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The mess that bills you twice: eighteen months of shadow AI, and the five layers between you and value

Sam Parkinson builds a five-rung AI maturity ladder on this week's episode. It measures what your organisation has bought. It does not measure whether anyone knows why.
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An AI agent told Zebra it had made $10 billion. That's the mistake its CIO isn't worried about.
Matt Ausman governs AI agents across a global operation. The errors that worry him are the ones too small to catch — and nobody has decided who carries…
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Who authorises the machine?
Identity is easy. Authorisation is the wall — and it is where most enterprise AI is quietly dying.
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The week the frontier split in two
Fable 5's terms changed six times in six weeks. Moonshot answered with a download date. Access is the new benchmark.
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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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