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Stopping AI research and being against datacenters?

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Every few months the word “pause” drifts back into the AI conversation, as if a handbrake could be gently lifted on a runaway technology. Elon Musk famously signed the Future of Life Institute’s 2023 open letter urging a six‑month halt on training models more powerful than GPT‑4; Sam Altman told the US Senate that licensing and international coordination may require temporary stoppages at certain capability thresholds; Dario Amodei’s Anthropic has gone furthest in operationalising that idea with a “Responsible Scaling Policy” that contemplates pausing when risk evaluations trip red lines. The research community remains split: Nature and other journals have catalogued both the prudence of breathing space and the risk that a pause entrenches incumbents or simply drives work elsewhere. In practice, what we’ve had is not a pause but a politics of pacing—soft law commitments, model evaluations, and the UK’s Bletchley Declaration—all inadequate substitutes for a shared, enforceable theory o...
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What can the gaming industry teach us?

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Walking the halls of Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, you feel the hum of a clock that everyone can hear. A game has a window, a stage, a promise—when the curtain rises, there is no quiet reschedule. That tension doesn’t produce panic so much as a peculiar clarity: teams decide what matters, cut what doesn’t, and harden the path from build to booth. It’s a useful mirror for IT consulting, where deadlines drift more easily; treating go‑live like an opening night invites the rehearsal discipline, risk staging, and calm showmanship that audiences—and clients—notice. There is another lesson in how studios tell their story. Watching a team pitch a new title to press and fans, you see months of engineering distilled into a feeling you “get” in seconds. The trailer forces a resolve that many corporate programmes dodge: what is the one sentence we want remembered, and do all our choices serve it? In consulting, we too often let features crowd out meaning; a sharper narrative not only sells better...
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Evolving the system and preparing the next iteration

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Today we step into the next phase of our public-sector collaboration in Belgium: Version 2 of a major Microsoft Dynamics setup, running from now through the end of the calendar year. This isn’t about tearing up what exists; it’s about evolving it with clearer intent and kinder edges — for the public servant at the console, the citizen checking a status, and the enterprise navigating obligations without drama. Version 2 is where the system grows up : fewer apologies, fewer workarounds, and far fewer mysteries hidden behind buttons. Think of it as the stretch from “it works” to “it works, holds up under pressure, and doesn’t need a pep talk on Monday morning.” Our Version 2 Agile approach starts with outcomes, not theatrics: we organise around service journeys, not modules, and measure progress by what gets simpler for real people. Discovery and delivery run together, with small batches that ship on a dependable rhythm, and “show the thing” reviews designed to be interesting enough th...
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