Be well known around the company, do some personal marketing, “have an impact” on other teams and make sure people know about it. // When there’s blood on the boardroom floor, there is no “I” in team.
🔗 Microsofts Ex-VP of HR Shares How to Avoid the ‘Underperformer’ Label
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Outrage about TikTok, so heated a few years ago, now seems like a time capsule from another era. That the negligent, self-dealing new arrangement seems to be going ahead with so little opposition shows not that TikTok has become safer, but that so much else in America has become more dangerous.
From The Economist, gift-link: TikTok is still a danger. America no longer cares
Yes: “about what benefits AI is actually providing today, 66 percent said it’s improving productivity and efficiency.” But: “How that works when only 20 percent report revenue growth is left unanswered.” // And: “Currently, 25 percent of organizations say they’ve shifted 40 percent or more of their AI experiments into live use. That number is expected to reach 54 percent of organizations within the next three to six months.” // Meanwhile, here’s an accounting of executive hopes and dreams.
🔗 Deloitte sees enterprises adopting AI without revenue lift
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“I have no idea what Federighi’s stance is on break-room bananas, but it seems a stretch to think it offers clues to Apple’s strategy on data centers.” The Information: ‘With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI’
Stack Overflow said 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, up from 76% a year earlier. In the AI section, 47.1% of respondents said they use AI tools daily, and another 17.7% use them weekly. Yet developers’ trust has not kept pace. Stack Overflow’s analysis said trust in AI accuracy fell to 29% from 40% in prior years, and “positive favorability” dropped to 60% from 72% year over year.
🔗 Developers Lean on AI More, But Report Growing Doubts About Accuracy, Stack Overflow Survey Says
Nearly 9 in 10 executives plan to increase AI investments in the coming year and 46% said they would do so even if a potential AI bubble were to burst, the report found. More than two-thirds of C-suite respondents used AI tools daily in their work, an eight-percentage point uptick from a similar survey fielded in March.
🔗 Executives shrug off AI bubble concerns, move forward with adoption plans
