AI Innovation & Events: From Healthcare to Gaming & Beyond!

Inside: Discover upcoming AAIA events, recent AI news in business and tech, and Replit’s rogue AI.

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Applied AI Association
July 26, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 19 minutes

👋 Editor's Note

This week’s newsletter highlights the dynamic momentum across our chapters and industry: from pitch days and happy hours to deep dives into gaming, healthcare, and semiconductor innovation. We’re also tracking critical developments such as OpenAI’s education initiatives, Meta’s secretive AI lab, and a notable AI mishap making headlines. Additionally, we spotlight our Gaming & Entertainment Regional Committee leaders.

Have something to share with the global AAIA community? Send your news, tools, or events to [email protected].

📅 Upcoming events:

🗓️ Seattle AAIA Chapter

🗓️ India AAIA Chapter

  • Humans with AI or Humans vs. AI

  • 🗓️ Thursday, July 31, 2025, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM India Standard Time (IST) | Online

  • 🔗 AAIA Members-only event: check the AAIA member website’s community section for details or email [email protected] for event login information

🗓️ Dallas AAIA Chapter

🗓️ Memphis AAIA Chapter

💻🧑‍🏫 Recent event recordings:

AAIA’s BrightTALK page to watch on-demand recordings of previous online events

AAIA’s YouTube page

View the complete AAIA Events calendar

📢 AAIA chapter and member news and updates:

🔄 Recap: India AAIA Chapter, AI in Chips & Devices, Bengaluru, July 19, 2025

From event host IKP EDEN:

Here’s a recap of the inspiring sessions and speakers:

Marmik Soni (Tessolve): Shared fascinating insights on leveraging AI to revolutionize semiconductor chip design and manufacturing. Their AI-driven approaches have resulted in processes that are faster, more accurate, and cost-effective, enhancing the entire semiconductor workflow.

Siva Teja Kakileti (Niramai Health Analytix): Took us through Niramai's journey in deploying AI to tackle major challenges in women’s health, specifically early breast cancer detection. His session illuminated how AI is democratizing access to advanced diagnostics, truly making a difference in healthcare accessibility.

Laina Emmanuel (BrainSightAI): Gave a deep dive into BrainsightAI’s mission of decoding the brain using their connectomics engine. Addressing one of the most complex deeptech problems, her session highlighted efforts to unravel the mysteries of brain connectivity with cutting-edge AI.

Ashish Khushu (L&T Technology Services): Offered a forward-looking perspective on the next wave of AI innovation. His session shed light on emerging AI possibilities and gave the audience a glimpse into the future advancements we can expect.

A huge thanks to all the speakers for sharing their knowledge and experiences!

🔄 Recap: Seattle AAIA Chapter, Creative Media and Generative AI, Thursday, July 10, 2025

Seattle AAIA Chapter, Creative Media and Generative AI, Thursday, July 10, 2025, from AAIA Seattle Chapter President, Boaz Ashkenazy:

Appreciate everyone who joined us at Foundations last night (Thank you Aviel Ginzburg) for the Applied AI Association (AAIA) AI & Gen Media session. Strong turnout and powerful insights from our panelists Rolanda Fu, Mark Buckler, PhD, Patrick Ellis, and Dave Siegfried.

Big thanks to our lead sponsor Baker Tilly for hosting—great call on the MOTO Pizza, Van Spires. Also grateful to our supporting sponsors: TalentReach, CIBC Innovation Banking, and Augmented AI Labs.

With new audio and video tools launching weekly, it was valuable to pause and take stock of where things stand—and where they’re headed.

My big takeaway: while displacement in this space is inevitable, there’s real opportunity for those who approach it with the right mindset.

✍️ AAIA Regional Committee Spotlight:

The Applied AI Association (AAIA) is pleased  to announce Nathan Stahlman and Ric Neil as the new Co-chairs of the Gaming & Entertainment Regional Committee for the AAIA Portland / Southwest Washington Chapter.

AAIA’s Regional Committees are the heartbeat of our global mission -- connecting trailblazers, technologists, and thought leaders who are passionate about transforming industries through AI. Nathan and Ric’s appointment brings incredible energy, vision, and experience to an important technology sector.

Meet Nathan and Ric:

Nathan Stahlman, CEO of Noctua Interactive, is a seasoned entrepreneur and storyteller leveraging AI and interactive gaming to create groundbreaking entertainment that sparks imagination and emotion. At Noctua, he combines immersive tech like AR/VR/RT3D with storytelling to craft captivating games. A thought leader in AI, he helped form the Committee for Applied AI Association (AAIA) on Gaming and Entertainment. Nathan has led startups working with Lockheed Martin, Ryder, and Walmart, raised capital, managed M&As, and holds multiple patents. Excited to lead the regional committee, he aims to guide AI in gaming, collaborate with talent, and drive innovation for meaningful regional impact.

Ric Neil, Founder / Studio Director / Executive Producer of Noctua Interactive, is a visionary video game leader with 30+ years at Microsoft, EA Sports, Amazon, Unity, and more. He led franchises like Madden NFL and NFL Fever, developed Blood & Glory and The Grand Tour Game, and drove growth at Amazon Game Studios and AWS. Ric excels in game development, market analysis, partnerships, and team leadership. Through Noctua Interactive, he leverages AI to create AAA games and is featured in the Amazon Prime documentary “It’s in the Game.” As regional committee leader, Ric aims to expand AAIA’s influence, build relationships, and support gaming innovation.

Welcome, Nathan, Ric!  We look forward to seeing you build a thriving and vibrant Gaming & Entertainment community for the AAIA Portland / Southwest Washington Chapter!

Follow Nathan and Ric and the AAIA Portland / Southwest Washington Chapter Regional Committee’s activities here: https://aaiaglobal.com/portland-sw-wa-gaming-entertainment-committee

✍️ AAAI Founder’s Corner:  Recent “Future Work Blueprint” posts from AAIA Founder and President Nathan Pettyjohn

📰 In the News:

The article reports on the Trump administration's newly unveiled AI action plan, which aims to position the United States as a global leader in AI by accelerating innovation, expanding infrastructure, reducing regulation, and ensuring AI systems used by the government are free from political bias, while emphasizing competition with China and industry-friendly policies. (show me more)

Mark Zuckerberg is assembling a secretive, well-funded tech super-lab at Meta by aggressively recruiting top artificial intelligence talent and building massive new data centers, aiming to make Meta a leader in the race for AI "superintelligence"—though details about its specific goals remain closely guarded. (show me more)

Google raised its annual capital spending plan by $10billion to $85billion to meet surging AI demand, prompting expectations that Meta and Amazon will also boost their own AI investments this year. (show me more)

Sutter Health is using AI-powered ambient technology to transform clinical notes into accurate, patient-friendly visit summaries, enhancing patient understanding and easing physician documentation burdens while ensuring clinician review for reliability. (show me more)

OpenAI and Instructure have partnered to integrate OpenAI’s AI tools directly into the Canvas learning platform, enabling teachers to create custom AI chatbots to assist with instruction, grading, and assessing student progress while providing transparency on AI usage to address concerns about cheating and student engagement. (show me more)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts that AI will drastically transform education, suggesting his own child will likely not attend college, and expresses greater concern about adults adapting to technology than about children, who he believes will manage well in an AI-driven future. (show me more)

The article warns that many AI tools and assistants are increasingly requesting excessive access to users' personal data under the pretext of functionality, posing significant privacy and security risks that users should carefully consider before granting such permissions. (show me more)

A humanoid robot controlled remotely has successfully performed medical procedures, marking a significant advancement in robotic-assisted healthcare technology. (show me more)

China has developed and launched the world's first robot capable of running continuously by itself 24/7, demonstrated by unsettling footage showing it autonomously changing its own batteries. (show me more)

📰 This Week’s Slighty-off-topic Reads:

An AI-powered coding platform, Replit, went rogue during a code freeze and deleted an entire live company database containing thousands of records, prompting an apology from the CEO and immediate deployment of safeguards to prevent future incidents. (show me more)

🛠️ 📘 Tools and Reports Spotlight

📘 McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025: AI and agentic AI (McKinsey & Company, July 22, 2025)

McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook highlights 13 transformational tech trends—including the rise of agentic AI, application-specific semiconductors, and the growing impact of artificial intelligence across sectors—that are reshaping business, driving global competition, and accelerating innovation while presenting new challenges in scaling, talent, and responsible adoption. (show me more)

Download the 108-page report (registration may be required)

📘 The future of AI in the insurance industry (McKinsey & Company, July 15, 2025)

AI is transforming the insurance industry by enabling hyperpersonalization, automating core processes, and driving significant business value, but only insurers that commit to enterprise-wide integration and fundamental rewiring of their operations will realize its full potential. (show me more)

Download the report

A new Microsoft study analyzes over 200,000 real user interactions with Bing Copilot to reveal how generative AI is already transforming high-wage, white-collar work by augmenting tasks like writing and research, challenging automation narratives, and offering the most detailed, data-driven insight yet into AI's real-world impact on jobs and skills. (show me more)

Read the report: Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI

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Until next time!