Overview

• Loymark’s new analysis reports that 78% of companies use AI yet fewer than 1% do so effectively at scale, citing isolated pilots, trend-driven spending and fuzzy ROI, and it recommends a five-layer model spanning trusted data, intelligence services, process orchestration, human oversight and governance.
• In Mexico, an AWS–Strand study finds 64% of SMEs have integrated AI and 38% of all companies use it, with users reporting average revenue gains up to 16% and productivity improvements for 88% of firms, though leaders flag gaps in strategy, talent and ethics.
• Check Point Research’s RSA 2025 brief warns attackers are exploiting AI across four fronts—advanced social engineering, data poisoning, optimized malware and malicious LLMs—and urges AI-assisted detection, stronger identity verification and contextual threat intelligence.
• Regulatory responses are advancing as the EU AI Act took effect on August 2 with a transition period to 2027, and Denmark is proposing broad digital-identity rights and platform liability to combat deepfakes and impersonation abuses.
• To ease the skills crunch, Peru’s UPC launched an AI engineering degree with Google Cloud certifications, the World Economic Forum projects a net creation of about 170 million jobs over the next decade, and experts urge pairing AI capital spending with sustained investment in human capabilities, with studies showing AI plus human tutoring accelerates learning.