Why Companies Are Already Abandoning LLMs — with FICO's Mike Trkay

Just had a great conversation with Mike Trkay, CIO and Chief Customer Officer at FICO, over on my IT Visionaries channel. Everyone's racing to bolt AI onto what they already do — and Mike's argument is that's the exact mistake companies made with cloud. We dig into why 95% of AI projects never reach production, why LLM repatriation is already happening, and what really separates automation from transformation.

How the Office of the CFO Is Becoming AI-Powered

Compliance and regulatory reporting used to mean endless spreadsheets, fragmented data sources, and teams drowning in manual work. Today, AI is transforming how the world's largest companies manage financial reporting, sustainability disclosures, and audit workflows—not by replacing humans, but by giving them time back to do strategic work.

The Truth About 5G: Networks Built for AI, Not Consumers

Think 5G is about faster phones? That's what telecom companies want consumers to believe. The truth is far more interesting.

In this episode, Elena Fersman (VP and Head of AI Innovation at Ericsson) reveals what 5G networks are really built for: industries, not consumers. Through network slicing, edge computing, and cognitive systems, 5G creates the infrastructure that makes AI applications possible at scale—from remote surgery where milliseconds matter, to AR/VR without wearing a backpack of GPUs, to factory floors with autonomous heavy machinery.

$124B Data Problem: How Synthetic Data Accelerates AI

Just wrapped an eye-opening conversation with Balint Pasztor, CEO of Diffuse Drive over on my IT Visionaries channel. He’s tackling something most of us never think about, but it affects everything from the safety of autonomous vehicles to the future of manufacturing.

Here's what keeps me up at night: AI systems completely fall apart when they hit scenarios they've never seen. Remember that autonomous vehicle incident in San Francisco? That's exactly what I'm talking about.