As the model race becomes a contest for scarce resources, the AI industry is being led down an unsustainable path. Today, a handful of companies control the chips, capital...
Read moreDetails
If you zoom out, finance has always upgraded in layers. First it was joint-stock companies, then electronic trading, then blockchains....
Ask most finance leaders what they think about climate risk and the answer is usually some version of: we take...
While the disciplines of HR and finance have been fundamental components of organizational structure for many years, they have historically spoken very different languages...
Gold has been the go-to crisis asset for centuries. When wars break out, currencies collapse, or stock markets plunge, investors...
The primary goal for every leader is simple: make better business decisions. When those choices are suboptimal, progress doesn't just...
Read moreDetails
As the model race becomes a contest for scarce resources, the AI industry is being led down an unsustainable path. Today, a handful of companies control the chips, capital...
Last October, HSS Hire Group- a business established in 1947, with a network of 130 physical depots - sold itsrental operations to a private equity firm and became, overnight, a zero-asset technology company. Nowarehouses. No fleet. A digital marketplace pairing construction managers with a network of suppliers acrosstools, equipment, fuel, training and materials. That is the short version of the story. The longer version is more useful, because it explains why we made the technology choices we did, and why AI is now central to how the platform operates - not as a feature, but asinfrastructure. The Problem We Were Actually Solving Construction hire looks deceptively simple from the outside. A company needs a digger, they order it, it arrives.But a hire transaction does not end at the equivalent of a checkout. It extends across days, weeks, sometimesyears. A digger hired for three days might be kept for three months. Extensions trigger different...
For the past two years, the artificial intelligence debate has been dominated by capability. AI has moved quickly from innovation...
I faced two seemingly different problems at different times. Only later did I realise they were connected. One was a...
As the model race becomes a contest for scarce resources, the AI industry is being led down an unsustainable path. Today, a handful of companies control the chips, capital...
Last October, HSS Hire Group- a business established in 1947, with a network of 130 physical depots - sold itsrental operations to a private equity firm and became, overnight, a zero-asset technology company. Nowarehouses. No fleet. A digital marketplace pairing construction managers with a network of suppliers acrosstools, equipment, fuel, training and materials. That is the short version of the story. The longer version is more useful, because it explains why we made the technology choices we did, and why AI is now central to how the platform operates - not as a feature, but asinfrastructure. The Problem We Were Actually Solving Construction hire looks deceptively simple from the outside. A company needs a digger, they order it, it arrives.But a hire transaction does not end at the equivalent of a checkout. It extends across days, weeks, sometimesyears. A digger hired for three days might be kept for three months. Extensions trigger different...
For the past two years, the artificial intelligence debate has been dominated by capability. AI has moved quickly from innovation...
