Newsweek’s AI Impact Awards 2025

Award Winner Description Best Outcomes, Digital Media & Arts

AI Arts & Media – AI is being used across industries to improve results across promotion, marketing, entertainment, journalism, from data results to automating writing by providing script and personalized recommendations.
Winner: Interdependence Best Outcomes, Visual Media & Arts

AI Arts & Media – AI goes beyond simply generating images, creating interactive art and exploring issues of bias and can serve as a jumping off point for bigger creations.
Winner: Moonvalley Best Outcomes, Visual Media & Arts

AI Arts & Media – AI can do more than help in drafting. It can help to give narration to an established idea, adjust writing styles and tones, and help in overcoming writers block with brainstorm generation, as well as simply correcting errors in spelling and grammar.
Winner: Spines Best Outcomes, Customer Experience

AI Brand & Retail – AI can assist in the overall customer experience by influencing outcomes in basket size, reducing return rates and overall retention and margins.
Winner: Perfect Corp. Best Outcomes, Marketing and Creative

AI Brand & Retail – AI can offer personalized marketing, A/B tests, website navigation, cross-selling/up-selling and enhanced product descriptions.
Winner: Maesa Best Outcomes, Product Development and Innovation

AI Brand & Retail – AI functionality assists in interpreting and summarizing end user feedback to extend the lifecycle of products and/or develop entirely new products.
Winner: Trax Retail Best Outcomes, Analyzing Customer Data

AI Customer Service – AI is transforming business through data analytics, identifying customer patterns through large datasets, predicting behaviors and even laying out customer-centric marketing campaigns, all based on data.
Winner: Pipeliner CRM Best Outcomes, Customer Satisfaction

AI Customer Service – AI can improve customer satisfaction by helping customers in real time, working to answer questions and solve problems as they arise.
Winner: Intercom Best Outcomes, Commercial Learning

AI Education – Some things AI can provide here are automated training, virtual tutors, learning and content recommendations.
Winner: Coursera Best Outcomes, General Learning

AI Education – Some things AI can provide here are automated training, virtual tutors, learning and content recommendations.
Winner: Salesforce Best Outcomes, K-12 Education

AI Education – AI can be used to tailor learning to individual needs and assess a student’s strengths and weaknesses, using this data to create the best learning programs.
Winner: ClassDojo Best Outcomes, Higher Education

AI Education – Uses for AI in higher education can range from student teaching to support systems, admin and admissions to curriculum planning.
Winner: MedCerts Best Outcomes, Financial Services

AI Finance – AI is transforming investment, corporate banking, insurance and investments. This includes process automation, efficiencies, enhanced revenue opportunities, compliance and data privacy.
Winner: Principal Financial Group Best Outcomes, Mitigating Fraud

AI Finance – AI can aid in detecting and preventing fraud by analyzing transaction patterns and identifying anomalies and potential cyber-attacks.
Winner: Instnt Best Outcomes, Accounting

AI Finance – This AI category would include invoice processing, document review, forecasting, auditing, tax compliance, overall compliance checks, data analysis and fraud detection.
Winner: ABBYY Best Outcomes, Care Coordination

AI Health Care – AI tools can be used to bolster hospitals’ command centers—evaluating wait times and helping with scheduling. They can also respond to patient inquiries and help schedule appointments.
Winner: Xsolis Best Outcomes, Health Equity

AI Health Care – AI can analyze large swaths of data and identify disparities in health care.
Winner: Bunkerhill Health Best Outcomes, Patient Care

AI Health Care – AI creations that correlate to patient health, as all roads lead to the patient.
Winner: Cera Best Outcomes, Diagnostics

AI Health Care – AI tools can be used to guide diagnosis, especially in image-heavy specialties like radiology.
Winner: Color Health Best Outcomes, Physician Satisfaction

AI Health Care – AI in health care can automate administrative tasks, taking time-consuming duties off doctors’ plates.
Winner: Iodine Software Best Outcomes, Content Creation

AI Marketing – Automating copy writing, design and creative quality can create dynamic content with various user interactions.
Winner: Extreme Networks Best Outcomes, Consumer Targeting and Personalization

AI Marketing – Leveraging patterns in market/customer data, identifying quality leads and segmenting to boost conversions can all precisely segment audiences through AI.
Winner: Beeby Clark + Meyler Best Outcomes, Programmatic Marketing

AI Marketing – AI trends in programmatic can include personalized ad experiences and predictive analytics to deliver highly personalized marketing at scale.
Winner: Clinch Best Outcomes, Automotive/Transportation UX Systems

AI Mobility – AI is being used in the background and foreground to make UX systems better and offer more efficient and accurate computing. AI can also provide detailed explanations of expedited and improved processes.
Winner: Mercedes-Benz AI Best Outcomes, Computer Science

AI Science & Engineering – AI is being used to provide high levels of accuracy in data visualizations, processing and mining. This might also lean into robotics, image recognition and program writing.
Winner: Warp Best Outcomes, Engineering

AI Science & Engineering – AI impacts engineering in many ways, from analytics to risk assessment to streamlining and comparing regulations.
Winner: CloudBees Best Outcomes, Materials Science and Chemistry

AI Science & Engineering – Chemists have been using AI for some time to identify patterns to perform quick and precise analysis, and also in predicting new compounds with desired, required properties.
Winner: Every Cure Best Outcomes, Sports Broadcasting/Streaming

AI Sports – The use of AI can capture performance highlights, distribute those highlights across multiple platforms and improve the overall viewing experience for the sports fan.
Winner: SailGP Best Outcome in Climate Adaptation & Resilience

AI Sustainability – AI tools are consistently improving the monitoring and response to extreme weather events that are exacerbated by climate change, across fire, flooding and heatwaves.
Winner: Straive Best Outcome in Energy Infrastructure

AI Sustainability – AI is assisting with the best siting and permitting of solar and wind power, and overall better development of clean technology.
Winner: IBM Best Outcomes, Digital Workspaces

AI Workplace – AI assists across tracking user time in apps, messages sent, project completion times and collaboration wins.
Winner: Zoom AI Companion Best Outcomes, HR

AI Workplace – Payroll, compliance, workforce planning & management and other HR functions have consistently been enhanced with the use of AI.
Winner: Betterworks Best Outcomes, Learning and Development

AI Workplace – Using AI can show improvement in participation, internal mobilities, onboarding of new positions and tasks, and enhance overall employee development.
Winner: Pfizer Extraordinary Impact in AI Innovation

Best of – Most Innovative AI Technology or Service – Recognizing an AI methodology, technology or architecture with potential to profoundly impact multiple real-world use cases.
Winner: Phare Bio Extraordinary Impact in Commercial Tool or Service

Best of – Most Innovative AI Technology or Service – Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that has enabled significant gains in productivity, customer experience, or new revenue generation across one or more industries.
Winner: Axon Enterprise Extraordinary Impact in General Purpose AI Tool or Service

Best of – Most Innovative AI Technology or Service – Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that has demonstrated significant commercial or cultural impact.
Winner: fal.ai Extraordinary Impact in AI Human Interactivity or Collaboration

Extraordinary Impact in AI Human Interactivity or Collaboration – Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that that has demonstrated significant value in enhancing interactive human-to-human or human-to-machine communication and collaboration.
Winner: Ex-Human Extraordinary Impact in AI Transparency or Responsibility

Best of – Most Innovative AI Technology or Service – Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that that has demonstrated significant value in enhancing explainability or responsibility of AI systems
Winner: EY Responsible AI framework Best in Class

Best in Class – Recognized by the panel of cross-industry judges as the overall winner of the AI Impact Awards, demonstrating significant impact in its field and successful execution of a “big idea.”
Winner: Every Cure