The Samsung leak and the policy that actually stops shadow AI
Banning public chatbots after a leak is the instinctive response. The evidence on how people really use AI at work points to a better one.
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The “agent boss”: what Microsoft’s Work Trend Index asks of managers
Microsoft’s 2025 survey of 31,000 workers coined a role for people who delegate to AI agents. Strip out the branding and the job description is recognizable.
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ISO/IEC 42001: build the management system first, certify second
The first certifiable AI management standard is becoming a procurement question. The organizations that pass well are the ones that ran the system before the audit.
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Three AI laws took effect on January 1. Here is who they reach.
Texas’s governance act, California’s frontier-model transparency law and Illinois’s employment amendment all started this week. Most organizations are touched by at least one.
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The year in one chart: AI use rose to 88 percent, enterprise impact did not
McKinsey’s 2025 survey shows near-universal experimentation and thin financial results. The organizations that report impact share three management habits.
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Executive Order 14365: what it does to state AI laws, and what it cannot do
The December 11 order sets up a federal litigation task force and ties some grant money to state AI policy. It does not repeal a single state law, and compliance teams should plan accordingly.
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Agents got a foundation and a risk list in the same week
On December 9 the Linux Foundation launched the Agentic AI Foundation and OWASP published its Top 10 for agentic applications. Together they turn “which systems can the agent reach?” into a question with an answer.
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Klarna’s AI assistant: what the reversal actually reversed
In 2024 the assistant did the work of 700 agents. In 2025 the company hired people back. The model was never the variable that changed.
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What workers expect from AI, and what that asks of their managers
Half of US workers say they are worried about AI at work. Employers expect the skills mix to shift by almost 40 percent by 2030. The gap between those two numbers is a management job.
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A coding agent deleted a production database. The fix is the oldest control in IT.
The Replit incident of July 2025 is now the reference case for AI agents with write access. Every lesson in it predates AI.
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Due diligence on AI vendors: ten dimensions, and what the Builder.ai collapse teaches
A certificate is an input, not a verdict. The vendor questions that matter are the ones a sound supplier answers easily and a fragile one cannot.
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The EU rules for general-purpose AI models are in force: what deployers should ask their providers
Since August 2, 2025 the companies behind foundation models owe documentation, copyright policies and training-data summaries. Deployers can use those duties as a due-diligence checklist.
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Deloitte’s refund and the new standard for AI-assisted deliverables
A government report with fabricated references cost a global consultancy part of its fee. The lesson for every buyer of professional services is contractual, not technical.
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