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Before the Models, the Plumbing
Before anyone could train a large model, someone had to store and move the data. IBM's big data years showed that AI projects die at setup, long before anyone judges the algorithm.
AI Has a Family Tree
ChatGPT looked like it arrived overnight. It is the youngest member of a family nearly two decades old, and the first of seven articles tracing it branch by branch.
Every Company Is Suddenly an AI Company. Most Aren't.
Adding a chatbot to your product and an AI slide to your earnings call is not the same thing as being AI-native. Here's how to tell the difference from the outside.
The Compliance Team Is Not Your Enemy
Engineering treats legal and compliance like a boss fight at the end of the sprint. That's a design choice, and it's the wrong one.
Agentic AI Is Not a Strategy
Autonomy is a property of a system, not a plan for your org. Here's the question that actually matters before you wire up your first agent.