Are You Trying Too Hard To Change For AI?
AI is bringing a seismic shift to our lives, businesses and society, and the iPhone will also have to transform to ensure it remains relevant to users.

What would you say if a senior Maruti Suzuki executive felt they may not be making cars in 2035? I for one, can’t imagine it. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services at Apple, recently said something almost as mind-boggling: “You may not need an iPhone 10 years from now, as crazy as it sounds.” Yes, it sounds insane on the face of it, but when you consider he was speaking in the context of AI search replacing search as we know it today on iPhones—a deal worth $20 billion for Google—one begins to vaguely grasp the contours of what may be coming.
AI is bringing a seismic shift to our lives, businesses and society, and the iPhone will also have to transform to ensure it remains relevant to users. In the initial years at the heart of this transformation will be Apple Intelligence, underwhelming today—but where Apple promises they are hard at work to wow users.
How are you changing for AI? According to a piece we’ve carried this week based on a Gartner survey, a majority of CEOs believe that their executive teams, including chief information officers, chief information security officers and chief data officers, are not savvy when it comes to AI. When you consider that this survey reveals that only 44% of CIOs are considered ‘AI-savvy’ by their CEOs, it is jaw-dropping, because CIOs are the inhouse business technology gurus for their companies. How could they not be AI-savvy?
Or does this opinion reflect the fact that most CEOs are perceptive and can sense that the change is seismic and it is that uncertainty that makes them feel their teams may not be up to scratch when it comes to AI? I’m sure honest CEOs would accept that they themselves are not as ‘AI-savvy’, given how fast things are moving.
Some CEOs are definitely moving fast, but a recent IBM study of 2000 CEOs globally found that while investment in AI is booming and a majority of CEOs surveyed are even actively adopting agentic AI, the result is that the pace of investments has left companies with disconnected, piecemeal technology. If only 25% of AI investments have generated the anticipated RoI (according to the survey) and organisations are struggling to cultivate an effective data environment, some CEOs may need to take a step back and reexamine their AI investment strategy. 64% of CEOs in this survey acknowledged that the risk of falling behind is driving investment. Only the paranoid survive is a good business mantra, but getting AI right requires more than just paranoia and merely throwing dollars at this fear.
One of the best ways to prepare for seismic change is to have the right information and insights and here are some of the top AI-related stories from the week gone by to ensure you have a well-rounded perspective on AI.
Half Of Us Unwilling To Trust AI, Another Half Hiding Its Use: Study
Indian Businesses Eye Small Language Models', Generative AI Puts Hardware Back In Spotlight: Deloitte
OpenAI To Invest In Efforts To Build AI Infrastructure Overseas
ServiceNow Unveils AI-Powered CRM, Announces New AI Agents To Power Self Service
Tata Elxsi, European Nonprofit To Leverage AI In Sports And Exercise Medicine
ManageEngine Adds AI-Powered Capabilities To Its Privileged Access Management Platform
IBM Introduces New Hybrid Technologies To Help Enterprises Scale Generative AI
TCS Releases AI-Powered Solution 'MasterCraft' For Modernising Legacy Enterprise Systems
Want To Build Brain For The World: Sam Altman Tells Staff As OpenAI Reshapes Funding Structure
CII Releases Guidebook On Effective Adoption, Governance Of AI For Board Leaders
IBM, TCS To Deploy India's Largest Quantum Computer In Andhra Pradesh
India Doubles Down On AI: 75% Businesses Localise Data, 60% Prioritise Sustainability, Shows Survey
Google Rolls Out AI Mode In Search; Here's How It Can Help You
Can You Trust That WhatsApp Forward? Perplexity AI Will Tell You The Truth
Will Engagement Farming Issue On X Improve? Musk Promises 'Dramatically Better' Recommendations Via Grok
Eyeing Those Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses? Don’t Ignore Updated Privacy Policy
Apple iPhones Might Allow Gemini To Serve As AI Assistant, Supporting Siri, By End Of Year
Till next week,
-Ivor Soans