“The next big thing that will destroy your business is some smart folks with an idea,” Palo Alto CIO Jonathan Reichental talks business threats, future cities and big ideas

This report brings the current AI conversation together and makes sense of the signals people are seeing in isolation.

• Why AI can look like it’s slowing down and accelerating at the same time
• How work is changing at the task level, rather than through sudden job replacement
• Why productivity gains often come with increased pressure and workload
• What changes when AI moves inside tools instead of sitting alongside them
• Why readiness, not capability, is now the biggest constraint for organisations
• How agentic AI shifts the conversation from output to action