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The future of hiring won’t be searched—it will be surfaced. By making enterprise jobs directly accessible to AI agents, we’re eliminating friction, bias, and lag from the system. This is how matching actually scales. Beyond proud of the team for this critical step forward to connect people to meaningful work. #AgenticAI #FutureOfWork #TalentStrategy #WorkforceTransformation #AIInHiring #ContingentWorkforce

Federal agencies are increasingly using AI tools to boost productivity and maintain service levels despite having fewer staff. The technology helps automate tasks, improve operations, and streamline workflows, making agencies more efficient overall. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gG3CsHGH What’s your take on this topic? Share your thoughts below! #AI, #TechNews, #ArtificialIntelligence, #Automation, #Innovation

I still see a lot of people mixing up LLMs, RAG, memory, multimodal systems, and AI agents as if they are all the same. They are connected, but they are not the same. The easiest way to understand AI agents is to see them as part of an evolution. AI systems did not suddenly become agents overnight. They moved through layers of capability. Here is a simple way to think about that journey: Phase 1: Basic LLM This is the starting point. You give text as input, and the model gives text as output. At this stage, the model works only with what it learned during training and whatever fits inside the context window. No memory. No tools. No live information. Just generation based on patterns learned from data. Phase 2: Better Document Handling The next step was making models better at working with larger content like PDFs, reports, and structured documents. This made LLMs more useful for summarization, extraction, question answering, and document level understanding. But still, the knowledge was mostly limited to what was already inside the model or given in the prompt. Phase 3: RAG and Tool Access This is where things started becoming much more practical. Instead of depending only on training data, the system can now pull relevant information from external sources. It can also call APIs or tools to perform actions. This helps with: • getting fresher information • improving factual grounding • reducing hallucinations • handling domain specific tasks more effectively Phase 4: Memory Once memory comes in, the interaction becomes more meaningful over time. Now the system can remember useful context, past interactions, preferences, and task progress. That makes it better for personalization, continuity, and longer workflows. Phase 5: Multimodal Capability Now the system is no longer limited to just text. It can work with images, tables, documents, audio, and other forms of input depending on the architecture. This creates a much richer understanding of the problem and opens the door for more real-world use cases. Phase 6: Agentic Behavior This is the stage people usually refer to when they say “AI agents.” Now the system is not just answering. It can plan, decide the next step, choose tools, evaluate progress, and adjust based on results.

𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗯. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗮𝗽𝘀.  Forbes named five skills that make you irreplaceable in an AI‑first company—and every one of them is deeply human: • prompts that reflect context and culture • judgment when the data is messy • workflows that scale • translation across functions • relationships that algorithms can’t replicate These aren’t technical skills—they’re leadership skills. AI can accelerate output. Humans must accelerate meaning. #FutureOfLeadership #AIInTheWorkplace #LeadershipDevelopment #CultureTransformation #HumanCenteredAI #SunshineMatter https://lnkd.in/eq2n6pNR

Imagine hiring a brilliant intern, giving them keys to every system you own, and asking them: "Do we have enough demand to make a hire?" Without telling them how you define terms like "demand" or "capacity," they’re going to stumble. Today’s AI agents are facing the same hurdle. Raw data just isn't enough. Adam Ribaudo, Partner at Form & Function Consulting, explains why unlocking AI transformation in professional services requires a Domain-Specific Context Layer. 🛑 The Problem When AI agents access raw, unlabeled data directly without guidance, they can suffer from: • Definition Confusion: Misinterpreting common terms like utilization, margins, and pipeline. • Context Rot: Losing the objective in massive, raw datasets. • Logical Missteps: Making technically possible, but business-illogical, data joins. 💡 The Form & Function Solution We bridge the gap by codifying your firm’s unique logic directly into the AI. By unifying CRM, HR, and financial systems into a single context layer, we turn AI from an entry-level intern into a seasoned analyst. The result? Confident, automated insights like real-time Revenue Gap analysis - without the manual CSV exports. Is your data actually ready for AI? Read the full breakdown from Adam here: https://lnkd.in/eBnRupET #AI #ProfessionalServices #DataStrategy #agenticAI

"What will the AI bill be at the end of the month?" is a common concern Gartner analysts hear from technology leaders. More #AI tools are being deployed. Adoption is accelerating. #Agentic workflows are being built. Enterprise dependency on AI #agents is growing. At the same time, major AI providers are absorbing their massive training and inference costs and subsidizing end-user bills to grow market share. The turning point of AI cost for enterprises is coming. Read this to prepare and take actions now: https://lnkd.in/eWrbYTUs Thank you to William Sommer and Frank O'Connor for their contributions. #softwareengineering #cio #GenAI

GPT-5.4 just outperformed the average human on real-world work tasks. AI stopped being a tool. It became a coworker. 📰 WHAT HAPPENED: OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.4 with a 1-million-token context window and the ability to autonomously execute multi-step workflows across software environments. On the OSWorld-V benchmark — which simulates real desktop productivity tasks — the model scored 75%, slightly above the human baseline of 72.4%. It also matched or exceeded professional performance on a majority of knowledge-work scenarios. This is the inflection point AI researchers have been watching for. Not a chatbot answering questions. An AI system that can sit down at a computer, understand a task, navigate software, and complete it without hand-holding. The 1-million-token context window means GPT-5.4 can process entire company codebases, legal document libraries, or years of business communications in a single session. The memory limitations that used to break long-horizon tasks are effectively gone. What changed is the category. AI moved from "assistant that responds" to "worker that executes." That's not a feature update. That's an entirely new class of capability that changes what teams look like. 💡 WHY IT MATTERS: OpenAI has surpassed $25 billion in annualized revenue and is reportedly taking early steps toward a public listing, potentially as soon as late 2026. Rival Anthropic is approaching $19 billion in annualized revenue. The market is validating this shift at scale. For knowledge workers, GPT-5.4 performing at human-level on desktop tasks means entire job functions — research, data entry, report generation, basic analysis — can now be partially or fully delegated to AI. The question is no longer "can AI do this?" It's "at what point do I hand this over?" For business leaders, this means AI workforce strategy is no longer optional. Companies that don't build AI-augmented workflows in the next 12 months are competing against companies that effectively have 2x the output capacity at the same headcount. 👥 WHO BENEFITS: Business leaders, knowledge workers, developers, operations teams, HR departments, productivity-focused professionals Follow AI Xtreme for daily updates. #aixtreme

25 years in IAM teaches you to automate the repeatable. Turns out that principle applies to how you work with AI too. Over the past few months, using Claude I've built a structured AI workflow system — MCP-orchestrated toolchains connecting Outlook, Graph API, filesystem, browser automation and context management — that meaningfully accelerates how I research, draft, and manage IAM consultancy work. It's not "using AI to write emails." It's closer to having a junior analyst who never forgets context, works at 3am, and can query your M365 tenant on demand. Still early days for AI in IAM consulting — but the gap between practitioners who've built real workflows and those who haven't is opening up faster than most people realise. Happy to compare notes with anyone building similar systems. #IAM #IdentityManagement #AI #EntraID #Consulting #Claude

Yesterday I posted about AI Agents - Systems that can think, plan, and act. But there’s one question that naturally follows: 𝗛̲𝗼̲𝘄̲ ̲𝗱̲𝗼̲ ̲𝘁̲𝗵̲𝗲̲𝘀̲𝗲̲ ̲𝗮̲𝗴̲𝗲̲𝗻̲𝘁̲𝘀̲ ̲𝗮̲𝗰̲𝘁̲𝘂̲𝗮̲𝗹̲𝗹̲𝘆̲ ̲𝗰̲𝗼̲𝗻̲𝗻̲𝗲̲𝗰̲𝘁̲ ̲𝘁̲𝗼̲ ̲𝗿̲𝗲̲𝗮̲𝗹̲ ̲𝘁̲𝗼̲𝗼̲𝗹̲𝘀̲ ̲𝗮̲𝗻̲𝗱̲ ̲𝗱̲𝗮̲𝘁̲𝗮̲?̲ Because without that…they’re still limited. Let’s take a simple example: You ask an AI agent: “𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴.” The agent knows what to do. But it still needs access to: • 𝘎𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 • 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 • 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 This is where things usually break. Enter: MCP (Model Context Protocol) Think of MCP as: The layer that connects AI to the real world Between LLMs / Agents and tools (Gmail, DBs, APIs) Giving AI access to context, memory, and actions So the difference is simple: AI Agents → decide what to do MCP → helps them actually do it Without MCP: AI answers With MCP: AI acts This shift is important. Because the future isn’t just about intelligent models It’s about connected systems that can operate in real environments, and that’s where real business value starts. 𝗔̲𝗿̲𝗲̲ ̲𝘆̲𝗼̲𝘂̲ ̲𝗲̲𝘅̲𝗽̲𝗹̲𝗼̲𝗿̲𝗶̲𝗻̲𝗴̲ ̲𝗔̲𝗜̲ ̲𝗮̲𝘀̲ ̲𝗮̲ ̲𝘁̲𝗼̲𝗼̲𝗹̲.̲.̲.̲ ̲𝗼̲𝗿̲ ̲𝗮̲𝘀̲ ̲𝗮̲ ̲𝘀̲𝘆̲𝘀̲𝘁̲𝗲̲𝗺̲ ̲𝘁̲𝗵̲𝗮̲𝘁̲ ̲𝗰̲𝗮̲𝗻̲ ̲𝗮̲𝗰̲𝘁̲𝘂̲𝗮̲𝗹̲𝗹̲𝘆̲ ̲𝗮̲𝗰̲𝘁̲ ̲𝗼̲𝗻̲ ̲𝘆̲𝗼̲𝘂̲𝗿̲ ̲𝗯̲𝗲̲𝗵̲𝗮̲𝗹̲𝗳̲?̲ #AI #AIAgents #MCP #Automation #DataDriven #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfWork #RAG #MCP #Automation #Analytics #DecisionMaking #DigitalTransformation #MarketingManagers #AIEnthusiast #SalesManagers #CTO #AIDriven

My article on Agentic AI has been featured as this month's IIBA Member Article. Agentic AI shifts us from systems that respond to systems that plan, decide, and act. That opens major opportunities, but also raises serious questions about control, governance, and accountability. In the article, I explore how business analysts and product owners can help define autonomy levels, set guardrails, and shape AI agents that are useful, safe, and aligned to real business outcomes. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eQM4GB8E #AgenticAI #BusinessAnalysis #IIBA #ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #DigitalTransformation