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JimLiddle
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Entrepreneur and Technologist | Born in Hartlepool | Lives in London | Startups | New Tech | Old Tech | Rock Music | All tweets/views are my own
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AI Slop or Providing a Voice ?

#EnterpriseAI #AISlop #AIEthics #GenAI #GivingaVoice #Creativity #AI

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AI Slop or Providing a Voice ?
've seen a lot of articles and comments about 'AI slop' or AI augmented posts and I think its worthy of a short post.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Google Creating an Intelligence Plane with Gemini Updates

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #GoogleGemini #GeminiAI
Google Creating an Intelligence Plane with Gemini Updates
Google has updated the #Gemini API to:
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January 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Why AI’s Growth Looks Like Cloud 2010, Not Dot-Com 2000

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #AIBubble #AIEconomy #DigitalTransformation #EconomicsOfAI
Why AI’s Growth Looks Like Cloud 2010, Not Dot-Com 2000
There are now multiple verifiable signals from AI vendors, industry reports, and market data that corroborate, showing that AI token usage and API consumption are expanding rapidly, and that this grow...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Reconstructing the Enterprise: Data, State, Policy, and AI

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#EnterpriseAI #AI #AIStrategy #DigitalTwin #EnterpriseArchitecture
#SoftwareArchitecture #DataEngineering #AIAgents
Reconstructing the Enterprise: Data, State, Policy, and AI
The interesting thing about GenAI is not that it can answer questions or write code.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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A Simple But Effective Cache Augmented Generation Web Application

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #RAG #CAG #LongContext #GeminiFLash
A Simple But Effective Cache Augmented Generation Web Application
In a prior post I wrote about the difference between RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and CAG (Cache Augmented Generation).
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January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Why Enterprise AI Remains So Elusive

#AI #AIROI #AIGovernance #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #AIAdoption #AITransformation #AIRiskManagement #AIMethodology

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Why Enterprise AI ROI Remains So Elusive
The majority of companies still cannot answer a straightforward question about their AI investments i.e.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Top #AI Picks Of 2025

#EnterpriseAI

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Top AI Picks for 2025
One of the things I did with the family over Christmas/New Year was for each of us to lay out the top things we experienced in 2025 - top movie, top album etc.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Tips for Working with #ClaudeCode

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #AICoding #AIEngineering #AITips
Tips for Working with Claude Code
From the creator of Claude Code
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January 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Power - AI's Achilles heel in 2026

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#EnterpriseAI #AI #DataCenters #EnergyTransition #AIInfrastructure #UKTech #AIGrowthZones #GridCapacity #Microgrids #EnergyPolicy
Power - AI's Achilles heel in 2026
If anything is going to stop #AI accelerating in 2026 it will be related to power and energy which will show up the limits of the AI boom.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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How to invest in #AI without sacrificing fiscal discipline

#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIROI #AIStrategy

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Execs: How to Fund AI Infrastructure With Confidence
Think Tank members share disciplined frameworks for balancing bold AI infrastructure investments with ROI, risk management and long-term value.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Unstructured Data in 2026

#AI #EnterpriseAI #UnstructuredData #RAG #DataArchitecture #DataManagement #DataDiscovery #KnowledgeManagement

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Unstructured Data in 2026
I’ve written a lot of articles on unstructured data since the rise of GenAI and I thought it would be interesting to look at what we can expect for unstructured data in the enterprise in 2026.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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RAG v CAG
With context windows now reaching 1-2 million tokens, CAG is becoming increasingly viable for more complex #AIusecases

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #RAG #CAG #ContextWindow
RAG v CAG
RAG changed how internal knowledge is leveraged when using AI, and there are many flavors of RAG as I have pointed out previously.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Why Many AI ROI Formulas Are Wrong

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#AIROI #AI #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #AICosts #AIGovernance #AIRisk
Why Many AI ROI Formulas Are Wrong
IMO, most AI ROI discussions still miss the mark.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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If The Prompt Is The Product Where Is The Defensible IP ?

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #SaaS #IPR #AIStrategy
If The Prompt Is The Product Where Is The Defensible IP ?
At my previous startup we went to all sort of lengths to protect and obfuscate our code, as that was our intellectual IP.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Had some fun building and using a next token prediction App to demonstrate AI concepts to deliver some #AITraining

#AI #EnterpriseAI #NextTokenPredictor #AIEducation #AIClassroom #CriticalThinking #LlamaCPP
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Geographic Realities of UK AI Infrastructure and the Power Grid

#AI #EnterpriseAI #UKEnergy #AIGrowth #AIDatacenters #TechUK #GridCapacity #NorthernPowerhouse #GridModernization #GreenAI

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Geographic Realities of UK AI Infrastructure and the Power Grid
I’ve been doing some work on a strategic briefing illustrating the power demands of next-generation AI infrastructure and the geographic realities of the UK national power grid.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Notes on providing a short online training course on various AI Concepts for a couple of hours each afternoon this week for a Fintech company with a focus on RAG for this session.

#AI #EnterpriseAI #AITraining #RAG #AIConcepts #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration

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Teaching AI Concepts
I’m providing a short online training course on various AI Concepts for a couple of hours each afternoon this week for a Fintech company.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I and other members of the Senior Executive AI Think Tank share some thoughts on responsible data practices & compliance risks when dealing with the growing demand for training data

#EnterpriseAI #DataIntegrity #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AITrainingData

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How AI Firms and Content Platforms Can Protect Data Integrity - Senior Executive
Experts from the Senior Executive CMO Think Tank share tips to help AI firms approach public web content responsibly and explain how platforms like Reddit can strengthen data licensing, access control...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Developing a Long Context #AI Knowledge App

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#EnterpriseAI #UnstructuredData #LongContext #RAG
Developing a Long Context AI Knowledge App
It has been a development day today, implementing an AI knowledge system that works with local files / network shares (using OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120B) but which can also burst out and leverage Gemini 1.5...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Planck's Principle As Applied to #AI

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIParadox #AIPrinciple #AIAnalogy
Planck's Principle As Applied to AI
For people who follow my posts you will know I love a a good Paradox or Principle that can be used as an explainer with #AI.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Hardware I am using for Local LLMs

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #SLMs #LLms #AIHardware #AILaptop
Hardware I am using for Local LLMs
One of the questions I most get asked is what hardware I use when working with local AI models.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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UK Energy Costs, Global Net Zero Impact and Forthcoming AI Datacenters Impact

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#AI #UKEnergy #EnergyAI
UK Energy Costs, Global Net Zero Impact and Forthcoming AI Datacenters Impact
AI can be a great leveler, especially when it comes to research as it allows you to dig in on data in a way that would simply not be possible without it.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Lesser Known #Gemini3 Features that have Applicability in the Enterprise

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#AI #GenAI #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #GoogleGemini
Lesser Known Gemini3 Features that have Applicability in the Enterprise
I spent yesterday taking a deeper look at #Gemini3. Below I’ve focused on some of the lesser known features I discovered and their applicability to #EnterpriseAI.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Employees are already using #AI that isn't approved - the question is what to do about it?

I and other members of the Senior Executive AI Think Tank discuss how to proactively manage the growing use of #shadowAI

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#EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance #AIinBusiness
Managing Shadow AI: Governance Strategies to Secure Innovation
Explore how companies can proactively govern employees’ use of external AI tools while enabling innovation and aligning with business goals.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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An AI Workflow for Enhancing Demo Music Tracks Without Studio Dependencies

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#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIMusic #MusicAI #MusicProduction #MCP #AIMusicAgents
An AI Workflow for Enhancing Demo Music Tracks Without Studio Dependencies
Most articles about “AI in music’’ are in relation to generating music from scratch using prompts, but what if you want to take an existing music demo track, control the quality, and the ability to ex...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM