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In today's lineup

Robots

• Top Bites: The latest AI developments

• Your AI might need its own power plant

• 3 AI wins you'll want to copy

• Video AI just changed everything

People

• Kate's Doughnut resilient economic alternative

Love

• How to connect your organization's three brains

• Transformative reads: What got you here wont get you there

Reading time: 5 min. 

Top Bites ⚡

• Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s

• Sam Altman says OpenAI will release an ‘Open Weight’ AI model this summer

• Chinese firms place $16 billion in order for new Nvidia chips

• Amazon’s AGI lab reveals its first work: advanced AI agents

• What to know about OpenAI’s record $40-billion funding round

• ‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained

Gen AI in action 🌊

3 ways AI is creating human-centered value:

• Dentsu built a media analytics AI copilot with Azure that cut insight delivery time by 90% and lowered costs.

• Airbus created an AI system that predicts aircraft component failures before they happen, reducing maintenance disruptions and improving safety.

• JPMorgan Chase developed "COiN" to automate financial document processing, speeding up operations while enhancing accuracy and compliance.

The megawatt dilemma behind every AI strategy

Power-hungry AI threatens to derail your digital transformation

Virginia data centers already devour 25% of state electricity—set to double within a decade. Globally, AI facilities consume more power than entire nations.

Each ChatGPT query gulps 10× the electricity of a Google search. By 2027, AI energy demand will explode from 260 TWh to 500 TWh.

Survival strategies for forward-thinking leaders:

• On-device processing slashes energy needs by 1,000×

• Abandoned coal plants transform into AI powerhouses

• Nuclear renaissance fuels uninterrupted AI operations

• Quantum frameworks cut data center energy 12.5%

"An energy breakthrough is necessary for future artificial intelligence," warns OpenAI's Sam Altman.

Solve the energy challenge now or watch competitors leave you behind in the dark.

Tool Spotlight 🔧

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

Just-released video AI for business impact

Three recent AI breakthroughs are transforming strategic video communication:

Runway's just released Gen-4 maintains consistent branding and characters across complex narratives—essential for high-stakes investor presentations, product launches, and executive training materials.

Adobe's Premiere Pro launched a feature that extends clips by two seconds in 4K quality, saving thousands in reshoots while preserving production quality.

ReCamMaster allows generating multiple professional camera angles from a single source, dramatically reducing costs for facility documentation and executive presentations.

While these cutting-edge technologies represent the latest advancements, my top three established platforms for business video applications remain:

1. Peech: Content marketing platform with brand kits, custom subtitles, and automated intros/outros—perfect for repurposing materials while maintaining brand consistency.

2. Capsule: Streamlined video creation with AI transcription and pre-designed elements—ideal for enterprise teams needing quality and speed.

3. Synthesia: Professional AI avatars with multi-language support—excellent for quickly producing training videos, executive briefs, and corporate updates at scale.

Transformation Champion 🏆

Kate Raworth's vision for an economy that benefits all

Kate Raworth's "Doughnut Economics" visualizes a sweet spot where human needs are met without exceeding our planet's ecological ceiling.

As trillions were wiped from global markets following Trump's tariff announcements, Raworth's alternative economic model offers a timely counterpoint to the volatility of growth-obsessed markets.

"The most successful companies I've consulted with don't ask 'how can we grow?' but rather 'how can we thrive while enabling others to thrive as well?'" Raworth noted. This distributive approach ensures resources and opportunities flow more equitably throughout organizations and societies.

Raworth's insights offer a competitive advantage: businesses designed for regeneration and distribution are proving more resilient, innovative, and attractive to both consumers and talent.

100x Insights 🐸

Weekly actionable strategies to transform your business with AI that actually delivers results.

How to connect your organization's three brains

Digital transformations fail because they're wired backward. Stop trying to replace human intelligence; amplify it instead.

Your business' 3 distinct brains:

• People: your institutional knowledge and decision-making

• Software & Data: your systems that remember, structure, and process information

• Intelligence: the layer that learns, reasons, and evolves

Messy connections between these brains sabotage your AI investment.

How can you secure immediate results?

1. Secure a fearless champion

2. Capture quick victories

3. Forge powerful connections

4. Embrace radical adaptation

Leaders who seamlessly integrate people, software, and intelligence will dominate the market. Join them. Dive deeper with my new book "100x: An Executive Brief for AI-Driven Business Results" - your roadmap to transformative ROI.

Transformative Reads 📚

One book, handpicked from my conversations with friends, industry leaders, and tech innovators…

Goldsmith's stakeholder-based coaching approach offers practical techniques for gathering honest feedback, making sincere apologies, and implementing lasting behavioral changes.

Perfect for: Rising executives who sense they're hitting an invisible ceiling and need to evolve their leadership style to reach the next level of influence and impact.

In Culture 🤌

Here's something to laugh about this week.

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