2025 strategic planning; evaluating research reports; The Financial Times, news and AI
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By Stephen Phillips

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• Three key AI trends for information managers in 2025
• Upcoming Community session with the FT, and one in Asia-Pacific
• New report on evaluating market research quality
• Another lawsuit highlights the ethics of AI, including authors’ rights and mitigating copyright risk.

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As we near 2025, information managers are looking for steers on their stakeholders' priorities.

Gartner is often a useful source of insights, and their recent report has flagged ten strategic technology trends for 2025. Three of these trends are opportunities for information managers, and have featured in recent Jinfo content:

1. Agentic or Autonomous AI is recognised as a game changer. To understand AI Agents, read our Report "An Introduction to AI agents, agentic frameworks, and analysis of their potential business impact" or our Recorded Webinar "The AI agents are coming!".
   
   
2. AI Governance focuses on the legal, ethical and operational risks of AI. For a quick start guide to mitigating risk, use our report "Crafting a governance framework for AI products and applications".
   
   
3. Disinformation security starts with good contracting.  Review your processes and documentation using the suggestions in "Augmenting your documentation to mitigate risks of using Artificial Intelligence".

We have two senior leaders from The Financial Times joining us this month in our Community session "Discussing news and AI strategies with the Financial Times" (21st November).

There are already a large number of sign-ups for the session, so I encourage you to register early for this exclusive event.

The recent explosion of market and industry research reports is proving a headache for information managers as they try to sort the "wheat from the chaff."

Our new report "How to critically evaluate the quality and credibility of market research sources" follows a successful Community session on the topic, and includes:

• An analysis of the current situation, and barriers to effective evaluation
• Practical evaluation criteria and actions for information managers.

On the topic of infringing authors' rights, The Bookseller reported that Cambridge University Press and Assessment (CUPA) is asking its 20,000 contributing authors to opt-in to AI licensing their works.   

Several outlets (including WIRED) have reported that Dow Jones and New York Post (both News Corp) have filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, for copyright infringement and trademark dilution.   Perplexity has also received cease and desist orders from the New York Times, and several Conde Nast publications.

So, check out the Jinfo Article "How can you mitigate the risk of infringing authors' rights with GenAI?" to see what steps you can take to protect your organisation from this issue, and watch the teaser on our YouTube channel.

And finally, our next "Asia-Pacific Community session" is on 19th November. So if you're in the region, and have a Jinfo Subscription, please register now. 

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