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Adoption is where lock-in gets installed (OpenAI SMB programme)

22 Jul 2026

Adoption is where lock-in gets installed (OpenAI SMB programme)

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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AI crawlers renegotiate the web's bargain (DataDome Q2)

21 Jul 2026

AI crawlers renegotiate the web's bargain (DataDome Q2)

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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Publishing, not search: German AI Overviews ruling

14 Jul 2026

Publishing, not search: German AI Overviews ruling

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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AI deep-research poisoning — decision integrity for SMEs (v1)

16 Jun 2026

AI deep-research poisoning — decision integrity for SMEs (v1)

Your AI research tool may look and feel like an analyst. But it’s not. Often, it is a fast, articulate reader of pages anyone can edit, including the people who would quite like to sell you something. In tests on deep-research agents, thirteen words in the right Reddit-style comment were enough to g

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LLMs fail fluently: verification and traceability

11 Jun 2026

LLMs fail fluently: verification and traceability

ChatGPT lost it when I wanted to explain CPSC to an Italian friend. It started with correct translation and a sensible structure. Then, mid-sentence, it collapsed into multilingual noise: fragments of Russian, Hindi, Chinese, emoji, and strings that looked uncomfortably like internal system artefact

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Platform-agnosticism as a symptom of strategy

08 Jun 2026

Platform-agnosticism as a symptom of strategy

Most "AI adoption" right now is a Copilot licence and some prayers. It comes bundled with the M365 contract your company already has. An admin switches it on with a click, and hopefully someone on the team works out what to do with it. No strategy involved. This is not just a feeling. A new AWS-comm

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