Two Visions for Navigating AI’s Adolescence: Altman and Amodei on the Rite of Passage Ahead In the span of a single week in early 2026, we received two remarkably different articulations of wher…
Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter: Sam Altman’s Vision for the AI-Powered Future Sam Altman’s recent town hall with AI builders offered more than just product updates and roadmap hints—it …
It was a pleasure to correspond with June Zhu, the visionary CEO of ChargerGoGo, to discuss the evolving landscape of mobile charging and the launch of their ambitious new platform, GoGoSpark. As urba…
OpenAI’s ‘Education for Countries’ Proposes to Build the New AI Learning Stack for National Education Systems OpenAI’s “Education for Countries” announcement marks an inflection point …
David “Prz” Przygoda, CEO of OmniSpeech recently reached out to share his insights on identifying AI-generated voices, now available in the OmniSpeech AI-Detect plug-in for Zoom. I asked D…
Robin Guignard-Perret on his Learning Journey to Create Video Editor Tellers.ai: A Serious Insights Interview from CES 2026 In a market where AI-driven creativity tools proliferate, Robin Guignard-Per…
Nexios.ai is right: by 2026, AI agents will evolve from simple chatbots into critical enterprise infrastructure. We analyze why organizations must shift from running pilots to managing coordinated age…
Claude Cowork: Anthropic Didn’t Just Ship a New Feature. It Shipped a New Narrative The reaction to Claude’s new Cowork feature in public markets says as much about investor psychology as it d…
Daniel W. Rasmus: 2026 CES PreGame Panel (Video) Dan was invited by the Virtual Events Group (VEG) to participate in the 2026 CES PreGame Panel. I cover AI to look forward to at the upcoming CES 2026 …
The Agentic Operating System: How the Next 3-5 Years May Spell the Death of Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome as Anything More than Legacy Interfaces I recently posted a Microsoft-centric view of my an…
AI Trends 2026: Likely AI Conditions That Will Make AI in 2026 Feel Different I don’t like the idea of trends (see Stephen Jay Gould on Trends and Progress: The Problem With Trends), but that do…
Plaud NotePin Review: An Excellent Wearable Capsule that Transforms Sound Into Meaning I carried the Plaud NotePin through my day at the Henry Stewart Semantic Data Conference, eventualy creating a pe…
Anant Kale, CEO and Co-Founder of AppZen on AI and Fraud in the Back Office: A Serious Insights Interview Generative AI has shifted from novelty to infrastructure, and as it evolves, it is rewriting t…
Nashay Naeve on Career, Global Manufacturing and AI: A Serious Insights Interview I recently had the opportunity to interview Nashay Naeve, President of the Engineered Plastic Components Business Unit…
“The Future of AI Isn’t What You Think” from Foxit Featuring Daniel W. Rasmus I had an opportunity to chat with Charles Verhey, Group Manager, Digital Media Production & Web Content …
This article examines why documents are only fragments of knowledge, how generative AI exposes brittle content, and why access alone never guarantees understanding. It argues for context-rich knowledg…
Rafsan Bhuiyan interview: AI in The Trades. Serious Insights Analysis If AI is to succeed in reshaping work, it will reshape all kinds of work. I recently had the opportunity to interview Rafsan Bhuiy…
Enterprise AI Insights from the Field: Success Factors and Waiting for ROI I had the pleasure of listening to leaders discuss their firsthand experiences with AI deployments and how organizations are …
The MIT NANDA Report Challenge: AI’s ROI Problems Call for a Revisit of Solow’s Productivity Paradox, The Serendipity Economy, and Finding Value Beyond Productivity Technological revolutions rarel…
APQC Communities of Practice Survey Findings Reveal Design and Strategy Gaps Organizations Must Close to Make CoPs Effective and Relevant Surveys, even when well-crafted, reveal only what respondents …
Mind Mapping and AI: From Personal Insight Capture to Strategic Empowerment Since the late 1990s, mind mapping has been a digital proxy for representing Tony Buzan’s freewheeling paper-based map…
Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index: Context and History When I wrote Listening to the Future for Microsoft, I argued that any credible strategy must rest on stories that diverge, collide, and contradict…
How Agents Can Go Wrong As organizations embrace the democratization of AI, they often overlook the messy realities lurking just beyond the pilot projects and training sessions. Giving end users the t…
A Practical AI Knowledge Governance Framework Before knowledge management can meaningfully shape the AI conversation, we need to return to the fundamentals. We throw around the term “knowledge” to…
AI doesn’t just save time—it often reshuffles it. This post explores six core ways AI adds unexpected workload through oversight, integration headaches, data prep, and more.…
Back to Basics: What is Knowledge Management? As we move deeper into the era of artificial intelligence, it is important to not just tie knowledge management to the development of AI, but to resist kn…
The Tens: KM and Enterprise AI―10 Actions KM Leaders Should Take to Ensure More Robust Enterprise AI As a follow-up to my post, Knowledge Management and AI: Revisiting the Need to Apply KM Practices…
At APQC’s 2025 KM Conference, I challenged attendees to stop treating AI like magic and start managing it like knowledge. From opaque guardrails to missing metadata, AI systems are increasingly embe…
AI Agent Taxonomy: How should we classify AI Agents? Agents, agentification, agentic AI—and the one I prefer, the agentverse—bundle disparate ideas in an attempt to simplify but often obscure deta…
“…obviously AI has become a hot thing now, and it’s widespread in its presence, and everyone’s fascinated.” And although the current run of AI only started 2 years ago, he sees it as…
I haven’t written about DeepSeek R1 because I’ve spent most of my time commenting on it via podcasts and phone calls. I’ve been asked, “Why now?” The answer to that is Ap…
CES 2025 seemed a little flat. As I forecasted last year, AI would be everywhere, but it would become increasingly difficult to demonstrate as physical objects incorporating AI don’t look that d…
2025 AI Forecast: Serious Insights on AI and the Future of Work Executive Summary: 2025 Industry Analysis on AI Integration and Impacts Key Trends and Challenges in AI Evolution The 2025 workplace wil…
AI and Prediction: What the College Football Playoffs Tell Us About the Limits of AI and Data Alabama missing out on the College Football Playoff (CFP) is a big deal in the college football world. M…
A Framework for Enterprise AI Success Generative AI is changing the way organizations build software and interact with technology. While Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize businesses, it…
A few years ago, I wrote a white paper for Cisco on the post-PC world. We haven’t arrived there yet. The personal computer market continues to evolve. Artificial intelligence is on the cusp of d…
Top 10 Gen AI Success Factors Deploying generative AI in business is more than a technical exercise; it’s a strategic imperative that requires thoughtful planning and execution. To ensure a succ…
The Rise of GenAI and LLMs by Daniel W. Rasmus Now up at Enterprise AI World The Rise of GenAI and LLMs, provides a historical deep dive into how we reached the current era of Generative AI. It re…
Filmmakers often perpetuate the myth of a “single copy” of crucial data in science fiction, overlooking the reality of pervasive cloud storage and automatic backups that define our digital age. In Al…
Discovering AI Guardrails: Not All ChatBots Defend Ethics with the Same Veracity I ran an experiment recently that some public chatbots are more repressed than others. I prompted them with a realistic…
The Future of Robotics: Are Humanoid Robots The Right Model? While humanoid robots are gaining significant investment and attention, we question whether they’re truly the optimal path forward. D…
Countdown to Comic-Con: Not “Her.” Don’t Fall for ChatGPT. It Won’t Love You Back. All images were generated by Meta.ai llama 3 via prompts from the author. Spike Jonze introdu…
Countdown to Comic-Con: Which Were the Most Realistic Star Trek TOS AIs? All images were generated via Meta.ai llama 3 from prompts written by the author. This is the first in a series of posts leadin…
Why Back-to-Office Policies Won’t Help Big Tech Sell AI All images were generated by the author’s prompts on Meta.ai. There is a growing tension between Big Tech’s pre-pandemic promo…
LLM Proliferation Will Challenge Emerging Testing Market Cover image from Meta’s llama 3 via a prompt by the author. The advent of smaller, more efficient LLMs will result in an even more rampan…
2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report: The Worrisome Microsoft and LinkedIn Report All images via Dalle-2 and Microsoft Copilot. Some images may have been edited after their creation. The 2024 Work Tren…
Listening to the Future: Revisiting “The Thinking Factory” Cover image via DALLE-2 from Microsoft Copilot on Edge. I was sitting in a ballroom of the famed Queen Mary ocean liner, docked a…
What Should an AI PC Do? Previous versions of PC-based AI did live up to their promise. Cortana was too primitive. Like Apple’s Siri, it performed only rudimentary tasks. Microsoft deprecated Co…