Three pieces of AI news from the past month. One uncomfortable pattern underneath all of them.
The Frontier Brief is the monthly solo episode of The Frontier Leader Show, where Martin Wheatley filters what's happening in AI down to what actually matters for leaders running real businesses.
This month Martin covers:
✳️ OpenAI's AI Jobs Transition Framework, and the gap between theoretical and realised AI exposure across 150 million US jobs
✳️ Anthropic's Economic Index data on the widening gap between practised and casual Claude users
✳️ A Chinese court ruling that signals where the legal line is being drawn on AI-driven redundancy
These three signals point at the same problem from different angles. Martin borrows the OpenAI term of "capability overhang": the space between what AI can do and what your people are actually getting out of it. Most businesses have one but few are closing it on purpose.
A practical filter on AI adoption, leadership decisions, and where senior leaders should be focusing their attention right now. Useful for CEOs, MDs, and operators of SME businesses navigating AI strategy.
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