Link Lounge:
2025: The Year of the Frontier Firm
81% of customers say they expect AI agents to be moderately or extensively integrated into their company’s AI strategy in the next 12–18 months.
Enter Frontier Firms!
Peggy’s Tech Blog:
Frontier Firms Embrace Agentic AI
With the rise of agentic AI (artificial intelligence), it is time to gear up for a new era of work—one that will exist in an intelligent economy and one where Frontier Firms will guide the way.
But first, let’s back up to really take a step forward. Let’s better understand where we have been. Historically, in many industries, the workforce has had to search for information across many disparate systems and have had to work across siloed teams. At the same time, many leaders have had to rely on their own expertise and judgment to make decisions with incomplete data.
Expert Opinion:
Cobots on the Rise
I like to use real world examples to illustrate the technology about which I write, and especially for technology around which swirl clouds of hype and fantasy. When it comes to cobots there’s no lack of these. It was therefore refreshing to read a report issued by The Association for Advancing Automation, which provided a new benchmark for the adoption of cobots:
Peggy Smedley Show:
King, A Life
Episode 935 | 9.2.25 | Segment 2
Peggy and Jonathan Eig, author, talk about his book King, A Life, and what he learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., while writing the book. He says King was a person who had a lot of troubles and failures, and was prone to depression, and yet he continued to believe in God and America and believed it was worth all the sacrifice.
They also discuss:
The recently released pages of FBI files and the impact on the civil rights movement.
How King’s ethical perspective on work could serve as a counterpoint to today’s culture.
How journalism has changed—and how that impacts the work of a biographer.
Peggy Smedley Show:
Insight into Construction Worker Trends
Episode 935 | 9.2.25 | Segment 3
Peggy and Donna Laquidara-Carr, industry insights research director, Dodge Construction Network, talk about a new study and some of the biggest obstacles that are preventing more workers from joining the construction industry. She says there were two pieces to the study: surveying contractors and the general population.
They also discuss:
The top way construction professionals are drawn into the industry.
How to expand beyond what we are doing now.
The disconnect between the perception of what is keeping people out of construction and what is actually keeping people out of construction.
What’s Trending
Success Stories: AI Educates
Can AI (artificial intelligence) help in education? One university aims to integrate generative AI tools into the curriculum to modernize and innovate education.
As one example, the University of San Francisco School of Law is partnering with Accordance and Anthropic to embed gen AI into the required first year curriculum through the legal research, writing, and analysis program.
Looking to sponsor an upcoming segment of The Peggy Smedley Show? Check out the exciting topics planned for the coming months and send your ideas to [email protected].
October: How to Secure Your Data
November: Construction Connectivity Trends to Watch