Fair point. However, the IT services and consulting folks do need to answer why has there been not even a SINGLE product/company/startup investments coming out in other areas of AI. Its not just about foundation models or implementation services. What about: 1. Designing custom harnesses for industry specific usecases. Build / buy / invest in startups / incubate, etc. There should be a communication around it at the rate of once per week. 2. Thought leadership around key enterprise issues like data privacy, local vs cloud AI models? Not claude generated, gatekept 'white papers' but genuine demos publicly available and pushed around. Is there a genuine case example available? 3. Domain specific evals??? This is the biggest one. You're telling me that your Insurance practice is a billion $ big, you serve top 10 insurers but cannot build a productized service for Insurers to test 50 new AI tools and products with reliable evals and benchmarks? Its the same old tired 2018 case studies framework (gained 40% underwriting efficiency by using AI models). There is enough domain expertise in each of these large companies to help national insurers around evals and benchmarking all major workflows in each of 50 states, each of 10-15 product lines in the US. You have tonnes of teams doing very similar work across the industry and you're best placed to abstract out signals by spending some meaningful time with the humans working on those tasks. Perhaps, what's missing is the organizational intent and will. Ultimately, I think its a cultural & incentives issue. Cultural - My guess is that most CXOs still secretly hope and think that this is a massive fad/wave like the y2k/cloud, etc. and in the end they'll be vindicated via new implementation contracts by 'partners' like Anthropic/OpenAI/Google. I've read/listened to some of the Q'ly calls and nothing tells me otherwise. Incentives - most execs have a revenue / eps target given by board, and they cannot get capex or startup investment proposals approved by the same board. They're superstars who've won at this game for years and now the game has changed.

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Here we go, #WorldCup

What a lovely article! No one has ever captured the spirit of football WC better than this. My 1st WC was Italia '90 (I was exactly 11 then!). Still remember Roger Milla's Cameroon, Scillachi's screamers for Italy, Oleg Salenko's 5 goals in a single match, Maradona's heartbreak in the finals,.. I'm now transported to a different world... irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/… @AkaPaulHoward

Great advice for cs and math undergrads feeling overwhelmed by ai

Makes complete sense for the top firms to build their own, on-prem AI capabilities. VC funded Legal AI firms are rolling in valuations on the back of two things: 1. Marquee client logos signalling credibility 2. Powerful AI capabilities & harnesses (custom built for bespoke legal work) #2 is now less & less of a moat, and an aggressive law firm can assemble a great team of technologists & build it out. Many 'Forward Deployed Engineers & Legal-Technologists' are anyways from these top tier firms & practices only. Keeping your client's data off 3rd party servers (and protecting privilege) is the biggest benefit. This will be a reality in most domains, not just law. Top firms will lead the way, and many will follow. There will be blow-ups and disasters but Anthropic/OpenAI/Google have ensured that the end customers have much more leverage than the rest of the value chain. Old adage of: 'Will incumbents get innovation before start-ups get distribution' is passe. All incumbents now have access to innovation, and some lead it as well. Real question now is: Will the incumbents still be excited and committed about AI when its no longer sexy and foundational model labs are not dropping new models every month. It will happen and 2025-26 is definitely an aberration. Incumbents who can shed their deadweight & really pivot to a culture of experimentation and fast deployment using AI will last out way beyond this unusual period.

Agree. It’s almost impossible to build a stable team with all superstars (100x engineers). But then, who wants stability these days.

Almost every other day, you'd come across tweets betraying basics of insurance. For an industry that consequential, its scary to see how little people understand how it works.

Business of Law is extremely profitable.

How can @Gartner_inc be so behind. This is 2026 April. None of these 2x2s are going to be relevant anymore.

AI and the Loss of Privilege: US v Heppner contractken.com/post/ai-and-…

it’s only AI native if the gross margins are negative

UNIX was built in one month. Ken Thompson's wife took their son on vacation. He had 3 weeks alone. He wrote the kernel in week 1, the shell in week 2, the editor in week 3. Modern dev teams spend 3 weeks in sprint planning.

Loved playing this. Even for those days it was slow.

Did someone say AI will make lawyer's business go away?

This is so true. After years of comfortable corporate existence, when I started out as a solo entrepreneur, the most unsettling thing on a Monday morning was staring at the blank calendar. No client meetings to prepare and pre-prepare for, no boss to send plan/updates to, no workshops or brainstorming sessions you're invited to, no corporate outings to look forward to, no HR mandated trainings to complete, no perf reviews / attrition worries, no strategy sessions, no scheduled 1-1's or skip meetings, ... Now, nothing moves unless you do. And you need to decide on the direction first. How do you plan your day/week to focus on the highest leverage activities? When you can essentially be larping on a million other things because there's no forcing function. This kind of calendar freedom is hard to digest. Has taken me a few years to recognize the issue but still far from figuring this out.

Yes. That's why the Angrez traded as East Pakistan Company, Vyas Rishi named his magnum opus MahaSouthAsia and the Native Americans were called Red Dravidians.

No updates from Copilot in Excel still. How can @satyanadella allow this to happen?

Every experienced practicing lawyer I talk to about AI: "It's cool, will change the way we do things, but doesn't affect the service clients are really paying us for." Lawyers with limited experience who decided to sell AI instead of practice law: "I replaced my entire law practice with claude agents overnight, and they do so much better than I ever could." I think that says more about the level of services they were providing than about the capabilities of AI.