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Whose Values Does Your AI Run On?

Dr Craig A. Kaplan on the architecture problem nobody is solving in AI
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Just because you can, should you? Inside a bank's AI ethics panel
A UK bank runs every AI use case through a five-word test before it ships. The man who chairs the panel gets an email a day saying he is too slow. He…
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The EU AI Act Already Applies to You
Even if you have never built a model. A conversation with Antonina Burlachenko on the compliance trap hiding inside the ordinary enterprise — and the…
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The EU AI Act Applies to You — Even If You Don’t Build AI | Antonina Burlachenko (STAR)
Most companies are certain the EU AI Act is somebody else’s problem. They are wrong — and the vendor contract they are relying on will not save them.
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Shadow AI is a demand signal, not a discipline problem
82% of UK IT leaders were stung by unexpected AI costs this year. The bill is the symptom. What nobody can see is the cause.
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The machines learned to cheat
Nobody taught it to cheat. Our smartest AI is learning to game the very tests meant to check it — the whole series in one line.
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The robotaxi will see you now — but can you trust the lesson it was taught?
A self-driving car hits London's streets this year. How it learned — by watching, and by dreaming crashes — is AI's trust problem on wheels.
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Trump just proved your AI has an off switch
On Friday his administration switched off the world's two cleverest AI systems for everyone who isn't American. Here's why that should bother you — even…
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The frontier premium just died — here's what your company does about it
European firm gave its newest AI model away in London. Open models have all but caught the frontier — so you can finally own your intelligence, not rent…
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The 7 per cent problem
AI adoption is a sprint. Governance is a crawl. On 3 June, Vanta launched a product to close the gap — and published the data showing how wide it has…
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