Hello and welcome to Eye on AI…In this edition: The cost of AI “workslop”…Nvidia’s investment in OpenAI….and Google DeepMind eyes a new AI risk.

Hi, it’s Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for Jeremy Kahn, who is out today. I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about the promise of AI-fueled productivity in the workplace, especially after that MIT repor t found that the majority of companies’ AI pilots weren’t living up to that promise.

In the past year, the number of companies running entire workflows with AI has almost doubled , while overall workplace use has also doubled since 2023. Despite the dramatic uptake of the tech, a recent MIT Media Lab study still found that 95% of the organizations embracing AI weren’t seeing a clear return on those investments.

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