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93% of executives now say "AI sovereignty" — governing your AI, data, and infrastructure without depending on outside entities — has to factor into business strategy.
Translation: the era of blindly piping your company's most sensitive data to someone else's cloud is ending.
On-prem. Private models. Self-hosted agents. The pendulum is swinging back, and it's swinging hard.

Google just proved you don't need more chips to win the AI race. You need better math. 🧠

Their new TurboQuant algorithm compresses AI memory by 6x — zero accuracy loss — and wiped $25 BILLION off Micron's market cap in two days.

The internet's calling it the real-life Pied Piper. Cloudflare's CEO called it Google's DeepSeek moment.

Software is eating hardware. Again.

Are we watching the AI industry's biggest plot twist in 2026? 👀

Amazon just hit 1 MILLION robots in their warehouses.
Not 1,000. Not 10,000. A million.
And they're all coordinated by a single AI system called DeepFleet that optimizes every route, every move, every second.
A few years ago this was science fiction. Now it's Tuesday.
The real question isn't whether robots will replace jobs — it's whether YOUR industry is next. Healthcare, logistics, manufacturing... even data centers are getting automated.
What do you think — are we ready for this, or are we sleepwalking into it?
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-million-robots-ai-foundation-model

Tech Trends 2026 As technology innovation and adoption accelerate, five trends reveal how successful organizations are moving from experimentation to impact

The tech roles that existed 10 years ago barely resemble today's versions. DevOps became platform engineering, sysadmins became SREs, DBAs are becoming data engineers. Where do you see your role in 5 years?

What is the best learning tool you use when you learn a new technology?

I'll start... For me, I like the Udemy platform, https://www.udemy.com. Lots of great content out there. Sometimes it feels like too much content, takes a while to get through courses, but I do think you get your money's worth (when you buy their courses during their sales discount price events).

What about you? What's your go to?