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Digital transformation #mindcandy 24 October 2025
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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
- The Turing test
- The first six-layer hybrid microchip
- Keeping AI from building a nuclear weapon
- Coding by AI
- Agentic AI
- Unilever
- AI brain rot
- Modular AI
- Data analytics strategies
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 language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03386-w
Chatbots now ace the mathematician’s famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence
Beyond Moore’s Law: Scientists build world’s first six-layer hybrid microchip
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/world-first-six-layer-cmos-chip
The world’s first six-layer hybrid CMOS chip paves the way for ultra-thin, flexible, and efficient electronics.
Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?
Anthropic partnered with the US government to create a filter meant to block Claude from helping someone build a nuke. Experts are divided on whether its a necessary protection—or a protection at all.
Tech CEOs say the era of ‘code by AI’ is here. Some software engineers are skeptical
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/21/nx-s1-5506141/ai-code-software-productivity-claims
Tech CEOs are making ambitious claims about AI’s coding capabilities. In March, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said “we’ll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code.”
Agentic enterprise 2028
Agentic AI isn’t just the next wave of automation—it’s the operating logic of tomorrow’s enterprise. Organizations that embrace it by 2028 will likely save costs, release products faster, and redeploy talent to higher‑value work.
How AI is helping drive Desire at Scale across Unilever
AI-powered content creation is fuelling a marketing transformation that is delivering growth and reach across our brands. Here are four Unilever AI case study success stories
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-social-media-cognitive-decline-study/
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.
The future is modular: Leveraging AI and low-code for agile business growth
The most important shift in enterprise technology today is not a new device or a breakthrough algorithm. It is the steady dismantling of rigid, monolithic systems in favor of modular architectures powered by low-code development and artificial intelligence.
Why Most Data Analytics Strategies Fail — And How to Fix Yours in 2026
https://aijourn.com/why-data-analytics-strategies-fail/
The boardroom silence was deafening. Twelve months implementing their data analytics strategy. Teams of expensive consultants. Shiny new dashboards promising to “revolutionize decision-making.” Three people logged in during the past 90 days.
