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Digital transformation #mindcandy 10 October 2025
The topics are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI
- The digital transformation disillusionment
- Data architecture
- Innovation on the mainframes
- Data exfiltration
- AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder
- Trust, creativity and agency erosion through AI
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.
The digital transformation disillusionment
https://thefinanser.com/2025/10/the-digital-transformation-disillusionment
How digital transformation or, as IBM calls it modernization, hasn’t delivered
Rethinking Data Architecture For AI Agents
Businesses are beginning to rethink their IT architectures, placing more of an emphasis on multivendor, decentralization, openness and flexibility.
Innovation on the mainframe: compliance, data management and the promise of hybrid cloud
While the adoption of cloud native technologies has been on the rise, even after sixty years of existence a significant portion of the world still runs on mainframes.
AI is now the number one channel for data exfiltration in the enterprise
A new report reveals that AI platforms like ChatGPT and Copilot are already the leading channel for enterprise data loss, driven by unmanaged accounts and copy-paste workflows.
AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1
Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?
AI tools promise efficiency at work, but they can erode trust, creativity and agency
A recent survey found 63 per cent of global IT leaders worry their companies will be left behind without AI adoption. But in the rush to adopt AI, some organizations are overlooking the real impact it can have on workers and company culture.
