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81: The Productivity Earthquake Shaping AI’s Next Act


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This episode maps the data-driven leap that shows AI moving from incremental help to radical enablement across three fronts: enterprise productivity, hardware and workflow integration, and geopolitical economics. OpenAI’s first large scale enterprise report finds 75% of workers can now do tasks they literally couldn’t before, average ChatGPT business users save 40 to 60 minutes a day, power users gain more than 10 hours per week, and top coders show a 17x output gap—forcing HR and product leaders to rethink hiring, tooling and pricing. We unpack why agentic systems are so powerful yet fragile, with roughly 40% of agent projects at risk due to orchestration failures, and how moving AI out of the browser into wearables and embedded workflows is becoming critical—think Google’s smart glasses and Claude running entire dev lifecycles inside Slack. We also cover the big security and alignment challenges such as indirect prompt injection and Google’s user alignment critic, plus the unprecedented policy pivot where the US approved H200 chip sales with a 25% government cut, creating a new kind of technological tariff. For marketing professionals and AI enthusiasts this episode lays out what to watch next: which capabilities will become table stakes, how to design safe agent workflows, and whether revenue and national policy will soon be measured by demonstrable AI performance rather than raw compute.
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AI Deep DiveBy Pete Larkin