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I read many interesting articles throughout the day while curating for the Teckedin.com knowledgebase.
This is a new listing where I will share links to those articles and insights that I find particularly interesting and worth the read.
Week ending 7/12/25
Computerworld - Send in the clones
Of course, the first thing that comes to mind when we think about digital clones is fraud and porn. Creep factor aside, legitimate and ethical applications for digital clone technologies are emerging.
VentureBeat - Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free
The model’s standout feature is its optimization for “agentic” capabilities — the ability to autonomously use tools, write and execute code, and complete complex multi-step tasks without human intervention. In benchmark tests, Kimi K2 achieved 65.8% accuracy on SWE-bench Verified, a challenging software engineering benchmark, outperforming most open-source alternatives and matching some proprietary models.
Dark Reading - eSIM Bug in Millions of Phones Enables Spying, Takeover
New research suggests, though, that they actually introduce significant security risks. Using a Kigen embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) card, Adam Gowdiak, founder and CEO of Security Explorations, found that attackers could theoretically breach eSIMs to spy on their users, manipulate their services, and steal valuable information from mobile network operators (MNOs).
InfoWorld - AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19%
Gogia argued this represents “a vital corrective to the overly simplistic assumption that AI-assisted coding automatically boosts developer productivity,” suggesting enterprises must “elevate the rigour of their evaluation frameworks” and develop “structured test-and-learn models that go beyond vendor-led benchmarks.”
Forbes - The Real Cost Of AI Job Loss: How We’re Losing Purpose And Paychecks
We’re asking the wrong question. AI isn’t just replacing tasks. It’s reshaping identity, eroding purpose and quietly redesigning what it means to be human. The real threat isn’t whether AI can replace us—it’s what happens when we willingly replace ourselves.
Phi/AI Substack - Artificial Stupidity: One Prompt at a Time
The ubiquitous use of generative AI subtly displaces the value we collectively assign to thinking by normalizing (nearly) instant outputs. It makes reflection an act of inefficiency and curiosity optional or redundant. Leaving us to meet in the brain rot of synthetic sameness.
Diginomica - How will AI vendors set prices CIOs want to pay? Clues are starting to emerge
But if you bet on a model for front-end gen AI solutions based on gradual adoption of a hybrid pricing model - partly traditional subscription and partly usage-based pricing - the latest thinking on the problem suggests you might be doing a lot better than any hallucinating Large Language Model (LLM).
InfoWorld - Artificial intelligence is a commodity, but understanding is a superpower
The debate about intelligence versus wisdom is as old as history, but artificial intelligence has transformed it into an intensely practical question. The cheaper professional knowledge becomes, the more precious it is to know how to use it. It’s becoming ever clearer that the most valuable thing is not just the power to do things but wielding that power effectively. Formulating and comprehending aims in the context of complex systems and uniting the burgeoning sprawl of content with clarity of strategic vision: These are stars of the new game.
Gizmodo - The End of the Internet As We Know It
Perplexity pitches Comet as your “second brain,” capable of actively researching, comparing options, making purchases, briefing you for your day, and analyzing information on your behalf. The promise is that it does all this without ever sending you off on a wild hyperlink chase across 30 tabs, aiming to collapse “complex workflows into fluid conversations.”
Hugging Face, the $4.5 billion AI platform that has become the GitHub of machine learning (ML), announced Tuesday the launch of Reachy Mini, a $299 desktop robot designed to bring AI-powered robotics to millions of developers worldwide. The 11-inch humanoid companion represents the company’s boldest move yet to democratize robotics development and challenge the industry’s traditional closed-source, high-cost model.
ITPro Today - The AI Talent War Is the Stuff of Steve Jobs' Nightmares
Today, as some of the same players become locked in AI talent wars, we're starting to get a sense of what Jobs was so afraid of: a no-holds-barred fight for the best people, with employees holding all the cards. Top engineers are being courted like starting pitchers and star quarterbacks. Meta Platforms Inc., for instance, is going after talent with "pay packages of up to $300 million over four years," reported Wired, citing internal sources. (Meta disputes the framing.)
InfoWorld - Arriving at ‘Hello World’ in enterprise AI
Brendan Falk didn’t set out to become a cautionary tale. Three months after leaving AWS to build what he called an “AI-native Palantir,” he’s pivoting away from enterprise AI projects altogether. In a widely shared X thread, Falk offers some of the reasons: 18-month sales cycles, labyrinthine integrations, and post-sale maintenance that swallows margins. In other words, all the assembly required to make AI work in the enterprise, regardless of the pseudo instant gratification that consumer-level ChatGPT prompts may return.
Information Week - The Battles Shaping the Future of AI
While 41% of respondents are willing to trust AI, 75% remain concerned about negative outcomes from the technology. Further, 44% of workers said they use AI at work in inappropriate ways, and 58% indicated they rely on AI output at work without evaluating its accuracy. The proliferation of AI in the workplace represents one of the largest change management efforts in recent history, requiring innovative strategies to win trust and confidence with employees.