The Atlantic CEO regrets not making more AI licensing deals earlier—waiting cost them negotiating leverage as training data value declined and competitors locked in better terms.
Leaders face timing decisions where some situations reward patience (avoiding premature builds) but others punish waiting (losing partnerships, competitive positioning, and strategic hires to faster movers).
Most high-priced consulting firms lack genuine AI expertise and are learning at client expense; seek advisors with proximity to technology, ability to translate research into business decisions, honest uncertainty assessment, and proven body of work.
Leaders must use AI themselves extensively—there's no shortcut to building judgment about what these systems can actually do for their business.
Hollywood assistants are using AI through personal accounts with minimal training or oversight while senior leadership remains unprepared to make informed decisions about AI's impact on core business strategy.
Tubi launched streaming recommendations inside ChatGPT; AI is becoming the primary discovery channel where companies that own the path to decision increasingly own the audience relationship.
OpenAI acquired The Breakfast Program (TBPN), a tech-focused news show, primarily for distribution to founders, engineers, and future shareholders ahead of expected IPO—marking first major media acquisition.
Anthropic withheld Claude Mythos Preview from public release due to cybersecurity risks from advanced reasoning capabilities, sharing early access with 40+ companies to find vulnerabilities instead.
AI models lack human creativity's "idling" phase—they cannot step away from problems, let ideas simmer, or leverage intuitive leaps that come from physical presence and living life away from the work.
Sacramento Bee journalists refused to publish AI-generated rewrites under reporter bylines, citing risks to credibility, source trust, and public faith in local news.