A sunny day at @bletchleypark, where Alan Turing helped shape the foundations of modern computing.
From cryptography to AI, the technology changes fast. The bigger question is how organisations adapt the people, processes and systems around it.
#Cryptography#AlanTuring #CyberSecurity #AI
A company can have excellent documentation and still struggle when a key employee leaves.
What makes expertise so difficult to transfer? And where can AI actually help?
We examine the research behind organisational knowledge.
https://t.co/XMnyopwi7Y
Applications are now open for two new Anthropic Fellowships.
STEM Fellows (science and engineering) and Conceptual Reasoning Fellows (philosophy, cognitive science, economics, policy, and law) will spend four months at Anthropic from January 2027, working to help Claude reason well about some of the hardest problems in those fields.
For more information, see the descriptions below. The application deadline is October 28.
Conceptual Reasoning Fellows: https://t.co/kTaBPqttbK
STEM Fellows: https://t.co/KkD5ruJkjq
A green dashboard doesn't always mean a healthier business.
Targets met. Numbers improving. Everything looking good on paper.
But what about the problems the dashboard doesn't capture?
Good numbers deserve attention. So does everything they leave out.
#BusinessOperations #KPIs
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗴𝗼?
A report takes minutes instead of hours. But reviewing, correcting and coordinating the work still takes time.
And when producing more becomes easier, expectations often rise.
Our latest article explores why AI can make individual tasks faster without reducing the overall workload.
We also reference a recent observation by @Kpaxs.
#AI #Automation
Your KPI improved. Did the business?
A support team can cut resolution time while repeat contacts rise.
A sales team can generate more leads without improving revenue.
An operations team can push utilisation up and lose the flexibility to respond.
The number can move in the right direction while the outcome gets worse.
So when a KPI turns green, ask:
What changed in the business, not just on the dashboard?
We also reference @MBeierschoder’s recent post on AI measurement in the article.
When a KPI Stops Helping You Run the Business
#AI #Operations #KPIs
AI companies are hiring more Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs).
For candidates and recruiters, the role is worth understanding: it sits between engineering, implementation and the realities of how organisations work.
It is also the kind of AI deployment work we do at Ordinal. #AI #FDE #AIJobs
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Proud to support @FundacionPAS with technology that helps them organise, measure and better understand the impact of their work.
Thank you for allowing us to be part of this project and to contribute our time and expertise to such an important mission. 👏🏻
Gracias a @OrdinalAI_Pro y a todo su equipo por donar su tiempo y experiencia para construir junto a Fundación PAS una plataforma que nos permitirá organizar, medir y comprender mejor el impacto de nuestro trabajo👏🏻 Gracias por poner la tecnología al servicio de la prevención.
Knowing your processes is part of knowing your business.
Where work slows down, where information changes hands and where people step in manually all shape what can be improved.
Something to think about before the weekend. 💭
#ProcessMapping#BusinessOperations#Automation
One thought before the weekend 👇
A task happening 500 times a week tells you something about volume.
It tells you far less about the exceptions, changing inputs or the moments when someone has to make a judgement call.
So before adding “repetitive” to your automation list, remember:
Repetitive ≠ predictable. ⚙️
#Automation #BusinessOperations #AI