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AI continue to be hard. Our research (and others) shows that even deploying a single, substantive genAI solution or agent is exceptional. There are two anti-patterns that complicate adoption: first, when engineers go off and build solutions without significant business collaboration; second, when parties do collaborate and teams contribute their own special dysfunctions to the […]
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Jan 19, 2026
The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On
As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.
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His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was
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