Nestled in the heart of the highly sought-after Park Shore neighborhood of Naples, this waterfront haven, crafted by the esteemed builders Knauf Koenig, visionary architects Falconer Jones, and interior virtuosos Clive Daniel, stands as a testament to the seamless integration of timeless elegance and contemporary design.

Perched majestically on the shores of Inner Doctors Bay, the property offers an unrivaled waterfront lifestyle. With the iconic Venetian Village just a stone’s throw away, residents find themselves in the lap of luxury and convenience. Step inside, and the interior reveals a thoughtful fusion of opulence and refinement. Every detail has been meticulously curated, from the gourmet kitchen adorned with top-of-the-line Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances to the exquisite Ruffino Cabinetry that graces the heart of the home. 

The property seamlessly integrates indoor and outdoor spaces, creating panoramic views that stretch as far as the eye can see. Each room transforms into a sanctuary of tranquility and natural beauty, emphasizing a lifestyle that embraces the surrounding environment. For those with a passion for boating, the Gulf Access presents an unparalleled opportunity. 

As the epitome of waterfront luxury in Park Shore, this property stands as a testament to what Naples living can offer. From the meticulously curated interior to the breathtaking surroundings, every aspect contributes to an elevated experience—one that redefines the standards of elegance, comfort, and natural beauty.

3841 Crayton Road is offered at $14,995,000.

Represented by Chris and Kara Resop of The Agency Naples.

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Strada promises to move your entire post-production workflow to the cloud. This week, the AI-enabled cloud editing platform launches its first private beta test.

Cloud-based video editing is becoming more common every day with collaborative platforms like Adobe’s Frame.io and Sony’s Ci Media Cloud. In fact, Strada was founded by former Global Senior Vice President of Innovation at Frame.io, Michael Cioni along with brother and former Director of Resource Planning at Netflix, Peter Cioni. Strada plans to enhance the cloud editing experience with integrated AI-powered utilities and an ala carte plug-ins marketplace. Strada says this combination will empower post-production teams of all sizes to work faster from anywhere.

“With recent advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, I believe there are new ways to leverage the cloud to automate and remove workflow hurdles,” says Michael Cioni.

How Strada works

Strada connects to cloud-based storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Frame.io and Lightroom, making it easy to access footage stored across various locations. From there, you can start editing virtually. You can even view multiple streams of video simultaneously — think multi-cam editing — all without transcoding.

AI integration

Strada’s true strength, however, comes from it’s AI integrations. These AI tools focus on streamlining the post-production process rather than generating new content. For example, Strada’s AI can identify specific objects, people, locations and even emotions. This should make searching for just the right take much faster and easier. And it all happens automatically — no tedious inputting of metadata.

Strada’s AI toolset also includes AI transcription and translation. A faster transcription process means you can transcribe all of your footage at the start, leaving you with a transcript ready for text-based editing. This is a great option when you need to find a specific quote in a long interview, for example. You also end up with ready-to-go closed captions automatically. Likewise, automatic translation helps you reach more viewers with subtitles in over 100 languages.

All of these tools aim to improve the creative process.

How to try Strada

Strada launched its first private beta today. If you’re interested in trying out the new cloud-based post-production platform, head to strada.tech to sign up for private beta access.

Searching for things on your Pixel 8 should be getting a whole lot easier.

Google is rolling out its recently-announced Circle to Search function to its latest smartphones, including the Pixel 8 and the Pixel 8 Pro. The new feature uses generative AI to quickly help you figure out what’s on your smartphone screen. Instead of bouncing back and forth between tabs and apps, the Circle to Search will directly identify whatever you highlight.

We first saw Google debut this feature during Samsung’s Unpacked event last month with its latest Galaxy S24 models. We knew Circle to Search wasn’t going to be exclusive to Samsung’s smartphones, but it seems like Google was waiting for the Samsung devices’ release to start rolling the feature out to its own smartphones. So far, Google has limited the Circle to Search feature to Android smartphones, which could be the move to convert iPhone users.

Circle, Scribble, or Highlight

We got a brief preview of how Circle to Search works during the Samsung event, but Google has detailed all the ways you can use this feature in a recent blog post. It may be called Circle to Search, but you can even scribble over or highlight whatever you’re trying to search for. You simply long-press the home button or the navigation bar, then draw on whatever it is you’re interested in to start a search.

For the obvious cases, you can quickly identify something like an article of clothing that you come across in a video you’re watching. That means no more wasted time sleuthing the internet just to ID something your favorite vlogger is wearing. In another example, Google says you can highlight a restaurant name in your group chat to quickly get a glance at the menu, location, photos of dishes, and reviews — all without leaving the messaging app.

In some other straightforward examples, you can circle a word or phrase to get the definition or scribble over a building to identify it and add its location to a travel itinerary. If you want more complex answers, Google gives you the option of adding a string of text for a deeper dive, like understanding why something is suddenly going viral.

A Better Way to Search

Some Pixel users have already been using Circle to Search, even though Google says it just started rolling the feature out to its Pixel 8 smartphones and Samsung’s Galaxy S24 models. Google hasn’t indicated if it will bring the feature to older Pixel models, though.

Residential electricity customers need to trust that the electricity that powers their lives will be available when they need it. With so much depending on having available electricity, from powering lights and appliances to charging electric vehicles, there’s pressure on electric utilities to balance supply with the ever-increasing demands of modern living. 

One way utilities are staying in control is by adopting smart metering technology for their residential electric meters. Smart meters, like the Stratus IQ+^™, leverage smart-grid technology to deliver near real-time usage data that can make more accurate distribution possible. That’s important for everyday usage, and times when service may be disrupted.

Mitigating risk with Stratus IQ+ smart meter technology

Stratus IQ+ is capable of measuring real, apparent, and reactive energy simultaneously. That means utilities have a real-time view of usage, and can be more efficient in distributing power. 

This visibility allows utilities to have a more complete picture of the grid. When an outage occurs, our unique smart-grid technology can help get customers back online safely and efficiently by telling you where every outage is located.

The data available to utilities via Stratus IQ+ can also help get power restored faster. Rather than relying on customer phone calls and disparate information to determine the cause, data from smart meters can point to where power has been lost. That can help utilities prioritize where to send crews, and get accurate information out to their customers. 

Seamlessly manage distribution decisions

Another way Stratus IQ+ smart metering can help utilities be more efficient is understanding usage in near real time. With 32 channels of load profile data in four data sets with varying interval lengths no other residential meter provides this type of system visibility. This level of insight gives utilities the concrete information needed to make data-driven decisions. 

For example, during a heat wave utilities can monitor how much energy is being used to power each customer’s home and manage the surge in demand by implementing energy saving programs where it’s needed most. Being able to meet demands can prevent the need for rolling brownouts, which in turn can keep power on in extreme heat or cold, keeping residents with power.

As the grid continues to evolve and modernize, smart metering technology utilities can rely on, has become more important than ever. Choosing Stratus IQ+ for smart residential metering can help utilities lead the way in smart-grid technology that has a real impact on safety and efficiency. 

Contact one of our reps to find out how Stratus IQ+ can help utilities take the grid to next-level smart.

On June 12, 2023, Brookfield Renewable, one of the world’s largest publicly traded, pure‑play renewable power platforms, together with its institutional partners, announced that it has agreed to acquire Duke Energy Renewables, a fully integrated developer and operator of renewable power assets in the U.S., at an enterprise value of approximately $2.8 billion, including non‑controlling tax equity interests and the assumption of debt. Cravath is representing Brookfield Renewable in connection with the transaction.

One of the glaring Vision Pro issues that I noted immediately after Apple unveiled the headset last summer was the absence of generative AI features. But it was still too early for Apple to unveil a ChatGPT rival of its own. OpenAI’s generative AI software was just six months old at the time. There was plenty of time for Apple to bring its ChatGPT competitors to products like the iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. 

Rumors say Apple’s built-in generative AI will happen this year, with Apple’s iOS 18 expected to bring the so-called Apple GPT and a new Siri to iOS. I’d also expect AI features to be built into iPadOS and visionOS, which are operating systems based on iOS. 

Vision Pro buyers who want generative AI features on their headsets right away will not have to wait for iOS 18. You can use ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI software on the Vision Pro via the Safari browser. Also, any AI apps for iPhone and iPad might work on the spatial computer. 

But Microsoft went out and designed visionOS apps for its Microsoft 365 productivity suite for the Vision Pro. And that includes support for Microsoft Copilot.

Microsoft Copilot is partly built atop ChatGPT. It will offer you access to the GPT-4 language model without paying the ChatGPT Plus subscription. You will only need a Microsoft account and the Vision Pro app that Microsoft created. 

Microsoft announced the Vision Pro software in a blog post on Wednesday, right in time for Apple’s Vision Pro launch on Friday. That’s where it explains what Copilot can do on the Vision Pro: 

If you are an individual or an organization that uses Copilot, we have some exciting news for you. You will be able to create, analyze and connect, using your own words and voice (literally), with Copilot while using Apple Vision Pro. Copilot can help you to:

• Get more out of your meetings, by being more engaged in the meetings you attend and quickly catch up for the ones you don’t.
• Transform your writing: Copilot drafts, edits, summarizes, and creates right alongside you.
• Bring your ideas to life: Easily start a new presentation from a simple prompt or outline using natural language commands.
• Analyze and explore data: Identify trends, create powerful visualizations, or ask for recommendations to drive different outcomes.

What’s really interesting here is that Microsoft went and created brand new apps for visionOS rather than making its iOS and iPadOS apps available on the spatial computer. That’s one of the advantages of Vision Pro over competitors and other first-gen Apple products. The Vision Pro gets access to millions of iPad apps right out of the box. That’s on top of apps created specifically for visionOS. 

The same blog post details the Microsoft 365 apps the company created for the Vision Pro. The list includes PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Teams. The latter uses the Vision Pro persona feature that lets you create a virtual avatar of yourself. 

Some of these apps will take advantage of the virtually infinite AR display you get with the Vision Pro. PowerPoint will feature an Immersive Environment that lets you practice presentations in front of an audience.

Excel will let you use an infinite canvas on the headset and move graphs and charts with ease between apps. Finally, Word will use the Immersive Environments feature to help you focus on the writing task at hand.

Microsoft’s Vision Pro apps will be available before the spatial computer’s launch. I might not get my hands on the spatial computer until much later this year, but I am excited to try some of Microsoft’s apps. Copilot is certainly a priority, at least until a native AI experience running on Apple’s own language models will be available on the headset.

I’ll also note that Microsoft’s approach is a significant departure from the treatment Vision Pro is getting from other developers. Google decided not to make a YouTube app for the Vision Pro, and neither did Netflix. Similarly, there’s no Spotify app for the Vision Pro. And Meta is yet to announce software for the Vision Pro. 

The Vision Pro launch dropped right in the middle of a heated debate between Apple and developers that’s part of a much larger battle over iPhone apps. Just last week, Apple announced rules for iPhone sideloading in the EU.

Unsurprisingly, some developers were quite vocal about the DMA changes, including Microsoft’s Xbox president. Spotify and Epic are other examples. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft will not go forward with its visionOS apps. 

If you’re looking to elevate the customer experience (CX) with generative AI, you’re not alone. Generative AI customer service investments have been shown to increase revenue, optimize costs, and accelerate contact center innovation. By automating a wide range of customer interactions with generative AI, you can improve overall CX through personalized interactions, faster and more efficient issue resolution, and multichannel support.

Generative AI customer service technologies are also revolutionizing the way advisors work, empowering them with assistance tools and real-time coaching for greater productivity and efficiency. By streamlining tasks, your advisors can devote more attention to meaningful conversations with customers, enhancing CX—and advisor satisfaction.

Companies can accelerate generative AI implementation by unifying systems and migrating to the cloud. Amazon Connect is a cloud-based contact center solution that can help break down silos, enabling you to leverage generative AI technology across your business.

Imagine uncovering the secret formula that has propelled organisations like NASA, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the New Zealand All Blacks to over a century of unparalleled success. That’s exactly what Professor Alex Hill, a visionary and a leading expert in organisational performance, has done in his captivating book, “Centennials: The 12 Habits of Great, Enduring Organisations.”

This isn’t just any research. Spanning over thirteen years, Professor Hill delved deep into the core of organisations that have survived and thrived for more than 100 years. His findings? Twelve extraordinary traits that set these institutions apart. Hill’s book is a treasure trove of wisdom, from their unique ways of analysing triumphs and failures to their innovative strategies for scouting the brightest minds and freshest ideas.

But Alex Hill is more than just an author. He’s a trailblazer at the forefront of organisational development. As the co-founder and Director of The Centre for High Performance, he’s part of a dynamic collaboration that includes prestigious institutions like Kingston University, Duke Corporate Education, and the London Business School. Together, they’re bolstering high-performing organisations to create a stronger, more resilient society and economy.

In “Centennials,” Hill takes us on an enlightening journey through the lifelines of organisations that have withstood the test of time. It’s a book that goes beyond mere theory and is packed with real-world insights and actionable strategies. Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, a seasoned CEO, or intrigued by the art of lasting success, “Centennials” is your window into the world of enduring greatness. I love the systemic approach to your book if we want to solve the significant challenges we face – such as climate change, poverty, immigration, health and education.

So, are you ready to discover the secrets of the centennials and revolutionise your perspective on success and sustainability? Here is my interview with Professor Alex Hill as he invites you on this transformative journey!

What are habits we must adopt now for the future?

The book is based on a thirteen-year study examining how organisations have outperformed their peers over the last 100 years and become ‘Centennials.’ They found that they challenge the conventional wisdom about how businesses should be managed and led, which helps explain why most US companies now only live for 15 years.

Although conventional business wisdom tells you to grow sales, cut costs, and keep your ideas close to your chest, these things will actually make it harder for you to sustain your success. For example, you’ll eventually lose control if you grow sales too fast, just like Nokia. You’ll eventually run out of new products if you cut costs too hard, just like Motorola. And if you’re too secretive, you’ll eventually run out of fresh ideas, like BlackBerry. And what’s interesting, we found, is that all the businesses that go under have their best year ever – with record profits and sales – just before this happens. Just think of BlackBerry, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent, Nokia, Texaco, and Motorola. They all maximised their short-term performance but damaged their long-term success.

However, organisations must think differently to perform well in the long run. They must focus on getting better, not bigger, being intentionally inefficient, and sharing their secrets with the world so others will want to help them. We need organisations to think differently and perform better in the long run if we’re going to solve the big, complex problems that we face – such as climate change, poverty, immigration, health and education – as these problems aren’t solved quickly.

How can CEOs build and sustain success for decades to come?

Organisations need to develop a ‘stable core,’ we found, to guide them forward – with a stable purpose, stewardship, and openness – and a ‘disruptive edge’ to move them forward – with disruptive experts, nervousness, and accidents – if they want to sustain their success. CEOs need to stay in their role for at least ten years if they will help them do this. That’s why, for example, 80 per cent of the top performing CEOs in Harvard University’s recent study have been in post for at least ten years and either started or rose through the company they now manage. Just think of Tim Cook at Apple, Satya Nadella at Microsoft, and Andy Jassy at Amazon. It takes time to understand a company and develop a long-lasting impact.

Could you tell us something about you that we don’t know?

I spend most of my time working in the dark, not really knowing what I’m doing. I am figuring out what’s happening whenever I start a new project. It’s a feeling that stays with me right until the end of the project and seems to get worse over time as each new project is more complex and ambitious than the last.

Have you turned a life’s inevitable difficulty into opportunities for growth?

Over the last forty years, my passions and my career have always changed every four years. It’s always a shock when it happens. But with these sharp changes in direction, I learned so much, and I was able to write this book. For example, when I was eleven years old, I was told I could never play sports again. I didn’t know what to do. But the following year, after making new friends, I developed a passion for music and film that has stayed with me for the rest of my life. I went back to sports four years later but got injured four years after that and went into business. I ran companies for four years and then became a consultant (within a company) before I left four years later and went into academia. And then, I started working with high-performing organisations in the four years after that…

How do you define High Performance?

For me, high performance consistently redefines what’s possible by always performing at the cutting edge.

Why has the world become so short-term focused, and how can we buck this trend?

It’s straightforward to slip into a short-term mindset and only focus on the things that are immediately urgent. They’re often easier to do, and the pain of not doing them will be felt more quickly. However, if we only focus on the short term, we won’t make it to the long term and never solve the significant, complex challenges we face. The Centennials have worked out how to break this pattern by establishing a North Star – beliefs and behaviours they want to create – to guide them forward, ensuring they have enough stable stewards in place so they stay on track. But they also work with many different people from outside their organisation, so they’re always finding new ways to move forward.

What can we learn from your book on how to change the world?

These principles are relevant to anyone who wants to change the world. Establish a long-term purpose, build a community of stewards to guide you, and constantly expose yourself to outsiders with new ideas.

How did you get out of your own way?

All the great leaders I’ve worked with are brilliant at delegating urgent tasks and ignoring unimportant ones so they can focus on their long-term goals. And writing a book, I’ve found, is no different.