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The Modular Briefing, October 29, 2026: What You Keep When You Switch
IBM says open models are 90 percent as good at a tenth of the price, New York's courts say AI writes text that sounds right rather than text that is right, and two regulators ask financial firms who their AI really belongs to. The model is a rental. What you keep is the knowledge you stored somewhere you control.
The Modular Briefing, October 22, 2026: Not a Legal Person
A law society, a financial regulator and the companies selling AI agents all said it this week: when the AI gets it wrong, a person answers for it.
Accountability by design is the only way contract agents get hired
Accountability by design is the only way contract agents get hiredArtificial Lawyer ran a piece this week on accountability by design in agentic contract management, and it puts a name on something we keep running into in agent pilot conversations: nobody's real objection to contract agents is capability. The objection is that [Read more...]
Sovereignty isn’t an exit plan. It’s a floor plan.
Sovereignty isn't an exit plan. It's a floor plan.The Register ran a piece this week that a lot of IT leaders will nod along to: digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers. The gist: everyone in Europe and beyond is suddenly talking about controlling their own data, their own [Read more...]
Shadow AI isn’t a user problem. It’s a missing-owner problem.
Shadow AI isn't a user problem. It's a missing-owner problem.The Hacker News ran a piece this week on "shady AI" as security's next big governance problem, and the framing is right even if the nickname is a little cute. The short version: employees are using AI tools nobody sanctioned, nobody logged, and [Read more...]
Pick the model last
Pick the model lastMost companies did not choose an AI strategy. They chose a model, and the strategy grew up around it.A piece on Towards AI this week, The Durable Asset is the Control Plane, not the Frontier Model, puts that habit on trial. The author's evidence is Cursor, the coding tool [Read more...]
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