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The long and short of IT - the week in digibytes

News items from this week that didn't make the cut for full analysis, but deserve an airing. This week, Apple's new CEO hasn't fallen far from the tree, Anthropic-centered war and peace noises from the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize, and AI is tracking Meta employees at work - surely not!!!

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Something for the weekend - when it comes to women in tech, stop asking us about childcare and babies, and pay us properly!

The opportunities and challenges facing women in tech today is a long-running debate, but here's some thoughts to chew over for the weekend about some of the stuff that still gets said and asked!

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Employers are convinced they provide effective support to neurodivergent employees. Lived experiences suggest otherwise

The first part of a two-part article on neurodiversity evaluates a recent report, indicating that tech sector organizations - which employ high numbers of neurodiverse workers - often feel smug about how well they are doing in inclusion terms. But unfortunately, the lived reality is failing to match the promise.

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The long and the short of IT - the week in digibytes

News items from this week that didn't make the cut for full analysis, but deserve an airing. This week, how OpenAI spurned investor wooing, someone's probably looking over your shoulder as you read this, and some welcome 'peace and love' from Haight Ashbury via Salesforce's Marc Benioff.

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From military service to enterprise tech - an unconventional career path is a feature, not a bug - especially when it comes to building AI This article is sponsored by: Everpure logo © Everpure

Everpure APJ Ambassador Nina Sekiguchi's unconventional career path demonstrates that diversity amplifies innovation, reveals bias, and results in multi-dimensional products relevant to everyone — not just the designers.

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AI adoption is real, but so is the change required - lessons from an ASUG Talks podcast with SAP CEO Christian Klein This article is sponsored by: ASUG logo

In an ASUG Talks interview with Tim Clark, SAP CEO Christian Klein argues that real AI enterprise value demands redesigning business processes from the ground up — not layering AI onto existing systems.

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Striking the human/AI workforce balance - human intelligence matters as much as its artificial counterpart, argues Salesforce's Marc Benioff

LLMs are important, but they're not up to muster just yet in terms of being viable human replacements, a lesson that some CEOs have yet to learn, it seems.

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