Writing on enterprise AI, SaaS, and technology adoption.
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30 Jul 2026
AI systems are now built to produce rather than to ask, and the incentive behind that points to revenue. My Gemini is configured to know nothing about me, with no memory and no context carried from other conversations unless I add it explicitly. I asked it a single question: "Can you create a slide
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29 Jul 2026
Normally, if someone told you a company had reported operating profit up 557% year on year, you would assume somebody had made a mistake in the maths. SK hynix did exactly that. Its shares then fell nearly 10%, because apparently a sixfold increase in profit is no longer enough when the market has p
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28 Jul 2026
I watched Elon Musk's interview with Zanny Minton Beddoes of The Economist. What a lovely chap. Apparently, within ten years we won't need money, because AI and humanoid robots will provide for everything we need. It is a rich claim from the wealthiest man alive, and it skips a somewhat important st
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Almost none of the AI news you read this week (or any other) will change anything you do. My own news aggregation system counted 49 releases last week that could reasonably be called major, alongside hundreds of smaller announcements, API changes, research preprints, product launches and regulatory
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23 Jul 2026
Imagine someone broke into your home, searched through your belongings looking for information about you, and stopped only when you caught them. That is close to what happened during one of OpenAI's recent cyber capability evaluations. Two models were being tested on an internal benchmark. Their cyb
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22 Jul 2026
The easiest moment to adopt AI is also the moment you decide how hard it will be to leave. OpenAI has launched a small business programme: training webinars, in-person academies, starter guides, and a set of partner-built skills covering the tools most owners already run on, including Shopify, Intui
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21 Jul 2026
AI crawlers are rewriting a deal the web has relied on for twenty years. Every request imposes a cost on the website receiving it: bandwidth, compute and capacity. Traditional search crawlers justified that cost by sending people back. The crawler read your pages, indexed them and helped someone fin
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17 Jul 2026
Most organisations believe they have a rough sense of how exposed their AI systems are. Something OpenAI published this week shows how much of that judgement rests on evidence they cannot reproduce. It has built GPT-Red, an internal automated attacker trained specifically to break AI systems. By the
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16 Jul 2026
Anthropic’s $1.5bn implementation venture now has a name: Ode. The more interesting fact is that it exists at all. Within a week in May, Anthropic and OpenAI both announced separate businesses dedicated not to building better models, but to making those models work inside companies. Anthropic has Od
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15 Jul 2026
Human oversight sounds reassuring until the agent is also writing the report that the human reviews. “Keep someone in the loop” has become the standard answer to agentic AI risk. Let the system work, then have a person supervise it and check what it did. Sensible advice, but only if we are clear abo
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