Today on the AI Daily Brief, the most important AI business lesson from 2025.

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Now, just a heads up, today's show is a main episode only. We're kind of getting into crazy time of the year where on any given day the format might be a little bit different. Just for your own planning and so you know, we will mostly be here on our regular schedule, although not, of course, on Christmas or New Year's, but there'll be a bunch of fun end-of-year content, a couple interviews even that I'm really excited about. And while that's not what this is, we're still in regular content mode until about the 23rd. Today's main episode just got a little bit long, so we'll be back with our normal split between the headlines and the main episode tomorrow. So with all that out of the way,

let's get into today's topic. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. In case you haven't been able to

tell, I love end of year content. It's a time that as the barrage of news slows down a little bit,

people take a little bit of extra time to reflect on the year that was. They start to prepare and

look forward to how they want to operate in the year to come. And from a content perspective,

everyone is putting together their best trend reports and ideas and thoughts for the future.

And that creates a really interesting lens through which to explore some of the big issues

facing AI and all of the people in industries who are trying to figure

out how to adopt it and adapt to it. Now, the latest of these reports is Deloitte's 17th Annual

Tech Trends Report. This is a monster 72-page document that goes deep across six different themes.

Now, rather than getting into each and every theme, I want to highlight what I believe

is the big idea and the clear through line throughout all of this that I think is perhaps

the most important lesson for enterprises and businesses who tried to adopt AI in 2025.

The lesson is, of course, that to fully take advantage of AI, it is going to require much more

than just simply dropping a chatbot on the head of your employees and saying, go be more

productive.

If you've spent any time on LinkedIn over the past couple of weeks, you've probably seen some

version of this iceberg image, which has AI strategy at the top.

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