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How Networks Of Competence Are Crushing Hierarchies Of Authority
Firms run as networks of competence tend to grow faster and have higher staff engagement then firms run as hierarchies of authority via: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2024/12/18/understanding-why-networks-of-competence-crush-hierarchies-of-authority/ Go to...
Salesforce makes an AI landgrab with Agentforce 2.0
Agentforce 2.0 brings substantive technology advances - but it is enough to open up a multi-trillion-dollar enterprise digital labor market for Salesforce? Hard on the heels of Agentforce 1.0, unveiled just three months ago at Dreamforce, comes the 2.0 version. That's...
Memories are not only stored in the brain, study finds – The Brighter Side of News
It’s common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories, however, cells across your body, not just those in your brain, have memory-like capabilities. Go to Source
Enterprise AI Requires the Fusion of LLM and Knowledge Graph | Stardog
The only way to win with AI in the enterprise is to have the right data strategy, and the key to data strategy for AI is to deploy a platform that offers the best of LLM and knowledge graph. To get the best results in AI, the enterprise needs a platform that offers...
Building effective agents Anthropic
A post for developers with advice and workflows for building effective AI agents Over the past year, we've worked with dozens of teams building large language model (LLM) agents across industries. Consistently, the most successful implementations weren't using complex...
The Enterprise Tech Year – AI in action
The year in AI use cases shows the breadth of AI impact, across industries and lines of business. But let's not sugar coat it: successful AI projects have... The year in AI use cases shows the breadth of AI impact, across industries and lines of business. But let's...
Slack is becoming an AI workplace: Here’s what that means for your job | VentureBeat
Slack is evolving from a simple messaging app into an AI-powered workplace platform where digital agents work alongside humans. The messaging app where millions of office workers share memes and coordinate projects is quietly transforming into something far more...
Daron Acemoglu thinks AI is solving the wrong problems – Fast Company
The MIT economist made waves with his paper projecting generative AI would only automate about 4.6% of tasks over the next decade. “We need investment for alternative approaches to AI, and alternative technologies, those that I would say are more centered on making...
(14) The PARTNER Framework: A practical guide to human-AI collaboration | LinkedIn
We’ve all heard it before: "AI should support people, not replace them." It sounds great in theory, but how do organizations actually make it happen? Those who are familiar with my background won't be surprised that I find the dynamic between humans and AI...
The AI Agent Spectrum – by Nathan Lambert – Interconnects
AI agents as a concept need better definitions and examples if they are going to grow into a thriving market for researchers and application builders. Trends in AI point to agents as a proving ground in 2025. We have much more stable and scalable tools in the form of...
We’re not ready to support autonomous AI agents, survey suggests | ZDNET
Most executives and professionals say they will overhaul their tech stacks to prepare for AI agents, but widespread data integration challenges may hamper deployments. Most executives and professionals say they will overhaul their tech stacks to prepare for AI agents,...
Salesforce’s AI Readiness Index – a useful benchmark for policy formulation to boost AI adoption?
Salesforce has introduced a new AI readiness index that suggests a framework that outlines some of the key factors required to accelerate the broader... Politicians everywhere are vocal about fostering AI-specific policies to drive growth and demonstrate leadership....
We’ve come a long way from RPA: How AI agents are revolutionizing automation | VentureBeat
From chatbots to retrieval-augmented generation applications to autonomous multi-agent AI: What's every enterprise leader needs to know. In the past year, the race to automate has intensified, with AI agents emerging as the ultimate game-changers for enterprise...
Agentic AI: Three themes to watch for 2025 | Constellation Research Inc.
Google Cloud launched Agentspace, Salesforce is prepping Agentforce 2.0 and Amazon Web Services wants Amazon Bedrock to be your agentic AI orchestration engine. And that's just two weeks of news. Simply put, the agentic AI platforms are launching at a rapid clip. AI...
(6) Klarna CEO Says AI Is Replacing Workers – YouTube
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says AI has shown across-the-board benefits as he eyes an expansion into US banking under a new Trump administration. He says the company has replaced hundreds of workers with artificial intelligence and the moves have paid off. He...
Google introduces Gemini 2.0: A new AI model for the agentic era
A note from Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: Information is at the core of human progress. It’s why we’ve focused for more than 26 years on our mission to organize the world’s information and make it accessible and useful. And it’s why we continue to push the...
AI Will Evolve Into an Organizational Strategy for All | WIRED
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Is AI hitting a wall? – by Rohit Krishnan
I'll start at the end. No. It's not. Of course, I can’t leave it at that. The reason the question comes up is that there have been a lot of statements that they are stalling a bit. Even Ilya has said that it is. Go to Source
CEO Says He Hasn’t Hired Anyone in a Year as He Replaces Human Workers With AI
The head of the "buy now, pay later" firm Klarna is now bragging that artificial intelligence has begun to successfully replace his human workforce. In an interview with Bloomberg, Klarna CEO and founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski said that he hasn't hired any...
Beyond Leadership: 10 Shifts That Transform Good Teams Into Great Ones
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Autonomous agents and profitability to dominate AI agenda in 2025, executives forecast | Reuters
Autonomous "agents" and profitability are likely to dominate the artificial intelligence agenda next year, business executives and researchers predicted this week in interviews at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York. via: https://news.google.com/ Go to...
Microsoft’s smaller AI model beats the big guys: Meet Phi-4, the efficiency king | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s new AI model, Phi-4, outperforms larger competitors like Google’s Gemini Pro with superior mathematical reasoning while using fewer resources, signaling a revolutionary shift in AI development. Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence model today...
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