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Fusion Guns, French Nerds & Next-Frontier Space Rockets AI

Fusion Guns, French Nerds & Next-Frontier Space Rockets

Good Friday to you all This week, I've been helping my clients with sales. I have doubted the notion that storytelling is useful to companies, but it seems to be back in full fashion for 2025. Perhaps reality is biting in that while people buy from people, those people had better be smart,

Dan Ilett · 3 min read min read
The AI Boom: Innovation or Instability? AI

The AI Boom: Innovation or Instability?

One economist warns exaggerated expectations could drive interest rates to 16%, slow consumer spending and concentrate wealth among AI system owners. The promise of transformation is real, but so is the risk of economic imbalance. If you're not learning AI skills, you're almost certainly

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Scary: If you read one thing today, make it this... AI

Scary: If you read one thing today, make it this...

ChatGPT: "AI is unlikely to "seize" control in a dramatic coup—it will gradually take over because it’s better, faster, and more reliable than humans in many domains. AI will effectively control large parts of human life through necessity, dependency, and influence."

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AI failure, cabaret and my back passage AI

AI failure, cabaret and my back passage

Welcome to the end of the week. At last... Here's why tech is great. 💡I really want you to look at our AI Frontiers events at the bottom of this email. The first is on AI disruption in media, entertainment and games later this month. The second is on DeFi (decentralised finance) 5 reasons

Dan Ilett · 4 min read min read
Unlocking DeFi: Opportunities for the Buy-Side in modern finance AI

Unlocking DeFi: Opportunities for the Buy-Side in modern finance

Why DeFi? The Opportunities of Decentralised Finance on the Buy SideJoin us at The Club House, where business leaders from finance, DeFI and real-world asset sectors discuss disruption in the buy-side…Eventbrite Date and time Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:00 - 19:00 GMT Location W1B 2AF5 Swallow

Dan Ilett · 2 min read min read
AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment AI

AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment

Wednesday, 23 October Join us at AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way we consume and create media Date and time Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:00 - 19:00 BST Location The Club House, 6th floor, 5 Swallow Pl 5 Swallow Place,

Dan Ilett · 2 min read min read
SaaS slashers, AI art tiles and gilet male fails... AI

SaaS slashers, AI art tiles and gilet male fails...

Klarna is shaking the tree in its recent announcement it will kill Salesforce and Workday SaaS applications to replace them with AI-created software. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski stated: "There are large ongoing internal initiatives that are a combination of AI, standardization, and

Dan Ilett · 3 min read min read
About that AI you just bought... AI

About that AI you just bought...

Ever had buyer's remorse? Maybe that mandolin you bought hungover at university you were convinced was a good idea until you sobered up? No? Just me then. Well that's what's happening right now with the millions of dollars sank into AI over the last year. Yes - there are some use cases

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read
The Microsoft Outage - A Lesson For The City in Concentration Risk AI

The Microsoft Outage - A Lesson For The City in Concentration Risk

As Crowdstrike’s share price continues to slide today, Microsoft is doing its best to distance itself from the massive outage of 8.5 million Windows devices. The funny thing is, I was penning a piece for you on how smug Microsoft has been of late due to its success in marketing Copilot,

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read
Are we putting too much faith in efficiency technologies? (Yes.) AI

Are we putting too much faith in efficiency technologies? (Yes.)

There is a belief that shifting to renewable energy and transitioning from physical to digital work methods will diminish the adverse impact of human activities on the environment. In his book “Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization,” journalist Ed Conway from

Dan Ilett · 2 min read min read
When sausage rolls go offline: The hidden cost of outages AI

When sausage rolls go offline: The hidden cost of outages

Last week, I was with AI-outage-prediction company Hortium at the Retail Technology show at Olympia. Why was that? WhatApp, Instagram and a string of retailers including McDonalds and ultimate champion dealer of the sausage roll, Greggs, have all suffered outages over the last year that

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