Early Morning Byte: Monday, July 28, 2025

Culture BEFORE Cloud ☁️

July 28, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

Good Morning,

Digital Transformation is often misunderstood.

Companies often forget the smaller aspects of evolution that come with modernizing. Particularly, in culture and mindset.

Hastily implementing these standards has caused many to forget what their role fully entails. People are now relying on AI and other productivity supplements, throwing existing processes out the window in favor of increased output.

Case in point, Nudge Security discovered one enterprise had 800 new Otter AI signups within 90 days.

So how do we prevent AI from overtaking our jobs really mean, and how to we create transformation starting from the ground up?

Inside this edition:

  • Alaska Airlines shows grounding planes is easier than grounding legacy systems.

  • Beijing’s AI blueprint is becoming the model for global power.

  • Netflix stopped binge-watching and started insourcing.

  • Trump announces new federal AI plan.

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EXTRA BYTES

Alaska Airlines Recovers After Widespread Technology Breakdown Halts Flights to the Ground

How China’s Global AI Expansion Is Threatening U.S. Tech Dominance

CIOs: Netflix Isn’t Nostalgic, It’s Strategic About the Stack

TRENDINGTrump’s AI Framework Sets Cybersecurity and Industry-Led Growth as Priorities

The AI Action Plan was announced yesterday by the Trump administration, outlining a new vision for artificial intelligence as a national security imperative and economic catalyst.

RESOURCE HUB

AI notetakers like Otter AI spread fast.

In fact, one Nudge Security customer discovered 800 new accounts created in only 90 days 😱.

Viral AI notetakers introduce a slew of data privacy risks by gaining access to calendars and adding themselves to every meeting.

Learn how to find and remove viral notetakers.

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