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The Great Hedge: Drugs, Debt, & the Direction AI is Going Everybody’s Waiting on
In Zurich, Washington, and Seoul, the people who set the price of money are making the same admission a Chinese biotech CEO just made about the price of a new drug: nobody knows yet whether artificial intelligence is the thing that saves the timeline or the thing that blows up the budget.
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BPA Sellers Can’t Sell ‘It Works’ Anymore: How Freelancers, Agencies, & Platform Vendors can Get Ahead of the Grading Curve
For sellers of Business Process Automation (BPA), it wouldn’t be surprising if they saw the automation labor market as a bit of an open bazaar. But analysis of trends is showing that it’s becoming more of a a filtration system: raw, undifferentiated talent pours in at the top, and only what can pass through progressively…
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Application Programming Insurance: the Business Process Automation Market’s Currency of Trust
The risk of breakage in complex BPA is becoming sky high much too early in an organization’s growth trajectory. Worse, low-code and no-code platforms have lowered the barrier to entry in a way that made quiet failures even more punishing for a generation of API-slingers with barely any concept of rate limiting, error handling, and…
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IBM’s Apptio Will Total Your AI Bill, But It Only Offers a Ledger, Not Brakes
IBM’s Apptio unveiled AI Value & ROI in public preview Aug. 6 — a tool tying AI spending, including token costs, to measurable business outcomes instead of auto-calculating ROI.
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From Chatbots to Robots: Three Storylines, One Shortage
Three separately reported milestones converged on China’s AI-hardware sector this month: a record-breaking robotics IPO, a memory chipmaker’s breakout into NAND’s global top three, and an open-sourced alternative to Nvidia’s software ecosystem.
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The Real AI Story in Asia: Compute is Becoming an Asset Class | Report Download
Report: Chip restrictions have hardened into boundary maintenance, while a separate, faster-moving force — compute financialization — is doing more to reshape Asia’s AI capital landscape.
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The Emergent Structure of Natural Language: Our Spin on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Heuristics
A KRR is a set of ontological commitments — a representation that carries a theory of reasoning. So it doesn’t just store what’s known, it sanctions and recommends inferences atop what’s known. When that representation is natural language, those commitments and that reasoning theory are already in the words.
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How Structure and Language Choices Impact Prompt Engineering for LLMs
Choose a prompt: Your output should embody brevity. Or: Your output should demonstrate brevity. This isn’t a trick question. It’s a practical problem in the age of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude — or whatever flavor of generative AI (genAI) large language model (LLM) you prefer. Because interestingly (and frustratingly), when you interact with genAI LLMs, the…
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ChatGPT Vs Gemini Vs Prompting: Experimenting with GenAI Output Quality & CORE Heuristics
Comparing ChatGPT and Gemini output and developing online content heuristics