Overview

• At a CEO summit in Mexico, Microsoft, SAP, AstraZeneca and Pinterest executives said scaled adoption requires transparency, strong data protection and clear responsibility to earn employee and customer trust, with health leaders stressing safeguards for sensitive patient information.
• Sam Altman told The Tucker Carlson Show that AI will displace or transform many phone and online customer-service roles, that nursing is less likely to be replaced soon, and that programming demand remains uncertain despite productivity gains, underscoring the need for reskilling.
• OpenAI informed investors it projects lifting spending to about $115 billion by 2029 from $35 billion, a 228% increase driven by compute, chips and data centers to support new AI development, according to reporting cited by ámbito.com.
• Schools are reworking assignments and assessment because chatbots now produce homework that is hard to distinguish from students’ own work, and some institutions are starting policies that require students to disclose when they use AI.
• A Princeton-linked analysis urged treating AI as a “normal” technology and proposed concrete policies such as disclosure when AI is used, deployment registries and mandatory incident reporting, with risk defenses focused on cybersecurity and biosecurity.