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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…
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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 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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58:30
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 Inference Flip: Two in three - the number that just rewired the AI economy
Two of every three AI "thoughts" are now the machine working, not training — and Deloitte agrees. The brains are built; the hard part now is trusting…
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