FT Exclusive: US debt is on an 'unprecedented' trajectory that could lead to a Liz Truss-style market shock, the head of Congress’s independent fiscal watchdog has warned on.ft.com/3PDJ4PD

Troubling though not surprising. Doubtful if it will be the much needed wake-up call for a coalition government that appears increasingly self-absorbed and paralyzed

Tapping into the power of AI requires knowledge workers to evolve and advance skillsets. Half-life of some tech skills is as short as 2 1/2 yrs, making re-skilling a strategic imperative and ongoing OCM exercise across all levels of an organization.

Tech, data, and geopolitics ARE closely intertwined! Microsoft Asks Hundreds of China-Based AI Staff to Consider Relocating Amid U.S.-China Tensions wsj.com/tech/ai/micros… via The Wall Street Journal

Zelensky appears awestruck as a U.S. veteran in Normandy grasps and kisses his hand, calling him the "savior of the people." Zelensky replies: “No, no, you. You saved Europe."

NEW EPISODE | Dive into the #DigitalTransformation of FedEx with award-winning CIO Rob Carter as he shares insights on cloud computing, #innovation, and the role of the CIO in our special 900th episode of #Technovation! 🌟 🎧 Listen here: link.chtbl.com/Technovation-9…

„Water consumption by dozens of [#BigTech] facilities in Virginia’s “data centre alley” has jumped by almost two-thirds since 2019. #BigData #DataGrowh Interesting Financial Times article on data resource usage

I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today.

Trust and Purpose continue to be the two fundamental building blocks of #teamwork and #Collaboration

This confirms what our team has experienced and recommended for most of our #transformative efforts aimed at #agility: deliberate and carefully designed guardrails improve - not hamper - organizational agility and nimbleness

The 40 year old spreadsheet tool continues to run and influence businesses worldwide Why Microsoft Excel won’t die economist.com/business/2024/… from The Economist

AI is now (more) officially a capability on the world’s battlefields. While standards & players are different, the idea to use emerging capabilities deliberately & before they are perfect applies to the corporate & consumer world as well. #AI #MVP #innovate

The exec order "treats private-sector advances in #AI as national assets that need to be protected [by intel agencies] from spying or theft by foreign adversaries..." Biden Administration Outlines Government ‘Guardrails’ for A.I. Tools nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/…

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” - Elie Wiesel, The Nobel Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor #MondayMotivation #HolocaustRemembranceDay

Today's "DeepSeek selloff" in the stock market -- attributed to DeepSeek V3/R1 disrupting the tech ecosystem -- is another sign that the application layer is a great place to be. The foundation model layer being hyper-competitive is great for people building applications.

The AI race continues with the ROI and value proposition of AI becoming the key battleground; fact or fiction, DeepSeek has already disrupted the AI marketplace and wiped out close to a trillion of market caps in a day. #SputnikMoment #AIRace #ROIAI

#DeepSeek economics, if confirmed, are compelling but the new frontrunner of AI tools comes at a price and with its own human made limitations: We tried out DeepSeek. It works well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan theguardian.com/technology/202…

Presumed incoming head of the new German government, Friedrich Merz , references World Economic Forum conversation with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella that German #Mittelstand sits on a treasure trove of #data that - if used with #AI - would be an accelerator of German economic prowess

Dear Volodymyr @zelenskyyua, we stand with #Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war. (FM)

Goldman raises its 12-month recession probability from 20% to 35%.