2025's Key Strategic Tech Trends: Insights from Gartner

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Gartner's 2025 strategic technology trends highlight advancements in AI, quantum computing, and spatial computing, poised to drive major industry shifts. These trends offer CIOs and IT leaders critical insights to navigate future opportunities and disruptions.

TODAY’S ROADMAP

• Current Happenings in AI World

• Top 10 Strategic Tech Trends for 2025 Unveiled by Gartner

• Metaview Launches Free AI-Powered Hiring Studio to Supercharge Recruiting Productivity

• 5 AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity

  and more…

NEWS

Current Happenings in AI World

• More trouble for Perplexity: After facing a lawsuit from the NYTimes, AI search startup Perplexity is now accused by News Corp (owner of WSJ and NY Post) of copyright infringement for reproducing content without permission.

• No escaping this: “Blade Runner 2049” production company Alcon Entertainment is suing Elon Musk, alleging he used AI-generated images resembling scenes from the film to promote Tesla's robotaxi, despite being denied permission.

• Musk’s API arrives: In positive news, Musk’s startup xAI has launched an API for its Grok generative AI model, which powers features on X. Users had awaited the release since August, though the current API is reportedly limited to one model, “grok-beta.”

AI UPDATE

Top 10 Strategic Tech Trends for 2025 Unveiled by Gartner

At its annual IT Symposium/Xpo in Orlando this week, Gartner unveiled its top 10 strategic technology trends for 2025, highlighting game-changing advances in AI, IoT, and quantum computing.

Held at the Swan and Dolphin Resort, the event welcomes 8,000 attendees, including CIOs and senior leaders, with 200 exhibitors showcasing cutting-edge innovations.

Gartner regularly publishes these forward-looking lists to equip business technology leaders with critical insights into emerging trends and innovations to stay ahead.

Here is Gartner's 2025 list:

• Agentic AI systems: Automating decisions, these systems will manage 15% of work decisions by 2028, up from none today.

• AI governance platforms: Reducing ethical AI issues by 40% by 2028, these platforms will enforce responsible AI policies across organizations.

• Disinformation security: As AI misuse rises, 50% of enterprises will adopt solutions addressing disinformation threats by 2028.

• Post-Quantum cryptography: Resistant to quantum decryption risks, by 2029, traditional asymmetric cryptography will become unsafe.

• Ambient invisible intelligence: Low-cost sensors will integrate intelligence seamlessly into daily life through 2027, driving deeper connectivity.

• Energy-efficient computing: New technologies, including optical and neuromorphic systems, will vastly reduce energy usage in AI and optimization tasks by the late 2020s.

• Hybrid computing: By combining compute, storage, and networking, hybrid systems will surpass conventional environments in efficiency and innovation.

• Spatial computing: AR and VR integration will explode, growing from $110 billion in 2023 to $1.7 trillion by 2027.

• Polyfunctional robots: By 2030, 80% of humans will interact with versatile smart robots daily, compared to less than 10% today.

• Neurological enhancements: By 2033, cognitive technologies will enhance human abilities, with 30% of knowledge workers relying on brain-computer interfaces to remain competitive in an AI-driven workplace.

These trends will usher in profound disruption and opportunity for CIOs and IT leaders over the next decade, according to Gartner.

AI AT JOB

Metaview Launches Free AI-Powered Hiring Studio to Supercharge Recruiting Productivity

Metaview has launched Hiring Studio — a free suite of copilots aimed at boosting the productivity of recruiting teams by 10x. With Hiring Studio, Metaview has fine-tuned an LLM to:

• Collaborate with AI to design interview questions tailored to your recruitment needs.

• Automatically generate rubrics for evaluating excellent, good, or poor answers.

• Review sample candidate responses in formats like STAR.

• Export or share the questions seamlessly with your team.

AI MEETS PRODUCTIVITY

5 AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity

• Feta: An AI platform designed to help product and engineering teams run efficient meetings and document discussions for actionable insights.

• Focus Buddy: An AI co-pilot that stays on call to manage your to-do list, combat procrastination, and identify the behavioral patterns holding you back.

• Patterned AI: Use AI to generate unique and creative patterns for your product.

• Convo: An AI-moderated qualitative user research platform offering the depth of interviews at the scale of surveys.

• Strella: A research platform utilizing AI-moderated interviews and instant synthesis for smarter, faster decisions.

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