Writing on enterprise AI, SaaS, and technology adoption.
52 posts found
14 Jul 2026
A German court has told Google something the AI industry has worked hard to avoid hearing: generated answers are not the same thing as search results. Traditional web search points users towards third-party speech. AI Overviews combine, rewrite and present information as a new answer in Google’s own
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09 Jul 2026
An economics professor at Brown University recently ran, almost by accident, one of the most useful experiments of the AI era. He set his class a take-home midterm exam. The average came back at 96 out of 100, the highest he had ever seen. Suspicious rather than flattered, he set the next exam in pe
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07 Jul 2026
Frontier AI looks less like software and more like uranium with an API. China is reportedly considering restrictions on overseas access to its most advanced AI models, including unreleased systems from firms such as Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai. The proposed direction is familiar: keep basic tools op
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03 Jul 2026
Yesterday I had Fable run one task for me, and I’ll say this much: it is clearly stronger than any variant of Opus I have used. Unfortunately, it also demonstrated a timeless principle of software economics. I went downstairs to put in a load of washing, came back, and found it had run the same fail
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02 Jul 2026
Digital sovereignty is easy to admire and easier to defer. It is a phrase European leaders reach for at conferences and forget on the way back to their offices, where their data still sits on a US cloud, and the AI runs on American models. The arrangement that made the deferral comfortable is the EU
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30 Jun 2026
The reassuring version of AI in cybersecurity runs roughly like this: the machines find the flaws, the machines write the fixes, and software slowly gets safer on its own. This is the premise on which GPT-Cyber works. It is half right, but the missing half is the one that matters. What AI has actual
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29 Jun 2026
I saw these two posts, and the second one made the first one clearer. The first is the familiar AI adoption binary: embrace AI and become unstoppable, or avoid it and get left behind. Work with it, or let it work against you. Get on board, or accept zero progress. Whilst the second pokes fun at exac
Read more →27 Jun 2026
Since LLMs went mainstream, the number of “Experts” has exploded. I do not mean the physical trades. Nobody becomes a plumber because ChatGPT explained pipes to them once. Intellectual work, though, has proved far easier to costume. AI has made it cheap to perform expertise, not necessarily to posse
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26 Jun 2026
After attending an event at the Gurten Highlands Farm above Bern yesterday, I am happy to report I enjoyed some fun conversations with fellow hikers on the way down the mountain. The conversation was a bit one-sided, but they were a truly diverse group. And as with every LinkedIn post, one must shar
Read more →25 Jun 2026
We keep sorting people into the wrong two boxes: technical and non-technical, as though that tells you who will get useful output from AI. In 2026, it increasingly does not. What matters more is between AI practitioners and non-practitioners. A practitioner is simply someone who uses these tools oft
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