Overview

• Microsoft Research analyzed 200,000 Copilot interactions to build an “applicability” index that ranks task-level exposure by occupation, flagging roles such as interpreters, historians, travel assistants, writers and customer service as highly affected, and many manual and care jobs as less exposed.
• Thomson Reuters reports only 22% of companies have a visible gen‑AI strategy, and a PageGroup/WeWork study finds just 6% of users rely on employer policy, reflecting fragmented, worker‑driven adoption and missed efficiency gains.
• Compensation is shifting with skills: PwC and Randstad data reported in Argentina show jobs using AI tools pay roughly 25% more on average, with demand rising for prompt engineering and related capabilities.
• Safety and trust concerns are mounting, with media describing developing cases that include an alleged death tied to a Meta chatbot and a hospitalization after following ChatGPT advice, while only about 38% of executives express confidence in responsible AI use and female leadership in AI initiatives remains very low in some regions.
• Geopolitics and coordination are moving to the fore, as Sam Altman warns the U.S. may be underestimating China’s next‑gen AI progress and the UK schedules a regional AI security meeting in Mexico in September alongside a planned Turing–Mexico governance collaboration in early 2026.