Is AI really ready to revolutionize the workplace—or are we all just beta testers with fancy job titles?
In this episode of The Leveraging AI Podcast, Isar Meitis dives into the latest reports, product launches, and behind-the-scenes drama shaping the future of artificial intelligence. From jaw-dropping usage stats from OpenAI and Anthropic, to Microsoft’s digital agents with KPIs, to the billion-dollar race to build gym-trained AI employees—this is the stuff the headlines aren’t telling you.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- How 700M people are using ChatGPT every week (and why 73% of it isn't even for work)
- Why Claude is powering a silent automation revolution (77% of its tasks are full-blown process automation)
- Why most employees are *still* barely scratching the surface of AI at work
- The alarming global divide in AI adoption (Spoiler: Israel and Singapore are leading by miles)
- OpenAI’s shocking take on hallucinations—and why your AI might be confidently wrong, often
- Why Salesforce’s AI agent rollout is a cautionary tale in overhype and underdelivery
- Microsoft + Workday’s plan to treat AI agents like actual employees (KPIs and all)
- Meta’s AR glasses and the “Zoom avatar” future that’s either cool or creepy
* 🛒 Why OpenAI wants ChatGPT to start shopping for you (and why that’s a data privacy nightmare)
- The billion-dollar training gyms building AI agents to take over real-world business tasks
- The inevitable tension between faster, cheaper, and... accurate AI
- What business leaders need to *urgently* understand about reinforcement learning and economic displacement
📘 OpenAI: Real-World Usage of ChatGPT
🔗 Economic Research: ChatGPT Usage - https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f142e/economic-research-chatgpt-usage-paper.pdf
📘 Anthropic: Claude Usage & AI in the Economy
🔗 Anthropic Economic Index – September 2025 - https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report
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