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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 2025 CDO Study: The AI multiplier effect
AI-first enterprises are redefining market mechanics. They’re gaining ground with unprecedented velocity, creating a winner-takes-most dynamic. It’s not just products or services that set these disruptors apart. It’s data.
https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/2025-cdo
Is AI Breaking Down Data Silos?
In a recent survey of The Information’s readers, 61% of readers say their organizations are seeing positive value from their AI initiatives.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-breaking-data-silos
Will The AI Economy Strike The Final Blow To Data Privacy Or Save It?
The race for AI supremacy is intensifying on multiple fronts, with countries, enterprises, and investors driven by the fear of being left behind. The ultimate expression of data eating the world, AI could end the long suffering of our personal and private data.
The datacenter liquid cooling market heats up
Power consumption per rack is growing exponentially, and computer room air conditioning (CRAC) consumes too much power to keep up. Check out TrimTabs https://www.trimtabs.co/ (nanotubes).
https://www.futuriom.com/articles/news/datacenter-liquid-cooling-market-heats-up/2025/11
Stop Running So Many AI Pilots
Instead of testing lots of use cases across the company, pick one area and go deep.
https://hbr.org/2025/11/stop-running-so-many-ai-pilots
AI Surpassing Doctors: Implications for Healthcare
Artificial intelligence has reached a notable milestone in medical diagnostics, achieving accuracy levels that rival or surpass those of trained physicians in some controlled scenarios. Recent studies have demonstrated that advanced AI systems can outperform doctors in identifying complex disease cases.
https://formtek.com/blog/ai-surpassing-doctors-implications-for-healthcare/
When AI Starts Seeing and Hearing, IT Must Start Rethinking
In 2026, the question for IT isn’t whether to adopt multimodal AI. It’s how fast they can do so without turning into chaos.
https://www.rtinsights.com/when-ai-starts-seeing-and-hearing-it-must-start-rethinking/
Why Nietzsche Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Nietzsche’s vision of the human as a value-creating, self-overcoming agent speaks powerfully to the psychological and cultural ruptures of the AI age.
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-nietzsche-matters-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
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