🧠📊 This Week’s AI Intel: Ideas, Moves, and Market Signals

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The future of AI is a web of signals shaping how we think, build, and work. At Purple Horizons, we track the ideas that spark vision, the moves brands are making in real time, and the numbers that reveal where the market’s really headed.

This week’s briefing covers it all:

• A bold rethink of intelligence from Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas
• HubSpot’s Dharmesh Shah on why AI will catapult—not kill—software
• Fast-food chains turning to AI to fight cost pressure and boost speed
• Executives balancing agentic AI with human-first oversight
• Goldman Sachs on how AI will (and won’t) reshape the workforce
• MIT’s finding that 95% of GenAI pilots flop—and what to do differently
• And a curious look at why handwriting may survive the digital age

As always, we’ve got signals you can act on right now…

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🧠 Rethinking Intelligence: Collaboration Over Control
Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google) argues intelligence is fluid, nested, and shared across humans, machines, and ecosystems—pushing leaders to design with AI as a collaborator, not a target to control. 🔗 The Intelligence of Us — A Leader’s Rethink of Minds & AI

👨‍💻 AI Wont’t Kill Software… It’ll Catapult It
HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah argues that AI isn’t replacing software, it’s elevating it. We’re entering a future where AI becomes the acceleration layer every application needs. 🔗 Why AI Will Catapult, Not Kill Software

🍔 Fast Food Fires Up AI, Even as Sales Slip
With restaurant traffic down and margins tight, chains like McDonald’s, Chipotle, and Yum are betting on AI to cut wait times, predict equipment issues, and boost customer experience while saving on costs. 🔗 Fast Food Bets Big on AI—Despite Financial Struggles

🤖 Agentic AI Is Reshaping Workflows with a Human-First Approach
Executives are deploying autonomous agents but with human oversight. The result? Smarter workflows, fairer metrics, and a step toward truly hybrid human+AI collaboration. 🔗 How Agentic AI Is Changing Workflows—And How Executives Want It Done

🌐 Goldman Sachs: AI Will Move Fast but Won’t Break the Job Market
Expect a temporary bump in unemployment (about half a percentage point) as AI adoption increases. But with ~15% productivity gains on the horizon, displaced roles should resurface in new forms. 🔗 What Goldman Sachs Sees for AI and Employment

🚨 MIT Tells Us: 95% of Generative AI Pilots Fail. Here’s What That Means.
If nearly all AI pilots flop, the gap isn’t tech… It’s execution. Most companies aren’t really building. They’re just running trials and not seeing results. That’s why we help you build AI initiatives that scale. The kind of systems that unlock real results. 🔗 Why MIT Says 95% of AI Pilots Flounder

✍️ Handwriting Isn’t Dead. Actuallly, It May Become AI’s Best Ally
Wired reminds us handwriting supports memory, comprehension, and authenticity. In an AI world full of automation, handwriting may be the one remaining proof of human thought. 🔗 The End of Handwriting

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