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Grok 4 Unleashed: A Deep Dive into xAI's Latest AI Contender
Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4, claiming SOTA performance in reasoning while grappling with ongoing concerns about bias and a unique...
Yoshi Soornack
Jul 12, 20259 min read


The Human Element: Tom Esch on Communication, Conflict, and AI in Construction
In an era where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries at breakneck speed, the fundamentals of human connection remain...
James Garner
Jul 11, 20257 min read
Process First, AI Second: Michael Schank on Building the Foundation for Digital Transformation
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and digital transformation, organisations often rush to implement the latest...
James Garner
Jul 3, 202510 min read
Bridging the AI Implementation Gap: New Framework Seeks Industry Input to Transform UK Project Delivery
The Project Data Analytics Task Force has released a comprehensive Green Paper that could reshape how the UK government and industry...
James Garner
Jul 3, 20254 min read
The Great AI Regulation Shuffle: How Global Leaders Are Making a Mess of AI Governance
This week's AI regulation news reads like a comedy of errors—if the stakes weren't so high. On one side of the Atlantic, the U.S. Senate...
James Garner
Jul 3, 20255 min read
The Information Revolution: Why ChatGPT Is Winning the War for News Consumption
The numbers from Similarweb's latest report paint a stark picture of the media landscape's transformation. According to Yahoo Finance's...
James Garner
Jul 3, 20255 min read
AI in Architecture: Beyond the Adoption Statistics
The latest RIBA report on AI adoption in architecture paints a fascinating picture of a profession in transition. Nearly 500 members were...
James Garner
Jul 3, 20254 min read


The Future of Work Isn’t Autonomous. It’s Agency-Centred: Stanford's Latest Research
A shift is happening in how we think about AI at work. It’s no longer just a question of what can be automated, but how people want it...
Yoshi Soornack
Jun 28, 20253 min read


Musk, Grok 4, and Rewrite of History as we Know it
“Rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge… then retrain on that.” — Elon Musk, 21 June 2025 Elon Musk has declared that human...
Yoshi Soornack
Jun 28, 20254 min read


The Office Revolution: Why Microsoft's 40-Year Dominance might be About to Crumble
Or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Inevitable Death of Word I've spent the better part of two decades wrestling with...
James Garner
Jun 28, 20254 min read


The AI Standards Circus: Why ISO 21520 Might Actually Matter (Despite My Better Judgement)
I have a confession: I've spent the better part of my career rolling my eyes at standards announcements. You know the drill - another...
James Garner
Jun 28, 20255 min read


The AI Race Heats Up: When Money Talks, Do Safety Concerns Get Silenced?
The artificial intelligence industry is witnessing an unprecedented talent war, and the latest developments suggest we're entering a new...
James Garner
Jun 28, 20254 min read


From Gut Feel to AI: Tolis Chatzisymeon on the Future of Cost Estimating
In the rapidly evolving landscape of construction technology, few areas have remained as resistant to change as cost estimating. Yet even...
James Garner
Jun 27, 20259 min read


The Perplexity Paradox: When Silicon Valley Dreams Meet Broadcasting Reality
Bottom Line Up Front: Whilst Apple executives are quietly discussing a potential £11 billion acquisition of AI search startup...
James Garner
Jun 22, 20255 min read


The XAI Paradox: When AI Dreams Collide with Reality
How Elon Musk's £3.4 billion funding quest reveals the hidden costs of the AI revolution There's something deeply ironic about the story...
James Garner
Jun 22, 20255 min read


The Day I Realised We're Already Living in the Future (We Just Haven't Noticed Yet)
I'll be honest - I've been banging on about AI in project delivery for months now, and I was starting to wonder if I was just another...
James Garner
Jun 22, 20256 min read


Heated Tensions Rising Between OpenAI & Microsoft
For years, OpenAI and Microsoft have walked side by side: big money, big compute, and even bigger ambitions. But recently, the trust...
Yoshi Soornack
Jun 21, 20252 min read


Winners, Losers, and the AI Divide: Who Gets a Place in Tomorrow’s Workforce
We haven't had many significant figures speaking so frankly AI's job displacement. Yet last week, a heavy memo landed from Amazon CEO...
Yoshi Soornack
Jun 21, 20253 min read


The Reality Gap: John Ryan on Why Construction Tech Must Be Built from the Ground Up
In the rapidly evolving landscape of construction technology and AI, few voices are as grounded in reality as John Ryan, Director of...
James Garner
Jun 20, 20256 min read


How OpenAI's improved o3 Sets the Stage for GPT-5
Discover how OpenAI’s O3 model upgrades in 2025 set the foundation for GPT-5, blending multimodal reasoning, tool use, and long-term memory into a unified AI system for complex business tasks.
Yoshi Soornack
Jun 16, 20253 min read

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