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The Global Value Chain Just Got a New Operating System. Most Companies Haven’t Installed It Yet.
Global tariff volatility creates "structural rewiring" of value chains. Traditional planning fails when rules change every 18 days. Winners deploy autonomous decision systems that re-optimize sourcing, pricing, and logistics within hours.
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Humanoids in the Supply Chain
Humanoid robots face significant barriers before widespread supply chain adoption: technological limitations, integration complexity, high costs, and energy constraints. Market projected to reach $66 billion by 2032 despite current inefficiencies.
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The Frameworks Are Breaking — And So Are the Systems Built on Top of Them
Three converging events reveal a single crisis: our strategic frameworks for managing complexity are failing just as AI systems become too opaque to govern. A five-part essay series exploring solutions launches next week.
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From RAGs to Riches
RAG enhances large language models by connecting them to external, up-to-date data sources, improving accuracy, reducing hallucinations, and enabling cost-effective, domain-specific AI applications without requiring expensive model retraining.
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The Genesis Mission: Where is It Headed?
Trump's Genesis Mission leverages National Laboratories, supercomputers, and federal datasets to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery. Twenty-four organizations including Anthropic and OpenAI joined. The initiative aims to compress research timelines while maintaining US leadership against China's growing R&D capabilities.
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Personal Dispatches: Reflections on today’s society through the lens of Fortune Magazine December 1941
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QUICK DISPATCH: IBM Watson Research Laboratory
Today, I was excited to meet fellow technologists for a super interesting collaboration day today at IBM Watson Research Labs exploring the practical and future states of computing and high performance compuational technology and techniques.
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Fast Company: This is How AI Can Revive America's Middle Class
As featured in Fast Company, Steve discusses AI's potential to revitalize America's middle class in a Fast Company article. He argues AI will create new job opportunities, facilitate upward mobility, and offset globalization's impact. Public-private partnerships and investments in AI education are crucial for this transformation.
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Why Knowledge Is Power in the Clash of Big Tech’s AI Titans
In this InformationWeek article, Steve discusses strategies for winning the AI arms race, focusing on data validation, acquiring domain expertise, and forming partnerships with academia. Steve also warns about potential risks and the need for responsible AI development.
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Artificial Intelligence: Try It You’ll Like It
This article discusses the "Intelligence Revolution," driven by AI and big data. It emphasizes the need for businesses to become smarter by adopting AI, outlines steps for AI implementation, and highlights examples of AI use in leading companies.