#ai-strategy

#ai-strategy

"We will neither fail, nor will we be an average outcome, and that's what we want and that's all I care about every day and all you should care about every day, and nothing else should matter," CEO Alex Blania told employees at the start of the year, according to a recording reviewed by BI's Nicole Einbinder. Blania's message has become a common pitch from tech executives to their employees ahead of critical junctures. For Orb, it's about getting more people to opt into what amounts to a human verification tool.

SoftBank Group has liquidated its complete stake in Nvidia for $5.8 billion, the company announced during a presentation for investors early Tuesday morning, instead redirecting capital toward OpenAI as part of a strategic pivot that underscores both the company's bullish conviction on AI and CEO Masayoshi Son's willingness to place massive, high-stakes bets on emerging tech. Nvidia stock fell 2% shortly after the opening bell.

Many organizations are racing to build AI strategies, but too often they focus on adopting the latest tech, rather than creating the environment to support it. The reality is that lasting transformation is fueled by people, which requires companies to take a good look at their culture. At Architech, that's exactly what we did. By prioritizing and rewarding innovation, we aligned our culture with our AI strategy-and it worked.

Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at Amazon, wrote in a note to staff that the move would make the company "even stronger" by shifting resources "to ensure we're investing in our biggest bets and what matters most to our customers' current and future needs". She acknowledged that some would question the move given the company was performing well. At the end of July, Amazon reported second quarter results which beat Wall Street expectations on several counts, including a 13% year over year increase in sales to $167.7bn (125bn).

On Tuesday's "TPBN" podcast, the show hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella after the announcement, noting that he is now a "peacetime CEO," as the dispute with OpenAI has been resolved. "I think AI and everything that it entails is going to be a core driver, and some of it'll come from just this intelligence and this sort of continual march of capability," Nadella said in response to the hosts' question on what he expects from the OpenAI agreement.

Krafton, the company behind games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds and the Sims-like InZOI, is making a big push into using AI within the company. Under this new "AI First" strategy, Krafton plans to use agentic AI to help automate work and implement an "AI-cenetered" management system, according to a translation of a press release. The company also plans to spend more than 100 billion Korean won, a figure that equates to nearly $70 million, to build a GPU cluster.

The role of the CFO has been evolving for years, but it's happening more rapidly today than ever before, said Gina Mastantuono, president and CFO of ServiceNow, during a chief financial officer panel at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14. "It's now a combination of strategic vision, disciplined execution, and enterprise-wide leadership," she said. "Finance and strategy are now inseparable."

Agentic AI is not just another iteration of automation or generative AI. Agentic AI systems can autonomously manage complex tasks, optimize processes, and proactively identify opportunities or risks, reducing the need for constant human oversight. This autonomy allows businesses to respond more quickly to changing market conditions, improve decision-making, and allocate human resources to higher-value activities.

To avoid a chaotic, ad hoc and, above all, risky AI implementation, all of your people need to be onboarded to your AI strategy and vetted collection of AI tools. It's also great for your people: Research shows that folks who understand AI are more likely to engage with AI tools and less likely to view AI with fear or mistrust. And given the 82% of leaders planning to expand the capacity of their workforce with digital labor, there's no time like the present.

The way most marketing teams approach AI is probably the way I approach my inbox at 4:59 PM on a Friday. With reckless optimism and zero follow-through. But Katie Miserany, SurveyMonkey's Chief Communication Officer and SVP of Marketing, thinks the real problem isn't AI - it's that most marketers have forgotten a fundamental truth: Just because you can talk about something doesn't mean you should.

YouTube has grown tremendously over the years and has become a popular place to earn a living for many talented creators, while others use it for entertainment. They complemented each other and helped YouTube grow the way it did since its inception. In addition to this mutually beneficial relationship, Google's algorithm deserves credit for YouTube's meteoric rise to become one of the best streaming platforms.

While consulting for a national DIY automotive store chain, we discovered a common pattern. Auto enthusiasts (gearheads) who could evaluate spare part technologies and verify quality on their own did not care which store they patronized, as long as the products they needed were always available. On the other hand, relative amateurs and novices who lacked sufficient technical knowledge developed loyalty to retail stores where they felt they received trustworthy guidance to help select the right products for their needs.

Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft's chief marketing officer, and his marketing team will join the newly created organization, with Takeshi reporting directly to Althoff as CMO; Numoto will still also report directly to Nadella on all-up business models, planning, consumer marketing, and corporate brand and communications.

"Humanity is investing enormous resources in the race to advance Artificial Intelligence," said Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. "Clay's years of experience leading Oracle's large, fast-growing Cloud Infrastructure business has demonstrated his readiness for a CEO role." "Mike has spent the last several years modernizing Oracle's Industry applications businesses - including Oracle Health - by completely rebuilding those applications using the latest AI technologies."

Coverage beats convenience. Zhu stressed that surveys and small samples don't tell the whole story. Without broad, representative data, decisions risk building bias into customer journeys. Recency can rival history. Khetan has seen strong outcomes from focusing on the correct recent data rather than hauling every data point into analysis. Data isn't the finish line. Franz reminded the audience that insights must be synthesized, socialized and operationalized to influence employee and customer experiences.

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When you hear "governance," what pops to mind? We often picture limitations or roadblocks. Yet the opposite is true, particularly with artificial intelligence. AI governance is about discovering what your organization can do. Organizations implementing comprehensive AI governance experience measurable returns, including $840,000 in operational efficiency gains and 80% in productivity improvements. Building out your AI roadmap requires a mindset shift. These ideas will move you from limitation to acceleration.

AI has become the boardroom obsession of the decade. Yet despite billions in investment and relentless hype, recent independent studies show that most enterprises struggle to turn pilots into measurable business outcomes. Two recent studies put this problem into sharp focus: These studies deliver an important message that must echo across boardrooms: AI pilots aren't failing because the technology isn't powerful enough. They're failing because the strategy and expectations behind them are flawed.

"Every company can securely turn its enterprise data into AI apps and agents to grow revenue faster, operate more efficiently, and make smarter decisions with less risk," Ghodsi said.

Meta plans to restructure its AI division into four subdivisions to enhance its generative AI strategy, including an infrastructure team, product team, FAIR lab, and a TBDlab.

Ethics can connote a certain morality, a certain set of norms, and multinational companies are often dealing with many different cultures. Ethics can become a fraught term even within the same country where you have polarised views on what is right, what is fair.

Meta engineers have confirmed that the company has replaced Llama with Claude Sonnet for internal development tasks. This move comes after Llama 4 faced criticism since its launch, including negative reviews within the first 36 hours and controversies over model rankings.

We are focusing on accelerating our AI strategy-connecting teams and partners, prioritizing resources and expediting use cases across our businesses and functions.