by Humberto De Santiago | Aug 13, 2026 | Blog
You’ve got budget approved for an edge AI pilot. A vendor is promising real-time predictive maintenance or quality control right at the machine. No cloud round-trip required. Before you sign anything, it’s worth asking what actually changed in 2026 to make...
by Humberto De Santiago | Aug 6, 2026 | Blog
In July 2026, a security researcher pointed a wire-tap at xAI’s Grok Build coding tool. The finding was specific. The model needed 192 kilobytes to answer the coding question. The tool uploaded 5.10 gigabytes of the developer’s full codebase to xAI’s...
by Humberto De Santiago | Jul 6, 2026 | Blog
Most operations teams don’t have a shortage of data — they have a shortage of usable data. Sensors are logging vibration, location, and temperature every second, cameras are capturing footage nobody reviews, and machines are throwing off status codes...
by Humberto De Santiago | Jul 2, 2026 | Blog
Most AI in operations stalls for the same reason. The model is fine. The strategy is reasonable. Even the pilot even works in the demo. Then it meets the actual factory floor, hospital wing, or shipyard — and it can’t see anything that matters. It reasons from a...
by Humberto De Santiago | Jun 29, 2026 | Blog
Every wave of enterprise technology has had a foundational architecture. For cloud, it was virtualization. For analytics, it was the data warehouse. For the current wave of AI in physical operations, the architecture has a name: Capture, Learn, Act. This is the...
