OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to cloud-based documents and third-party research tools - The way to compete with AI is with the apps, the functionality they have, the outcomes they let you get - the stuff you can do with them.
Re: Still a lot of private cloud, numbers of cloud repatriation (higher than I thought)
The CloudsYou know, I’ve never really looked at the Flexera State of Cloud surveys. I think they’re accepted as legit, and they have many years of data to make those multi-year charts I like. Here’s a quick one my favorite question, “where are the apps?”:
Sources: Flexera State of Cloud Report, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.So, following up on my “where’s the apps?” post from last Friday, we’re still in the area of 50/50 and definitely very stable.
PwC’s AI Agent Survey - ”Of the 300 senior executives in our May 2025 survey, 88% say their team or business function plans to increase AI-related budgets in the next 12 months due to agentic AI. Seventy-nine percent say AI agents are already being adopted in their companies. And of those adopting AI agents, two-thirds (66%) say that they’re delivering measurable value through increased productivity.”
Postfacto - Little utility to do team retros, from the Pivotal Labs folks. Open source, all that.
Tips on prompting ChatGPT for UK technology secretary Peter Kyle - Good tips on working with AIs: (1) use them a lot to build up an intuition of what works, (2) be aware of what they know, the cut off date for training and assume they have general, accepted mainstream knowledge, nothing too obscure, (3) use them for brainstorming and structuring your work. A crude summary: garbage in, garbage out.
MCP Best Practices - Including unit tests!
UK govt study: Copilot AI saved workers 26 minutes a day - Well, that’s one way to do the ROI dance. // “And even using the more modest projected time savings of 4.59 days per employee per year, the £19 per employee per month cost of a Microsoft Copilot Pro subscription in the UK appears to be worthwhile."
alto.index - Transform Your Apple Apps Data into AI-Ready Markdown - Export stuff from your Apple apps.
The next bottleneck for enterprise AI: data
Lots of links below, plus some sovereign cloud thinking from EU people in the Logoff.
Access to data shouldn’t be holding you can from enterprise AI radicalnessTo make enterprise AI useful, you need your data: 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%.