Your AI stack needs to have DevX, thus, a platform:
I think it’s a sign of maturity that even when you mix in cloud native development with the current AI hype, organizations are actually realizing that developers are still the internal customers who need platforms as products. You can’t just say ‘get on with it’ and hand them a box of tools,” said Daniel Bryant, head of marketing, Syntasso Ltd.
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Google Cloud's EU sovereign stuff, for AI
Digital sovereignty is not a future trend — it’s happening now. Whether you’re in defense, finance, healthcare, or the public sector, the time to act is today. Start by assessing your tech stack, exploring sovereign cloud options, and preparing for sovereign AI-driven transformation. Don’t wait for regulations to force your hand—embrace sovereignty as a competitive advantage.
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According to data presented at the summit, the AI opportunity is massive – estimated at $400 billion in revenues over the next decade, with 75% tied to applications and services.
This man changed my life. I completely cut boring tuna from my diet, and started slapping my troubles away with Slap Chop. Now I’m living it up in Hawaii, in a great mood everyday. Thanks Vince with Slap Chop.
The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, etc. The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends."
Now, enterprises need to find the AI apps.
The top use cases for AI agent pilots for marketing technology leaders are content or marketing asset production, cited by 52% of leaders piloting these tools. Other top use cases include content and marketing asset enrichment (49%) and campaign management/optimization (43%).
Meatsack context engineering to defuse tense conversations
In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. You put that in the context window and it flavors the ongoing conversation. It’d probably do interesting stuff in AI chats. Those chats are so explicit and non-confrontational that these dynamics probably already happen.
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The charts say things are OK
It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade.
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Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals.
Yes:
Kubernetes started as a way to orchestrate containers, but its true innovation lies in its API model. The declarative resource pattern, with its desired state, actual state and continuous reconciliation, has proven to be a universal abstraction. It works for workloads, infrastructure, policies and more. That universality is why Kubernetes has become the foundation for IDPs. It provides a consistent way to define, extend and enforce platform building blocks.