20 posts across Systems & Adoption, Judging AI, Supervising Agents
New York signed a chatbot child-safety law, OpenAI rewrote its Model Spec, and Anthropic's usage policy changes take effect November 12. Three rule changes in one week — check whether your team's AI policy accounts for any of them.
4 min readA federal ban, a misconduct report, and a UN warning all landed within a month, and none of them were written by your company. Here's who needs to own that decision before the next outside actor makes it instead.
4 min readDHS ordered every federal agency to drop DeepSeek, the EU now watermarks AI-generated text by default, and Anthropic is quietly pitching a federal AI safety bill. Three separate signals point to the same gap: most teams still don't know which model sits inside the tools they've approved.
4 min readFive AI vendors made five different calls on your data this year — scraping, toggle resets, and a disconnect that didn't delete anything. One check catches all of it.
5 min readMeta's updated business terms, effective October 30, let it scrape content tied to any business account for AI training, with no opt-out — and the same week, ChatGPT widened ad targeting to use your prompts. Here's what to check before the deadline.
4 min readOpenAI's text watermark is mandatory in the EU and Google just opened its AI-detection tool to the public. Here's what changes about receiving and publishing AI-generated work.
3 min readA privacy toggle that reset itself, a platform war over agent permissions, and a policy written after a UN warning all look like separate problems with separate fixes. They share one flaw: each was treated as something you set once, and none of them actually work that way.
5 min readSam Altman and Dario Amodei briefed the UN Security Council on AI risk this week, the first time either has addressed it in person. Amodei's incident-notification proposal names a specific gap worth closing before a regulator asks about it.
4 min readAmazon blocked Meta's Muse agent for skipping its ad-supported shopping model, and Ben Thompson compared the move to GM's failed block on Apple CarPlay. If your business depends on a platform's distribution, an agent war can change your numbers before you notice it happened.
3 min readUsers are reporting that ChatGPT's opt-out from training reverts to 'on' after app updates, with no notice. Here's what to check today, and why the toggle was never the whole story.
4 min readOpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads to roughly 40 countries this month, and only the Free and Go plans carry them. If your team never decided which ChatGPT tier people actually use, that gap just became a real cost.
4 min readThree separate incidents this year — a disconnected assistant that kept synced email, a SaaS vendor training AI on tickets by default, a PII filter that misses deal terms — reduce to the same four questions. Here's the one-time audit that answers all of them.
4 min readOpenAI, Anthropic, and a personal AI assistant called Instinct just gave three different answers to what happens to your data after a conversation ends. Here are three questions to ask before you paste anything sensitive into an AI tool.
4 min readA leadership exodus, a 19-day suspension, a government approval gate, and a pricing model that can't hold — four separate incidents this year, four different mechanisms, one lesson: the AI vendor you built around was never a fixed point.
5 min readGoogle's DeepMind CEO stepped up to chairman on the same day four senior technical leads, including the Gemini tech lead, left to found a competing venture. Here's what that means if your workflows depend on one AI vendor.
4 min readThe question 'what did it actually do on the eleventh?' has an answer or it doesn't, and that's decided months earlier. Five things worth recording, none of which require an engineer.
5 min readEnterprise AI rollout advice is written for organisations with a change function. For a team of ten, most of it is overhead. Here's the sequence that works at small scale.
6 min readOpenAI released a free, on-device model that catches personally identifiable information before text reaches any server. 96% accuracy across 8 categories — and the 4% it misses is where your judgment still matters.
4 min readWhen Anthropic updated Claude to Opus 4.7, real-world token usage jumped roughly 40% — with no pricing announcement. Here's what that means for any team running AI workflows at any scale.
5 min readAtlassian will start training AI on Jira and Confluence data in August 2026. Most plans are opted in by default. Here's what that means for your team and what to actually do about it.
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