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7 trends shaping digital transformation in 2025 – and AI looms large | ZDNET
From autonomous enterprises built on a hybrid workforce to a house of AI agents, here's where digital transformation goes next. Go to Source
RAG is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine
RAG is popular but unfit for many enterprise use cases and I explain both of those things. RAG has taken the GenAI world by storm. This is a mistake of excess, which will resolve to a sane equilibrium eventually. But there’s a lot to say about RAG in the mean time. Go...
AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud users • The Register
: Please insert another million dollars to continue Broader AI adoption by enterprise customers is being hindered by the complexity of trying to forecast inferencing costs amid a fear being saddled with excessive bills for cloud services. Go to Source
Specialist Learning Providers Tap AI to Gain Competitive Edge
AI is driving bold reinvention in learning tech specialists, but trust, ethics and design still shape long-term impact. Go to Source
Real-Time Strategy games and AI interfaces – by David Hoang
Issue 247: How early computer gamers have been trained for Agent orchestration Go to Source
Policy Exchange – Government in the Age of Superintelligence
A new report from Policy Exchange – backed by Lord (William) Hague – calls on the Government to rewire its institutions for the coming age of superintelligent technologies – and warns that “incrementalism is no longer enough” Go to Source
Digital and mission-driven government: digital, burdens and networks | Nesta
The first of three essays by Richard Pope, author of Platformland: An anatomy of next-generation public services, on how digital can provide a unifying role in the successful delivery of the government’s missions. Go to Source
Fish Food: Episode 647 – Superagency: Amplifying Human Capability with AI
AI extending human, how AI is changing jobs, ChatGPT for business, WPP's 30,000 AI agents, how social media has evolved, and what we lose with AI art. Go to Source
The rise of reasoning machines – by Nathan Lambert
A sufficiently general definition of reasoning I’ve been using is: Reasoning is the process of drawing conclusions by generating inferences from observations. Go to Source
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