Your AI Briefing - Another Quiet Week

Friends,

Here’s your weekly AI briefing - curated to help you lead rather than react. As always, we’ve distilled the noise into three buckets:

🔥 Urgent Priorities | Act now

🎯 Strategic Considerations | Plan ahead

🤓 Geek Out | For the curious

This week was another week of AI fireworks with Grok 3 and Gemini flash launching, but there are no urgent fires to fight and no strategic pivots needed. Let’s dive into what actually matters for curious leaders:

🔥 URGENT PRIORITIES

Nothing to act on this week.
Breathe easy—your AI roadmap stays intact.

🎯 STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS

No major shifts this week.
If you’re already:
✅ Upskilling teams
✅ Auditing AI risks
✅ Building ethical guardrails
…you’re ahead of 92% of peers.

🤓 GEEK OUT

This week’s rabbit hole: The AI Agent Wars

1️⃣ Convergence AI (Closed Source): London’s new AI Wonder

• What: Launched “Proxy” – an AI agent claiming 88% accuracy on complex tasks (like booking travel and negotiating vendor contracts).

• Why care: It’s an impressive personal assistant that can make sure you actually do the things you committed to outside work.

• But: Terms of service grant them broad data rights. Not suitable for your business workflows.

2️⃣ Codename Goose (Open Source): The SME Dark Horse

• What: Quietly gaining traction with self-hostable AI agents.

• Why care: This tool can connect to your whole digital estate and answer the questions that you care about. It’s a tech tool, and needs some set-up and training so if you’re comfortable with the command line and Github give it a whirl. If you’re not - pass it to someone in your teams who is.

• Key phrase: “Digital sovereignty for £0 licensing fees.”

Your takeaway:

• Closed source (Convergence): Fast, flashy, but risky for business ops.

• Open source (Goose): Usually a tech setup, but keeps your digital sovereignty safe.

3️⃣ Swarm Learning Alert:
AI systems sharing insights across departments (e.g., HR + supply chain) are solving problems 3x faster (source). Watch this space.

PS
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