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Digital transformation #mindcandy 7 November 2025
The topics are:
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- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is that the only way forward is augmented natural intelligence
- AI browser and security
- Modernizing applications
- Data
- Composable architecture at scale
- An introspective AI…….
- Contextuel agentic AI
- Open eco systems
- The Gen AI playbook
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.
AI browsers are a cybersecurity time bomb
https://www.theverge.com/report/810083/ai-browser-cybersecurity-problems
Rushed releases, corruptible AI agents, and supercharged tracking make AI browsers home to a host of known and unknown cybersecurity risks.
Modernizing Applications for Better Data Management
The ability to integrate data across clouds and platforms, ensure it is secure and trusted for AI and analytics, and deliver it through APIs and microservices, is the backbone of success.
Business Leaders Struggle to Use Data
https://www.nojitter.com/data-management/business-leaders-struggle-to-use-data
84% of respondents agreed that AI’s outputs are only as good as the data that’s been input, making large volumes of unstructured, fragmented, or siloed data a hindrance to AI adoption
The new blueprint for enterprise AI: Composable architecture at scale
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/05/enterprise-ai-composable-architecture-celosphere/
Composable architecture is becoming the engine of modern enterprise transformation, uniting data, intelligence and agility to make artificial intelligence truly operational.
Anthropic scientists hacked Claude’s brain — and it noticed. Here’s why that’s huge
https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-scientists-hacked-claudes-brain-and-it-noticed-heres-why-thats
An introspective AI…….
Why Agentic AI Needs a Context-Based Approach
https://thenewstack.io/why-agentic-ai-needs-a-context-based-approach/
The key to unlocking AI’s true potential lies in context engineering, moving beyond vague prompts to build reliable, enterprise-aware agents.
The future of agentic AI depends on open ecosystems
https://sdtimes.com/ai/the-future-of-agentic-ai-depends-on-open-ecosystems/
Closed ecosystems tie organizations to a single vendor stack, limiting interoperability and cutting off real-time visibility that agents need to perform accurately. The result is fragmentation, slower innovation, and reduced agility.
The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations
https://hbr.org/2025/11/the-gen-ai-playbook-for-organizations
A framework for thinking about gen AI strategically and offer practical advice on how to apply gen AI to the tasks composing jobs. The framework focuses on two factors: the cost of errors and the type of knowledge required.
