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Digital transformation #mindcandy 8 August 2025
The topics are scaling data products, self service data for AI, self-healing supply chains, AI is getting control of nuclear weapons, digital twinning, AI as a gimmick, cyber security, Mo Gawdat and you are the upgrade.
Keys to scaling your data products: Prepare your data for the era of generative AI
https://www.plainconcepts.com/scaling-data-products/
As companies increasingly rely on data to innovate and grow, ineffective data product practices have positioned themselves as one of the top strategic issues.
Enabling Self-service Data for AI: Insights from Promethium CEO Prat Moghe
Self-service analytics has promised to democratize data access across the enterprise — but for many organizations, the reality has been a frustrating cycle of unmet expectations and broken workflows. Despite investments in modern BI platforms, semantic layers, and data catalogs, business users still find themselves waiting days or weeks for answers, while data teams drown in ad hoc requests.
Retail Reimagined: Frictionless Supply Chains, Humanized AI
https://www.techmahindra.com/insights/views/retail-reimagined-frictionless-supply-chains-humanized-ai/
The goal is to build increasingly self-healing and resilient supply chains – systems that can anticipate issues, adapt rapidly, and minimize the impact of disruptions, all while enhancing operational efficiency.
Experts warn that AI is getting control of nuclear weapons
https://futurism.com/the-byte/experts-ai-nuclear-weapons
“It’s like electricity,” retired US Air Force major general and member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board, Bob Latiff, told Wired. “It’s going to find its way into everything.”
Reimagining infrastructure through digital twin modeling
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-reimagining-infrastructure-digital-twin.html
It’s reported that 29% of global manufacturing companies have either fully or partially implemented a digital twin strategy.
AI Isn’t Just a Shiny Object
https://builtin.com/articles/ceo-led-ai-strategy
AI is not a marketing gimmick, and it is certainly not a shortcut to innovation. Yet in boardrooms across industries, CEOs are racing to adopt artificial intelligence with the urgency of a trend-chasing sprint.
The Growing Impact Of AI And Quantum On Cybersecurity
https://cybersecurityventures.com/the-growing-impact-of-ai-and-quantum-on-cybersecurity/
The amalgamation of artificial intelligence (AI) with quantum computing will transform existing computational paradigms.
Ex-Google exec: The idea that AI will create new jobs is ’100% crap’—even CEOs are at risk of displacement
Follow Mo Gawdat. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/scary-smart-why-we-are-all-jonathan-and-marta-kent-raising-superman/
You are the upgrade
You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward (e-book)
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
