The EU just slapped X with a €120 million fine. But this isn't about enforcing rules. It's about a continent watching its power slip away and desperately trying to claw it back through bureaucracy and punishment.
Look, I'm tired of seeing "AI will revolutionize everything!" posts that tell you nothing useful. So here's what actually works for small businesses in 2025, with real implementation details instead of vague promises.
I was in a vendor demo last month that made me want to scream. Beautiful slides. Pristine architecture diagrams. The sales engineer kept saying "seamless integration" and "enterprise-ready" while showing a demo that connected to exactly two systems: Salesforce and a PostgreSQL database from 2020.
Walk into any data science meeting and you'll hear people debate whether to use XGBoost or a neural network, whether transformers are overkill, or if a simple linear regression would actually work fine. These conversations miss the point.
I watched a CTO almost quit last month. Fifteen years into his role, managing systems that predated smartphones, and leadership kept sending him articles about "AI transformation" with subject lines like "Why aren't we doing this?" He told me over coffee that he'd started updating his LinkedIn profile. Here's what I told him, and what I'm telling you: Stop pretending you're going to rip everything out and start fresh. You're not. And that's actually fine.
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