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Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work

Ex-AWS exec just said your AI budget is going to the wrong place.

Reporting by The Register AI/ML 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Enterprise AI success depends on organizational restructuring and talent, not model choice or infrastructure spending. A former AWS leader's take on why most corporate AI initiatives fail at execution.

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4 to know

  1. Source: ex-AWS executive commentary

  2. Focus: organizational/people factors in AI adoption

  3. Contrarian framing: technology is not the bottleneck

  4. Audience: enterprise leaders planning AI transformation

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Publisher excerpt: AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology
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