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Google put a leash on Antigravity, and that’s the whole story
Google put a leash on Antigravity, and that's the whole storyGoogle spent the better part of a year telling everyone that Antigravity, its agentic coding environment, was the future of software work. Agents that plan, write, test, and ship with a human somewhere in the loop, loosely defined. Last week The Register [Read more...]
The Modular Briefing, September 3, 2026: What Governance Actually Asks For
No news this week. One argument instead. AI governance, for a business your size, is four things: an owner, a boundary, a log, and evidence. Arthur and Laura make the case from the ground up, explain why all four scale down to a thirty-person firm, and why the fourth one is the one that binds. Your data, your rules.
When the financing comes with a data clause
When the financing comes with a data clauseSpirit Airlines needed money. Google, according to the flight attendants' union, wanted something more interesting than interest payments.Fortune reported last week that the Association of Flight Attendants is accusing Google of structuring a deal around Spirit's restructuring that would hand the tech giant access to [Read more...]
When the partners aren’t getting paid, look harder at the product
When the partners aren't getting paid, look harder at the productThe Register ran a piece this week that should get more attention than it will: Salesforce partners are reportedly not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce. Not customers grumbling. Partners. The consultancies and integrators who staffed up practices, sat through the certifications, and [Read more...]
Shady AI is what an empty chair looks like from the outside
Shady AI is what an empty chair looks like from the outsideThe Hacker News ran a piece this week on "shady AI", their sharper name for shadow AI, and called it security's next big governance problem. They're right about the diagnosis. I want to push on the cause, because I think most [Read more...]
DBS gave 1,500 employees AI agents. The interesting part is what had to exist first
Singapore's DBS is rolling out specialist AI agents to 1,500 employees, per Finextra's report from August 21. Not a chatbot in the corner of the intranet. Agents. Software that takes an objective, works through steps, touches systems, and hands back a result. The headline number is 1,500 people. That's not the story. [Read more...]
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- Valarian raises $50M to help governments and enterprises escape hyperscalersEven VCs and governments are funding a way off the hyperscale grid. Owning your AI stack isn't fringe, it's the direction of travel.Fortune
- Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thingPer-token pricing is cheap on day one, then usage climbs. Fixed, right-sized private AI makes the bill something you can plan around.The Register
- Microsoft warns companies to guard their IP from frontier AI labsWhen a hyperscaler tells companies to guard their IP from frontier labs, it's worth listening. Keep sensitive work on infrastructure you control.The Register
- How governance-as-code controls AI agent riskGoverning AI agents works best when the rules are built into the system, not bolted on afterward. That's the idea behind a governed private workspace.TechTarget
- The EU AI Act just moved its deadlines. Don't move your plans.Deadlines slip; your duty to govern AI doesn't. Building governed infrastructure now beats scrambling when the date lands.Finextra
- Former Mayo Clinic leader sues over alleged AI cover-upAI in regulated work without an accountable owner is how you end up in court. Name the owner before you deploy the tool.MedCity News
- More evidence that what you say to your chatbot isn't always privateAnother reminder that public chatbots can expose what you type. A private, governed workspace keeps sensitive data inside your boundary.Above the Law
- The agentic web needs a new hope for identity and trustAs agents start acting on your behalf, identity and oversight become the architecture, not an afterthought. Own that layer.The Register
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