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Technology Trends for 2025 – O’Reilly
What O'Reilly Learning Platform Usage Tells Us About Where the Industry Is Headed Welcome to our annual report on the usage of the O’Reilly learning platform. It’s been an exciting year, dominated by a constant stream of breakthroughs and announcements in AI, and...
Turbocharging Organizational Learning With GenAI
Generative AI can greatly enhance organizational learning, but using it successfully requires the right mindset. By working together, humans and machine agents can significantly expand knowledge-sharing, innovation, and competitive advantage. Go to Source
A fitness agenda for government: Cultivating organizational health in the US public sector | McKinsey
Organizational strength depends on sustaining good performance. Our new survey shows that five practices could bolster long-term health. Organizational strength depends on sustaining good performance. Our new survey shows that five practices could bolster long-term...
OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why | TechCrunch
Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in English. Go to Source
UK throws its hat into the AI fire | TechCrunch
In 2023, the U.K. made a big song and dance about the need to consider the harms of AI, giving itself a leading role in the wider conversation around AI safety. Now, it’s whistling a very different tune: today, the government announced a sweeping plan and a big bet on...
AI is set to transform education — what enterprise leaders can learn from this development | VentureBeat
After six decades of dreaming and experimenting, we might be on the cusp of a technology-enabled revolution in education. The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools recently approved the application by Unbound Academy for a new online school that will replace...
You’ve heard of software as a service; enter service-as-software enabled by generative AI. | by Ardent Venture Partners | Medium
For venture investors, companies adopting LLMs have brought renewed attention to previously overlooked sectors, recasting them as prime targets for opportunity. As we continue to see capital pouring into AI-driven startups, we’re witnessing the emergence of what we...
Agents
This post is adapted from the Agents section of AI Engineering (2025) with minor edits to make it a standalone post. Go to Source
Physical AI, world foundation models will move to forefront | Constellation Research Inc.
Physical AI and the foundational models that go with them will be a recurring theme across enterprises now that Nvidia has laid out its Cosmos world foundation models. Speaking at CES 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched its own physical AI models with the aim of...
Google is building a ‘world modeling’ AI team for games and robots – The Verge
The new DeepMind team will build AI models that can simulate the physical world and advance AGI development. Go to Source
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