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Words vs Deeds

Words and deeds, they count. If I don’t know you then that’s what I’m going to be looking for. It builds trust. Due diligence helps as well. (Unless you work in my team. Then it gets flipped around. You have trust immediately - it’s yours to

Recall is a bad idea

A few weeks ago I was quietly applauding Microsoft for a new focus on security. I suspect a test is imminent. Yesterday they introduced new laptops. Copilot+ with a feature called ‘Recall’ Microsoft wants to make Windows an AI operating system, launches Copilot+ PCs | TechCrunchMicrosoft unveiled a new lineup of

Sustainable increase?

The sustainability push is going well. According to Microsoft’s 2023 Sustainability Report, emissions went up 29% and water usage 23% Microsoft’s Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up ResourcesAmid an explosion in AI, energy use and water consumption hit an all-time high in 2023 as Redmond’s data

Slack happy to use your data

With MS Teams or Google Chat pretty much bundled, I was always a bit frustrated at the desire to use Slack. Development teams love it. But from a cost perspective? Why am I paying for two chat apps? Hey someone has to look after the budget. Anyway, Slack considers customer

Keep LLM's local

A lot of the use cases for LLMs I’ve heard from people is along the lines of “Help me get started on this document, presentation, report or speech” or “Summarise this document”. Which are pretty simple requests, but it’s when people send data with no thought…that’s

Go beyond the sales pitch

This is not going to be too technical. Hopefully. I’m already seeing a lot of posts and news articles about OpenAI releasing ChatGPT-4o. All very frothy. I get suspicious when articles start quoting what it could do in the future as much as what it can do now. If

More women for Tech's future

This is an important point. It was actually something we were discussing today during a UK IT Leaders weekly call. The Power of Diversity: Why We Need More Women Shaping Tech’s FutureImagine a room buzzing with creativity, a hub of brilliant minds tackling the world’s toughest problems. But

Data centres need a lot of power

Hmm. So this is interesting reading as I was mulling this over earlier this week The answer to AI’s energy needs could be blowing in the windCan offshore wind farms feed power-hungry AI data centers?The Verge AI needs a lot of power so we use wind farms…simple.

Underwater Bitbarns

Fun fact: my Masters degree is in Marine Science. I once hand fed a shark, that was quite cool. Undersea datacenter biz offers 90-day trialTesting platform for those ‘unfamiliar with the subsea environment’The RegisterDan Robinson I’m fascinated by these underwater data centres. It’s been talked about for

Crazy email

You see a lot of memes about the EV Fella on LinkedIn. Visionary, disruptor etc (some might say…) I read the below and thought of working transformation projects or PE carve outs. Imagine getting an email like that? Cue emergency meetings and a lot of ‘Wth?’ thinking. Read the wild