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%.