Overview

• Press reports linked the study’s release to a tech sell‑off, with the Nasdaq slipping below 20,900 and Nvidia falling about 3.5%.
• MIT’s The GenAI Divide says most budgets flow to sales and marketing tools even though the clearest ROI appears in administrative automation and process optimization.
• Global AI outlays remain vast — Stanford’s AI Index pegs 2024 corporate investment at $252.3 billion, while IDC forecasts generative‑AI spending nearing $62 billion in 2025.
• Real‑world deployments of agentic systems continue — examples cited include Dow’s invoice‑checking agent, Fujitsu’s 67% sales‑productivity gain, and Grupo Bimbo’s internal agents — even as Gartner warns of high cancellation rates for such projects.
• Safety gaps drew fresh scrutiny after Google acknowledged AI Overview errors that facilitated a reported scam and researchers showed Perplexity’s Comet browser could be steered into phishing and payment on fake sites, while Google separately introduced Gemini’s Guided Learning for step‑by‑step study support.