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Independent AI Scrutiny Changes Your To-Do List
mySociety just launched funded scrutiny of public-sector AI, and the questions it normalises will land on your board within a year. Here is the audit to run now.
Why Your AI Pilot Is Stuck and It's Probably Not the Technology
If your AI pilot is flatlining, the problem is probably not the technology. It is trust, and it has to be built before the rollout even begins.
Enterprise AI Adoption Surges While Workforce Readiness Slides Backward
Here is a story worth pausing on. Over the past year, the number of large companies with AI baked into their core operations jumped from 35% to 57% . More money, more tools, more
Your Team Is Already Using AI Without Policy or Training
Most of the noise about AI in education is a fight about whether it belongs in the room at all. That argument is over. ...
Why Microsoft's Mistral Deal Is Really About Control
Why Microsoft's Mistral deal is really a question about control, not clever models
OpenAI Hack: When AI Both Attacks and Refuses to Defend
When AI both attacks and refuses to defend: the lesson in the OpenAI and Hugging Face breach
UK's Push for AI Sovereignty Starts with Knowing What It Owns
Kanishka Narayan spent months as the UK's minister for artificial intelligence, warning that Britain's economic and ...
The Difference Between an AI Coach and an Answer Machine
The difference between an AI that coaches you and one that thinks for you
Why the Most Useful AI in the World Might Be the Smallest
One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge stood in a Cape Town hotel room, ready to show off a device that could spot fake ...
Why Companies Are Rehiring Workers They Let Go for AI
Companies spent 2025 telling their staff that AI could do the job. Now some of them are quietly ringing those same ...
What Google's AI Trailblazers Study Reveals About Inequality
What a Google study on "AI Trailblazers" tells us about who gets left behind
The Most Expensive Mistake in Immersive Technology Right Now
The most expensive mistake in immersive technology right now is a decision made before anyone puts a headset on. ...
When AI Triples Engineering Output Judgement Becomes the Real Bottleneck
Anthropic recently told its growth team to hire more product managers, not fewer. That sounds backwards. The whole ...
Why OpenAI Is Limiting Access to Its Most Capable Models
When a company builds the most capable version of a product it has ever made, you would expect it to want as many ...
Your Team Is Losing A Full Day Every Week Babysitting AI
When you ask people what they do with the time an AI tool saves them, the most common answer is not "leave early" or ...
AI Adoption Without Training Is Scaling Mistakes, Not Results
AI adoption without training is scaling mistakes, not results
Your AI Coding Bill Is About to Cost More Than Your Developers
Here is the line from Gartner that should make any leader put down their coffee: by 2028, the money your company spends ...
How to Switch From ChatGPT to Claude and Keep Your Memory
If you have spent months training ChatGPT to understand how you work, the thing holding you back from trying Claude is ...
What the xAI Mississippi Lawsuit Reveals About AI Governance
When a government's top lawyers step into a courtroom to defend a private company against its own neighbours, that is ...
When AI Surveillance Turns to Watch the Boss
AI surveillance has spent the last decade pointed downwards, watching workers for productivity, keystrokes, time spent ...
How to Turn Audio Into Text for Free on an Old Windows PC
You do not need a new computer, a subscription, or any technical know-how to turn recordings into written text. With ...
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