Send us a text The digital shift isn’t a trend, it’s a structural transformation reshaping how businesses operate and how people live. One of the clearest indicators of this shift is the fact that 74% of businesses now rank digital transformation as a top priority, placing it alongside cybersecurity and cloud modernization as a core strategic focus. This signals a global recognition that digital capabilities are no longer optional, they are foundational to competitiveness, resilience, a...

Send us a text The glossy Instagram you remember, the flawless squares, the perfect vacation shots, the latte that looked too good to drink, just lost its power to hold our attention. Adam Mosseri says the curated feed is dead, and he points to the reason many of us felt but couldn’t name: AI made perfection cheap. When anyone can generate a flawless image in seconds, perfect stops meaning special. What rises instead is the one thing machines can’t fake at scale, your lived perspective. We w...

Send us a text As we close out Season 2 of The Digital Revolution, I want to take a moment to speak directly to you, the listeners who have made this year nothing short of extraordinary. Throughout 2025, you showed up with curiosity, with ambition, and with a genuine desire to understand how digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and intelligent technologies are reshaping our world. Your engagement, your messages, your shares, and your conversations have fueled this series and pushe...

Send us a text 2025 will be remembered as the year the Digital Revolution stopped being a forecast and became a lived reality. For more than a decade, we’ve talked about transformation, disruption, and the promise of intelligent technologies, but this year, the world crossed a threshold. Artificial Intelligence moved from the edges of experimentation into the core of how industries operate. Intelligent infrastructure matured. Global governance frameworks took shape. And professionals ac...

Send us a text Today, we’re talking about a topic that affects every individual, every professional, every brand, and every industry: How AI is transforming the way we post, share, and engage on social media. Let’s start with the scale of this digital universe. Right now, more than five billion people use social media worldwide. That’s not just a global audience, that’s a global habit. And those habits are deepening. Internet users now spend an average of 150 plus minutes per day on social ...

Send us a text As we step into this holiday season, I want to begin by expressing my heartfelt gratitude to each of you who tune in to The Digital Revolution with Jim Kunkle. Whether you’re listening from Pittsburgh, São Paulo, Singapore, or anywhere in between, your presence here is what makes this community truly global. Over the past year, we’ve shared conversations that span industries, technologies, and business strategies, and it’s your engagement, your curiosity, your feedback, a...

Send us a text Artificial intelligence is transforming holiday shopping into a more personalized and efficient experience. Recommendation engines on e-commerce platforms analyze browsing history, purchase behavior, and even social media trends to suggest gifts that feel tailor-made for each shopper. This personalization reduces the stress of endless searching and helps consumers discover items they might not have considered otherwise. At the same time, AI-driven dynamic pricing en...

Send us a text When we talk about artificial intelligence transforming industries, we often focus on the algorithms, the models, and the breakthroughs in generative AI. But here’s the reality: AI cannot thrive without modernized cloud infrastructure. The cloud is the bedrock that makes AI scalable, secure, and accessible. Let’s ground this episode in some numbers: According to Google Cloud’s 2025 State of AI Infrastructure Report, 98% of businesses are actively exploring generative AI...

Send us a text AI’s energy appetite is already staggering, and projections suggest it could reshape global electricity demand within the next decade. Data centers consumed less than 300 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2020, but forecasts from the International Energy Agency indicate this could surge to nearly 1,000 terawatt-hours by 2028, more than Japan’s entire electricity consumption today. By 2028, AI workloads could account for nearly half of all global data center electricity use, with...

Send us a text When you think about protecting critical infrastructure, pipelines, power grids, or water treatment facilities, the first question isn’t how to defend them, but what exactly are we defending? That’s the challenge The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency or the CISA tackled in its August 13th 2025 guidance on OT cybersecurity. In today’s interconnected world, attackers don’t just target IT networks; they’re increasingly probing operational technology, the sys...

Send us a text At the heart of every great digital transformation story is a moment of convergence, where technology, trust, and timing collide to reshape industries. That’s exactly what we’re witnessing with Ant Digital Technologies at the Singapore FinTech Festival. This isn’t just another product showcase; it’s a strategic signal from one of Asia’s most influential tech players that AI, blockchain, and intelligent automation are no longer experimental, they’re foundational. For...

Send us a text Today’s episode kicks off with a bold premise: what if your AI assistant didn’t just guess, but actually knew where to look? We’re diving into Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, a breakthrough that’s quietly rewriting the rules of intelligent systems. Think of it as the difference between a parrot and a librarian: one repeats, the other retrieves, verifies, and delivers insight. In a world flooded with data and misinformation, RAG is the compass that helps AI n...

Send us a text What if the real revolution in AI isn’t about creativity or intelligence, but about cost? According to Boston Consulting Group, 93% of executives plan to invest in AI to reduce costs over the next 18 months. Yet only 26% have successfully scaled it across even one function. That’s not just a gap, it’s a warning. In this bonus episode, we’re diving into the tension between AI’s promise and its performance. Because while headlines celebrate generative breakthroughs and bill...

Send us a text What if the future of artificial intelligence isn’t just coded in algorithms, but poured into concrete, wired through silicon, painted on structural steel, and cooled by liquid immersion tanks buried beneath our feet? As AI models grow more powerful, the real revolution is happening underground and across the cloud: in the rise of intelligent infrastructure. From hyperscale data centers in the Nordics to space-based compute platforms orbiting Earth, we’re witnessing a tec...

Send us a text Amazon just announced it’s cutting up to 30,000 jobs, and the reason? Artificial Intelligence. This isn’t a distant future scenario or a theoretical debate. It’s happening right now, at one of the world’s largest and most influential companies. AI isn’t just optimizing workflows, it’s reshaping the very structure of employment. And if Amazon is doing it, you can bet other companies are already following suit or quietly preparing to. This is a seismic shift, and it’s not l...

Send us a text Artificial intelligence isn’t just transforming how we work, it’s rewriting the rules of value itself. In today’s markets, AI isn’t a side player; it’s a central force. From real-time trading algorithms to predictive analytics that shape billion-dollar decisions, AI is now a market mover in its own right. Just look at the companies dominating headlines: Nvidia’s valuation surging on AI chip demand, startups like Mercor hitting $10 billion valuations seemingly overnight, a...

Send us a text In today’s AI-driven landscape, prompting isn’t just a technical skill, it’s a strategic superpower. As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everything from search engines to creative workflows, the quality of your input directly shapes the value of your output. Whether you're generating technical summaries, scripting a wedding toast, or refining brand messaging, the difference between a vague prompt and a precise one can mean the difference between noise and clarity. Pr...

Send us a text What if the future of computing isn’t about doing everything, but doing one thing brilliantly? In a world obsessed with speed, scale, and intelligence, application-specific semiconductors are quietly becoming the backbone of digital transformation. These aren’t your everyday chips, they’re precision-engineered to accelerate artificial intelligence, power autonomous vehicles, and optimize everything from wearable health tech to smart infrastructure. And while they may not grab h...

Send us a text Are humans artificial? It’s a question that refuses to stay in its lane. At first glance, it sounds like a philosophical provocation or a sci-fi trope, but dig deeper, and it becomes a mirror reflecting our evolving relationship with technology, biology, and identity. In an age where we engineer our environments, augment our bodies, and outsource cognition to machines, the boundary between natural and artificial is no longer clear-cut. This question isn’t just about what we are...

Send us a text What if the next breakthrough in medicine isn’t discovered, but digitally designed? Imagine a world where artificial intelligence doesn’t just analyze biology, it engineers it. From decoding the human genome to building synthetic organs, AI is rapidly transforming bioengineering into a frontier of programmable life. This isn’t science fiction, it’s happening right now, in labs, startups, and hospitals across the globe. And it’s rewriting the rules of what’s possible in health, ...