Is the world ready for government by Grok? OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4.5, Claude’s first hybrid thinking model, why we need the real-world benchmark, Neo Gamma

Is the world ready for government by Grok? OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4.5, Claude’s first hybrid thinking model, why we need the real-world benchmark, Neo Gamma Written by Fola Yahaya Thought of the week: Are we ready for government by Grok? This week, I’ve been playing with Elon Musk’s recently released Grok 3 AI chatbot. Trained on […]
50 AI tools you should be using right now, plus 4 skills you need to thrive in an AI-driven future

What is the value of zero-cost research, will Qwen dethrone DeepSeek, and does anyone actually care? Written by Fola Yahaya Thought of the week: What is the value of zero-cost research? https://www.strategicagenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DeepResearch.mp4 I spent much of the weekend playing with deep research, a chat-based agent developed by OpenAI that conducts multi-step research on the internet […]
What is the value of zero-cost research, will Qwen dethrone DeepSeek, and does anyone actually care?

What is the value of zero-cost research, will Qwen dethrone DeepSeek, and does anyone actually care? Written by Fola Yahaya Thought of the week: What is the value of zero-cost research? https://www.strategicagenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DeepResearch.mp4 I spent much of the weekend playing with deep research, a chat-based agent developed by OpenAI that conducts multi-step research on the internet […]
WEPs

CLIENT: UN Women PROJECT: Event communications for the Women’s Empowerment Principles conference 2025 LOCATION: Casablanca (Morocco) Delivering powerful event communications, at speed Our brief was to deliver event communications to support the Women’s Empowerment Principles conference. The catch? The conference was in two weeks. We gladly accepted the challenge and delivered a comprehensive package of […]
Healthy AI competition, Humanity’s Last Exam and it’s official… ChatGPT is making us stupid

Healthy AI competition, Humanity’s Last Exam and it’s official… ChatGPT is making us stupid Written by Fola Yahaya Thought of the week: DeepSeek and why we should let 100 flowers bloom Early this week, housebound due to a 9-year-old suffering from man flu, I had the luxury of a 30-minute lie-in. I’m a great fan […]
Game on! The global race for AI domination, WFH hurdles, and David takes on Goliath

Game on! The global race for AI domination, WFH hurdles, and David takes on Goliath Written by Fola Yahaya Thought of the week: The global race for AI domination Sadly, the old Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times” has now come to pass with the whirlwind of misanthropic Executive Orders that Donald Trump […]
A matter of life and death? The demise of coders and LinkedIn and the birth of the first OpenAI agent

A matter of life and death? The demise of coders and LinkedIn and the birth of the first OpenAI agent Written by Fola Yahaya Thought of the week: How AI-generated software gave us a massive ROI of 4,000% Not content with trying to take down writers, photographers and translators, the relentless drive by Big Tech […]
Are we on the cusp of an AI explosion? Which jobs are the safest? And will we follow AI software wherever it goes?

Are we on the cusp of an AI explosion? Which jobs are the safest? And will we follow AI software wherever it goes? Written by Fola Yahaya Thought of the week: Reflecting on a tumultuous year in AI Amid the joyful chaos of Christmas with both my nuclear and extended family, I found a few […]
AI’s environmental cost: the impact of data centres in the developing world?

As global temperatures rise and the world faces mounting challenges caused by climate change, questions are emerging about whether the infrastructure required to power artificial intelligence tools are exploiting developing countries, and damaging the environment.
Antisocial AI, Google comes for search, the troubling trends of AI-powered academic research, and Veo 2 ups the AI video ante

Antisocial AI, Google comes for search, the troubling trends of AI-powered academic research, and Veo 2 ups the AI video ante Written by Fola Yahaya Thought of the week: Why is AI so antisocial? Google launched version 2.0 of its Gemini AI last week. Gemini 2.0’s ‘killer feature’ is being fully multimodal. In laymen’s terms […]