#innovation

AI Innovation -

1) Software Firms.

2) Private Credit Firms.

3) Insurance Brokerage Firms.

4) Wealth-Management Firms.

While AI contributes many useful innovations towards society, and will create (some) related jobs.

The stocks of those respective industries are (currently) being sold off within the Global markets.

The unemployment rate will increase (along with layoffs) the U.S. National debt (currently) at $38.7 Trillion (and rising) per usdebtclock will have (less) contributions from U.S. taxpayers (in general) unless Corporations, and the wealthy; pay more.

This list is going (not if) expand over time, if the job is computer dependent; AI can (and will) take its' place.

Naming the new Webex devices after himself, G2, is next level trolling. Congrats

The current AI is not intelligence because intelligence invents something new and innovates but the current AI has done nothing of these.

So, although AI may replace some jobs (routine jobs) but it can't replace those jobs where intelligence is required for inventing/innovating something new.

While the tech industry obsesses over expensive chips, massive datasets and multi-year payback periods, DXC has taken a fundamentally smarter approach to AI.

Here is why:

1. Zero capital investment. You are thinking AI requires billions in GPUs, memory and infrastructure, right? No, DXC’s Xponential AI requires none of that. It runs on a platform already deployed across all enterprises: MS PowerPoint.

2. Immediate time to value. You are told most AI programs take months to train and years to deliver results, right? No, again. DXC’s AI has been delivering outcomes since day one, often within the same fiscal quarter, as evidenced in their quarterly shareholder reports.

3. Superior efficiency. No scarce hardware. No energy costs. No model training. Just slides, bullet points and strategic fonts. From a compute-per-outcome perspective, it’s unmatched.

4. Built-in Explainability. Unlike black-box models, DXC’s AI is fully explainable. Every decision, assumption and conclusion is clearly documented - on slide 37 of the latest customer deck.

5. Proven ROI. Other AI investments promise future productivity gains. DXC’s AI delivers instant and measurable returns by fast-tracking executive bonuses within the same annual compensation cycle. The impact is immediate and repeatable.

6. Scalable by design. As demand grows, DXC Xponential AI capacity scales effortlessly. They simply add more slides. True exponential growth.

DXC didn’t chase the AI hype cycle. It leapfrogged it by realizing the fastest path to value isn’t Artificial Intelligence but Artificial Innovation.

I have had credit for my ideas stolen so many times that I have stopped sharing them. Started on day one. My manager stole an idea I had during my first week. He rode that one idea for almost ten years until he retired. I’ve had supervisors steal my ideas and then work on them with others keeping me excluded. Now I don’t share my ideas. I have a bunch of ideas that would save the company and lot of money but f&$k em!

Why dont we vote to have AI replace the CEO & BOARD

Lets lead the market by example.

There's a lot of bi--hing and moaning about Sales comments on this board.

Perspective:

Without Sales, none of you would have a job. Without Engineering, people would still have a job because Engineering doesn't deliver or do anything. Dell's model is to acquire companies with good but declining products and sell them to its install base - with no plan or skill set to continue innovating or developing these products out further - and keep selling them until there's nothing left. Case in point, EMC products we sell today are the same as they were 10 years ago.

Question? What successful products has Dell engineering developed organically that didn't originate from an acquisition? Name one.

May is going to be brutal. Especially for long tenured employees. George has hitched the wagon to the AI bubble which is in the process of deflating. If only we had invested in innovation instead of claiming NFS is a foundational technology for AI. Management only cares about the stock price.

Cigna's Hyderabad Innovation Hub (HIH), often associated with Evernorth, is a major technology and operations center for The Cigna Group in India. It focuses on driving innovation, digital transformation, and supporting global teams with roles in AI, software development, and analytics. The facility aims to support thousands of employees and serves as a key hub for enhancing global health services.

It has been indicated, here, that upper management is responsible for a lack of growth caused by a lack of vision and innovation. Further, this lack of growth coupled with inflation causes reductions in the workforce (i.e., packages, attrition, and layoffs).

Blaming upper management for this situation is disingenuous. Any person at the company could have innovated on their own and brought about a different outcome. Management facilitated this possibility by providing Innovation Day for creatives to demonstrate their genius. The lack of effect implies little about management and speaks more to the dire lack of contributor capabilities.

It could have been a different world.

• ASML plans to cut 1,700 jobs, mainly in the Netherlands.
• This decision follows a record-breaking year for the company in 2025.
• The job cuts aim to streamline technology and IT divisions for better innovation focus.
• The reorganization seeks to restore a "fast-moving culture" to ensure future growth.
• ASML reported €9.6 billion net profit on €31.7 billion turnover in 2025.

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After record year, ASML is to cut 1,700 jobs, mainly in NL - DutchNews.nl

After record year, ASML is to cut 1,700 jobs, mainly in NL

January 28, 2026

Chip machinery maker ASML is planning to cut its workforce by 1,700 jobs in the coming period, despite having its best-ever year in 2025.

The jobs, the company said in an email to staff ahead of the presentation of its 2025 earnings, will mostly go in the Netherlands and involve “streamlining” its technology and IT divisions to improve the focus on innovation and engineering.

The reorganisation, the company said, is necessary to ensure further growth by bringing back “the fast-moving culture which made us so successful”. ASML has a global workforce of 43,520.

The company booked net profit of €9.6 billion in 2025, on turnover of €31.7 billion. ASML expects further sales growth to between €34 billion and €39 billion this year.

Orders totalled €13 billion in the last three months of the year, almost double the same period in 2024. ASML also announced a new share buyback programme of up to €12 billion, to be executed by 31 December 2028.

ASML is one of Europe’s biggest companies and a major player in the Dutch economy.

Based in Veldhoven near Eindhoven, the company has been at the forefront of efforts to persuade the Dutch government not to discourage highly skilled workers from moving to the Netherlands from abroad and plans to develop a second campus in the region in the coming years.

• After record year, ASML is to cut 1,700 jobs, mainly in NL - DutchNews.nl

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/01/after-record-year-asml-is-to-cut-1700-jobs-mainly-in-nl/

So, received announcement for POD 3.0. It seems to be a “every account for itself” model and creating technology silos. If a POD needs XYZ skills; the POD is supposed to build that skill, even though it may be existing somewhere within Kyndryl. Current practices that support multiple industries being broken down to fit this POD model.

Maybe we can call out that bringing Adobe into Nike was a TERRIBLE idea. What a waste of tens of millions of dollars.

Everyone involved with that decision should be fired, fired, fired.

It ki-led innovation and slowed us down.

Wouldn’t be surprised if there were shady deals around it.

I was just thinking about how we used to be known for innovation. Now it feels like we're just maintaining old products. What happened?

Really... Really?
What a down grade. It looks more like the aol site from 1998 than a website from 2026…
This is clearly a sign of things to come. It looks like a landing page for one of these AI slop regurgitated news aggregate sites Honestly I'm almost sure someone said , just run it through ai.
Speaking of ai, what the fu-k are we doing there? It's 2026 and we have nothing to show in ai advances. Yeah sure managers are poorly copiloting their email responses and take out orders but what in the way of innovation? Something original and useful?

What a poor user interface and unintuitive layout. First we decouple from teams.... Kinda but since it's integrated with ms office suite which we use for everything we still have to use teams sometimes. Slack is a dumpster fire designed for codebros. I'd rather go back to skype than use that abomination.
Who is making these poor poor decisions on our tech? Are we just handing the company over to China when the SAIC contract expires in 2027. Have you looked at what they are doing? GMNA he's fallen WAY WAY behind.

Anthropic’s Claude can already convert significantly complex SAS programming streams into Python and related libraries. Complex systems of nested macros might require human intervention, but these tools are only going to get better.

IOW, the years are getting shorter for expensive proprietary software like SAS. Recently spoke with someone who is a director at GSK and told me they no longer use SAS in any department she is aware of.

Have we reached a point where it is delusional to think that SAS can recover without coming up with some kind of strong AI-based niche play going forward? Given the acceleration of AI tools that can parse and transform complex programming languages, isn’t it more reasonable to think that SAS has maybe 3 to 5 more years of reliable renewable revenue instead of 8 to 10 more years?

OP: @301+1ke5jkdwp

Go take a look at the profile pictures of all of the usual “look at me!” suspects in IT. They’ve found a cool new superficial way to draw attention to themselves through artificial intelligence via photo filtering and touch ups of themselves. ROFLMAO!!

Nothing like taking a powerful business productivity tool and turning into your own personal Keurig for your vanity. Just go get the facelift you’ve been searching the web for, will you?

Elon Musk reveals roadmap with nine-month cadence for new AI processor releases, beating Nvidia and AMD's yearly cadence — Musk plans to have the highest-volume chips in the world

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-reveals-roadmap-with-nine-month-cadence-for-new-ai-processor-releases-beating-nvidia-and-amds-yearly-cadence-musk-plans-to-have-the-highest-volume-chips-in-the-world

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680974

More and more evidence that the a-holes with spreadsheets are taking over at Apple and they’re completely devoid of any ideas on the software side. I heard someone randomly say that they should replace Tim Cook with Scott Forstall. I chuckled at the idea but this might be a great idea. Apple is having its Ballmer moment. Google did too before AI lit the fire under their feet. Who is going to be Apple’s next Nadella? Steve Jobs was the original.

Please, Apple. Won’t anyone think of the customer?

Wow. Xpeng, Buick, BYD are releasing the latest EREV with over 1000 mile range hybrid SUV. Why can't the Big 3 produce something like this? Bring them to the US please. I will buy a few of these awesome EREV for sure.

Parking targets in Corktown isn’t a great idea:

Ford Motor Co.'s Lincoln luxury brand next month will make Michigan Central in Detroit the home of its marketing, sales and services teams and share the ninth floor with the automaker's Model e electric vehicle team.

The move comes as the Dearborn automaker transitions to its new global corporate headquarters known as "The Hub" just a few miles from the Glass House, its home since 1956 that will be demolished. Ford in 2024 reopened the former train depot, which had been a symbol of Detroit's hard times, with office, retail and event space after the Blue Oval acquired it in 2018 to attract young tech talent. The building's restoration has made it a hot venue for large-scale events, elegant weddings and now a luxury vehicle brand.

“It's a great opportunity for the brand to be in this beautiful place," Lincoln spokesperson Anika Salceda-Wycoco said.

Automotive News first reported the move. Although Ford's new 2.1-million-square-foot headquarters in Dearborn is larger than its previous home, Lincoln President Joaquin Nuño-Whelan told the outlet that moving to Detroit creates an opportunity for the brand to differentiate itself from the mass-market Ford brand, while still being close to the strengths its sibling brand offers.

Salceda-Wycoco didn't provide a total number of employees expected to be assigned to the building called a "thriving symbol of innovation and culture" in a statement, noting desin and product development teams will still remain on the Dearborn campus. Nuño-Whelan told Automotive News it would be about 55 people moving into the station.

The Dearborn automaker by the end of 2028 expects 2,500 Ford employees and another 2,500 workers will be on the campus that includes the Newlab startup hub in the adjacent former book depository. The automaker occupies the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the 18-story office tower. In addition to Model e, it houses its integrated services software team and philanthropy arm.

The station reopened in June 2024 with an outdoor concert and public tours after a $950 million investment into the campus anchored by the depot whose last train left in 1988. Yellow Light Coffee and a retail store have opened inside the ground floor of the building, and a high-end NoMad hotel will take over the top five floors in 2027. More tenants are expected in the coming years.

They form a new skunkworks that’s secret and isolated from Ford.
They hire alumni from Apple and Tesla.
This is going to be the bright future of Ford.

I mean what does this say about Ford employees? Keep up the good work, and meanwhile we are hiring some smart people to build the next generation tech.

Employees made it over three years of constant layoffs most won’t make it to 2027. The company is going to get eaten alive by competition and the fact Dell doesn’t have relevant products for innovation.

I beard today that we are planning to hand r&d to H1B and offshore. is it true that we are basically done with innovation? My director is always talking about moving people from tech rolls into account mgmt and sales. He says that being technical and bilingual will get me further that trying to create. Our shift is from innovation to implementation? That would explain so much of the cultural shift they've dropped on us. shame, id been looking for opportunity to work in labs since covid. I didn't spent 6 years in school to sell Ericcson junk.

I just finished a great meeting with the very successful Intel CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. Intel just launched the first SUB 2 NANOMETER CPU PROCESSOR designed, built, and packaged right here in the U.S.A. The United States Government is proud to be a Shareholder of Intel, and has already made, through its U.S.A. ownership position, Tens of Billions of Dollars for the American People — IN JUST FOUR MONTHS. We made a GREAT Deal, and so did Intel. Our Country is determined to bring leading edge Chip Manufacturing back to America, and that is exactly what is happening!!!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115861537483492504

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/intel-launches-core-ultra-series-3-cpus-made-using-its-long-awaited-18a-process/

Thank you President Trump!

Tankless facilities are expensive and they don't work, oxyrock just came up with a facility design that's half the price and still uses tanks like normal and is about same emissions as tanked.

Do you think Intel could jump into the memory business with the new gubmint sponsored fabs and help out so the PC environment doesn't hit the skids?

I’ve watched a steady parade of senior leaders come and go, and after a while it hits you that there aren’t any truly new ideas. It’s the same playbook over and over, just repackaged with fresh buzzwords and a shiny new label. I can’t count how many times I’ve thought, we tried this five or ten years ago, they’re just calling it something different now. Once you’ve been around long enough, the pattern is impossible to ignore.

In summary: Useless technique, lots of bugs, but expensive.

For example, it was shown that QET7100 has lots of issues. Xiaomi recalled years ago. Samsung stopped using envelope trackers in any of its phone.

Why is Apple still buying this sh-t?

What else T does and should do to survive the next 20 years?

Years of bad calls at the executive level have drained momentum, talent, and trust. Instead of building on strengths, leadership keeps reacting late and doubling down on choices that never should’ve been made. Now the focus is no longer on growth or innovation, but survival.

Nike is so desperate on product innovation. Nike basketball’s senior-most designer copied the Harden franchise in the Nike GT Future releasing now.

It’s not a foamposite revival it’s an adi copycat.

Things are getting really bad from a design standpoint. Stock will hit $40 soon

Intel has finally realized it’s no longer strong in innovation. Launching a new node by effectively poaching technology through equipment vendors is a step toward eventually selling the company to TSMC.

https://www.asugsvsummit.com/video/the-magic-of-thinking-big-reaching-edtechs-massive-market-cap-potential-with-chip-paucek

For immediate release: The last generation Cisco switch, built on a bedrock platform, features an ai powered T-Rex processor and a Jurassic ai capable port with half-duplex blow ho-n phy. Willmmaaaaaaa yabada badoooo

I'd love to see some of our GPs, the OGs that are too young to truly retire but are leaving because they can't stand PP, break off and form something new. I'm thinking like the original owner from Scottrade did. Those OG GPs are the only ones with enough capital to do this.

Associates will follow you. FAs and their clients will, too. Edward Jones is dying. It's time to build something better from its ashes as the ultimate sc--w you to PP and her sh---y ELT cronies.

what do you guys think about this agentic Ai thing that coming to Hp next year ?