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Is the AI gold rush turning into a trillion-dollar hangover?

Big Tech is borrowing billions, businesses are pouring money into AI, and employees are working harder than ever. Yet despite record-breaking investments and soaring adoption rates, the financial payoff remains surprisingly elusive. So who's actually winning the AI race, and who's just paying for the privilege of running?

In this episode of Leveraging AI, Isar Meitis connects the dots between the staggering AI infrastructure investments of Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Google, and Oracle, the growing pressure on financial markets, and a troubling enterprise productivity paradox. Drawing on research from Deloitte, KPMG, Menlo Ventures, and Google DeepMind, he explores why AI spending is skyrocketing while measurable business returns remain difficult to find.

The takeaway for business leaders? Stop treating AI adoption as a shopping spree and start treating it as a business transformation. Real ROI requires more than licenses and automation. It demands a clear strategy, redesigned workflows, employee education, strong governance, and a fundamental rethink of how your organization creates value.

In this session, you'll discover:

• Why Big Tech's AI infrastructure spending is creating unprecedented financial pressure, and what it could mean for the broader economy.
• How mounting debt, workforce reductions, and growing opposition to data centers are complicating the AI investment boom.
• Why enterprise AI spending has increased 5.4x while many organizations still struggle to demonstrate meaningful financial returns.
• What separates companies generating real AI ROI from those stuck in endless experimentation.
• Why giving employees AI tools isn't the same as transforming how your business operates.
• How AI is making employees more productive while potentially increasing workloads, burnout, and expectations.
• Why governance, infrastructure, leadership accountability, and employee training are critical to successful AI adoption.
• What Google DeepMind's research reveals about the relationship between AI, meaningful work, and human well-being.
• How emerging AI developments in cybersecurity, model improvement, and automation could reshape the business landscape.

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