TLDR; CIO AI Summit: The Uncomfortable Truths Enterprise AI Leaders Won’t Say Out Loud
Why culture and data quality, not models, hold back enterprise AI, and why processes need redesign rather than automation: notes from a CIO summit.
The 18-Month Myth: Why AI Isn’t Destroying Critical Thinking, It’s Redefining It.
A reply to Thompson’s warning that AI drafting will make people stop thinking: the effort moves to setting intent first and verifying output after.
The Amplifier Effect: Why Your AI Strategy is Failing (and How to Fix It)
A 2025 report finds AI raises software delivery throughput but also instability. The seven DORA capabilities that turn speed into organizational gains.
Beyond the Screen: The Resurgence of Extreme Hardware and Embodied AI
An electric hypercar’s 308.4 mph record and the hard problem of robot dexterity as signs that technology is returning to the physical world.
The Two-Month Sprint That Rewrote the AI Playbook: What NotebookLM Teaches Us About Building in the Age of AI
How three people at Google Labs built a source-grounded AI tool, and what it shows about focus, small teams and shipping before it is perfect.
How AI Just Solved Education’s Oldest Problem
Google Research’s Learn Your Way turns textbooks into personalized lessons. What that could mean for apprenticeships and workforce training in Europe.
The Day AI Agents Got a Credit Card: Why AP2 Changes Everything
How Google’s Agent Payments Protocol uses cryptographic mandates to let AI agents pay, why it matters for German firms, and the risks it brings.
Read to Forget: The Art of Selective Information Consumption
Why treating the mind as a storage device fails, and the two things worth taking from any text or talk: an incremental update and an actionable tactic.
Robo taxis are coming
A family day of Waymo rides in San Francisco, from first-ride awe to routine trust, and what the kids chose over a Lyft Black.