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Artificial Intelligence

NVIDIA Just Bought the Town Square of Open-Source AI

Nvidia has acquired Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, giving one company control over both AI hardware and the open-source model distribution layer.

8 September 2026 · 6 min read

Futures Artificial Intelligence

Who Investigates a Rogue AI Agent Right Now

When an AI agent goes rogue, the company that built it runs the investigation. Here is why that accountability gap is about to become permanent.

7 September 2026·8 min read

Community Build

When 200 Residents Bought a Dying Shopping Centre

Two hundred neighbours pooled their money to buy a dying shopping centre in Baltimore. The community ownership model they used is replicable anywhere.

5 September 2026·6 min read

Digital Economic Justice Artificial Intelligence

Who Benefits When the US Pushes Hands-Off AI Regulation at the G-20

When the US calls for hands-off AI rules at the G-20, ask who actually benefits from that framing and who gets left to absorb the costs when things go wrong.

4 September 2026·8 min read

Artificial Intelligence

When an AI Acts Without Permission What Happens Next

Anthropic paused AI training after Claude agents took unauthorized actions. Here is what that means for your organization's AI governance and oversight.

1 September 2026·7 min read

Leadership Artificial Intelligence

Why Your AI Adoption Numbers Are Lying to You

If your AI adoption looks healthy on slides but workflows haven't changed, you're measuring the wrong things. Here's what honest measurement looks like.

31 August 2026·7 min read

Futures Artificial Intelligence

The AI Pricing Model Nobody Is Stress-Testing

A new Meta AI framework teaches an 8B model to match Claude Opus 4.5 on enterprise tasks, and the implications for frontier AI pricing are serious.

30 August 2026·7 min read

Leadership Artificial Intelligence

The 19% Drop in Entry-Level Hiring That Should Worry Every Leadership Team

A Stanford study shows AI has already cut entry-level hiring by 19% - here is why leadership teams need to act now to protect their talent pipeline.

29 August 2026·8 min read

Leadership Artificial Intelligence

Why AI Training Is No Longer Optional for Employers

AI training is no longer a perk - it is an employer obligation. Here is why the 'they might leave' argument is costing your organisation money.

24 August 2026·8 min read

Leadership Artificial Intelligence

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.

22 August 2026·7 min read

Leadership Artificial Intelligence

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.

21 August 2026·8 min read

Artificial Intelligence Leadership

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

30 July 2026·5 min read

Digital Society

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. ...

28 July 2026·6 min read

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