AI That Diagnoses Better Than Doctors, 1M Robots at Amazon, and What’s Fueling the 2-Day Workweek

Inside: Bold AI breakthroughs in business, healthcare, and robotics, plus upcoming events and a spotlight on energy innovation.

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Applied AI Association
July 05, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 16 minutes

👋 Editor's Note

This week’s issue is packed with momentum—from Microsoft's AI outpacing doctors in diagnoses to Amazon deploying its millionth warehouse robot. We spotlight Vishal Rastogi, who’s leading the charge to bring AI innovation to the energy and utility sector through his role as Chair of the Energy & Utility Committee – AAIA Dallas Chapter.

You’ll also find powerful tools, top news on AI in healthcare and education, and a global lineup of events to keep your skills and insights sharp. Plus, don’t miss our Slightly-off-topic Reads for a fun take on AI-powered robot soccer! Let’s spark innovation together—read on!

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📢 AAIA chapter and member news and updates:

🚀 AAIA launches Regional Committees. Last week, AAIA announced the launch of its Regional Committees, marking a significant new chapter in its mission to accelerate the responsible adoption of AI across industries and communities. These committees are designed to serve as dynamic hubs, connecting innovators, technologists, thought leaders, and learners. By fostering deeper conversations and stronger connections among industry experts, practitioners, educators, and newcomers, the Regional Committees aim to support collaboration and knowledge-sharing for everyone interested in how AI is transforming various fields.  This week, we spotlight:

Meet Vishal: A powerhouse in the IT and energy space, Vishal Rastogi brings over 18 years of leadership in managed services, IT infrastructure, and service delivery. Currently a Senior Service Delivery Manager at Dexian, he’s known for driving growth and leading major strategic initiatives. Vishal previously spent 16+ years at HCL Technologies, where he led global teams and delivered high-impact projects in cloud transformation, data center migration, and modernization—achieving millions in savings. He holds Master’s degrees in Computer Science and is certified in AWS, Azure, and Scrum. Vishal is admired for his forward-thinking leadership, deep technical expertise, and passion for building strong, collaborative teams.

Why Vishal is Fired Up to Lead This Committee: “I’m genuinely excited to take on this role because AI has the power to revolutionize the energy and utility sector—helping us tackle challenges like grid modernization, renewable integration, and sustainability head-on. I’m passionate about leveraging AI to drive smarter operations, support decarbonization, and champion responsible, inclusive innovation that benefits all. Leading this committee is both a professional privilege and a personal mission to spark real change.”

Welcome, Vishal! We can't wait to see you energize the AAIA Dallas Chapter and build a thriving, forward-looking Energy & Utility community. The future of AI in energy just got a lot brighter!

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

  • 📝 Can AI Help Us Achieve the 2-Day Workweek?

    • I recently joined Cheryl Goodman, author of How to Win Friends and Influence Robots, on her podcast Mind the Machine, where we tackled one of the boldest questions shaping the future of work: Could AI help us move to a two-day workweek? (show me more)

  • 📝 My Journey to The 2-Day Workweek:

    • From the moment I was five years old, I became obsessed with the relationship between effort and value. It started when I showed my dad a drawing I made. He liked it so much, he told me he’d pay me for it. That spark turned into a hustle: within two hours, I was going door to door in my neighborhood, selling drawings to anyone who’d buy them. To my amazement, they did. (show me more)

📰 In the News:

India’s top IT companies are shifting their focus from developing foundational AI models to integrating and applying AI solutions for enterprises, heavily upskilling their workforce and partnering with global tech giants to meet booming global demand for AI-powered business transformation. (show me more)

A recent survey shows that while enterprise AI adoption is accelerating and interest in large-scale integration is rising, most organizations still struggle to move beyond isolated pilot projects due to challenges with workforce readiness, organizational culture, and governance, resulting in a persistent gap between strategic ambition and effective operationalization. (show me more)

A Microsoft study found that its AI system, the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), accurately diagnosed complex medical cases from the New England Journal of Medicine 85% of the time—four times better than human doctors—while also reducing diagnostic costs by 20%, though the technology is still in development and awaits real-world clinical validation. (show me more)

📰 JSS AHER partners with Google on AI-driven healthcare (Times of India, July 4, 2025)

JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (JSS AHER) in Mysuru has partnered with Google Research to develop and evaluate the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), an advanced AI system designed to improve diagnostic accuracy and physician-patient interactions, with the findings published in Nature and the collaboration also driving AI integration into JSS AHER’s medical curriculum and research ecosystem. (show me more)

Google is rolling out new AI-powered features for its education tools, including making NotebookLM available to students under 18 for the first time, adding Gemini AI capabilities to Google Classroom for lesson planning and student support, and introducing new analytics, video, and classroom management resources for educators. (show me more)

UNESCO convened over 1,200 participants from 88 countries at its Global Forum on the Ethics of AI in Bangkok to assess progress and challenges since the adoption of its 2021 AI ethics recommendations, emphasizing the need for stronger international cooperation and tailored national approaches to ensure the ethical development and use of artificial intelligence. (show me more)

Whitehall’s plan to cut government costs by adopting AI is highly risky due to technological limitations, a lack of widespread understanding of AI’s complexities, and concerns over the readiness of public sector systems and the potential for unintended consequences. (show me more)

Amazon has deployed its one millionth warehouse robot, marking a significant milestone in its automation efforts and signaling an acceleration of job automation within its fulfillment centers. (show me more)

📰 Top 10 robotics developments of June 2025 (The Robot Report, July 1, 2025)

The article highlights the top 10 robotics developments of June 2025, featuring major product launches and funding rounds—including new humanoid robots from Hexagon, Wandercraft, NEURA, and 1X; significant investments in Coco Robotics, Gecko Robotics, and Beewise; Meta's advanced AI world model for robotics; ABB's expanded industrial robot lineup; and the financial troubles of Aldebaran, the maker of Pepper and Nao robots. (show me more)

A newly developed AI model called Centaur, trained on data from over 160 psychology studies and 10 million human choices, can predict human behavior across a wide range of tasks with greater accuracy than classical psychology theories, marking a significant advance in cognitive science research. (show me more)

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

📰 China’s humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts (AP, June 29, 2025)

Four teams of humanoid robots powered entirely by artificial intelligence competed in Beijing's first fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer match, captivating fans and showcasing China's push to advance AI-driven robotics through sports competitions. (show me more)

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSfbih_kfp8

📰 How Many Steaks Can One AI Video vs. AI Image Cook? | WSJ (Wall Street Journal/YouTube, July 1, 2025)

“AI data centers could use up to 12% of all U.S. electricity by 2028. But how much power does it take to create one video and what really happens after you hit “enter” on that AI prompt?”

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRNVc3-XGFg

🛠️ 📘 Tools and Reports Spotlight

📘 2025: The State of Consumer AI (Menlo Ventures, June 26, 2025, h/t The Neuron)

More than half of American adults have used AI, with 1.7–1.8 billion global users, but only about 3% pay for premium services—revealing massive adoption but a large monetization gap and opportunities for new, specialized AI products that solve real, everyday problems. (show me more)

📘 Seizing the agentic AI advantage (McKinsey, June 13, 2025)

Most companies have adopted generative AI, but few see significant business impact because they rely on broad, horizontal tools rather than deeply integrated, process-transforming AI agents; to unlock real value, organizations must redesign workflows and operating models around agentic AI, requiring strategic leadership, new governance, and a shift from scattered experimentation to enterprise-wide transformation. (show me more)

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