Overview

• Surveys show widespread use of generative AI across companies, yet only about one in five report clear financial impact to date.
• A recent MIT study finds many pilots stall before reaching production, reinforcing industry calls for stronger integration, governance and operational workflows.
• IDC data indicates 89% of organizations revamped data strategies for generative AI, but only 26% have solutions at scale and just 12% trust their infrastructure for autonomous decisions, even as 80% invest in agentic workflows.
• Anthropic told a federal court in San Francisco it agreed to pay $1.5 billion to resolve a class action over training on copyrighted books, a deal that requires Judge William Alsup’s approval and includes destroying downloaded copies.
• User behavior is shifting toward AI assistants for general information searches, with Google’s share down to 66.9% as ChatGPT usage tripled to 12.5%, while brands roll out practical deployments such as Ralph Lauren’s “Ask Ralph” stylist built on Azure and OpenAI.