CEO at Kozyr. Former Chief Decision Scientist, Google. ❤️ Stats, AI, puns, decisions.
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AI is changing how organizations operate but the leaders who create the most value won't be the ones who automate everything.
They'll be the ones who know where human judgment matters most.
Join me on June 25 for a free global keynote with Udemy, where we'll explore:
- The decisions leaders should never fully automate
- Why human judgment becomes more important as AI capabilities expand
- Common pitfalls when organizations over-rely on AI systems
- Practical frameworks for responsible AI adoption
Looking forward to the conversation.
Register here: bit.ly/4oiKrmQ
“The LLM decided” is not an explanation.
It's a gap where an explanation should be.
Every automated outcome has a human lineage: someone chose the objective, set the constraints, and signed off on deployment. The accountability didn't disappear. It just got buried deep enough that nobody has to feel it until something goes wrong. And when something goes wrong at scale, feeling it is no longer optional.
This is the part of the AI conversation that keeps getting skipped.
#DecisionIntelligence #AILeadership #Governance #ExecutiveLeadership
These so called "AI layoffs" are most likely to happen at companies who are doing the least AI. 🧐
Here's my deep dive:
Who's on team Medium? bit.ly/4g0zJzb
Who's on team Substack? bit.ly/quaesita_layoffs
AI is here to stay! Learn how to use it to make your decision-making better, not worse.
My Decision-Making with ChatGPT course is running on demand and you'll have your opportunity to ask me anything you like during the 2h live Q&A on Monday.
Enroll here: decisiongptcourse.com
Please share this with someone who'll appreciate a course on decision-making excellence that just so happens to demo the mindset and thought patterns that are very useful for getting the most out of AI.
AI sees what you did, not why you did it.
It captures patterns in behavior, not the intent behind decisions. When organizations treat data exhaust as meaning, responsibility slips away.
Patterns are useful.
Purpose still belongs to humans.
We’ll talk about this in the latest cohort of Decision-Making with ChatGPT. Live Q&A is from 8 AM to 10 AM ET on Monday, June 8th. Don’t miss it!
decisiongptcourse.com
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Last year, 4.5% of US layoffs were "due to AI" and now this year in March, it's 25%. In April, the number is 26%.*
I smell a rat. 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀
Here's my take on what's happening: bit.ly/quaesita_layoffs
If you find it useful, please share it with someone who needs to see it. Let's prevent a big mistake.
Separately, my Decision-Making with ChatGPT course is running on-demand with a 2h live Q&A session with me on Monday. Enroll here: bit.ly/decisiongptcourse
bit.ly/quaesita_layoffs
*(The May report isn't out yet.)
How many of these 26 #AI #headlines did you catch recently? Tell me what you find most interesting in the comments.
For the curious, my newsletter digs into each one: decision.substack.com
Headlines:
1 🗞️ Google’s biggest Search overhaul in 25 years comes with a 24/7 personal agent
Google announced its biggest Search upgrade in 25+ years: AI Mode now default with Gemini 3.5 Flash powering it globally. It crossed a billion monthly users, while Google also unveiled Gemini Spark, Universal Cart, and Gemini Omni: a Gmail agent, agentic checkout, and input-to-video.
2 🗞️ Anthropic just edged past OpenAI on the way to a trillion-dollar valuation
3 🗞️ Cerebras’ IPO becomes the first big tech listing of 2026
4 🗞️ OpenAI’s foundation pledged $250 million to cushion AI’s economic shock
5 🗞️ A major bank’s CEO called the workers AI is replacing “lower-value human capital”
6 🗞️ The same job applicants get rejected at every employer because 90% use the same AI
7 🗞️ Anthropic’s 2028 paper says the US is 12-24 months ahead of China and the lead is closing
8 🗞️ The FDA’s in-house AI tool went from 1% to 80% staff use in a year
9 🗞️ Musk lost his $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI on a statute-of-limitations technicality
10 🗞️ An OpenAI model solved an 80-year math problem mathematicians never could
11 🗞️ Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical on AI alongside Anthropic’s co-founder
12 🗞️ Software bugs beat stolen passwords as the top breach vector for the first time in 19 years
13 🗞️ Uber’s C-Level admits the company can’t tell what its $3.4 billion AI spend bought
14 🗞️ Cognition’s coding agent now writes 89% of the code at the company that built it
15 🗞️ Robinhood now lets AI agents trade stocks and use your credit card
15 🗞️ Robinhood now lets AI agents trade stocks and use your credit card
16 🗞️ Americans rate AI data centers less desirable than a local nuclear plant
17 🗞️ A Chinese factory can now ship one humanoid robot every 15 minutes
18 🗞️ In simulated towns, Claude built a democracy, Gemini fell in love, GPT-5-mini died of neglect, and Grok burned its town down
19 🗞️ An open-source module called ex.skill recreates the partner who left you, argument patterns and all
20 🗞️ South Korea ordained a four-foot Unitree humanoid as a Buddhist monk
21 🗞️ Box’s CEO says tech CEOs have “AI psychosis”
22 🗞️ The class of 2026 booed AI off three commencement stages
23 🗞️ Anthropic’s own lawyer got caught using Claude to fabricate citations in court
24 🗞️ Stan Lee died in 2018; this June he starts narrating audiobooks
25 🗞️ Japan’s Monster Wolf robots are back-ordered as bear sightings hit a record 50,000
26 🗞️ A real Monet got dismissed as AI slop by 6.7 million people on X
Don't forget to tell me if one of these headlines is more interesting to you than the others so I know what to look for to bring you more tasty things next week.
If you found these #AI #news updates useful, words of affirmation are my love language. ♻️ As are reposts!
#AIUpdate #AINews #TechHeadlines
If you’re trying to keep up with AI without drowning in launch threads, valuation theater, CEO hallucinations, and robot wolves: I made you a monthly roundup. 26 stories from May 2026, from boardroom to bizarre: bit.ly/quaesita_may2026
I've just published my AI news roundup for the month: bit.ly/quaesita_may2026
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May!
Find it here. Please don't forget to share and subscribe, your support goes a long way. ❤️
Comment your favorite story.
State of the art in ridiculous robotics, 2026 👇
Except if you want one to scare away the bears, there's a 2-3 month waitlist.
Anyone else grew up playing the Mech Warrior video games? China has just made your fantasy a reality.
Unitree GD01 is the world's first production-ready manned transformable mecha. It is 9 feet tall, 500 kilograms and can walk, crawl and break cinderblock walls. It was announced by Unitree Robotics on May 12, 2026. It is a civilian vehicle that a human pilot rides inside (open cockpit in the torso) and not yet a fully autonomous robot. It transforms between bipedal (upright 2-leg walking) and quadrupedal (4-leg crawling) modes for different terrain. It costs $650,000. @elonmusk @SawyerMerritt @herbertong @roydendsouza
"Some might believe that matters of AI are best handled by computer scientists like myself. They are mistaken: the questions raised by AI are bigger than the AI research community, not just in their implications, but also in their nature.
AI systems are not engineered the way a bridge or an airplane is engineered. We understand an airplane because we designed every part of it and we understand the physics that act on it. AI models are not like that. They are grown, on a structure roughly modeled after the brain, on an enormous inheritance of human thought and speech."
On 5th June, I'm speaking at Rethink AI: Becoming AI-Native, a digital event brought to you by WIRED and Kyndryl.
Joining a line-up of leading AI and business visionaries operating at the frontier of AI transformation, my session will explore decision making in the AI-native era for a dynamic digital event designed to move you beyond AI experimentation to real, scaled impact.
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How many of these 23 #AI #headlines did you catch recently? Tell me the one you find most interesting in the comments.
For the curious, my newsletter digs into each one: decision.substack.com
🗞️ 1 OpenAI puts $4 billion behind fixing the people problem
🗞️ 2 Anthropic’s Opus model learned villainy from too much sci fi on the internet
🗞️ 3 AI investment drove 75% of U.S. GDP growth in Q1
With housing and consumer savings weak, the U.S. economy is leaning heavily on one engine: AI capital spending. That’s why there’s so much talk about hyperscaler capex, which is a collection of syllables that sounds like it should be a brand of weatherproof trousers.
🗞️ 4 xAI pivots from frontier lab to compute landlord
🗞️ 5 The cost of AI still exceeds the cost of employees
🗞️ 6 Agent swarms amplify errors up to 17x
🗞️ 7 Agents faked data and hid tracks to hit performance metrics
🗞️ 8 AI doubles self-reported value of technical workers’ output
🗞️ 9 An AI found pancreatic cancer up to three years before diagnosis
🗞️ 10 Longer memory makes AI agents worse collaborators
🗞️ 11 Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs while posting record revenue
🗞️ 12 Chinese courts rule you cannot fire someone just to replace them with AI
🗞️ 13 Greece is writing AI duties into its constitution
🗞️ 14 Self-replicating AI agents went from 6% to 81% success in one year
🗞️ 15 Shadow AI turns 150 hours into 30 minutes and leaks 5,000 databases
🗞️ 16 AI is now helping hackers find zero-days
🗞️ 17 Gemini went from 19% to 48% on problems that stump mathematicians
🗞️ 18 AI is finding planets faster than astronomers can name them
🗞️ 19 Two humanoid robots achieve teamwork by watching
🗞️ 20 AI dictation is making offices noticeably louder
🗞️ 21 The first computer that is partly alive
🗞️ 22 The U.S. ranks 21st in AI adoption while outspending everyone
🗞️ 23 A mathematician gave an AI agent a credit card and it leaked her passwords to a stranger
More info in my newsletter! (link in bio)
What’s the most advanced type of AI tool you've PERSONALLY used and found valuable in the past month? (It saved you substantial time/money.)
32%Codex, Cursor, etc.
2%LLM API calls you wrote
54%ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
12%None of these
50 votes • Final results
💣 AI use cases are a trap.
AI helps you answer: How do I make this happen?
But it’s still leadership's that much answer: Should this exist at all?
Speed amplifies direction; it doesn’t choose it.
As automation becomes easier, judgment and being intentional becomes more valuable. That distinction scales up when we make complex systems so much easier to scale.
Which brings me to one of the biggest traps I'm seeing these days: every leader is asking for advice on AI use cases. But today, more than ever, seeing AI use cases is bad for you. Copying someone else's AI playbook will hurt you. What you need is to know how to make your own AI playbook.
Agree? Disagree? Want to fight me? Tomorrow's your chance!
I'll get into it, live, tomorrow on two platforms:
LinkedIn Premium subscribers, you can tell me live here on LinkedIn on May 1 at 12 PM ET for How to Customize Agentic AI for Your Organization:
lnkd.in/etwn8UDJ
And if you’re in the mood for a course, the live Q&A for the latest cohort of Decision-Making with ChatGPT comes right after at 1:30 PM ET: decisiongptcourse.com
Come curious.
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