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Figures are the highest-risk thing AI produces and the thing people check least, because a number looks like a fact. Four checks that take under a minute each, and the one that catches the most.
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OpenAI's B2B Signals data shows the AI gap has stopped being about who uses it and started being about what they use it for. Typical firms ask AI questions. Frontier firms build AI into multi-step execution — and the difference is widening.
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Simon Willison admitted he skips reviewing AI code for production systems. A Stockholm cafe let AI order 120 eggs for a kitchen with no stove. Ethan Mollick says we don't yet have words for how multi-agent systems fail. The pattern is the same: as AI gets more capable, the temptation to stop checking grows — and the cost of not checking doesn't shrink.
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Two South African officials were suspended after 102 of 148 citations in a Cabinet-approved report were AI-fabricated. Nature retracted a 504-citation paper on the same day. The accountability gap between 'AI wrote it' and 'I submitted it' is closing. Here's what you do about it.
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Licences issued and hours saved are the two most common AI metrics and neither survives contact with reality. Four measures that tell you something, and one number worth having.
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Google's Gemini can now output a finished Word file, spreadsheet, or PDF directly from conversation. Writing prompts that produce share-ready documents is a different skill than writing prompts that produce text.
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You granted access one integration at a time, each of them reasonable. Nobody has ever looked at the combined list. Here's a thirty-minute audit and the three questions that decide what stays.
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VS Code silently stamped Copilot attribution on millions of commits this week — even when Copilot wasn't used. The instinct behind that decision is running in every AI tool you use at work.
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Anthropic launched native connectors to 50+ professional creative tools — Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk, Ableton, Canva, and more. Connecting is the easy part. Getting useful output is a constraint problem.
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