Category: Human Centric
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Cisco’s Antares Says It Depends What You’re Asking It Cisco just released Antares, a family of small, open-weight AI models built to do one narrow job inside a codebase: find the files most likely to contain a known vulnerability. Cisco’s benchmark shows the largest version, Antares-3B, coming very close to GPT-5.5 on that specific task, with File…
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After 26 years at Microsoft, I’m stepping into the next chapter at the end of this month. I’m founding LumenForge Advisors — and I’m also very open to the right new leadership opportunities where I can continue driving large-scale AI transformation. I’m very excited about the journey ahead. Through LumenForge Advisors, I’ll focus on delivering…
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A practical, evidence-first method for turning everyday work into visible, credible, executive-ready impact. We spend a lot of time telling people to “own their story.” That advice sounds good, but in practice it often fails. Not because people lack accomplishments.And not because they lack ambition.Usually, it fails because the underlying signal is fragmented. The evidence…
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Bottom line: The most successful AI transformations treat people as the irreplaceable core of value creation, not line items to shrink. Beginning an AI Transformation journey with a headcount-reduction mindset inevitably delivers short-term optics at the expense of long-term capability, culture, and competitive edge. The winning play is human augmentation: give your people superpowers so…