Subscribe • Previous Issues Workflow, Not Wizardry: The Real Levers of AI Success at Work After two years of breathless predictions about AI transformation, there remains a stark divide between promise and practice. Major tech companies continue their massive infrastructure investments – with capital expenditures approaching 30% of revenues – while many enterprise clients struggle to demonstrateContinue reading “🚨 New Data Reveals Why Most Gen-AI Pilots Fail”
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Can a single agent automate 90% of your code fixes? Block thinks so
Subscribe • Previous Issues Open-source AI that pays for itself: Block’s Vision for AI Integration Just when I think I’ve grasped the full landscape of AI coding assistants, another compelling tool I’d never encountered invariably surface. codename goose (hereafter “Goose”), an open-source agent used weekly by 5,000 Block employees, shows what happens when you give an LLMContinue reading “Can a single agent automate 90% of your code fixes? Block thinks so”
Tired of Custom AI Wiring? There’s a Better Way
Subscribe • Previous Issues The Protocol Foundation: Building Enterprise-Ready AI Agent Systems I often hear a recurring concern from teams working with AI: will our agents truly integrate with our existing systems, or are we facing an endless cycle of custom wiring for each new tool? Agentic AI protocols are emerging as a potential solution. These protocolsContinue reading “Tired of Custom AI Wiring? There’s a Better Way”
Why this AI veteran left Google to make models ‘unconditionally open’
Subscribe • Previous Issues Beyond Open Weights: The Path to Unconditionally Open AI While I routinely work with both proprietary LLMs and open-weights models, my heart lies with models that are open in the fullest sense. Very early on, I noted that for foundation models, ‘open’ must comprehensively cover not just weights but also data, code, andContinue reading “Why this AI veteran left Google to make models ‘unconditionally open’”
Beyond Siri: The Real Apple AI Story
Subscribe • Previous Issues Apple’s AI: Efficiency, Privacy, and Seamless Integration Apple’s success has been built upon a meticulous fusion of hardware, software, and services, consistently shaping how people interact with technology while championing user privacy. However, the recent explosion in artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, presents a new paradigm. While the company is often perceived asContinue reading “Beyond Siri: The Real Apple AI Story”
The Human Blueprint for Smarter AI Agents
Subscribe • Previous Issues Human‑Inspired Agents: Translating Workflows into Robust AI Systems When ChatGPT and its peers burst onto the scene at the end of 2022, the analyst community immediately began probing one question: could large language models write SQL for us? The appeal is obvious. More than 400 million Office 365 users—and upwards of 90 percent of firms—still rely on spreadsheets forContinue reading “The Human Blueprint for Smarter AI Agents”
Beyond ChatGPT: The Other AI Risk You Haven’t Considered
Subscribe • Previous Issues The Rise of Voice as AI’s Interface Layer: Why AI Security Must Come First By Roy Zanbel, Ben Lorica, Yishay Carmiel. Voice technology has raced ahead in the past year, bringing unprecedented convenience. But this rapid progress also unveils a new frontier of risk, as once-narrow synthesis models yield to systems that putContinue reading “Beyond ChatGPT: The Other AI Risk You Haven’t Considered”
Deconstructing OpenAI’s Path to $125 Billion
Subscribe • Previous Issues OpenAI’s $125B Claim—Can It Really Happen? Dan Schwarz, CEO of Futuresearch, recently shared insights from his company’s ongoing analysis of OpenAI and the broader Generative AI market. Futuresearch has recently focused on dissecting OpenAI’s revenue composition to forecast its growth prospects, publishing several analytic reports on the topic. What follows is a heavily editedContinue reading “Deconstructing OpenAI’s Path to $125 Billion”
Are Chinese open-weights Models a Hidden Security Risk?
Subscribe • Previous Issues Chinese Open-Weights AI: Separating Security Myths from Reality Walking the floor at last week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, it was clear that artificial intelligence dominates the conversation among security professionals. Discussions spanned both harnessing AI for security tasks – ‘agents’ were a recurring theme – and the distinct challenge of securing AIContinue reading “Are Chinese open-weights Models a Hidden Security Risk?”
Is Your AI Still a Pilot? Here’s How Enterprises Cross the Finish Line
Subscribe • Previous Issues Generative AI in the Real World: Lessons From Early Enterprise Winners Evangelos Simoudis occupies a valuable vantage point at the intersection of AI innovation and enterprise adoption. Because he engages directly with both corporations navigating AI implementation and the startups building new solutions, I always appreciate checking in with him. His insights areContinue reading “Is Your AI Still a Pilot? Here’s How Enterprises Cross the Finish Line”