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Weekly Brief 22-28 September - Week 39

  • Writer: Kristine Lium
    Kristine Lium
  • Sep 23
  • 3 min read


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What to Watch This Week:

From AI built into your daily tools to new rights for users, faster healthcare, and even AI “employees” taking on routine tasks — last week’s news shows how AI is shifting from experiments to everyday essentials.


The Weekly Brief is a short and condensed way for you to stay on top and part of the conversation - Every Week



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Why It Matters for Your Work & Life
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AI in Your Daily Tools (Google Gemini 2.0 & OpenAI Pro)

Your email, slides, and docs now expect AI fluency. Workspace can auto-draft, summarise, and present — while OpenAI Pro lets you upload encrypted docs and collaborate in real time.

GlassOfAI

AI in Health & Education

Diagnostics in minutes instead of weeks, plus personal AI tutors in classrooms. That means faster care and more tailored learning.

AI News Today

New AI Rights for Users

Europe’s AI Act and Italy’s privacy law now guarantee transparency and opt-outs. In practice: you’ll have more control over how platforms use your data.

GlassOfAI / CGSPAM

Rise of ‘Downloadable Employees’

AI agents are now handling inboxes, scheduling, and reporting. That frees up time for creative and strategic work — but also signals a shift in workforce needs.

AI Innovations

Massive AI Investments

$100B OpenAI/NVIDIA supercomputing build-out, £2B Nvidia backing UK start-ups, and Microsoft’s $3.3B US data center. Translation: faster AI tools + new jobs in AI hubs.

AI News Briefs CGSPAM


🔭 Future Signal

AI Red Lines: UN scientists called for bans on high-risk uses (autonomous weapons, deepfakes, biometrics misuse). Expect growing pressure for global rules to match AI adoption.


💡 Weekly Kick-Off

AI isn’t waiting at the edges anymore — it’s stepping into your inbox, your classroom, your doctor’s office, and even your company’s org chart. This week is about seeing AI less as “future potential” and more as “today’s default.”


👉 Start your week informed. Simply Briefed brings you the news that matters, every Monday.



Don't miss our latest Episode 17: From Typing to Talking: How Voice Is Changing Work


– With Oliver Åstrand


In this episode, we talk to Oliver Åstrand, co-founder and CTO of Tandem Health—a fast-growing health tech company using voice technology to radically reduce admin in healthcare and give clinicians back their time.


From the evolution of speech recognition to the role of large language models, we explore how voice is reshaping real work—starting in the treatment room. We also unpack the challenges of privacy, personalization, trust, and tone—and what it means when machines don’t just listen… but respond.


Key Takeaways


  • Thanks to AI, speech tools can now understand context, nuance, and complexity—even in clinical settings.


  • Clinicians using Tandem spend less time on admin and more time with patients. The result? Less stress, better care.


  • Voice could reshape how we work—not just in healthcare, but anywhere focus and presence matter.


🎧 Listen now on Spotify!




About the guest

Erik Rosales

Name: Oliver Åstrand

Title: CTO & Co-founder Tandem Health

Background: Tandem Health is a Swedish health tech company focused on simplifying clinical documentation through voice dictation. By enabling clinicians to journal via speech, they’re helping reduce screen time and increase presence with patients. Oliver has previously been part of Researched AI at GoogleX & Uber and developed AI products at startups Depict & Mavenoid

Contact: LinkedIn Website







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