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Digital transformation #mindcandy 15 July 2025
The topics are data transfer, software engineering, agentic L&D, precision engineering 4.0, data convergence, coding, heritage, change readiness and you are the upgrade.
Hair-thin chip transfers 100 million books in 7 minutes with just a spark of power
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hair-thin-chip-transfers-100-million-books
A research team set out to address the high energy demands of artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT by developing a unique, energy-efficient optical chip.
Meet Devin: Goldman Sachs’s new AI software engineer that never sleeps
The bank says AI coders will tackle tedious tasks so human engineers can focus on bigger problems.
It’s Time For Agentic L&D
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danpontefract/2025/07/13/its-time-for-agentic-ld/
Agentic L&D is a necessary new term for an essential new way of thinking, one that positions Learning and Development not as content delivery, but as a capability sherpa
Precision Engineering 4.0: How AI-Driven Manufacturing is Redefining Industry Standards
Precision Engineering 4.0 refers to the new era of manufacturing where artificial intelligence (AI), advanced automation and the Internet of Things converge to produce extremely accurate parts and components.
The Great Data Convergence: Where analytics meets artificial intelligence
GenAI has created urgent demand for data that can both inform analytics and serve as a building block to build (and build upon) the latest gen AI models
‘GenAI is Potentially Dangerous to the Long-term Growth of Developers’
If you pass all the thinking to GenAI, then the result is that the developer isn’t doing any thinking.
Heritage meets horizon: how Yahoo, Reddit and Snapchat are reimagining their futures
https://www.raconteur.net/marketing-sales/yahoo-reddit-snapchat-heritage
As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, Yahoo, Reddit and Snapchat are using their heritage as a strategic asset – combining trusted identities with AI, community insight and immersive innovation to stay ahead. Read “Legacy” https://www.ronimmink.com/age-old-leadership-lessons-from-the-all-blacks/.
AI will kill the org chart
https://www.fastcompany.com/91361724/ai-will-kill-the-org-chart
From change management to change readiness. Also see https://www.ronimmink.com/product/building-the-in-company-change-muscle-intrapreneurship-innovation-transformation-strategy/
You are the upgrade
You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
