job displacement?

Gen AI in action 🌊

3 ways AI is creating human-centered value.

• G42 partners with Microsoft on Kenya's $1 billion digital ecosystem, expanding inclusive access to AI-powered economic opportunities.

• CerebraAI develops emergency medicine AI for rapid stroke detection, speeding up critical care with non-contrast CT scan analysis.

• DocuSign's IAM transforms documents into actionable data, accelerating collaborative contract cycles on Azure.

Tool Spotlight 🔧

Your weekly dose of AI-powered tools delivering real results.

Cobot and Copilot go head-to-head for your next AI teammate

Cobot

Best for: Teams needing flexible, cross-platform workflow automation and AI-powered task orchestration.

Key features: No-code automation, deep integration with Slack, Google Workspace, and SaaS tools, adaptive AI teammate for custom processes.

Microsoft Copilot

Best for: Organizations standardized on Microsoft 365 seeking native AI productivity and compliance.

Key features: Embedded in Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel. Generative AI for content, meeting summaries, task automation, and enterprise security.

3 other potential AI teammates for you

• Oracle AI Agent Studio – Custom AI agents for Oracle Cloud workflows

• Rabbit’s Intern – Lightweight automation for Slack and email

• Abacus.AI – Advanced AI agent builder with predictive analytics

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Transformation Champion 🏆

Neal Khosla transforms healthcare from appointment-based scarcity to continuous AI-assisted care

Stanford's machine-learning researcher co-founded Curai Health to revolutionize primary care accessibility through AI-physician partnerships. His platform enables "seven-second interactions" where AI handles routine tasks while clinicians focus on meaningful patient care, facilitating over 350,000 visits and securing $50M in funding.

"Everybody should be able to pull out their phone and have basically best-in-class, super-personalized knowledge about whatever issue they're going through, available at basically zero marginal cost." Khosla explains.

Why your best ideas die in conference rooms

I thought innovation failed from bad timing or tight budgets. Then our industry crashed. Most companies lost 75% of their teams. We faced losses bigger than our best year ever.

Improve your meetings in 3 steps

• Audit your energy drains - Count how many meetings energize versus exhaust your team. Great ideas die from terrible communication.

• Find your A-players first - Look for intelligence, energy, and intrinsic drive. High performers need fewer rules and deliver better results.

• Fight for celebration - Plan what you'll recognize this week. Innovation thrives when small wins get big recognition.

Learn more here

Transformative Reads 📚

The Hard Thing About Hard Things delivers unvarnished insights on leading and scaling startups under pressure. Ben Horowitz shares hard-won lessons on firing friends, shaping culture, and making tough calls, emphasizing authentic leadership, transparent communication, and resilience through adversity.

Perfect for: Entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs navigating high-stakes decisions, crises in demanding environments.

In Culture 🤌

Here's something to laugh about this week.

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