Architecture 2 June 2026
One in Five Got AI Into Production. Be the One.
The failure rate is not random. The 20% did the architectural work. The 80% did not.
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Regulation28 May 2026
CADA and the EU AI Act: What the Two Summer 2026 Deadlines Mean for EU, UK and Cross-Border Businesses
In ten weeks, the EU converts five years of digital sovereignty rhetoric into hard law — and any business that touches European data or sells to European customers is now on the clock.
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Architecture5 May 2026
Shadow Agents Are an Architecture Problem
You are not building for the agents you have today. You are building for the agents you will have in two years. The numbers are not on your side.
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Security28 Apr 2026
Mythos Finds Where the Bodies Are Buried
Every shortcut, every deferred fix, every "we'll get to it later". Mythos finds them all. The only question is what it costs when it does.
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Architecture25 Feb 2026
Your AI Strategy Has No Foundation
If standards, guardrails, and compliance requirements are defined up front, the work downstream becomes dramatically easier. Engineering teams receive not just code, but a blueprint. The handover stops being a translation exercise and starts being an implementation one.
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AI Strategy25 Feb 2026
What Mythos Is, Why It Has Pulled Two Governments Into the Room, and What to Do About It in the Next 180 Days
A reference piece for boards, audit committees and C-suites. Synthesised from Anthropic's own disclosures, AISI's UK government evaluation, Mozilla's Firefox 150 release, Palo Alto Networks's frontier-AI defence reports, METR's time-horizon benchmark, the Sullivan and Cromwell legal memo on the US Treasury and Federal Reserve convening, and the conversations we have been having with regulated firms over the last fortnight.
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AI Strategy15 Mar 2025
The AI Cost Structure Reset: Why Most Enterprise AI Budgets Are Misallocated
Enterprises allocate 70% of AI budgets to model development and tooling, but 80% of project failures trace back to data infrastructure. Inverting this ratio is the single highest-leverage change an enterprise can make.
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Data Platforms15 Feb 2025
Cost Efficiency vs Hyperscale: Rethinking Enterprise Data Infrastructure
Hyperscaler data warehousing is powerful but expensive. For most enterprise workloads, European sovereign alternatives deliver equivalent capability at a fraction of the cost.
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AI Readiness1 Feb 2025
AI Readiness Benchmarking: Where Does Your Organisation Stand?
Before investing in AI, understand your starting point. A structured assessment prevents costly false starts and ensures investment lands where it matters most.
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Data Strategy15 Jan 2025
Why Data Fragmentation Is the Real Barrier to AI
Most organisations do not fail at AI because of models. They fail because their data is fragmented, siloed, and inconsistent.
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