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Quicker observations and working notes, written between the essays on /blog.
2026-09-10
A Forbes piece says managers who use AI lose their teams' trust. Read the survey, the peer-reviewed evidence and the UK data and a simpler rule emerges: AI may draft the evidence, but the manager must own the judgement and deliver it in their own voice.
2026-08-12
Published token prices have fallen by two thirds on a like for like tier, and one scheduled increase was withdrawn before it took effect. Bills are still rising, because the unit is defined by your supplier and the volume is defined by you.
Within seven weeks in mid-2026, Snowflake and Databricks independently moved AI governance into their data catalogues. The convergence that matters is not between models, it is between AI and the data stack, and it has already shipped.
2026-08-11
In July 2026 four cloud providers came under Bank of England and FCA supervision without a single new AI statute being passed. The direction of travel in financial services regulation is not towards new AI rules, but towards proving your data.
2026-08-05
Nearly every enterprise has piloted an AI agent and very few have put one to work. The gap is not model capability but integration and governance, and closing it takes fewer, simpler moves than the industry would have you believe.
