SHE IS AI

13/05/2026

The EU AI Act lands August 2026. AI-related IP lawsuits are reshaping the creative landscape right now.

Every AI-assisted campaign, asset, and piece of content you ship carries IP risk most teams haven't priced in.

Next Wednesday May 20, we're tackling it.

Co-hosted with Hanis Harmiles (Reinvent IP) - join us for 60 minutes + a live demo of IP Signals' agentic platform.

Two sessions to pick from:
🌍 1PM NZT: https://www.facebook.com/share/1GzGGV2Mqt/
🇳🇿 8pm NZT: https://www.facebook.com/share/18fq2PjDRT/

If you're using AI in commercial creative work, this is the conversation.

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05/05/2026

"Your genius can get sharper with these tools. Or it can fade quietly, smoothed out by convenience, diluted by habits you didn't even realise were forming."

This is a fantastic quote by Lenise TK (Lenise Kenney) from her new book 'Protect Your Genius: The Art of Using AI Without Diluting Your Voice' out today!

This is the AI book I want every AI user to read.

Because it asks the question most playbooks skip: when the email got drafted by a prompt, the idea came back in thirty seconds, the analysis arrived already polished whose thinking is in the work?

Lenise draws on research from Harvard, MIT and Stanford, plus real workplace stories and her own experience as a dyslexic educator who found her voice through the very tools she now questions.

Her core argument is generous and uncomfortable in the right ways:

- The real risk isn't replacement. It's the quiet step back from your own thinking.

- Proficiency is now the floor, not the ceiling.

- Your voice, judgement and perspective don't maintain themselves. They're a practice.

If you lead a team and, or are using AI daily, this is the book to read.

Lenise is a special member of the SHE IS AI community; educator, consultant, builder, partner, community member and ambassador.

Go support her launch; link in comments.

05/05/2026

71%. That's how much of the world's population now lives in countries with fertility below replacement (IHME / Lancet).

The US is losing 4M+ Boomers from the workforce every single year. The UK lost 46% of its tech graduate roles in 2024, with another 53% drop projected by year-end but the WEF's April analysis is clear: this is mostly fewer entrants, not AI displacement.

Hold those numbers next to the AI-jobs headlines and the picture flips.

We're not facing a workforce being replaced by machines.

We're facing a workforce that is literally not being born and AI is the system filling the chair.

That changes the senior-leader conversation.

It's no longer "how do we manage AI displacement". It's "how do we use AI to extend the productive life of a workforce that's actively shrinking under us, while we still have institutional knowledge to capture".

And then there's the question I'd rather we got ahead of than behind:

If AI fills the demographic hiring gap and productivity per remaining human goes vertical what does work mean when enough of us get too rich, too fast, to economically need it?

Is your organisation having that conversation?
Or still arguing about which jobs to protect?

01/05/2026

You did not pick your AI vendor this year.
Your existing software vendors picked it for you.

That's the through-line from this week's signals, and it is the most consequential procurement shift senior leaders have faced since the move to cloud.

🧾 Xero × Anthropic — your finance team now operates in a Claude-native environment.

📞 Zoom × Claude — meetings flow as structured inputs into your work, via MCP.

🎨 Adobe × Claude — 50 Adobe tools usable through one Claude chat.

🛠️ Atlassian × Google Cloud — Rovo deepens with Gemini 3 Flash.

🇯🇵 NEC × Anthropic + Infosys × both — the systems integrators are running multi-model.

The frontier labs are not competing on capability anymore. They are competing on distribution. And the tools your team already uses every day have just become the AI delivery layer.

The Friday Weekly AI Roundup ranks the biggest signals from the week.

Tip; do an audit of which AI is already embedded in your existing SaaS stack.

Swipe through the carousel for the highlights. Comment ROUNDUP or check the comments for the Notion research hub with all the info.

01/05/2026

You did not pick your AI vendor this year.
Your existing software vendors picked it for you.

That's the through-line from this week's signals, and it is the most consequential procurement shift senior leaders have faced since the move to cloud.

🧾 Xero × Anthropic — your finance team now operates in a Claude-native environment.

📞 Zoom × Claude — meetings flow as structured inputs into your work, via MCP.

🎨 Adobe × Claude — 50 Adobe tools usable through one Claude chat.

🛠️ Atlassian × Google Cloud — Rovo deepens with Gemini 3 Flash.

🇯🇵 NEC × Anthropic + Infosys × both — the systems integrators are running multi-model.

The frontier labs are not competing on capability anymore. They are competing on distribution. And the tools your team already uses every day have just become the AI delivery layer.

The Friday Weekly AI Roundup ranks the biggest signals from the week.

Tip; do an audit of which AI is already embedded in your existing SaaS stack.

Swipe through the carousel for the highlights. Comment ROUNDUP or check the comments for the Notion research hub with all the info.

24/04/2026

24/04/2026

AI has stopped being a tool you buy and become a system you run.

For senior leaders and people managers, this is the week the data caught up to what you've been feeling on the ground.

Three signals from three continents landed the same point this week:

→ Gallup tracked 30,000+ workers and named manager championing as the #1 predictor of employee AI use — stronger than training spend or tool access.

→ PwC put a number on the gap: 74% of AI's economic value is going to just 20% of companies. The top quintile generates 7.2x more value. The differentiator is strategy, not tools.

→ Microsoft committed A$25B to Australia and pledged AI training for 200,000 New Zealanders by 2028.

The manager IS the AI rollout. Everything else is plumbing.

I've pulled the 10 signals that defined the week, with source, why-it-matters and the five moves you can make next week into the weelkly research round up Notion hub.

Swipe through the carousel for the highlights.

Comment "Notion" and I'll send you the full roundup.

Read the full round up here now:
https://www.notion.so/Week-of-24-April-2026-AI-Signals-Roundup-34c4a4ac536e81d99d87dbf755dd16c3?source=copy_link

17/04/2026

Big shoutout to our partner Kimberly Offord as she heads into the Chicago AI Film Festival tomorrow.

Kimberly is doing powerful work at the intersection of AI, storytelling, music, and culture, and it has been exciting to see the momentum around her projects; including her Webby-nominated AI music video collaboration, “Black,” with Grammy Award-winning artist Lalah Hathaway!

As the festival approaches, this is a beautiful moment to celebrate what she is building: a space for creators, filmmakers, technologists, and culture-shapers to explore where AI storytelling is heading next.

If you are in or around Chicago and want to be in the room for conversations around AI-driven cinema, creative innovation, and the future of film, this is your last push to grab a ticket.

Wishing Kimberly and everyone involved an incredible event tomorrow — full of inspiring films, meaningful conversations, and well-deserved recognition.

Tickets and event details here:

https://playgroundpastime.ai/chicago