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Ten questions to send any AI-powered vendor, the answers that should end the conversation, and what the FTC and the EU AI Act actually say, quoted and dated.
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2026-09-20
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Seven AI admin consoles from OpenAI, GitHub, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google and Cursor as a metric census: what each counts, what none measure, 12 words to check.
#AI Adoption#Enterprise AI+2 more
2026-09-19
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28 on-record figures from 13 companies on how much of their own code or work AI does, each with its exact definition, date and source. Why none are comparable.
#AI Adoption#Agentic AI+2 more
2026-09-18
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A 21-row census of which AI assistants let people read your conversations, on which plans, what setting stops it and how long reviewed chats are kept.
#AI Privacy#ChatGPT+3 more
2026-09-15
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Turn customer questions into AI-assisted content briefs while reducing identifying details, preserving meaning and checking the finished text for exposure.
#Data Privacy#AI Content+1 more
2026-09-14
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The September 2, 2026 order in United States v. Google rejects AdX divestiture and accepts most behavioural remedies. The reasoning is sealed. What it says.
#google-antitrust#ad-tech+4 more
2026-09-03
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McKinsey's 2026 survey: 32% of organisations declined at least one software purchase because coding agents could build it. Profit impact stayed flat at 37%.
#mckinsey-state-of-ai#build-vs-buy+4 more
2026-09-01
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Most AI products resell a model under a contract between two other companies, and contracts end. Four durable places to check what your tool actually runs.
#vendor-risk#ai-tools+5 more
2026-08-28
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Ship the replacement read-only first: useful on day one, unable to corrupt anything. How a surface earns write access, and which surfaces never should.
#system migration#strangler fig+5 more
2026-08-27
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Eleven hosted model APIs and what their free-tier terms do — and do not — say about training and retention. Coding agents excluded by design.
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2026-08-26
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Four vendors publish the same 10% residency premium. What OpenAI, Azure, Vertex AI and Mistral charge to pin inference to a region, and what AWS does instead.
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2026-08-25
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OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol to $4 in and $20 out per million tokens on August 21. The same Vercel changelog window added a $0.10/GB-month storage line.
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2026-08-21
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A Marvell 8-K filed August 18 gives Google a warrant over up to 58,970,907 shares at $206.58, vesting against $500M purchase tranches through fiscal 2033.
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2026-08-19
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NVIDIA's Ohio commitment for OpenAI is a capped financing guarantee, not money spent. And the figure shrank through negotiation rather than growing.
#nvidia#openai+5 more
2026-08-18
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The SpaceX acquisition of Anysphere became effective on August 14. Origin's early beta followed on August 17. Reading the gap from the filing itself.
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2026-08-17
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Git history is the cheap part of a code-host move. The bill sits in runners, packages, deploy trust, branch rules and webhooks. An inventory-first framework.
#github#migration+5 more
2026-08-17
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Press reported that investors are targeting a $2 trillion Anthropic IPO, a figure the company has not fixed. A reading protocol for numbers that arrive by leak.
#ai-industry#valuations+5 more
2026-08-16
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Price-change notice is a contract term, not a courtesy, and the periods range from a fortnight to none at all. What to check before committing model spend.
#ai-procurement#llm-pricing+5 more
2026-08-15
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Three Chinese labs shipped major releases and their licence stories diverge. A buyer's scoreboard on weights, pricing schedules, and benchmark claims.
#deepseek#glm-5-3+5 more
2026-08-15
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Time-of-day LLM pricing is arriving, and a cheaper window is not the same as a cheaper bill. How the announced schedules and peak hours actually work.
#llm-pricing#off-peak-pricing+5 more
2026-08-15
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Gemini 3.6 and 3.7 Flash both bill $0.75/$3.75 until December 31, with $1.50/$7.50 posted for January. Budget at the standard rate, not the promo.
#ai-cost-management#gemini-3-7-flash+5 more
2026-08-14
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Mistral's Aug 11 launch pins inference to the EU or US for 10% more, adds a 99.5% SLA tier at 75% more, and hosts Z.ai's GLM-5.2 alongside its own.
#mistral-ai#eu-data-residency+5 more
2026-08-13
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A catalog row can show a real, live price that is a time-boxed promotion, a surface-specific rate, or a listing date that is not a launch date at all.
#model-pricing#ai-procurement+5 more
2026-08-12
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Background agents get more done unattended and hand you a large diff to review cold. Four criteria decide which mode a given task actually belongs in.
#ai-agents#workflow-design+5 more
2026-08-12
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