Apple Neo vs. Windows Laptop Computers: Good Benchmarks Don’t Need a Better Story Than the Data I'm going to be terse. I'm a research leader in a research meeting. I'm imparting good practice, policy, ethical considerations and editorial advice. Unfortunately, the analysts I'm talking to here don't work for me. If they did, we probably wouldn't have taken this piece of work, … [Read more...] about Apple Neo vs. Windows Laptop Computers: Good Benchmarks Don’t Need a Better Story Than the Data. An analysis of the Signal65 report
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State of AI 2026 June Update: Governments Became Gatekeepers as AI Makes a Political Turn
State of AI 2026 June Update Executive Summary June 2026 confirmed that AI is no longer governed solely by model capabilities, corporate ambition, or user adoption. It is now shaped by political review, infrastructure scarcity, frontier-model access controls, global model competition, memory economics, and the movement of AI from apps into operating environments. The … [Read more...] about State of AI 2026 June Update: Governments Became Gatekeepers as AI Makes a Political Turn
When the Uncertain Becomes Certain: What ‘Disclosure Day’ Teaches About Scenario Planning
When the Uncertain Becomes Certain: What 'Disclosure Day' Teaches About Scenario Planning Scenario planning should always begin with uncertainty. Will a market grow or contract? Will AI be regulated or allowed to run ahead of institutions? Will climate disruption remain episodic or become a constant operating condition? Will global trade continue to fragment, or will the … [Read more...] about When the Uncertain Becomes Certain: What ‘Disclosure Day’ Teaches About Scenario Planning
LLM Model Update Risk Management: Managing the LLM Blast Radius Before Updates Break Applications
LLM Model Update Risk Management: Managing the LLM Blast Radius Before Updates Break Applications When I read VentureBeat’s “When Claude changed, everything changed: Managing AI blast radius in production,” I found it to capture a real use case for a problem I have been warning IT teams about for a couple of years. Unfortunately, it remains a lesson many organizations will … [Read more...] about LLM Model Update Risk Management: Managing the LLM Blast Radius Before Updates Break Applications
The End of Future-Proofing and Why Maturity Is Now a Mirage
The End of Future-Proofing and Why Maturity Is Now a Mirage An update of an article first posted on LinkedIn. The idea of future-proofing has expired. Maturity, as we’ve known it, is a mirage. What matters now is adaptability at speed—learning as a core competency, resilience as a design principle, and policies, practices, spaces, and technologies that rapidly realign … [Read more...] about The End of Future-Proofing and Why Maturity Is Now a Mirage