Brian McBreen
@BrianMcBreen
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Strategic Intelligence Leader | Digital Product Innovator | AI-Driven Transformation in Life Sciences | Author | Speaker
Southern California
Joined November 2007
I am very excited to see Sensing mentioned in this month's Harvard Business Review. I'm so proud of this amazing team!
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Most companies understand the benefits of standardizing critical processes: reduced variation, higher throughput and quality, and lower costs. Yet they tend to approach strategic decisions completely...
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Companies pay dearly for McKinsey’s human expertise. So what happens when AI bots can do more of the work?
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If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?
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Gen Xers might have missed their C-suite moment. On the Clock columnist Callum Borchers writes that more companies are picking millennials as CEOs.
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More companies are holding on to older leaders or passing over a generation in search of the next ones.
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Attrition is “our friend”: Big companies are shrinking their workforces—and CEOs are shouting it from the rooftops.
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Bosses aren’t just unapologetic about staff cuts. Many are touting shrinking head counts as accomplishments in the AI era.
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The Trump administration issued a new AI action plan that aims to further the construction of data centers and encourage exports
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The administration’s artificial-intelligence “action plan” aims to boost construction of data centers and encourage exports.
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CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs. Now they are giving predictions of how deep those cuts could go.
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Ford chief predicts AI will replace “literally half of all white-collar workers.”
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AI is boosting tech exec pay. Here are the 10 top-paid information technology leaders at U.S. companies.
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Chief information officers’ base compensation is increasing by 20% or more as artificial intelligence elevates top tech roles at U.S. businesses.
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When AI Creatures Ask “Why Me?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
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Computers start to understand our fear of computers, and it isn’t because of ‘Terminator.’
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Planes have been jetting from Ireland to the U.S. this year carrying something more valuable than gold: $36 billion worth of hormones for popular obesity and diabetes drugs
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The shipments have propelled Ireland, a country of only 5.4 million people, to the second-largest goods-trade imbalance with the U.S., trailing only China.
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AI Is Learning to Escape Human Control '
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Models rewrite code to avoid being shut down. That’s why ‘alignment’ is a matter of such urgency.
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NYT, Amazon reach AI licensing deal
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The newspaper company is currently embroiled in a legal battle with OpenAI and Microsoft.
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WSJ: Sam Altman gave his staff a preview of the devices he is developing with the former Apple designer Jony Ive, laying out plans to ship 100 million AI “companions”
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The idea is a “chance to do the biggest thing we’ve ever done as a company here,” Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday.
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WSJ: Jony Ive, a chief architect of the iPhone, and his design firm are taking over creative and design control at OpenAI
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OpenAI will buy Ive’s startup in a $6.5 billion deal, as Ive and CEO Sam Altman work on new generation of devices and other AI products.
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WSJ: Google is making its most ambitious move to date to counter AI upstarts threatening its search business, rolling out a feature that answers queries with chatbot-style conversations
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The company is rolling out a feature that will answer search queries in a chatbot-style conversation without the classic blue links.
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WSJ: Vaccine maker Moderna said the growing impact of AI on the workforce was one of the reasons it officially merged its tech and HR departments
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The vaccine maker, which has partnered with OpenAI since 2023, is rethinking how it does workforce planning thanks to the growing capabilities of AI and other tech.
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WSJ: Most, if not all, of the Magnificent Seven are trying at the same time to figure out the threat of artificial intelligence to their kingdoms
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Apple, Facebook, Google and Tesla are all facing the “innovator’s dilemma” at the same time.
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WSJ: Given the pace of innovation, and the time it takes for organizations to adapt, companies will do themselves a favor by getting a head start on multiagent systems
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Given the pace of innovation, and the time it takes for organizations to adapt, companies should prepare now for multiagent systems.
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WSJ: It’s the Year 2030. What Will Artificial Intelligence Look Like?
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We asked a range of experts to predict whether, in five years, AI will have lived up to the current hype. Be warned: They don’t all agree.
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Cool new feature for Geochron Atlas owners (when you can’t find that remote!)
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