Spotlight on gen AI at Davos


Spotlight on gen AI at Davos Davos 2025 January 19, 2025Gen AI dominated conversations at last year’s Annual Meeting, and its impact has only accelerated since. This year at Davos, the dialogue evolves. How can organizations capture the value of this technology and navigate its profound impact on the future of work? “Breaking open the gen AI opportunity requires companies to rewire how they work,” write McKinsey senior partners and Davos delegates Alexander Sukharevsky and Rodney Zemmel. To seize the $4.4 trillion opportunity, organizations need to rewire across six core dimensions: strategy, talent, operating model, technology, data and AI, and adoption, scaling, and sustainability. … Continue reading Spotlight on gen AI at Davos

The Banking Stack: A Techno-Regulatory Framework for the Future of Finance


BCG The Banking Stack: A Techno-Regulatory Framework for the Future of Finance The financial landscape is rapidly evolving, with banks transforming into platforms offering services and integrating third-party solutions. This image of “The Banking Stack” highlights how financial institutions can leverage hashtag#APIs, digital public infrastructure, and interbank systems likehashtag#CBDCs to deliver seamless services to consumers, hashtag#SMEs, and corporates. Key Takeaways:1. Embedded hashtag#finance and third-party services are disrupting parts of the traditional hashtag#bank model.2. Banks can scale by outsourcing and insourcing key processes while leveraging financial infrastructure technology.3. Strategic partnerships can help banks offer new services like digital asset custody, health … Continue reading The Banking Stack: A Techno-Regulatory Framework for the Future of Finance

Evaluation of the Cyber AI Hub programme


Published 8 January 2025 Britain has multiple initiatives underway which serve to embed emerging and future technologies into the educational infrastructure. I subscribe to a weekly update and am frequently surprised. I am a believer in the importance of rapidly diffusing AI into the educational system which will brain faster improvements in systems and embed growth mindsets that will transfer the possible productivity benefits from AI into the mainstream. Here follows the full report in this weeks weekly update: Evaluation of the Cyber AI Hub programme 1. Introduction   In November 2023, The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT’s) Cyber Security … Continue reading Evaluation of the Cyber AI Hub programme

AI powered Devices dominate CES


NVIDIA continues to dominate.the future of computing. Think 1) CPU; 2) CPU and GPU; 3) Custom chips with Integrated CPU and GPU; 4) AI based systems e.g. NVIDIA Jensen Huang at CES The scene was set by Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, the $3.5tn chipmaker whose stock has risen more than 150 per centover the past year on the back of huge sales of its market-leading graphics processing units needed to power advanced AI models. During a keynote address in which he unveiled an array of new products including a new mini AI supercomputer and a suite of foundational AI models … Continue reading AI powered Devices dominate CES

CETaS Outlook: Emerging Technology Trends to Watch in 2025


CETaS Outlook: Emerging Technology Trends to Watch in 2025 Expert Analysis This publication is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 which permits unrestricted use, provided the original authors and source are credited. Introduction 2024 was another hectic year in tech. Leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies continued to release groundbreaking new products at a rapid rate, with highly capable multimodal models firmly establishing themselves in the generative AI landscape. Market leaders such as OpenAI are becoming increasingly embedded in the defence sector – a new partnership with Anduril announced in December signals a turnaround from OpenAI’s … Continue reading CETaS Outlook: Emerging Technology Trends to Watch in 2025

Open Banking – a reality or not


Abstract: Arthur has developed here a modern contextual view of Open Banking and Open Finance. He begins with the right question “Open Banking – a reality or not”. However there are gaps worth exploring for inclusion in this summary. These gaps lie with Safety of Funds and Consumer preferences and motivation to adopt. Arthur BedelCo-Founder @ Connecting the dots in Payments… | Global Revenue at VGS | Board Member | FinTech Advisor | Ex-Pro Tennis PlayerLinkedin ——There remain unanswered questions in this evolving definition which are critical to the success of Open Banking. These gaps are in i. Platform Security … Continue reading Open Banking – a reality or not

Japan’s semiconductor revival is transforming rural landscapes, with former agricultural areas now hosting cutting-edge chip facilities


In Chitose, Hokkaido, Rapidus is constructing a state-of-the-art plant on land once dedicated to rice cultivation[1]. This shift symbolizes Japan’s commitment to technological advancement and economic revitalization The transition from agriculture to high-tech manufacturing brings both opportunities and challenges: This transformation reflects Japan’s broader strategy to reclaim its position in the global semiconductor market while addressing regional development challenges[5][6]. Sources[1] Japan to invest $635M in chipmaker Rapidus in 2025 – Evertiq https://evertiq.com/news/57005%5B2%5D Japan’s Semiconductor Sector Surges as Global Partnerships and … https://www.astutegroup.com/news/general/japans-semiconductor-sector-surges-as-global-partnerships-and-domestic-initiatives-drive-growth/%5B3%5D Chip cities rise in Japan’s fields of dreams – The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/12/22/japan/chip-city-dreams/%5B4%5D All that glitters may not … Continue reading Japan’s semiconductor revival is transforming rural landscapes, with former agricultural areas now hosting cutting-edge chip facilities

Source-DeepLearning.ai 03/01/25


Happy New Year! Hopes For 2025 With Mustafa Suleyman, Audrey Tang, Albert Gu, Hanno Basse, Joseph Gonzalez, David Ding Dear friends, Happy sum(i**3 for i in range(10)) ! Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it, especially in building AI applications. Sparks are flying in our field, and 2025 will be a great year for building!  One aspect of AI that I’m particularly excited about is how easy it is to build software prototypes. AI is lowering the cost of software development and expanding the set … Continue reading Source-DeepLearning.ai 03/01/25

Palantir Technologies Driving Success Across Industries


Palantir Technologies Driving Success Across Industries Lucas Downey Source: http://www.mapsignals.com Tracking unusual volumes reveals the power of money flows. This is a trait that most outlier stocks exhibit…the best of the best. Big Money demand drives stocks upward. Palantir Price Prediction The PLTR rally isn’t new at all. Big Money buying in the shares is signaling to take notice. Given the historical gains in share price and strong fundamentals, this stock could be worth a spot in a diversified portfolio. Disclosure: the author holds no position in PLTR at the time of publication. If you are a Registered Investment Advisor … Continue reading Palantir Technologies Driving Success Across Industries