➀ MIT study reveals 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to measurably impact P&L, primarily due to poor integration with existing workflows.
➁ Successful AI implementations focus on back-office automation rather than sales/marketing, yet over 50% of budgets target the latter.
➂ Workforce impacts loom as companies avoid replacing vacant entry-level roles in customer support and administration, signaling potential AI-driven job displacement.
➀ Women in the U.S. have to work through 2024 and into March 2025 to earn the equivalent of the 2024 wages of U.S. men, with women earning 83 cents for every dollar men make.
➁ The U.S. equal pay day has been pushed back from March 12 to March 25 due to a recent shrinkage in women's income.
➂ The AAUW has published a series of equal pay days for different races and ethnicities, with the Asian, Pacific Islander & Native Hawaiian women's equal pay day on April 7, 2025, Black Women's on July 10, and Native American Women's on November 18, 2025.
➀ According to Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, AI is more likely to augment jobs than fully replace them, automating up to 80% of tasks.
➁ Huang compares this shift to the early invention of electricity, heralding the beginning of a new Industrial Revolution.
➂ He suggests that AI advancements are outpacing Moore's Law, with computing power increasing by a million times in 10 years.
