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The Ephemeral Organisation

A Frontier Model Slow-down is Fine, Regardless of the Reasoning

How Can Management Keep Up With the Explosion of the Digital Workforce?

Who Watches the Agents? Some Lessons from “The Incident”

From Citizen Developers to Citizen Operators

Should Enterprises Worry About an AI Bubble?

Agentic AI Challenges Workforce Planning; but it Could also Re-invent it

Agentic AI, Harness Engineering and Organisational Architecture
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Databricks Genie Ontology: Building the Context Layer for Enterprise AI | by Utkarsh Rastogi | Sep, 2026 | Medium
Databricks Genie Ontology provides the context engine, while Genie Agents and Genie One handle execution. By treating semantics, governance, and tool access as first-class operational infrastructure, organizations can build reliable AI systems that go beyond answering...
The Next AI Moat Is Workflow Economics – by Ken Huang
Innovation is moving at unprecedented speed. Over the last few days, the signal worth paying attention to was not another model leaderboard jump by itself. The stronger signal was how much of the serious conversation shifted toward inference budgets, workflow cost,...
Artificial symbiotic intelligence: Agents, AGI and the orchestration of many minds — DeepMind Institute
From multicellularity to cultural evolution, major transitions in life on Earth have been highly social. The next intelligence explosion will be no different. Go to Source
The automation paradox and the future of skills
At first glance, automation seems simple. The more a machine takes over a task, the less human intervention is needed, and we would therefore describe this as a continuous shift that gradually moves work from humans to technology. In absolute terms, this is true, but...
Microsoft Shows Off Its New Copilot ‘Super App’ – Directions on Microsoft
Microsoft took the wraps off the coming user experience for its latest iteration of its Copilot app on Sept. 25. Previously known as the Copilot “Super App,” the updated app converges the previously separate consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into a...
As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind – The New York Times
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance. Credit...Emmanuel Polanco Listen · 14:15 min Share full article By Adam Satariano and Cecilia Kang Adam...
Does your AI agent really understand your enterprise context? You need more than a Knowledge Graph, says Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans
Getting context right is crucial for success with enterprise AI, but no one’s 100% there yet. We catch up with the thinking at Google Cloud. Go to Source
AWS report delivers CxO view of AI projects | Constellation Research
Amazon Web Services released a report on delivering value from AI projects based on interviews with 150 C-level executives and the biggest takeaway is that business outcomes need to lead and these efforts are about organization design and change management as much as...
Workforce economics reshapes the AI-era C-suite – SiliconANGLE
There was a time when the org chart told you how the company worked. Finance managed capital. Human resources managed people. Information technology managed systems. Operations managed workflows. AI is blowing that model apart, creating a new discipline of “workforce...
AI wrecking ball fractures billable-hour fee model
AI-first’ boutiques are challenging a status quo stalemate. Plus: the growing list of pricing options Go to Source
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