Tag: blockchain
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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI lalitm.com/post/buil… When I was working on something where I didn’t even know what I wanted, AI was somewhere between unhelpful and harmful. The architecture of the project was the clearest case: I spent weeks in the early days following AI down dead ends, exploring designs…
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This is how the new announcement economy works. You declare a massive number. The headlines write themselves. The stock moves. Mission accomplished.” Whether the deal actually closes becomes almost irrelevant. The momentum already happened.” As a generalized marketing strategy: “my doctrine is that velocity has replaced authority as the organizing principle of information. What and…
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It’s good to keep building the future, though it’s sometimes absurd to hear someone pivot, mid-breath, from declaring that salvation lies in the blockchain to announcing that AI will solve everything. California tech people can be really exhausting. Read the rest from Dan Wang for a very accurate write-up of why. 🔗 Dan Wang’s 2025…
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Make it so the robots can use your shit, or you might be irrelevant. At least, less so. Platforms, tools or frameworks that are hard for large language models (LLMs) and agents to use will start feeling less powerful and require more manual intervention. In contrast, tools that are simple for agents to integrate with…
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How To Build Agentic AI That Ships – The New Stack – “Ninety-five percent of AI initiatives should be expected to fail as long as we ignore these pitfalls: Models are generic. Enterprises are unique. Ideal use cases aren’t flashy. Coordination across teams is hard.” // Lots of other good executive think too, especially being…
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A2A Protocol: The Universal Language for AI Agents –
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Has DOGE missed its opportunity? – This is general advice for digital transformation, too. // And, on the actual focus,I mean: who could have predicted this outcome…
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Bitcoin Lessons – The case that crypto is bad. This is a good counter/balance to the Trump Tech Bros acting all butt-hurt about crypto regulation.
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Link: Banking apps over banker handshakes
There is an old-timey model in which the key elements of banking are, like, having a local branch, looking customers in the eye and giving them a hearty handshake, knowing their parents, etc. But in modern banking the importance of having a website and a payments app and, uh, “keeping track of customer deposits” is…
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Link: The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise
“if you don’t require immutability, trust and tokenization, you might want to consider a different approach other than blockchain” Original source: The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise
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Link: Walmart’s Blockchain Program May Transform the Way We Use Data
Verifying claims (like organic) and tracking in the supply gain, but not explanation of how or how you trust the people who made the claims. Original source: Walmart’s Blockchain Program May Transform the Way We Use Data
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Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain
A longer piece, including some alternative suggestions from Gartner: ‘When it comes to supply chains, Valdes believes that blockchains could play an important coordinating role. “If you have a fragmented business ecosystem, with many parties who don’t know each other but need to do business, then they could collaborate through a blockchain,” he says. But…
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Link: Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don’t want it
“In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using blockchain and only 8 per cent plan to experiment with it in the short term. “In contrast, a third of the 293 respondents said they had no interest in blockchain, and a further 43 per cent…
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Link: IBM’s big bet on blockchain
“For example: The recent E. coli outbreak led to mass disposal of lettuce in many places. Using a blockchain-based system to track the supply chain of food could help vendors pinpoint the farm it came from, locate the stores where it’s sold, and throw away only the lettuce that’s tainted.” Original source: IBM’s big bet…
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Link: Liberty Mutual embraces AI, blockchain
“The Boston insurer is also testing blockchain software to develop a platform intended to create an audit trail and move money across the business faster, Scerbo says. Blockchain could eventually present carriers with the opportunity to pair the ledger technology with IoT to avoid fraud using connected-car sensors and smart home devices increasingly being adopted…
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Link: After Months of Development, B3i’s Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing
More using blockchain for tracking and validating insurance policies: “With the advent of smart contracts, distributed ledger technologies, and cryptography, we believe we can speed up the insurance transaction through the elimination of redundant and replicated processes, higher speed of execution and greater transparency,” Slaughter added. Paul Meeusen, Swiss Re’s head of Finance and Treasury…
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Link: Insurance industry making the leap to blockchain
Using the decentralized, assertion verification system in blockchain stuff to keep track of insurance policies across geographic and company boundries: “The distributed ledger is a permanent, secure tool that makes it easier to create cost-efficient business networks without requiring a centralized point of control. With distributed ledgers, virtually anything of value can be tracked and…
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Link: ‘Blockchain’ is meaningless, government edition
A laundry list of other content about blockchain in government. ‘Lemieux is also well-acquainted with misconceptions about the capabilities of blockchains. “The concept of trustworthiness — at least from an archival science perspective — goes far beyond what the blockchain can do, or even promises to do, in most cases,” she said. This idea implies…
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Link: This idea I had about the Shitty Media Men List, but on the blockchain, a.k.a. the Razor of Shit
Original source: This idea I had about the Shitty Media Men List, but on the blockchain, a.k.a. the Razor of Shit
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Link: The path to self-sovereign digital identity starts with blockchain
“We don’t think that blockchain is the universal solution to the identity problem; however, it certainly provides a missing link by allowing people and organizations to prove things about themselves online, as they do offline, using decentralized and verifiable identifiers. Identity-related information can be looked up (verified) without involving a central directory or paper-based document.…
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