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George Lawton is a technology journalist that has been covering the technology industry for the last three decades. He is currently focused on digital transformation, enterprise automation, digital twins, privacy, and sustainable development. year He has written over 3,000 stories about computers, communications, knowledge management, business, health, and other areas. In the early 1990s, he helped build Biosphere II, sailed a Chinese Junk to Antarctica, and herded cattle on a 200,000-acre ranch in Australia.

Articles by George Lawton

Something for the weekend - introducing 'speechos'. What I learned dictating 203,000 words in 44 days

Over 44 days of dictating, I produced more than 203,000 words and almost no finished work. What I did produce was a new vocabulary: 'speechos', outpourings, and a felt sense of what the next interface with AI might actually be.

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Bull speed ahead! Can France re-build AI sovereignty with Bull acquisition?

The French Government has recently acquired all of the shares of Bull in the hopes of rebuilding a sovereign AI stack from the ground up. Bull CEO Emmanuel Le Roux explains why this time might be different from the last time this occurred and how he hopes to inspire European leadership to shape the future of AI

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Why Karl Friston is betting on cultivating curiosity for sustainable AGI

The ARC-AGI-3 challenge launches today as the first interactive reasoning benchmark which stumps current frontier LLMs. Karl Friston, one of the most cited neuroscientists alive and Chief Scientist at VERSES AI, argues that his active inference framework can compete where LLMs fail because it does something they structurally cannot: encode uncertainty and be curious. The questions Friston is asking may outlast the answers Big AI is selling.

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Why data curation skills are essential for agentic migrations - an Informatica use case makes the point

Salesforce recently completed an ambitious plan to migrate the Informatica Help system to the Salesforce AgentForce experience in 24 days ahead of its 30-day ambition. Salesforce VP of Data Science Irina Malkova walks through the essential role that human curiosity and experimentation played in making this ambitious project go smoothly.

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How Bayesian-inspired uncertainty management could shape the future of trustworthy AI -

Concr CEO Irina Babina and CTO Matthew Griffiths unpack how Bayesian foundation models can excel at uncertainty management to build trust in medical AI digital twins. Their insight has important implications for user experience design that augments rather than replaces human context and expertise.

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OpenAI's AI talent war with Anthropic - leaving aside the point scoring, here's how the personal agent meme might shape the enterprise

OpenAI has signed on Peter Steinberger, the pioneer of the viral OpenClaw open source personal agentic development tool. Qwibit Co-founder Gavriel Cohen, who developed NanoClaw, a more code-efficient and secure alternative, weighs in on implications for the enterprise.

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DORA the Explorer - how to unpack AI capabilities paradoxes - and why you need to know if you're in coding

Google’s DORA first report on AI coding maturity provides a valuable starting point and a bevy of helpful metrics. It also points to some interesting paradoxes that require additional context and might benefit from an expanded HR role.

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