Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology - It should be cheaper, better, and not cause a lot of bullshit.
Moody Folkloric Fantasy – The Beast of Black Keep - This guy makes great, little adventures, here’s a new one.
A New Look, A Clear Path - New IDC branding, logo, etc.
Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing - Looks useful for getting precious text out of the PDF silo, from IBM.
MCP Is the New Control Point in AI—Are CIOs Ready for the Lock-In Battle? - They get the date of the spec’s release wrong (it was November 2024), and it has that Futurum cable TV news vibe, but good points are made, e.g.: “Will MCP remain truly portable, or will each vendor implement its own variation, selectively supporting features that reinforce its ecosystem? Early adopters should insist on full transparency in vendor MCP roadmaps, including plans for multi-cloud portability, third-party agent integration, and auditability of memory objects.” // There’s always someone to call lock-in FUD first - yes, and: good points made for any tech adoption in enterprises.
Gartner Predicts by 2028, 80% of GenAI Business Apps Will Be Developed on Existing Data Management Platforms - “Gartner Inc. predicts that organizations will develop 80% of Generative AI (GenAI) business applications on their existing data management platforms by 2028. This approach will reduce the complexity and time required to deliver these applications by 50%."
How Ukraine’s Killer Drones Are Beating Russian Jamming - “A missile worth perhaps a million dollars can kill maybe 12 or 20 people. But for one million dollars, you can buy 10,000 drones, put four grenades on each, and they will kill 1,000 or even 2,000 people or destroy 200 tanks."
United Airlines CEO: ‘We’re probably doing more AI than anyone’ - Finding what AI is useful for: ”‘We started with an enormous number of [AI] use cases, and we whittled it down to the use cases that we want to spend money on,’ COO and President John Waldron said during an investor conference last week. Enterprises can’t chase every lead. The share of companies abandoning most of their AI initiatives bumped up to 42% this year, compared to 17% last year, according to analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence.”
Snowflake must wait on customers' on-prem renewal cycles - You have to wait for the contract renewal window to put big systems in place, especially something as “heavy” as data.