#computersforkids — Public Fediverse posts

Weekly output: generative AI in enterprises, Trump cybersecurity policy (x2), Docusign’s designs for AI, AT&T’s kid-optimized tablet

I wrapped up this year’s fourth and final business trip to Las Vegas on Friday, and now I’m looking forward to having almost five months without the City of Bad Decisions in my schedule before CES inevitably draws me back there.

8/4/2026: The Generative AI Playbook: Setting Your Enterprise Up for Success, Ai4

The first of two panels I moderated at this conference for artificial-intelligence professionals (or aspiring professionals) was budgeted for 45 minutes. That could have been an intimidating amount of time to fill. But with four erudite and outgoing people on stage with me–Pankaj Jain, CIO for international operations at General Motors Financial; Murad Dikeidek, head of cybersecurity at UI Health; Max Gokhman, head of artificial intelligence and digital asset solutions at Franklin Templeton; and Kathryn Harrison, global vice president for strategy and business operations at Concentrix–the time flew by fast enough that I had to leave out a question or two in my outline. For a recap, see my friend Shashi Bellamkonda’s recap on his blog.

8/5/2026: Three takeaways from Black Hat’s opening keynote, PCMag

Previous years of Black Hat didn’t feature any main-stage programming on the afternoon and evening before its show floor opens, but this year’s event had an onstage interview of national cyber director Sean Cairncross followed by a panel featuring three other information-security higher-ups from Washington: Nick Andersen, acting director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency; Katherine Sutton, assistant secretary for cyber policy and principal advisor for cyber policy at the Department of Defense; and Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division. I took extensive notes, then met up with PCMag’s social-media manager Caroline Gilbert to do a quick standup video that she posted to PCMag’s Instagram (along with my client’s accounts on X, TikTok, Threads and Facebook later that night.

8/5/2026: US Cyber Director Promises Not to ‘Strangle’ Industry With Regulations, PCMag

Writing up a post on those opening talks–one that focused on the things that Cairncross left out of his banter–took a little longer. It did help that Wednesday didn’t involve any commuting up and down the Strip for me.

8/6/2026: What It Takes to Build an Agent Platform for Customers, Ai4

I didn’t get asked to do this second panel at Ai4 until the week before the conference. But my Black Hat schedule looked open enough Thursday morning, and the topic–how Docusign has put AI to work–looked interesting enough for me to take the gig and its added speaking fee. And then I saw Tabrez Mohammed, VP of AI at that firm, give some detailed and actionable advice that I hope had attendees taking careful notes.

8/6/2026: AT&T Adds a New Kid-Optimized 5G Android Tablet to Its Lineup, PCMag

One of my colleagues asked Monday if I could write up this announcement we’d gotten in advance from AT&T PR. I said I could but warned that the odds were against my having copy filed before AT&T would publish this news Tuesday morning… which was a good thing, because the advance copy of the release had one data point about this tablet’s battery life exceedingly wrong. We updated the post Saturday to add a couple of specs about this device’s battery that did make the final version of the press release.