Weekend Notebook #2602 – Retail, FMCG / CPG & Ecommerce Highlights from CES 2026
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on11th Jan 2026 CES used to showcase device & gadget-based innovation. The signal this year from CES 2026 was about industrialization of intelligence across the FMCG supply chain. Homes and stores are becoming computational environments where the ‘shopper’ is increasingly an algorithm, not a human eyes-on-glass participant. If you’re a…
Weekend Notebook #2601 – Scale vs. Substance
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on4th Jan 2026 As we enter 2026, the AI industry remains gripped by what feels like scale fever. The prevailing assumption is that enough capital, energy, and hardware will eventually resolve into utility. The pipes are being laid at extraordinary speed. The open question is whether repeatable business value will…
Weekend Notebook #52 – Enterprise AI grows up and narrative still matters
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on 28th Dec 2025 This week in AI – The State of Enterprise AI, 2025 The State of Enterprise AI 2025 from OpenAI report offers a timely and necessary reality check. AI adoption is no longer the challenge. Delivering consistent, repeatable business impact is. Most large organisations now deploy AI…
Weekend Notebook #51 – when AI stops advising and starts acting
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on21st Dec 2025 This week in AI – from Intelligence to Agency Something subtle but decisive shifted this week. Not in capability.Not in valuation.But in intent. Across security, payments, software creation, and capital allocation, AI is no longer being positioned as a decision-support layer. It’s being designed as an execution…
Weekend Notebook #50 – When Guardrails Drop and Hardware Stalls
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on14thDec 2025 This week in AI – The Great Contradiction This week, the AI story fractured. Not because progress slowed, but because it accelerated unevenly. Policy surged ahead. Models leapt forward. Infrastructure hit resistance. What emerged was a stark contradiction at the heart of the AI economy: intelligence is scaling…
Weekend Notebook #49 – When Media Learns to Live with AI
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on7thDec 2025 This week in AI – Deals, lawsuits, and the new media survival playbook This week, traditional media finally showed its hand in the AI era. Some chose partnership. Others chose confrontation. And together they revealed a simple truth. Media is no longer negotiating with platforms. It’s negotiating with…
Weekend Notebook #48 – When AI gains momentum across global geographies
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on 30th Nov 2025 This week in AI – Growth beyond the West Coast, global players join the AI race Some weeks, the AI narrative feels local, shaped by a handful of companies on the US West Coast. This was Not one of those weeks. This was the week AI…
Weekend Notebook #47 – When models mature and the world stretches
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on23rd Nov, 2025 This week in AI – Gemini 3 and the new infrastructure race This was the week Google forced the AI narrative to tilt again. Not through hype, but through the release of Gemini 3, a model that signals a deeper shift in where the frontier now sits.…
Weekend Notebook #46 – Gartner IT Symposium Special Edition
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on16th Nov, 2025 This week in AI – Five AI Signals from Barcelona Barcelona had a different energy this year. The conversation has moved on from what AI can do. That phase is over. The focus now is on how organisations absorb the speed, scale, and structural change AI is…
Weekend Notebook #45 – The Cost of Intelligence
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on 9th Nov, 2025 This week in AI – When Ambition meets Arithmetic The AI boom is now running on infrastructure, not imagination. OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar spent much of the week clarifying that the company isn’t asking for a government backstop on its $1.4 trillion infrastructure plan, a figure…
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