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Today´s prompt: Why dismissing “slop” obscures real capability gains
To be clear, we are not witnessing an AI bubble filling with empty gas. We are watching a new planet form, a molten world rapidly taking shape, and it will solidify into a new AI-powered society. Denial will not stop this. It will only make us less prepared for the risks.
The CEO question
If an independent auditor had to assess your organisation’s AI readiness and AI denial tomorrow, would you be proud to publish their report to your customers and investors – or would you fight to keep it confidential?
Mindcandy club
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You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
Brain-Like AI Emerges Without Training Data in New Study
Scientists showed that carefully designed, biologically inspired architectures can mimic activity in human and primate visual brain areas even when the networks are untrained
Why CIOs must reimagine ERP as the enterprise’s composable backbone
Modern ERP can’t be a dusty relic — CIOs need modular, AI-powered systems that flex with the business instead of slowing it down.
The AI reckoning: How boards can evolve
More than 88 percent of organizations report using AI in at least one business function1; however, board governance has not matched that pace
AI Agent Engineering: Why Enterprise Data Infrastructure Determines Agent Success
AI agent frameworks are multiplying fast, each promising autonomous execution, task delegation, and multi-step reasoning. Yet enterprise adoption tells a different story. More than 40% of agentic AI initiatives are projected to be canceled by 2027 due to rising operational costs, unclear ROI, and insufficient risk controls.
https://www.informatica.com/resources/articles/enterprise-ai-agent-engineering.html
Research: LLMs Respond Differently in English and Chinese
A new study corrects this assumption, finding that when prompted in different languages, generative AI models exhibit distinct cultural tendencies—shaping recommendations in ways leaders may not anticipate.
https://hbr.org/2025/12/how-two-leading-llms-reasoned-differently-in-english-and-chinese
Top 10: Predictions for 2026
AI vertical platforms, data sovereignty, assets as digital tokens, quantum, zero trust, ESG compliance, hyper-automation, Ai augmentation, digital twins and genAI.
https://technologymagazine.com/news/top-10-predictions-for-2026
AI denial is becoming an enterprise risk: Why dismissing “slop” obscures real capability gains
To be clear, we are not witnessing an AI bubble filling with empty gas. We are watching a new planet form, a molten world rapidly taking shape, and it will solidify into a new AI-powered society. Denial will not stop this. It will only make us less prepared for the risks.
Predictions for how companies will manage data in 2026
Here are several predictions for how companies will manage their data in 2026.
https://sdtimes.com/data/predictions-for-how-companies-will-manage-data-in-2026/
Computers Made From Human Brain Tissue Are Coming. Are We Prepared?
As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware. Organoid intelligence. Organoid based data centres or nanotubes? Or both? Wet data centers? Soft tissue data centers?
https://www.sciencealert.com/computers-made-from-human-brain-tissue-are-coming-are-we-prepared
